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Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
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Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.

‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
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VICTORRYYYYYYY!!!! now let’s never speak of the last 2 hours again #HiddenBooksGame
Screenshot saying ‘congratulations! You’ve completed the hidden books game from national book tokens’
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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20 seconds of hercule purrot sucking on his tail to bless your timeline
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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we got a few photos back from registry office day 🥹
Laura, a white woman with cropped and curled red hair wearing a long, pale green glare dress with gold sequin detailing, carrying an autumnal bouquet of flowers, walks towards the camera holding the hand of a white man, james, with a greying beard wearing a tweed suit - he is laughing at the camera and Laura is smiling up at him A black and white photo of Laura and james leaving the registry office, people clapping around them and Laura smiling and looking down while James looks up and grins
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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loving this little bit of spooky season promo from my excellent publisher @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!

it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
Laura’s book Awakened, featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, set against an orange background of flying bats, while below the orange text reads: from an exciting new voice in horror comes a tense and surreal novel, contained and claustrophobic horror, with a tight cast of dynamic and morally grey characters and a mysterious romantic subplot
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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hercule purrot would like it known that we should be paying attention to him and not to the tv, merci
A large white cat with grey markings and a black moustache lies on his side on the coffee table in front of the tv, showing his tummy and staring very sweetly into the camera
October 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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new podcast just dropped! i had such a great time with the Northern Connection, talking all things books, the north, and horror open.spotify.com/episode/3jD2...
A picture of Laura smiling at the camera below text saying "New episode", and above the text Now playing: Laura Elliott, showing a screenshot of a podcast playing
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Awakened has been spotted by a pal cover-out at Grimsby Waterstones! my horrible baby is getting around 🐦‍⬛
A row of bookshelves in Waterstones, Laura’s book Awakened prominently displayed cover facing out
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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just for the record if any of you want to make Awakened go viral/become a spooky season bestseller as a wedding present to me, that would be very ok!!!!🐦‍⬛

(is this marketing???? i hope so)

linktr.ee/lauracelliott
Laura’s book Awakened standing on a table, its cover facing out featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back, alongside a stack of the same book with the spines showing
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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after years of me being housebound, me & james threw a 10 year anniversary party yesterday

during the planning we joked: wouldn’t it be funny if we got everyone here & just… got married?

well, the joke got out of hand and yesterday we surprised everyone by doing just that! 💍
James, a tall man wearing a dark tweed suit stands on a dance floor staring down into Laura’s smiling face, his arms around her. She is wearing floorlength sparkly black dress and a crowd of friends and family watches on from around the room, smiling
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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mum’s little dog Alfie has always had problems with his teeth and he had to have near enough all of them removed a while ago - now his little tongue is constantly sticking out of his mouth 🥹
A tiny little brown and white terrier dog curled up on a pillow beneath a quilt, staring at the camera with his pink tongue lolling out of one side of his mouth
October 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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weekend breakfast with hercule purrot
A large white cat with grey markings and a black moustache stands on the chest of a white man wearing grey dungarees lying on the sofa. The man is holding a grey plate and the cat has his nose on it as he licks it
October 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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i haven’t had my nails done since prom when i was 16 but i thought i’d treat myself ahead of the anniversary party later in the month and i feel so fancy 🥹
Laura’s hand showing pale dusk pink nails with gold foil decoration
October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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now would be a great time for all you horror book lovers going into spooky season to buy many copies of Awakened, is all i’m saying ok 😅🐦‍⬛

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A woman’s hand holding Laura’s book Awakened in front of a little Norwegian seafront, the book cover featuring a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back
September 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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i’m late by a day, but yesterday was hercule purrot’s 2 year adoption anniversary!

from this tiny little fluffball to the lorge and very loved boy he is today - everyone say Happy Home Day to hercule 🥹
A tiny white kitten with grey markings and a black moustache, lying flat on his back horizontally with his white tummy on display and his head resting in Laura’s hand as he stares up at the camera The same cat two years on, now incredibly large but also tipped upside down vertically, staring at the camera with his tummy on display
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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i know amazon is the devil but i had £75 of vouchers given to me by relatives for my birthday in june and finally got round to adding them to my account this morning

all i can say is: get you a partner like james who enjoys your obsessions/plans as much as you do! 😅
Text from Laura reading: i have spent all my amazon vouchers on books but in my defence I am now set up for the Great Dickens/Classics Reading Year i have planned for next year James replies: i love you
September 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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book tower photoshoot with hercule purrot

he thinks you need Awakened for spooky season (but not these copies: these are his copies)
A tower of Laura’s books Awakened on a coffee table, featuring a creepy raven on the cover, and between the two sides of the tower poking his head through the gap, a white cat with grey markings and a black moustache staring directly at the camera
September 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Awakened has been found shelved next to Hiron Ennes’ Leech in Foyles and as someone who adores Leech i am GRINNING 🙌

my thanks to whichever bookseller clearly knows their weird gothic fiction 🐦‍⬛
Laura’s book Awakened sitting on a bookshelf between Hiron Ennes’ Leech and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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what a day! baby’s (my) first festival as an author, and i met some lovely authors/publishers/readers and didn’t make a complete fool of myself so that was a bonus

thanks @alexdavis1981.bsky.social 🙏
Laura sits on a panel with three other authors, from left to right Heather Davey, Laura, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth and Leigh Radford A full crowd of people taken from the panel perspective Laura, masked, in a selfie with another group of writers, including Heather from the previous photo, Gemma Amor, JS Barnes and Peter Ray Allison A photo of Laura in the printed programme under the title ‘speakers’
September 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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there’s a table of my books here this is so cool 🥹
Two piles of Laura’s book awakened alongside lots of garth marenghi and other books
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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on a train to EdgeLit in Derby wearing my book cover around my neck 🐦‍⬛
Laura, a white woman with cropped and curled red hair wearing a black N95 mask and a green velvet dress looks at the camera, showing off a miniature version of her book on a necklace
September 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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it’s a double bill of book post from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social today!
Two books taken from above: one, Writing the Magic, essays on crafting fantasy fiction is an anthology of essays. The other is The Definitions by Matt Greene
September 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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well, friends - that’s a completed first draft of book two! EVERYONE CLAP
A yellow typewriter sitting on a dark wood and green-leather topped desk alongside a stack of A4 pages with a black pen on top of them
September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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just had the absolute pleasure of meeting Miriam Margoyles in waterstones and i can’t stop grinning
Laura, a white woman with cropped red hair wearing a denim jacket stands smiling next to a seated Miriam margoyles, who’s wearing a bright yellow cardigan
September 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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how on earth am i meant to get anything done when hercule purrot is looking at me like this
A large fluffy white cat with grey markings and a black moustache tipped flat on his back upside down on a rug, his little paws curled in front of him as he stares expectantly at the camera for a tummy rub
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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a pal has taken Awakened to Bergen, Norway, so it seems a good time to say that if you’re looking for a new read for spooky season, this has:

💀 Sleepless monsters
🐦‍⬛ Gothic setting
💉 Medical ethics
🖤 Woman meets monster
🔥 Post-apocalypse dystopia

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A woman’s hand holding the book Awakened out in front of a Norwegian lake, lined with cute houses
September 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM