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SF Layzell @sflayzell.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Throwback Thursday! One year ago I had the joy of joining fellow Little Rebels shortlistees @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social & Cathy Jenkins to talk radical children's fiction, chaired by @darrenchetty.bsky.social, hosted by @theclpe.bsky.social @littlerebsprize.bsky.social 💙📚🌈

Smiling people holding books in front of a screen displaying the same books.
Left to right: Sarah Hagger-Holt, Elle McNicoll, SF Layzell, Cathy Jenkins & Darren Chetty.

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Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Lake Pristine books by @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social are all gorgeous teen self discovery with romance on top. Always authentic neurodiverse characters, in 'Yearning Difficulties' Zella hasn't considered that she might be autistic until getting close to openly autistic peers. Tropes are well used!

Cover of Yearning Difficulties shows a closeup of girl's head, wearing earphones, lying in autumnal leaves.

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Abby Barker @abbybarker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Student in asking for 'magic books that aren't too scary', likes HP (yuck). Handed him Like A Charm by @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social and he very exitedly decided to borrow it. Librarians and authors FTW!

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I haven't had a holiday since 2016. When I became a full-time author, I could afford one, I just didn't have the time. I'm now actively planning to have one next summer but the second, the SECOND, I started looking up all-inclusive resorts, both my accountant and my publisher emailed me.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

On the tube

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Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Romance is not a genre I usually read; however I was intrigued by this first adult offering from @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social because of the autistic protagonist. Raina is a podcaster in London; Tom is a journalist. Can he be trusted? The representation of an autistic young woman is done well. 💙📚🌶️

Unapologetic Love Story
By Elle McNicoll.
A pink paperback proof copy, with the tagline “He wanted the headline…She gave him the plot twist.”

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

One week of publication for Unapologetic Love Story! Edinburgh, London, Cardiff and Paris!! Cambridge and Birmingham next week!

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Little Rebels Award @littlerebsprize.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“It's hard to believe that she has only been in the industry for 6 years” Super @bookbrunch.bsky.social interview with @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social on her journey from children’s books to adult. Elle is one of our top #littkerebelsaward shortlistees! #KidLitUK www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“It's hard to believe that she has only been in the industry for 6 years” Enjoyed this @bookbrunch.bsky.social interview with @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social on her journey from children’s books to adult-and her ref to A Kind of Spark as The Autism Book😆➡️ #KidLitUK www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My first adult novel, Unapologetic Love Story, will be published tomorrow and launched at Waterstones Piccadilly. The Scottish launch was extraordinary. I'm so grateful to all who joined us. I'm very nervous for what tomorrow may bring but last night was special. And I'll never forget it.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Officially oot and aboot. Signed copies out early in Waterstones Edinburgh West End and The Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield! Next stop: Toppings!

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Another press day for Unapologetic Love Story! Today it's back at Broadcasting House to talk to Access All!! It feels fitting to be here as this is where Tom Branimir, the MMC, spends a lot of his time. Unlike him, I'm always on my very best behaviour at the BBC 😇 Unapologetic is out next week!!

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Two weeks to go! Signed & personalised preorders from West End Lane Books will ship globally!

Signed peeorders of Unapologetic Love Story with West End Lane Books

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm going back to Portobello Bookshop (a brilliant indy bookshop in Edinburgh) to launch Unapologetic Love Story on the 31st of March. As a Scottish author, I'm excited to bring my adult debut home. I'm also very afraid. I've never done an event for an adult novel. This is all new and strange.

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Michael Morrison @michaelmorrison.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I hate to do this, but it's 1 month until UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE STORY is published and so I'm contractually obligated to share some of the nice things reviewers have been saying. If you'd like to read yourself before anyone else, I'm doing special personalised pre-orders via West End Lane Books!!

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My brain.

Threads post from an entity that calls itself @sabbbrwna:

what do y'all use instead of ChatGPT?

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 24/01/2026

ICYMI: Bestselling author Elle McNicoll has joined Pan Macmillan in an eight-book deal 👇 #BookSky

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Elle McNicoll joins Pan Macmillan in eight-book deal

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is going on my MUST buy list! ⬇️ #BookSky

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Taking my anti-fascist love story on tour. Events will include fun, laughter, slight naughtiness and defiant joy in the face of whatever each of us is going through. I know no one sees this on here, and I have no idea how this app works, but links will be in the second part of the thread.

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Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As one of so many bookshops who adore @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social ‘s body of work, this really warms the cockles. #KidLitUK

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To quote @goodlawproject.org we need to take personal responsibility in keeping the far right out of the Scottish parliament. Trump’s little puppet Farage wants to do to us what MAGA is doing to the USA. It can be so simple. We just need a good turn out in May. Make sure you’re registered to vote

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2026

“Please get the truth out about our son.” Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

When I was 14, I would escape into romance novels. They reignited my love of reading and of life. They would take me away from being a shy autistic teen. Because no matter how dark things would get in them, the happy ending was promised. Mine will be out on the 2nd of April.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/01/2026

Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"Current trends say that the political environment is making people scared to invest in disabled fiction." Cool. Fuck those people. Cowards should get out of publishing and into the AI business. Don't let the door hit you on your spineless back on the way out It's a new year. And I'm back to work.

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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Nobody could have predicted this.

Headline: 90 percent of Reform-supporting comments on social media are bots

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I can now say that my first adult book comes out this year! Unapologetic Love Story opens with a very fancy black tie event at the V&A. At this party, enemies are made and sparks fly--all because a neurotypical writer gets a bit flustered upon meeting an autistic podcaster whose star is on the rise

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Billionaires want to kill art with AI because they can’t do art. They can’t throw money at obtaining a skill they’ll never have, so instead they’re throwing money at destroying it, and persuading you that the process of human creation never had any value anyway.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Hi. If this is about Unapologetic, tell her I'm sorry that it's for adults but I have an autumnal YA out next year as well, and will still be writing middle grade books for younger readers. I'm really grateful to her for being a reader and I hope we can meet one day so I may say thank you! Elle xx

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Tracy Hopkins @tracyshopkins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

She won! Huge congratulations, Elle YA Fiction Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025 with @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social!! #KidLitUK #YALit

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

WISH YOU WERE HER is in the YA category of the Books Are My Bag Reader Awards. this is my 6th nom, making me the most nominated author in the history of this award. I also, hilariously, never win. you can vote and be in with the chance of winning £100 of book tokens! Link below, closes tomorrow

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Hi. If you dm me an address, I will send you a signed plate, as you had a ticket to the event.

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Elle McNicoll 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If you too have been afflicted by a terminal uniqueness, and been made to apologise for it? Fuck 'em. Unapologetic Love Story is out on World Autism Day and the hardback is currently in the Waterstones Preorder Sale. I highly recommend.

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Caz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

@ellemcnicoll.bsky.social you were right (as always)! 🔥

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