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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Our unique, precious home. Time to start treating it as such.

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Absolutely loved doing this tarot-based interview via Whatsapp! Such a friendly, accessible way to do an interview and a lovely conversation.

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Any #BookSky people in Edinburgh this relaxed, friendly workshop is one week today and it would be great to see you there!

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The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Workshop Announcement! 🍃 On Monday 18th May at 6:30pm, we’ll be running a Nature Writing workshop with debut writers Rebecca Ferrier and Elspeth Wilson, authors of The Salt Bind and These Mortal Bodies respectively! More information in the link below: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/natur...

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Publication day! #SwimmingTheSeasons: A freshwater Almanac out now with @saraband-books.bsky.social. Signed copies on the shelf @samreadbookseller.bsky.social and launch in-person and online @portyliterary.bsky.social on Tuesday 12th, when I'll be talking with @elspethwrites.bsky.social #BookSky

Hand holding small light teal book 'swimming the seaons: a freshwater almanac' by Polly Atkin, in front of sunlit lake and bluebell covered fell

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How is this cartoon of Zack Polanski, published in the Sun - complete with forked tongue and other Der Stürmer tropes - not blatantly antisemitic?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This case highlights the extreme inequality of the law and its enforcement. "Property" rights - in a lobster - pursued all the way to a police raid & strip searches. But we can do whatever the hell we want to marine wildlife. Take one step back and it all looks mad. theecologist.org/2026/apr/28/...

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I liberated a lobster and got crushed

How common wildlife myths were weaponised to crush a small act of resistance.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7

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Kath Buckley @buckers2023.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Just come home to find this little chap on the steps by the patio doors. He’s not very well is he? I don’t know whether he’s ill or flown into the glass. Does anyone know what he is? I’m guessing greenfinch chick but I could well be wrong.

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Last day that my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is available as a Kindle 99p monthly deal!

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, is a Kindle 99p monthly deal if you like your books slow-burn, atmospheric, and equal parts dark and glitz and glamour. A gothic campus novel described as Saltburn meets the Craft meets Mean girls 📚 #BookSky

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/02/2026

Author event: Three neurodivergent debut authors – @newlands.bsky.social, @nataliejayneclark.bsky.social & @elspethwrites.bsky.social – discuss their different journeys to publication & their writing processes 28 Feb, Stirling. Free, booking required www.stirling.gov.uk/community-li...

AUTHOR EVENT at Central Library
Saturday 28th February, 2–3pm, FREE

Tom Newlands: Award winning author of Only Here, Only Now, a powerful coming-of-age novel about friendship, identity, and modern Scottish life.

Natalie Jayne Clark: Bloody Scotland Debut
Award-nominated author of The Whisky Murders, a gripping Scottish crime novel set in the world of whisky and small-town secrets...

Elspeth Wilson: Author of These Mortal Bodies, a powerful novel exploring love, loss, and the past. Perfect for fans of the The Secret History.

Join us for an intimate, lively blether with three neurodivergent debut authors, each with different journeys to publication, writing processes, and obsessions to share with you.

To book a space: Ask in the library, phone 01786 237760 or email centrallibrary@stirling.gov.uk

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

i’ve made it home nominally alive from Granite Noir, & it’s by far the biggest event i’ve done. i feel so privileged to get to do this & to talk to people about books & meet so many readers/writers/organisers! someone should invent a sofa i can reach the floor on, though 😂

Three women sitting in a row at a table holding their books. From left to right, Natalie Jayne Clark with brown hair and glasses holding her book The Malt Whisky Murders, Elspeth Wilson with glasses and lighter brown/honey blonde hair holding her book These Mortal Bodies, and Laura with cropped red hair and a rainbow jumper holding her book Awakened

Four people sitting on a stage across two black sofas with a projector scree behind them. From left to right, the chair Eris young with curly dark hair and a white sweater, next to Natalie from the previous photo. On the next sofa is Laura sitting next to Elspeth. The projector screen shows their pictures and the text Bold New Voices Granite Noir festival

Laura, a white woman with cropped red hair wearing a rainbow jumper standing in front of the poster of her book cover smiling at the camera. The cover is for Awakened and features a raven bearing the Tower of London on its back

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Edinburgh #BookSky folks I can't wait for this event next week! Would be fab to see you there

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/02/2026

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm not a party person. I just want a fairer, kinder, greener world. I'm delighted to see how well the Greens are doing. But we also need a strong and sincere Labour Party, and it is an absolute tragedy to see how Keir Starmer and his moral bypass of a government have ruined it.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

since it's February I suppose I should say that I'm appearing at #GraniteNoir this month with the excellent @elspethwrites.bsky.social and Natalie Jayne Clark! the event will be livestreamed on the 22nd February and you can find the link here: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...

Publicity image of "Bold New Voices" author conversation event at Granite Noir, text reading Natalie Jayne Clark, Laura Elliott & Elspeth Wilson with pictures of all three

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

One of the most dangerous things I see come from self help and spirituality books. They state, that the world isn’t the problem. Your thoughts of it are YOUR problem. I find these books atrocious.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

These Mortal Bodies is getting a new look for paperback and has some gorgeous new quotes to go along with it! Thank you to @mkhardywrites.com, @pollyrowena.bsky.social (by way of the Bookseller) and Heather Darwent for capturing the murky yet glitzy vibe of my book so perfectly #BookSky

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Still looking for a Christmas present for the Scottish folklore enthusiast in your life? Dark Crescent has you covered - "a terrific collection of Scottish folktales with a modern twist" (according to Joanne Harris!) ✨️ Available in the usual places/via @lunapress.bsky.social! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

Covered of Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal with a gold and glittery background

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Happy International Day of People with Disabilities to all who celebrate by buying a book by a disabled author for everyone on their Christmas list.

“Illuminated and spirited. Such a necessary book” - Marina Hyde.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Need you all to understand how utterly exhausting it is for disabled people (especially those of us with any public profile) to exist online rn.

Three texts read
from Nick Ferrari’s show on LBC. Hope all is well
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15339433/cricket-one-legged-father-pay-36000-benefits-filmed.html
Would you be available at 08:35 this morning to speak to Nick about whether the DWP should be taking away this man’s benefits
reply from me: No im not free for that. I would never be free for that. It’s just another example of how the press are demonising disabled peopleI’m

headline from the daily mail reads Just not cricket! One-legged father is ordered to pay £36,000 of benefits back after being filmed playing the sport

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I'm looking to speak to anyone who has worked in hospitality in Oxford or Cambridge, particularly studenty bars/clubs/restaurants for a potential piece for a national magazine! #journorequest

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

London #BookSky people I'm doing an event with two other great authors for Disability History Month and it would be amazing to see some of you there! It's at the Common Press and tickets are from free - I think this is such an important conversation. www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...

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Disability and the Publishing Industry | The Common Press

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

My debut novel has gone to number 1 in the rather cryptic 'other practices' category thanks to being part of Kindle's daily deal 😂. And no 7 in coming of age! Last few hours to buy something I poured my heart and soul into for 99p xx #BookSky www.amazon.co.uk/These-Mortal...

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

If you're looking for an autumn read with crackling fires, mossy woods, soaring spires and a creeping gothic atmosphere then my debut novel These Mortal Bodies is a Kindle daily deal for today only 💚🎓🖤!! 99p for many hours of (and many more of my life 😂😅)

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 24/10/2025

The ebook version of @elspethwrites.bsky.social's These Mortal Bodies is only £1 today! Been wanting to read it since meeting her at the Someone Like Me launch a few weeks ago. Here's an interview with her about it: open.substack.com/pub/portobel...

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Interview with Elspeth Wilson about These Mortal Bodies

This eerie and intoxicating dark academia campus novel is a Kindle Daily Deal TODAY!

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Reading this now and really enjoying!

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

LAST CHANCE! Waterstones is running a pre-order offer on select titles - and the Who Wants Normal? paperback is included! Be quick - it ends today - and you’ll get 25% off and be one of the first to receive the book next year: www.waterstones.com/book/who-wan...

Waterstones: 25% off 2026 new titles. Pre-order code: OCTOBER25. An image of Who Wants Normal? Life Lessons from Disabled Women sits in the centre.

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

There's just one more day to get 25% off a preorder of the paperback of my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies from Waterstones! If nature as character, explorations of gender and femininity, obsession and friendship are your kind of thing 💚🎓

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

She's getting a new look! Absolutely delighted to reveal the paperback cover of my debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, which I am absolutely *obsessed* with 💚🖤! It captures the murkiness of sisterhood, the watery vibes and gothic atmosphere absolutely perfectly. Term commences 26/2/26 🎓 #booksky

A girl in a white dress stands in a pond surrounded by reeds. She is against a backdrop of trees and gothic architecture. The book is These Mortal Bodies by Elspeth Wilson and the font is bright green.

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Ashia Mirza Writer @ashprincewriter.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yayyyy!!! I’m beyond excited to win #Hashtag2025! Im looking forward to introducing a whole new type of genie into the world.🧞‍♂️😍🥰🎉🎉🎉🎉. Thanks to Helen and Abiola @hashtag_press for this fantastic opportunity. #writing #mgwriter #mgbookstagram #booksforchildren

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Great to chat to @talking-books.bsky.social about These Mortal Bodies, its audiobook and some of the audiobooks that have shaped me as a reader and writer! #BookSky

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

If this is how Israel treat international activists, imagine the conditions for Palestinians, held illegally, intimidated, tortured - psychological terrorism and war crime after war crime. Most mainstream media barely touching it, shameful and providing impunity www.thenational.scot/news/2552542...

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Flotilla crew member lifts lid on 'horrific' conditions in Israeli 'internment camp'

AN activist who was detained by Israel after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted has described the “horrific” conditions he faced inside…

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Hey authors! If your first novel came out in the onslaught that was 2020, please share it here. Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.

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Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Check out this piece on #darkacademia for @thenerdaily by #TheseDreamingSpires contributor @elspethwrites.bsky.social - link below: thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...

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Jen Scotney @jenscotney.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“I think often the cultivation of resilience lies with connecting with others” Thanks to Elspeth Wilson coming to talk about collective resilience, body doubling, journalling, and writing a book as a way to escape. Her new book ‘These Mortal Bodies’ out now podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Got to chat to some of the most exciting names in the genre and write my thoughts about what makes dark academia dark academia for The Nerd Daily! Read on for discussions of institution as villain & glamour with a rotten underside w Olivie Blake and more #BookSky 🖤📚 thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...

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Glitz, Glamour and Villainy: What Makes A Work Dark Academia and Why is the Genre Booming? | The Nerd Daily

Elspeth Wilson, author of These Mortal Bodies, discusses what attracts us to dark academia and what actually goes into making a work part of the genre with fellow contributors from the upcoming anthol...

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Complicity everywhere, maybe this is why they wanted to make protestors "terrorists"

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Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

One of my fave bits of reader feedback so far for my debut, These Mortal Bodies, about coming of age, infatuation and the underside of girlhood - "an absolute delight, so incredibly immersive and so many characters I wanted to punch in the face" 📖🖤 #BookSky

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Home again at last but here is proof of the 2 events I did @edbookfest.bsky.social this last week - 1stly with @joeharkness.bsky.social chaired by @elspethwrites.bsky.social, 2ndly with @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social @astrominx.bsky.social and James Catchpole.

joe and polly on stage looking at each other - polly is talking and waving her hands around., joe is wearing a t-shirt with mushrooms on it. Polly is wearing an ffp3 msk and a green dress.

Joe and Polly at black cloth covered signing table holding up a copy of their book each.

Four writers on stage at Edinburgh Book Fest schools event. At left, Matilda, a black woman in a powerchair wearing a purple beret, next, Polly, a white woman with a white ffp3 mask on sitting with one leg stucked in on chair, next Elle, A white woman with long wavy hair , next James, a whaite man wearing a waistcoat and shirt with 1 leg. Over their heads a screen with captions and the illustrations of each of them from Owning It.

The four owning it writers signing books in a row at a long table

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Genoveva Dimova @gen-dimova.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

So excited to be participating in this panel on female-led fantasy with the brilliant @annabelcwrites.bsky.social and @toribovalino.bsky.social in Toppings, Edinburgh on the 26th of September! Come see us chat about women with warrior hearts 💜 www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

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Women with Warrior Hearts: Female-Led Fantasy Panel with V.L. Bovalino, Annabel Campbell, and Genoveva Dimova at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

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Writers Online @writersonline.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This month, Mary and Beth dive into The Mercy Step - the debut novel by Marcia Hutchinson. 🌟 Set in 1960s Bradford, the novel follows Mercy, a young girl growing up in a household marked by struggle. Tune in now to join the conversation 👉 writ.me/MercyStep

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