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Lou Abercrombie

@louabercrombie.bsky.social
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Author | Photographer In the middle of writing a book… www.louabercrombie.com mybook.to/LouAbercrombieBooks

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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Very exciting news. Can confirm James Cameron is not only a brilliant director and very nice man but he has very good taste in books!
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Congrats to @joeabercrombie.com on his number one spot!
Photo of the Sunday Times bestseller list
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Don't forget to register your objection to Meta using your posts to train their AI. Too late for my and everyone else's books however...
Screenshot of a email from Meta about objection to AI
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is really good. The piece on Saruman is a wildly dissembling bit of corporate PR but huge fun. The piece on Tyrion? Is just and true.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So happy for Joe! www.thebookseller.com/news/indepen...
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Independent Bookshop Chart: Better The Devils you know – Joe Abercrombie tops the chart
In a week that’s seen Joe Abercrombie deliver his best sales to date, the author finds his latest offering The Devils (Gollancz) at the top of the Independent Bookshop chart.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Un-fucking-believable!
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Sign the petition: Block Thames Water bonuses
Thames Water bosses are cashing in on a £3bn emergency bailout - while pipes leak and bills rise. Stop bonuses for failure. Sign the petition now to get the Government to step in: 👇
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Good luck to all the students taking their English lit gcse exam this morning. You can go back to enjoying reading after this…
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Daniel Roman @romanwriting.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Happy UK release day to THE DEVILS! I interviewed @joeabercrombie.com about creating this raucous grimdark fantasy about a group of misfit monsters on a dangerous mission, how he designed its alternate-history world, wrote the distinctive voices of the Devils, his work on the sequel, and more:
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Interview: Joe Abercrombie talks The Devils, grimdark fantasy humor, Best Served Cold and more
Sometimes holy work requires unholy deeds, a fact which the cast of misfits at the heart of Joe Abercrombie's new book The Devils knows all too well. Abercrombi
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
campaignforthearts.org
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As two of my children begin their GCSE and Alevel exams today, I note that @joeabercrombie.com book tour has been meticulously planned to coincide with it! #soloparenting #YouOweMe
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/05/2025
Job going here at the loveliest place with the loveliest people. A residential library with a restaurant cafe and no tv in the gorgeous bedrooms. Perfect place to write! Or read. Please share:)
gladstoneslibrary.org
Work at Gladstone's Library - Gladstone's Library
Current Vacancies Reading Room Assistant: Gladstone's Library Application deadline: Friday 16th May 2025, at 10am An exciting new opportunity has opened
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.
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Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Im not too proud to admit that Pieces of Us seems to be struggling to make its mark at the moment Any shares would be appreciated. Its a book about grief, friendship, toxic love and redemption. I promise i will repay you with virtual hugs xx amzn.eu/d/fIrXRBH
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Politics.co.uk @politics.co.uk · 06/05/2025
“I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza” 🔵 Conservative MP Mark Pritchard symbolically 'withdraws' his support for Israel over war in Gaza For more politics content: www.politics.co.uk/subscribe/ ✅
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Oh wow! I love this story!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Great evening at @joeabercrombie.com Bath Literature festival to kick off The Devils UK and US tour
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Joe's first event is this evening. Who's going? I'll be the one heckling at the back...
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The Exploding Heads @explodingheads.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Is AI a good thing?
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and justice. 🍓🍓🍓🍓
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Conclave 2: Sister Act
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Ugh. I don’t WANT to use Ai. It’s not a refusal, I just don’t need it.
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Gollancz @gollancz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
THE DEVILS HAVE BEEN UNLEASHED!!!! 🔥 '@joeabercrombie.com is in a class of his own' Joe Hill 🔥 'An unholy delight' Pierce Brown 🔥 'Abercrombie at his best' Django Wexler 🔥 'It slammed the living shit out of me' Tamsyn Muir OUT NOW in hardback, ebook & audio: geni.us/the_devils
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Omg I am sooooo bored of all the AI. It’s everywhere. I’m all for it being used to solve medical conditions etc but making up songs from any word I type? Turning a bland photo into something it isn’t? Helping me type a fucking email? Go away. Just go the fuck away.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Morning! What a view to wake up to!
View of steps down onto a beach. Sea beyond.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you're looking for a good reason to celebrate it's the 80th anniversary of the death of the vain, dumb, ignorant, arrogant mass murdering racist Adolf Hitler - who died knowing that everything he had built was crumbling to dust around him.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just been to look around an amazing college in Bristol centre for middlest. Music production, performance and photography to name a few. Can someone build a Time Machine to take me back 30 odd years please? Right up my street!
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Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Little to celebrate here. UK still insistent on sending children to school in 1950s office cosplay. Boys (and some girls) from 11 forced to wear ties – why? Kids from 5 often in clothes unsuitable for play – why? Enforced posh shoes that cost a small fortune – why?
bbc.co.uk
School uniforms to change for four million pupils under plans
The government says it will save parents £50 a year, but retailers say it could end up costing more.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
I have lost connection with words at the mo. Can’t read. Can’t write. Can’t even think of witty things to post here let alone somewhere like Substack. My creative well is parched so I’m taking a break from it all.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Laurie Penny’s perspective…
lauriepenny.substack.com
TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic.
Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays straight into the hands of the far right.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
From a teacher at yesterday's Exploding Words festival: I just wanted to message and say a massive thank you for the schools event today!...The children were so engaged and when we got back to school they actually asked if they could read their story ideas from your session out to their classmates!
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Well I have completely failed in my boycott of Instagram. Currently the only place that actually works to advertise myself as an author.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I bloody adore this stretch of rail! En route home after a fantabulous day at The Exploding Words festival.
View of the sea from a train carriage
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Such a good day of workshops with engaged kids. Books almost sold out too. Reminds me why I do this. Now if I could just get the publisher to see how invested these kids are in my books, they might give me another contract!
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today’s office for the Exploding Words festival providing creative writing workshops for 9 lucky primary schools…
Panorama of the Eden Project
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Icy dip today ahead of tomorrow’s Exploding Words festival at the Eden Project. Getting an early night, it’s gonna be a fun packed day! #writerslife
Picture of the beach and the sea
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Such a good cause to support.
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Heading to Cornwall for the night and because my suitcase is full of books I can’t fit my usual pillow in. Argh. I haven’t slept without my pillow in ages. Cue: insomnia…
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Yes it's annoying but who is going to police this?
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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
If we can get this to 2k by the time the 2025 #Curae prize shortlist is announced on 1st May, that would be THE BEST. Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed. Please share and repost. Thank you 💙📚
Just giving
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Waking up before 6am has become my new norm. I used to think my grandpa was crazy for getting up at 5. Now I know why. #wideawakeclub
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Calling ASD a “disease” is stigmatizing and without basis. Tracking people with ASD in a database is fascistic and terrifying.
A social media post from FactPost (@factpostnews
) with a verified blue checkmark reads: "RFK Jr. has announced a new 'disease registry' that will track Americans with autism." The post includes two images: a photo of a person speaking at a microphone (left) and the logo of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, featuring a blue eagle and the text "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES • USA" (right).
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy St George's Day. A reminder that half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. Some of these aristocratic landowners have inherited land since the Norman Conquest. England needs land reform and a strong Community Right to Buy! whoownsengland.org
St George and the dragonGraphic showing that half of England is owned by 25,000 landowners - less than one per cent of its population. Cover of my book Who Owns England? (2019)
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
goodlawproject.org
Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
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Kaylee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🔜 BLFC @littlemacha.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Good morning to all those wide awake club members! #wideawake
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Lou Abercrombie @louabercrombie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is literally the plot of Silo. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well…
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