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

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

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

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...

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

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

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/...

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

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 😂

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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

"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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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 😂😅)

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...

Reading this now and really enjoying!

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...

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 💚🎓

Scotland at Frankfurt in full swing! @buchmesse.de #scottishpublishing #newbookscotland #FBM35

A round-up of my favourite neurodivergent fiction from the last couple of years, featuring @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @elspethwrites.bsky.social @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @riverssolomon.bsky.social & @naoisedolan.bsky.social ! open.substack.com/pub/autcasts...

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

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

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

Here's the latest Read On with @elspethwright.bsky.social on her atmospheric and dark debut 'These Mortal Bodies' @rnibradio.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social audioboom.com/posts/878176...

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...

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.

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

“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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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 👉 https://writ.me/MercyStep

Our instant USA Today bestseller, RED magazine recommended anthology, #TheSecretRomanticsBookofMagic spotted in the wild today at our local bookstore 😀❤️