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People* will be whinging and going oh it’s a comedy chat show, this doesn’t count. Listen. There’s a reason that the answers to questions like these, and ones like “what’s your bodega order” to Mamdani, actually matter.

If your entire platform is being angry and bringing up times when bad things happened and insisting we should all be feeling sad and guilty constantly….. Try telling us what you had for tea. About that good book you read the other day. Did you see a dog? I bet something funny happened last week.

Sharing some of my favourite reviews of SOME BODY LIKE ME…. Preorder the paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1399...

Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library. 300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive. A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable. Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼

apparently it is #NonFictionNovember and i write non-fiction kids books so that seemed like a good excuse to share the EIGHTEEN books i have written over the past eight years. look at them all. #KidsBooksFriday #KidLitUK #UKKidLit #KidLit

It’s that time of year where you can’t see anything because all the windows are steamed up on the outside. Yes, the outside. It’s annoying.

Sharing some of my favourite reviews of SOME BODY LIKE ME…. Preorder the paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1399...

Fuck it, I’m making a cake

This was my book of the year this year - full of warmth and hope, and ironically, humanity 💜

This book is brilliant and I think has a first line that should be inducted into a hall of fame!

Three months to go 🩵🤖 Paperback fans, if you’ve been waiting for your chance, here it comes! SOME BODY LIKE ME arrives in paperback on 5th February 2026. It would mean the world to me if you preordered! @gollancz.bsky.social

Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford. Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄

Call from service I complained to: Hello is that LD Lapinski? Me: hello, yes Call: I’m calling from Service about your complaint? Me: oh, great, hi Call: could you confirm your address and car registration? Me: no Call: …why? Me: you’ve called me? Idk who you really are, do I? Call: …

Starting the day with a (very pleasant but still gutting) rejection for something I really wanted, going to be sad for a thousand years* *few hours at least

Eleven days to go until @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social!!!

Me: here is a post about my book coming out in paperback Every social media platform: fuck you and fuck your book

This was a fabulous read, very much recommended for near future spec that takes a totally different view on the inevitable rise of the machine and death of the human (heartbreaking and tender in its hope in the ash of finality)

Three months to go 🩵🤖 Paperback fans, if you’ve been waiting for your chance, here it comes! SOME BODY LIKE ME arrives in paperback on 5th February 2026. It would mean the world to me if you preordered! @gollancz.bsky.social

No pain, no gain, except the pain is men at the gym making dying buffalo noises

Lee Ostertag saying it best this morning

Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.

Thanks to everyone spoiling bake-off immediately, you’re really doing god’s work there 😒

Today I sent over my top entries, and oh boy was it a tough decision. I had The Most Fun reading all of them, and I can tell I’ve had a glimpse into a lot of future success 👀

We’ve only gone and got ourselves nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration?! Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine 💛🤍💜🖤 Non Binary November indeed!

Eleven days to go until @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social!!!

Congratulations, Team Kickflip! Amazing, and totally deserved 🔥

I was having An Anxiety over this comic script I’m writing but this morning’s news has helped me believe in my abilities again 💚 Let’s go, weird historical gay horror!!!

All these books are excellent, but I must especially big up SOME BODY LIKE ME which, for a book about a robot in which humanity is gasping its last breath, is surprisingly filled with hope.

THIS BELOVED BOOK 💕💕💕

We’ve only gone and got ourselves nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration?! Hugest congratulations to Logan Hanning for pulling this out of the bag for their debut book, and endless thanks to all the librarians who have given Elliot this chance to shine 💛🤍💜🖤 Non Binary November indeed!

It’s Non Binary November! 💛🤍💜🖤

The AI marketing emails are now competing with the regular spam marketing emails and basically if you’re a human being please make an effort to sound like one in the first couple of lines

Just saw someone saying they’re paying £600 a month to have the heating on during the winter 🙃

Went to the Giving Tree in town to pick a child who needs a Christmas present… there were only ten cards remaining, but they were all teenage boys. I’d like to think it’s a coincidence, but probably not. Regardless, there’s a 15yo boy who’s got a bag of goodies with his name on it, now.

It’s time! The Bert's Books Secret Santa. Sign up by 30th November, and pick a book you'd like to gift to someone else. I'll work out the best person to send that book to - and in return you'll get a book to unwrap too! bertsbooks.co.uk/secret-santa

Celebrating Halloween in the traditional way: by watching all the Heist episodes of Brooklyn Nine Nine

Can’t believe I never did a Strangeworlds Halloween special but I guess, thinking about it, Artezans is the Halloween special

Good things happen to bad people so often that you’ll start questioning your whole morality framework

Saw my first mention of the evil elf on the evil shelf this morning, so why not indulge in an advent tradition that requires no midnight set-up and doesn’t imply a plastic doll is spying on your every move: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/step...

We are heading to ThoughtBubble!!!! @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social

I’m poorly (con cold) and have to go get wood for the fire and I don’t wanna I would have just lay down and died in the dark ages for sure

Yellow stickers aren’t yellow stickering hard enough these days. Nothing in that section should be over one pound. Nothing.

When you do an incredible panel @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social and then SELL OUT of books at your signing?! Bananas!!!! Thank you hugely to everyone who came, and especially to everyone who was ok getting a signed postcard and bookmark after we ran out of books 😭 We love you & can’t wait to be back! 💛🤍💜🖤

The traditional post-travel meal of a slice of bread and butter and a mouthful of peanut butter eaten directly off the spoon. No, you can’t spread the peanut butter onto the bread, that’s not how any of this works

Does anyone have an email to get in touch with the Good Omens Kickstarter team? My order has been marked as dispatched for ages, but I’ve received no email, no tracking number, and no book.

When you do an incredible panel @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social and then SELL OUT of books at your signing?! Bananas!!!! Thank you hugely to everyone who came, and especially to everyone who was ok getting a signed postcard and bookmark after we ran out of books 😭 We love you & can’t wait to be back! 💛🤍💜🖤

TWO POUNDS FIFTY for a basic advent calendar?! It’s not even cost of living now it’s cost of existing because what sort of life is this

Come see us chatting comics at MCM comic con, noon today!