‘I was mostly inspired by my own climate anxiety and how insane the world is’, said @orsorrel.bsky.social on Apocalypse Cow 🐄

Fiancée: Can you believe we're getting married in 12 days? Are we sure we're grown up enough? Me, attaching a Frozen-themed child's toothbrush head to my electric toothbrush while wearing a T-shirt and no pants: Yes.

Two cows apocalypses are better than one? 👀🐮🔥

I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist

Thank you so much to the book club members at @tmwslibrary.bsky.social for longlisting Apocalypse Cow ❤️🐮❤️

Thank you so much to @societyofauthors.bsky.social for the £2k grant I received today to help write my 2nd masterpiece! ❤️ It was really easy to apply for and it's really nice that I can eat now! One of many reasons to be a member of the SoA 📚. #SoAGrants

Totally stoked! #ElectricLife won the #BristolTeenBookAward. Such a great day, meeting fabulous students and the excellent shortlisted authors @anikahussainwrites.bsky.social @orsorrel.bsky.social and #GavinExtance. Get a load of my smug mug.

Thanks so much @stephenjdilley.bsky.social 😁🐮

@eva-maria-m.bsky.social is my extremely talented BFFL and I am ever so proud of her ❤️❤️🐇🐇

My biggest fan 🐮❤️

Thrilled for our listee @orsorrel.bsky.social ! What fantastic news! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

And yes, we have at least one of the T-Shirts already (perfect workwear for when we moved offices) #BranfordBoaseAwardLonglist2025 @orsorrel.bsky.social @guppybooks.bsky.social

The #BranfordBoaseAward Longlist for 2025 is out! A 20-strong list with an apocalyptic theme coursing through it…⚡️⛈️💥🐮

❤️❤️❤️ I wrote AC because Jo told me to

Big up to the four @bathspauni.bsky.social MA grads on the Branford Boase longlist, especially my UoB PhD student Ash Bond and @orsorrel.bsky.social whose hilarious Apocalypse Cow will always hold a very special place in my heart.

So, when are Zuskerberg having that cage fight, then?

Feels rude that when you complete your self-assessment a full NINETEEN DAYS ahead of the deadline, all you're awarded with is a submission ID and silence. Where's my confetti? Why did no one bring me a cake and tell me I did a really good job?

Spending 2025 being unhinged but like, fun. Funhinged.

Just finished reading Sea Spinners by @luwrites.bsky.social 😍 a wonderful story full of adventure, myth and dark magic. I loved it 😍 available from independent bookshops and the river place

My Partner Doing the Dishes: A Short Story in Onomatopoeia - Crash. Crash. Splash. Crash. Crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash. CRASH "Shit."

Absolutely obsessed with the anti-Tory storyline in the #DoctorWho Christmas special 🔥🔥

We're continuing our look back at 2024 with a spotlight on our #ReadingTogether campaign. With the support of all the Waterstones #ChildrensLaureates, we shared our action plan to support families to become regular reading families in the early stages of a child's life. (1/5) 👇

Tis the season 🌲

My Canadian partner physically can't separate Love Actually and The Holiday, nor can she remember their names. She referred to the favoured classic Christmas romance, "Wife Swap." She was talking about Love Actually.

Check your library's website to see what they can give you access to! My local one has Libby and Borrowbox so I get a ton of audiobooks.

We’ve just hit £4 MILLION for indie bookshops! 
 THANK YOU for choosing to keep independent bookshops thriving this year. Where you spend your money is POWERFUL. Bookshop.org

We're sending a huge thank you to our friends at Build-a-Bear Foundation, who have helped us deliver 1,000 Reading Buddy Bears to children across the country along with our #Bookstart packs! Find out what a difference it's made here 🐻 👇 www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

Have you seen the LoveReading4Kids Children’s Books of the Year 2024 yet? They’re all stars. Read them. Share them. Buy them. Love them as much as we do 📚❤️ www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/the-lov...

For #DayTwelve of #12GaysofChristmas there's a BONUS BOOK! It's... Apocalypse Cow by me 😇 According to people who know things, it's good. It's been named as a @lovereading4kids.bsky.social book of the year AND nominated for the Carnegie Medals! Did I miss any of your #QueerYA favourites? 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

That's a wrap! For #DayTwelve of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by @lexcroucher.bsky.social ❤️🫅 This was recommended to me because it's so funny and I was not disappointed, I snorted the whole way through (and it's steamy too 👀 🔥) #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

Best book out this year 👀🌊❤️

For #DayEleven of my #12GaysofChristmas I have to include The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth 🌈❤️ This book is just one of my all-time favourites (as you can probably tell from the battered cover 😂) - it's so good, heartbreaking and still very funny ❤️ #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

For #DayTen of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth (see also Falling in Love Montage also by Ciara) 💅❤️ Both of these books are so funny and so brilliantly written and I will always fan-person them 🌈 #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

Does no one else find it completely unhinged that in the lotto ad, she just casually checks her phone during a film IN THE CINEMA? I don't care if you've won millions, if you whip out your phone in the cinema, the civilised among us will dissolve you in paint stripper and hot bin juice.

#DayNine for my #12GaysofChristmas we've got Afterlove by @tanyabyrne.com ❤️🖤 This is gorgeously written magical realism in a way I hadn't seen it done before, filled with love and grief and gay yearning (we do really know how to yearn) 🌈❤️ it felt very original! #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYa #Sapphic

#DayEight of #12GaysofChristmas we have Broken Hearts and Zombie Parts by @whusseyauthor.bsky.social 💔🧟 I read this shortly after my mum had emergency open heart surgery, so it holds a special place in my, well, heart.🩷 It's so funny, sweet and filled with gay panic 🏳️‍🌈 #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

#DaySeven of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Six Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did) by @sharpegirl.bsky.social ❤️🌲 This book yanked my heart clean out of my chest, threw it under a train, then carefully nestled it back in between my lungs like nothing happened. 💔 #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYa

#DaySix of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Wonderland by @junodawson.bsky.social 💅 This book is a wonderful celebration of being a messy teen that happens to be trans 🤍🩷🩵. There is a certain level of queer royalty you can reach and drop a C-bomb in a YA, and she is that level 👑😂 #12YAsOfChristmas

She wore a ✨ raspberry beret ✨ #CatInAHat

Ahh, my debut, coming up for 8 years old in 2025! So happy Noah still finds readers today… and BTW, if you’re in the market for something fun and bonkers, do check out Apocalypse Cow by @orsorrel.bsky.social 😄

#DayFive of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Noah Can't Even by @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social 🌈🍌 So, so funny, and Noah is the perfect depiction of how terminally embarrassing it is to be a teenager 😂 and still a very sweet friends-to-lovers story 🥹❤️. #12YAsOfChristmas #GayYA #QueerYA

We've had a casualty. The bin has fallen over. Thoughts and prayers in this difficult time. #StormDarragh

Join us for #BookElves2024 - we will be recommending great children’s books during the #LateLateToyShow esp Irish ones #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks

Thank you so much @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social ❤️🌈😁

#DayFour of my #12GaysofChristmas we have Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar - I loved this book, two really defined funny voices and all the giddy feelings of Definitely Not Having an intense crush and freaking out about it ❤️👀 #12YAsOfChristmas #QueerYA

#DayThree of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Lover Birds by fellow Carnegie nominated Leanne Eagan 🐦🐦‍⬛👀 This book is hilarious and so brilliantly heartbreaking, a really true telling of living with ADHD and feeling like you're Too Much because of it ❤️ #12YAsOfChristmas #queerya #sapphicya

For #DayTwo of my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 we have Cupid's Revenge by Wibke Brueggemann 💘 This is cheating, but I also recommend Love is For Losers, also by Wibke 😎 Both books are hilarious, so much fun, and very sweet. Teen me felt very seen in both of them! #12YAsOfChristmas #queerya

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I've decided to help you with your Christmas shopping and list my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 YA BOOKS EDITION. In no particular order, for #DayOne we have The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes. Gorgeously written, hilarious, heartbreaking, wonderful. #queerya #12YAsOfChristmas

I've decided to help you with your Christmas shopping and list my #12GaysofChristmas 🌲 YA BOOKS EDITION. In no particular order, for #DayOne we have The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes. Gorgeously written, hilarious, heartbreaking, wonderful. #queerya #12YAsOfChristmas