The main characters in A Botanical Daughter both have silent letters in their names, X+Y: Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk) Art by @angellilou.bsky.social

The pain of writing a banger of a sentence knowing no one will read it for probably years at this point!

Spotted at Queer Lit Manchester by amazing shelf neighbour @noahmedlock.bsky.social. 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀 Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild. Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!

Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI. The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds. If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.

Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI. The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds. If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.

Shout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭

I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:

can I just. listen. *cups your face in my hands* l i s t e n go read @noahmedlock.bsky.social's book. it's ADHD x autistic gay couple. it's our marriage is kinda failing but surely having a baby will fix it. it's let's frankenstein the baby out of plants and fungi. shit fuck bad idea abort abort

My writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot. www.change.org/p/protect-au...

Just seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄 If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!

I finished reading it and it was SO DAMN GOOD! This was the best book I have read in a very long time. The story is well-paced, the characters are perfectly imperfect and the language is so delightfully witty! Go read „A Botanical Daughter“ !!! #ABotanicalDaughter

Over 30 million users on Bluesky now, so I'm bumping the starter packs, starting with my OG: Queer Masculinity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Both authors and subject matter, people doing great work with exciting perspectives! go.bsky.app/32GAjzH

Yeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh* Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack

If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter? 🌱 tender and inquisitive 🌱 made from 100% recycled materials 🌱 biological imperative to kill for you 🌱 mossy in all the right places

Time to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel: A tersely worded and devastating letter

I am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York! Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era

My plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?

Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025: INFORMATION 🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up 😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model 📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions (1/3)

Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025: INFORMATION 🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up 😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model 📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions (1/3)

A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment! Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀 If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel #queerbooks #horror

Having a very disordered day after yesterday’s high. Feel like my nerve endings are tied in knots. Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!

Just wrote up three stonking chapters if I do say so myself. SUCH a good feeling as it comes together. For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!

“I’m using ‘dick’ as a placeholder until I can find something better to shove in there” is something I just said out loud. Author problems…

Throwing my hat back into this platform for now — didn’t quite “get” it first time around Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants

Wednesday I’m in conversation with @noahmedlock.bsky.social, author of the fabulous A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER! Please come join us if a queer horror tale about a pair of Victorian gentlemen dabbling in weird plants (and weirder science) is your thing!

Hugely enjoyed my E-ARC of @noahmedlock.bsky.social's upcoming A Botanical Daughter. If you ever thought Beatrice Rappaccini deserved more (and more plants!), if you like absent-minded mad scientists and queer love that may occasionally be murderous and fungal horror, you'll love this.

I attended a wonderful talk on Sporror, and was so thrilled to see A Botanical Daughter up there with her monstrous siblings!

My sainted mother just offered to buy me some “weird clothes for book events—I mean 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 clothes for book events” (What she really means is 𝘨𝘢𝘺 clothes for 𝘨𝘢𝘺 events)

Oh! The 19th means that A Botanical Daughter will be out in 4 months exactly! Both an age away and no time at all…

“Macabre and magnificent. Horrifying and hilarious. Oddly and unquestionably heart-warming. A delightfully gruesome and rather brilliant debut from Noah Medlock.” —Angela (A.G.) Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns

“Macabre and magnificent. Horrifying and hilarious. Oddly and unquestionably heart-warming. A delightfully gruesome and rather brilliant debut from Noah Medlock.” —Angela (A.G.) Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns

I’ve submitted content notices for A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER to Storygraph, so they should be up fairly soon. If you’re an ARC reader who needs this information sooner I’m happy to provide it directly 🌱

So Delilah S Dawson read my damn book and compared it to Good Omens!! 🌱

I allowed myself to work on a cheeky secret project today, and I feel very re-energised! As always, I need to be a bit less of a disciplinarian and embrace my own nonsense

I have seen. The insides. Of my book. 🌱

Cross-posting hither and thither, but I’m just damn proud of this blurb from Ally Wilkes

This spring, something’s rising up out of the earth… 🌱

Finally turned in the acknowledgements! Possibly the last vomit of heartfelt emotions into this project?? (Please don’t make me write a bio…)

I had a wonderful time escaping into A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY by @trip.bsky.social! A gay fantasy romp through a pagan-British alt-London… and under it to the Goblin Market where anything can be bought and sold

Here’s the revised cover for A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER 🌱 I’m very glad Titan agreed that the use of AI-generated assets, though unintentional, was not acceptable

Here’s the revised cover for A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER 🌱 I’m very glad Titan agreed that the use of AI-generated assets, though unintentional, was not acceptable

I’m in cosy mode today, trying to get these acknowledgements done

Just had an AHAH moment for the WIP! Then an UHHH moment for how tragic that will be for the main character? Then an OH FUCK moment at the prospect of having to ‘go there’ to write it…

I’m behind where I wanted to be on writing this new book. I’ve let music work and publishing emotions get in the way—but no more! Let October be the month of prioritising the writing!

What a bonkers industry publishing is. Perma-crisis with a veneer of mindfulness. And I say that as a theatre person. I’ve had disaster opening nights which were less stressful than pulling a book together for publication!

Here we go, lads

First gig of the day went well 👼

And just like that—baby’s first author blurb has come through! And it’s a corker 🌱 I swear, every few days Publishing finds a new and totally overwhelming sensation to zap me with

Other authors have started reading advanced copies of my novel… not sure whether to happy-dance or to throw up honestly

This is not our cat…