Elspeth Wilson
@elspethwrites.bsky.social
Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. These Mortal Bodies, my debut about sisterhood, girlhood and obsession, is out now with Simon and Schuster 🦇.
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Elspeth Wilson
@elspethwrites.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Little intro post to say hi! I'm a writer whose debut is out in 2025! These Mortal Bodies is described as The Secret History meets The Crucible - think secret societies, feminine obsession and friendships that are oh so close. Always love connecting w other writers and readers #writingcommunity
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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.
They state, that the world isn’t the problem. Your thoughts of it are YOUR problem.
I find these books atrocious.
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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.
They state, that the world isn’t the problem. Your thoughts of it are YOUR problem.
I find these books atrocious.
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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
December 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
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"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
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Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
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December 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"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!
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
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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
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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
December 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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.
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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.
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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
November 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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...
www.commonpress.co.uk/event-detail...
Disability and the Publishing Industry | The Common Press
www.commonpress.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
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...
www.amazon.co.uk/These-Mortal...
October 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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...
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 😂😅)
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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 😂😅)
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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...
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...
Interview with Elspeth Wilson about These Mortal Bodies
This eerie and intoxicating dark academia campus novel is a Kindle Daily Deal TODAY!
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October 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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...
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...
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...
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reading this now and really enjoying!
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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...
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...
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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...
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 💚🎓
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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 💚🎓
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October 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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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...
open.substack.com/pub/autcasts...
AutCasts Recommends: Neurodivergent Fiction
A round-up of some of my favourite neurodivergent fiction from the last couple of years!
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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...
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
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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
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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
#writing #mgwriter #mgbookstagram #booksforchildren
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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
#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...
@rnibradio.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social
audioboom.com/posts/878176...
Elspeth Wilson - These Mortal Bodies
Today we chat to poet and author Elspeth Wilson about her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, a gripping and atmospheric dark academia novel about toxic female friendships and obsession. Plus we find so...
audioboom.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
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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...
@rnibradio.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social
audioboom.com/posts/878176...
Elspeth Wilson - These Mortal Bodies
Today we chat to poet and author Elspeth Wilson about her debut novel, These Mortal Bodies, a gripping and atmospheric dark academia novel about toxic female friendships and obsession. Plus we find so...
audioboom.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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...
@rnibradio.bsky.social @rnib.bsky.social
audioboom.com/posts/878176...
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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...
Flotilla crew member lifts lid on 'horrific' conditions in Israeli 'internment camp'
AN activist who was detained by Israel after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted has described the “horrific” conditions he faced inside…
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October 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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...
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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.
Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.
September 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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.
Tell us the title and at least one cool thing about it, plus give us a link to learn more and buy it.
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Check out this piece on #darkacademia for @thenerdaily by #TheseDreamingSpires contributor @elspethwrites.bsky.social - link below:
thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...
thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Check out this piece on #darkacademia for @thenerdaily by #TheseDreamingSpires contributor @elspethwrites.bsky.social - link below:
thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...
thenerddaily.com/elspeth-wils...
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“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...
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...
September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“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...
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...