Melinda Salisbury
@melindasalisbury.com
Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Fix your hearts or die
she/her
Author. https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Fix your hearts or die
she/her
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Melinda Salisbury
@melindasalisbury.com
· Oct 10
David Fickling Books has snapped up an 'exceptional' new YA novel by four-time Carnegie Medal-nominated author Melinda Salisbury, sparking a six-figure US deal. Local Gods will publish in summer 2026 👇 #BookSky
Melinda Salisbury’s new YA fantasy goes to DFB and sparks six-figure US deal
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Hello, everybody! I have GREAT NEWS!!!!!
Well this presents quite the conundrum, because now I want him to live long enough to see them get it
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
February 3, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Well this presents quite the conundrum, because now I want him to live long enough to see them get it
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Chris Bracey, Hands of God, 2013,
Found sculpture, neon and carnival bulbs.
www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk
Found sculpture, neon and carnival bulbs.
www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Chris Bracey, Hands of God, 2013,
Found sculpture, neon and carnival bulbs.
www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk
Found sculpture, neon and carnival bulbs.
www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk
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Hear me out: can we have Gordon back
Gordon Brown writes to Met to back case for investigation into Mandelson's 'inexcusable and unpatriotic' leaking - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Hear me out: can we have Gordon back
The hotel room HAS A BATH!!!!!
I have to do an overnight stay while I do some school visits to celebrate ENDGAME coming out, and do you know what that means?
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The hotel room HAS A BATH!!!!!
I think I'm being bullied on the train! The iPhone-face girls started talking about how they hated fringes, then they moved on to hating the emo/goth look, and right now they're hating red lipstick!
February 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I think I'm being bullied on the train! The iPhone-face girls started talking about how they hated fringes, then they moved on to hating the emo/goth look, and right now they're hating red lipstick!
My favourite search engine is Reddit
February 3, 2026 at 9:57 AM
My favourite search engine is Reddit
I wish I could relax my face
February 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
I wish I could relax my face
How did men get to be in charge when they're SO RELENTLESSLY CRINGEY
February 2, 2026 at 9:29 PM
How did men get to be in charge when they're SO RELENTLESSLY CRINGEY
I have to do an overnight stay while I do some school visits to celebrate ENDGAME coming out, and do you know what that means?
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
February 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I have to do an overnight stay while I do some school visits to celebrate ENDGAME coming out, and do you know what that means?
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
Steak frites dinner and wine in a mug while watching terrestrial TV in the hotel!!!!! THE BEST OF TIMES
Something I started doing this year is keeping a Done list instead of a To-Do list and after a month of implementation I can tell you it's a much nicer feeling to look at what I've achieved at the end of each day, instead of seeing what I didn't manage to tick off
February 1, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Something I started doing this year is keeping a Done list instead of a To-Do list and after a month of implementation I can tell you it's a much nicer feeling to look at what I've achieved at the end of each day, instead of seeing what I didn't manage to tick off
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
February 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers
I adore this story! I'm delighted to see it on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
Congratulations to Catherynne M. Valente! Valente's novelette “When He Calls Your Name” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List! You can read it here! buff.ly/knDnCyn
February 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I adore this story! I'm delighted to see it on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
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Today I finished reading Local Gods by @melindasalisbury.com (out in August) and it was utterly stunning. An A24 folk horror film in the form of a YA novel, with beautiful, hazy and shimmering prose and a sense of creeping dread. Just amazing!! 🦉 #booksky
February 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Today I finished reading Local Gods by @melindasalisbury.com (out in August) and it was utterly stunning. An A24 folk horror film in the form of a YA novel, with beautiful, hazy and shimmering prose and a sense of creeping dread. Just amazing!! 🦉 #booksky
I'm considering pivoting away from 'Mel' as a nickname, and going with 'Mindy' instead. I don't feel like a Mel anymore
February 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I'm considering pivoting away from 'Mel' as a nickname, and going with 'Mindy' instead. I don't feel like a Mel anymore
I think as a precaution we just need to jail anyone with more than five million dollars. Not even pounds. American dollars
January 31, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I think as a precaution we just need to jail anyone with more than five million dollars. Not even pounds. American dollars
Have you ever been sat reading quietly and then all of a sudden you hear the tearing, papery sound of something living splitting apart across the room?
Because I now have and I didn't know daffodils made a sound when they began to bloom
Because I now have and I didn't know daffodils made a sound when they began to bloom
January 30, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Have you ever been sat reading quietly and then all of a sudden you hear the tearing, papery sound of something living splitting apart across the room?
Because I now have and I didn't know daffodils made a sound when they began to bloom
Because I now have and I didn't know daffodils made a sound when they began to bloom
Honestly getting a bit tired of that man banging on about how bad it was to have a bear living under his house, as if it's not my my dream. I can't even get blue tits to visit my feeder and you had a bear? A bear CHOSE YOU? Fuck you, pal
January 30, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Honestly getting a bit tired of that man banging on about how bad it was to have a bear living under his house, as if it's not my my dream. I can't even get blue tits to visit my feeder and you had a bear? A bear CHOSE YOU? Fuck you, pal
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Due to the return of the cold weather, dinner will be an entire Toblerone, consumed in bed, with a hot water bottle under my knees
January 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Due to the return of the cold weather, dinner will be an entire Toblerone, consumed in bed, with a hot water bottle under my knees
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I genuinely think the best approach for everyday AI is to stay away from it as long as you possibly can, don't talk to it, don't look at it, if ever there was a thing that was just cursed it's that. If you need it, good luck I guess but it's not your friend
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I genuinely think the best approach for everyday AI is to stay away from it as long as you possibly can, don't talk to it, don't look at it, if ever there was a thing that was just cursed it's that. If you need it, good luck I guess but it's not your friend
Really need the postperson to get their cute little butt here with my parcel because I've got to go out and get malt loaf for tonight's Ballad of Wallis Island party
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Really need the postperson to get their cute little butt here with my parcel because I've got to go out and get malt loaf for tonight's Ballad of Wallis Island party
East Sussex Libraries accepted my suggestion to buy Jennette McCurdy's HALF HIS AGE and I'm number one in the queue! THE LIBRARY IS THE BEST THING WE'VE DONE AS A SPECIES
January 28, 2026 at 11:15 AM
East Sussex Libraries accepted my suggestion to buy Jennette McCurdy's HALF HIS AGE and I'm number one in the queue! THE LIBRARY IS THE BEST THING WE'VE DONE AS A SPECIES
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After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->
January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->
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Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
January 28, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Annie Wilkes from Misery is spiritually Millennial:
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok
▪️cottagecore
▪️extremely toxic fandom
▪️aggressive side part
▪️weird childish curses
▪️puritanical, but also
▪️horrifyingly perverted
RIP Annie you would have been so good at BookTok