Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
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✨It's Double Publication Day!✨
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
If you like science fantasy, folklore with a twist, digital ghosts, nature having opinions, and ghost cats/orcas living their best lives please do give these books a go?
geni.us/weallghostsPB
geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Love this.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
Mornington Crescent: a rant.
Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.
Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.
1/18
Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.
Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.
1/18
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Love this.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
I feel like it also fits for those who like to play oppression Olympics whenever a conversation about marginalisation doesn't center them. Sometimes it's okay to just listen, my loves.
He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 PM
He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
And yet.
Recycling bin is tops.
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Thrilled to see Shadow Jack (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) included on @wtalabi.com's list!
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
reactormag.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Thrilled to see Shadow Jack (@giganotosaurus.bsky.social) included on @wtalabi.com's list!
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
He calls it, "Weird, dark, intense, beautiful, strange, surreal, unsettling, and vivid..."
Fab to be in the company of excellent writers like @tadethompson.bsky.social - so many cool new stories to read.
I am HAVERING like a CHAMPION despite special decision-making tea. So someone please tell me what to work on next:
☀️Edit solarpunky stories
🌊New dark oxygen/divergent evolution/class short story
✨Edit braided cyclic clifi/storytelling novella (again sob)
🌳Draft new murder trees wip
🍵Moar tea
☀️Edit solarpunky stories
🌊New dark oxygen/divergent evolution/class short story
✨Edit braided cyclic clifi/storytelling novella (again sob)
🌳Draft new murder trees wip
🍵Moar tea
February 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I am HAVERING like a CHAMPION despite special decision-making tea. So someone please tell me what to work on next:
☀️Edit solarpunky stories
🌊New dark oxygen/divergent evolution/class short story
✨Edit braided cyclic clifi/storytelling novella (again sob)
🌳Draft new murder trees wip
🍵Moar tea
☀️Edit solarpunky stories
🌊New dark oxygen/divergent evolution/class short story
✨Edit braided cyclic clifi/storytelling novella (again sob)
🌳Draft new murder trees wip
🍵Moar tea
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New Review - happy publication day to All That Is In The Earth by @aknighton.bsky.social a trip to a deadly planet also asks questions about why we do what we do! Strongly recommended thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...
All That Is In The Earth By Andrew Knighton — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Luna Press Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – £10.66 p...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
New Review - happy publication day to All That Is In The Earth by @aknighton.bsky.social a trip to a deadly planet also asks questions about why we do what we do! Strongly recommended thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...
Happiest pub day to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social! Another stunner of a @lunapress.bsky.social novella! 🤩🤩🤩
New Review - happy publication day to this wonderfully spooky atmospheric tale of hauntings - In This City, Where It Rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social out now! Thanks to @lunapress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...
In This City, Where It Rains by Lyndsay Croal — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Luna Press Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – Out Now Price – 10.66 pa...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
February 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Happiest pub day to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social! Another stunner of a @lunapress.bsky.social novella! 🤩🤩🤩
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Hey look! A new book!
Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you.
Out in April, opening for pre-order now.
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you.
Out in April, opening for pre-order now.
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
February 3, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Hey look! A new book!
Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you.
Out in April, opening for pre-order now.
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you.
Out in April, opening for pre-order now.
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
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🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5
Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social
Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.
Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social
Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5
Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social
Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.
Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social
Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.
Bloooooooock 🚫🧨💥
ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Bloooooooock 🚫🧨💥
So delighted to see Cat's wild words getting the love here 🥰
I am absolutely thrilled to have work included on the 2025 Locus Recommended List, alongside @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @seraph76.bsky.social @matociquala.bsky.social and many others.
Thank you, and I appreciate any and all votes!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
Thank you, and I appreciate any and all votes!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
February 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
So delighted to see Cat's wild words getting the love here 🥰
In nice Monday news, very grateful to see THE SALT ORACLE on the Locus Recommended Reading List alongside a wealth of brilliant stories.
Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 1. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.
poll.voting.locusmag.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
In nice Monday news, very grateful to see THE SALT ORACLE on the Locus Recommended Reading List alongside a wealth of brilliant stories.
Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Without a US release, it's nigh impossible to get seen, but everyone can vote in the Locus Awards, so please go celebrate your favs🖤
poll.voting.locusmag.com
What a great project 👇🏽🤩
£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
thewhitepube.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 1:36 PM
What a great project 👇🏽🤩
lmty now is a *miserable* time to be out of contract and writing outwith the very narrow boxes that publishing is investing in 🥴
ICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
lmty now is a *miserable* time to be out of contract and writing outwith the very narrow boxes that publishing is investing in 🥴
I've written two short stories in the last fortnight & they're both very gentle* & consciously hopeful
...No idea why I'm looking for that rn...
*aka probably unpublishable 😩
...No idea why I'm looking for that rn...
*aka probably unpublishable 😩
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I've written two short stories in the last fortnight & they're both very gentle* & consciously hopeful
...No idea why I'm looking for that rn...
*aka probably unpublishable 😩
...No idea why I'm looking for that rn...
*aka probably unpublishable 😩
I am having to read a (very good) book in *light mode* because of horrible inserted documents-as-images and omg how do you heathens live like this??
January 28, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I am having to read a (very good) book in *light mode* because of horrible inserted documents-as-images and omg how do you heathens live like this??
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January 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Come talk to us tomorrow evening! It'll be a lot of fun!
BFS Online is excited to announce our next event, Faith, Science & Folklore, taking place Wednesday 28th January 2026, 7pm (GMT).
Ticket: tinyurl.com/fascifolk
@samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social
Ticket: tinyurl.com/fascifolk
@samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Come talk to us tomorrow evening! It'll be a lot of fun!
Just seen this #PublishingForMinnesota auction is being organised. Hundreds of very cool offerings raising money for the people of MN 👇
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Just seen this #PublishingForMinnesota auction is being organised. Hundreds of very cool offerings raising money for the people of MN 👇
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...
Missed this coming out & I wrote it a *while* ago, but this was me balancing the shiny debut versus the quieter road into publishing.
Even as I'm struggling atm, I do still think there's strength in being a tortoise not a hare
Even as I'm struggling atm, I do still think there's strength in being a tortoise not a hare
There are many routes to publication, and some require more patience than others. In this thoughtful piece, author Lorraine Wilson looks at what a sustainable writing career might look like.
Read on. https://writ.me/4qv9BPq
Read on. https://writ.me/4qv9BPq
January 25, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Missed this coming out & I wrote it a *while* ago, but this was me balancing the shiny debut versus the quieter road into publishing.
Even as I'm struggling atm, I do still think there's strength in being a tortoise not a hare
Even as I'm struggling atm, I do still think there's strength in being a tortoise not a hare
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We are DELIGHTED to see many Solaris titles on the BSFA Longlist!
Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!
Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!
January 24, 2026 at 2:14 PM
We are DELIGHTED to see many Solaris titles on the BSFA Longlist!
Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!
Ft @edashtonwriting.bsky.social @voidcricket.bsky.social @taranhunt.bsky.social @caspargeon.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social & covers by Sam Gretton, Veronica Park & Kate Forrester!
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Saw this petition to parliament about them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Ban the use of smart glasses with recording capability in public spaces
We ask the Government to ban smart glasses with cameras in public spaces. We believe they allow secret filming, and undermine privacy, safety and the public’s right to know when they’re being recorded...
petition.parliament.uk
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Saw this petition to parliament about them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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I read The Everlasting. I did not have a good time. I wrote about why I think it's a deeply, deeply problematic novel here. I'm pretty nervous about posting this because my response is very emotional and quite specifically mine but there it is.
A review of the deeply problematic, The Everlasting
I wrote this review because I feel like I live in a time where we have to draw attention to narratives that abuse our sentiments about right and wrong, that use sleight of hand to have us accept da…
stewarthotston.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I read The Everlasting. I did not have a good time. I wrote about why I think it's a deeply, deeply problematic novel here. I'm pretty nervous about posting this because my response is very emotional and quite specifically mine but there it is.
Really important review of The Everlasting here by the ever-thoughtful @stewarthotston.com. I felt too uncomfortable with the opening chapters to read the book but Stew has done an excellent job of exploring why.
stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/r...
stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/r...
A review of the deeply problematic, The Everlasting
I wrote this review because I feel like I live in a time where we have to draw attention to narratives that abuse our sentiments about right and wrong, that use sleight of hand to have us accept da…
stewarthotston.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Really important review of The Everlasting here by the ever-thoughtful @stewarthotston.com. I felt too uncomfortable with the opening chapters to read the book but Stew has done an excellent job of exploring why.
stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/r...
stewarthotston.com/2026/01/23/r...
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1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
Was a lovely conversation & catch up with gorgeous Glasgow pals. Many thanks to everyone who braved the miserable weather! 🖤
Excellent chat on stories about stories from @seraph76.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social Angie Spoto and @theelaineg.bsky.social.
Thanks to @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social as always.
Thanks to @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social as always.
January 23, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Was a lovely conversation & catch up with gorgeous Glasgow pals. Many thanks to everyone who braved the miserable weather! 🖤