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Lorraine Wilson

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Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE coming 06/11/25 https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 15d

🌊IT'S PRE ORDER GIVEAWAY TIME!!🌊
It's 6 weeks til THE SALT ORACLE is unleashed!

To celebrate, anyone who sends proof of a pre order will be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 sets of these gorgeous oracle cards & a signed bookplate!

geni.us/saltorac
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

graphic with the book THE SALT ORACLE, & a heading saying '6 weeks to publication' against an oceanic backdrop taken from the book cover art (by Sam Gretton)

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 6h

Glad the words are behaving themselves at least!

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 6h

The news was not good. But I had other smaller bits of good news and also I have chocolate brownie, so it's not all terrible!

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7h

So I completely maligned publishing, and the news did in fact arrive today. Many apologies to The Publishing

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 11h

It doesn't seem to matter how long I exist within publishing, I remain unable to fully absorb the Publishing Truth that deadlines are ... uh, malleable.

Me, waiting for news that I know full well will not come 👇

kermit the frog is sitting on a railing wearing sneakers

Alt: kermit the frog is sitting on a railing, swinging his legs and looking anxious

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 11h

kermit the frog is sitting on a railing wearing sneakers

Alt: kermit the frog is sitting on a railing, swinging his legs and looking anxious

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

🐙 1 month till THE SALT ORACLE is out🐙

So here's a closer look at the fab oracle cards by @hibernalbeast.bsky.social. I am very in love with the digital ghost orca ngl, they *have some fun* in the book! 🫢

Check out the preorder giveaway below too 👇🏽

An oracle type card with a border that's partly octopuses, jellyfish and fish skeletons & the title 'judgement'. The image is of two flying ravens against a backdrop of sea and giant tentacles.

Same card design, title 'The Oracle'. Image is of a white teenage girl in tatty clothes, with long pale hair rising around her, lightning filled eyes and her hands raised as if in distress. Behind is a railing and the distant sea

Same card design, title 'vengeance'. Image is an orca surrounded by static and with patches of pixelation, swimming down, holding some burning wreckage in its mouth, with more in the background.

Same again, title 'the choice'. Image shows main character 'Auli', a white woman with black hair standing in a fog filled library holding a clipboard in one hand and a raised storm lamp in the other. She's looks a bit anxious

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

Happiest of publication days to this beautiful book & the possibly-fae @samkhorton.bsky.social 🖤🖤🖤

Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 1d

If you like dark folklore you must check out @samkhorton.bsky.social's Gorse and its sequel Ragwort, which is out today!

Gorgeous inside and out, it's a haunting tale of love, madness, loss, and mysterious secrets, set in Cornwall amid the clash of Enlightenment with the old magical ways

💙📚🪐

A banner from Solaris with a picture of the book and a quote from Lorraine Wilson reading "brimming with love for the wild places, for the folklore and for the fallibility and generosity of the human heart. Horton is a storyteller outside of time, I suspect he may be fae"

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

Happy publication day, I am so looking forward to reading this!

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 1d

I've been looking forward to this one 🤩

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 3d

I just read this & it was such a good article! Thank you for writing it 🖤

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 3d

You may not change her mind, but you've shown her that those views aren't universal & some people will think less of her for holding them. De-normalising racism is a powerful thing, thank you for speaking up, I know how much it costs to do so 🫂

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 4d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 4d

How did I not know about Aliya's fungi book!? 😍🍄

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 4d

I will be there, eating cakes and revelling in the celebration of this truly splendid book! Please, for my sake, come and make sure I don't eat *all* the cakes.

Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 4d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 5d

Sam's covers are so gorgeous 🤩

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Out next month (with a beautiful new paperback cover by our very own Sam Gretton!): @rainewilson.bsky.social 's BSFA Longlisted WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST!

"Haunting, heartwarming, and brimming with hope" @lavanya.bsky.social

Preorder: geni.us/weallghostsPB

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for your fab chairing! 🤗

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 6d

This was such an interesting chat though I did have to confess to being a big fearty and not having a 130yr old demonic cat...

David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Great panel with @rainewilson.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com and Marko Hautala, moderated by @laurenwrites.bsky.social: Dark Fantasy vs Horror.

No fighting yet, but excellent discussion on another @britfantasysoc.bsky.social online day 🙌

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 6d

I'm just as bad I think I just hid them better 😆

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

a very tasty one!

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

All my author chats were full of 'but what flavour would *my* book be' so this is perfect 😂

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you! I'm celebrating with tea, ofc

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

Oh yes, I like this!

Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

😂 excellent non-mayonnaise book flavour options in this thread, including an absolute essential for Ghosts and The Salt Oracle... 👇🏽

Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Time for some #FridayFun!

In honour of #thegarlicbook - aka Jennifer L. Armentrout’s partnership with Hellmanns Garlic Aoli on a garlic ink version of THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE - welcome to... Solaris Feasts!

We can't afford garlic ink, but, we've drawn up a menu for some of our titles...

#Friday Fun Welcome to Solaris Feasts. *Please note, we're an indie and we can't afford garlic ink.

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

Much of my writing life is about pacing myself & resting so's the body doesn't crash. Which often feels frustratingly slow.

But today I finished a draft. Making it 2 completed drafts and 3 edited books this year.

Slow progress, paced progress, and rest all help get you where you're going 💪

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

Seconding this rec. @stewarthotston.com has done something special.
Also Under The Eye Of The Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami, and perhaps Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang?

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 7d

Oh I'm glad it's done. Wishing you a smooth recovery 🫂

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