Lorraine Wilson
@rainewilson.bsky.social
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
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Pinned
✨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
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
And this is the novel, if you like dark fantasy about warring Mage Houses, sibling rivalry, disaster queers and terrible bargains
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
And this is the novel, if you like dark fantasy about warring Mage Houses, sibling rivalry, disaster queers and terrible bargains
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
Listen to The Shape of Monsters by C L Hellisen on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGDJ5X1...
Last chance for a spooky bargain!
SALE ENDS TONIGHT!
People of #booksky , this is your summons to peruse our Still Spooky, DRM Free, website exclusive sale where 36 titles await you for only 0.99 each!
Including these titles from @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com & @samkhorton.bsky.social
https://geni.us/Solarissale
People of #booksky , this is your summons to peruse our Still Spooky, DRM Free, website exclusive sale where 36 titles await you for only 0.99 each!
Including these titles from @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com & @samkhorton.bsky.social
https://geni.us/Solarissale
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Last chance for a spooky bargain!
Me planning new book - ...do we deserve weird little murder interstitials as a treat? Yes. Yes we do.
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Me planning new book - ...do we deserve weird little murder interstitials as a treat? Yes. Yes we do.
The amazing #Creatives4Sudan charity auction is now live! There's hundreds of bookish & arty items & opportunities up for grabs, all going to Darfur food kitchens.
Please check it out & support however you can?
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Please check it out & support however you can?
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Sorry, GalaBid took too long to load. Please check your internet speed or try again.
app.galabid.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The amazing #Creatives4Sudan charity auction is now live! There's hundreds of bookish & arty items & opportunities up for grabs, all going to Darfur food kitchens.
Please check it out & support however you can?
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
Please check it out & support however you can?
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
This is a brilliant read & has added several books to my 'please please let there be a UK edition 🙏🏽' tbr list
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is a brilliant read & has added several books to my 'please please let there be a UK edition 🙏🏽' tbr list
This is both a *brilliant* study omg, and also has me side eyeing 62% of us
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is both a *brilliant* study omg, and also has me side eyeing 62% of us
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Excellent thread tying this perennial question to the appeal of ChatGPT and other superficial text vending machines for the non-writer. Applicable to artists, musicians etc as well.
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Excellent thread tying this perennial question to the appeal of ChatGPT and other superficial text vending machines for the non-writer. Applicable to artists, musicians etc as well.
Booksellers rock, just fyi 🖤
In a post apocalyptic world of climate disaster and internet collapse, which has left drifting digital ghosts infecting the human world, @rainewilson.bsky.social's new book The Salt Oracle is a unique and intriguing tale of dark mystery and murder aboard a floating research college
💙📚🪐
💙📚🪐
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Booksellers rock, just fyi 🖤
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions.
And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers!
If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit!
Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous:
Taiwanese aborigines.
Ainu.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers!
If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit!
Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous:
Taiwanese aborigines.
Ainu.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Indigenous Author Submissions
On November 3rd, we will be opening for speculative fiction stories written by Indigenous authors. We will be capping submissions at 500.
strangehorizons.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hey hey hey, SH has a call for Indigenous submissions.
And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers!
If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit!
Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous:
Taiwanese aborigines.
Ainu.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
And I would like to read more Southeast Asian Indigenous writers!
If you are Dayak, Iban, Murut, Orang Asli - please submit!
Also I would like to see more Asian Indigenous:
Taiwanese aborigines.
Ainu.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Your motivational post for the day
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Your motivational post for the day
🚨 Book Sale Klaxon🚨
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🚨 Book Sale Klaxon🚨
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
@solarisbooks.bsky.social are holding a #StillSpooky ebook sale for the next week, including amongst *many* splendid titles, both WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.
Go fill yer boots! Or ereaders.
Geni.us/SolarisSale
In other news, paw
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In other news, paw
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Book launches - survival, celebration and chocolate | Lorraine Wilson
Get more from Lorraine Wilson on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
New post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange.
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬
www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
North American readers, I adore you & am very grateful you want to read my books. Sadly I have no NA deal 😫
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
BUT you can still order from Blackwell's (physical) or by lying to Amazon about where you live (ebook)?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Massive thanks to the best Womble, who has been so supportive from the very start & whose reviews are something extra special🥹🤗
New Review - an excellent tale of digital ghosts, seers, scientists and ethics await in the brilliant The Salt Oracle by @rainewilson.bsky.social out now - very strongly recommended! Huge thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/11...
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Solaris for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Solaris Published – Out Now Price – £18.99 hardback £7.99 Kindle ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Massive thanks to the best Womble, who has been so supportive from the very start & whose reviews are something extra special🥹🤗
THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it!
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THE SALT ORACLE has been out in the world for one whole week! So here's some nice things some even nicer people said about it!
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
And thank you to everyone who entered the preorder giveaway - I'm contacting winners today & am very grateful to you all x
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Did you know that it's #singlesday?
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Did you know that it's #singlesday?
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
The perfect opportunity to remind you of a superb selection of Solaris Standalones across fantasy, scifi, horror & spec fic!
From award-winners to modern classics, out of this world highjinks to creeping terror, you can find your perfect partner in our books!
Massive congrats to the stellar human being @stewarthotston.com on the launch of this even more stellar (in every sense) book!
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Wishing Project Hanuman and Stewart Hotston a very happy book birthday!
And check out Stewart's online tour - starting today!
And check out Stewart's online tour - starting today!
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Massive congrats to the stellar human being @stewarthotston.com on the launch of this even more stellar (in every sense) book!
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
Project Hanuman is a read to savour & ponder & marvel at. I loved every word.
I couldn't make it this year but I'll be there next, for sure. Delighted this new con was such a success
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I couldn't make it this year but I'll be there next, for sure. Delighted this new con was such a success
Hey bookish friends? 👇🏽
Creative pals, we need you! A group of us are running an auction to raise funds for the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan. Sudanese people are dealing with the worst humanitarian crisis since records began. Can you donate mentoring/art/signed books etc? SIGN UP HERE: www.sudancoup.com/auction
Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction — Keep Eyes On Sudan
Creatives coming together to raise life-saving funds for the people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan
www.sudancoup.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hey bookish friends? 👇🏽
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
uk.bookshop.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Right UK folks - @justinleeanderson.com and I want to build communities we want to see in the world. We've created a discord whose purpose is to share news with one another, look at who to write to, when to get out and act etc. If you want in, DM me or Justin and we'll sling you an invite
Reposted by Lorraine Wilson
"What are we if not stories we have been told, and stories we tell ourselves?"
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"What are we if not stories we have been told, and stories we tell ourselves?"
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
A delicate blend of folklore and speculative fiction - exploring themes of xenophobia, grief, forgiveness, and recovery - tenderly threaded with fragile strands of hope.
Beautifully crafted by @rainewilson.bsky.social
This is a powerful distinction. It is action that matters, not self-anointed labels
A bunch of writer friends are noting that they have not used LLMs to write. Me either, absolutely not. I feel like we need to stop asking kids what they want to BE when they grow up and start asking them what they want to DO. Because: I am not here to BE A WRITER, I am here to WRITE.
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is a powerful distinction. It is action that matters, not self-anointed labels
Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Publishing is weird & full of hidden lows and visible highs, but can I just take this wee moment to be extremely un-British and say 'hey I did a thing'?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?
6 books
5 awards
14 (I think?) award listings
It's been rocky & the road ahead is uncertain but this here is not too shabby, is it?