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Lorraine Wilson
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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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Today's blog post got a wee bit ranty...

Enjoy. Maybe.

www.patreon.com/posts/149012...
A graphic for said blog post - a red toned arty photo of a woman... Licking a gun? Idk. Text saying 'welcome to my weird girl lit rant...', article title 'why are we still infantilising women in fiction' and the address of my free Patreon: Patreon.com/LorraineWilson
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on.

And yet.

Recycling bin is tops.
Le void catten lying looking very voidy and smug in a wicker basket that is meant to be full of paper recycling, which is instead piling up on my bedside table. Thanks Snicket.
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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I post a lot of very calm sea photos. Just for balance, it also does this
January 21, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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Reposting because I got the time wrong. Arghhh

Please join us two hours earlier than previously advertised...
Same event graphic as quoted post - for MK Hardy and myself (The Needfire, and The Salt Oracle and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest) at Waterstones Aberdeen on Sat 31st Jan, but at 5:30pm, not, as previously said, 7:30.
January 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Aberdeen & north-east Scotland folks, I and the fabulous @mkhardywrites.com duo are coming to Waterstones Aberdeen. In LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, so please book tickets and come join us!

There may be book origami creatures 🐈‍⬛🐝🐳🐙

tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/conve...
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graphic for an event at waterstones aberdeen on Jan 31st at 7:30pm. It has a yellow/amber background with dark tree roots at the top and tentacles at the bottom, and over that headshots of the auathors and covers of the books The Needfire, The Salt Oracle, and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest.
January 19, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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The teen is making me a swarm of book bees! 🖤🐝🖤🐝🖤
Nine small origami bees made from pages of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest are sitting on top of said book in a circle, watching bee number 10 do a waggle dance
January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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First attempt at doing something with the damaged books - ORIGAMI ORLANDO 😂

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A slightly tatty but very cute origami cat made from a page from a copy of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, which he is also sitting on
January 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance*

*one of these might be a lie.

Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
event graphic for a scottish speculative fiction panel with myself, Angie Spoto and Christopher Caldwell at Waterstones Argyll street, glasgow, on thurs 22nd Jan at 7pm.
January 12, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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We have a black hole situation in our discarded wrapping paper.

If you're feeling space-time warp, we apologise for the inconvenience & are working to resolve the issue
A circular void that previously took the form of a catten called Lemony Snicket but that is now distorting local space and time from its nexus point in a pile of wrapping paper on a reddish (I hate it why is carpet so expensive) lounge floor
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Blurry screm
Close up of a tabby cat mid yawn. He's not screaming but it still counts
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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An almost-noon almost-solstice sea
View south over harbour walls to the outer firth of forth & a low occluded midday sun, the sea is dark and choppy, painted silver gilt where the light catches it
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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✨Next event is live!!✨
What do you need to get you through the January slump? How about coming to hang out with me and these three splendid humans, surrounded by books?

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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Graphic for an event on 22nd Jan, with wee photos of the three authors and our books covers - The Salt Oracle, The Bone Diver and Call And Response. With the text: Scottish Speculative Fiction Panel. With Christopher Caldwell, Angie Spoto and Lorraine Wilson, chaired by Elaine Gallagher at Waterstones Glasgow Argyll Street. Thursday 22 January, 7pm.
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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It's odd posting about awards eligibility & asking please consider me when my book's barely out so not many of you have read it.

But I have one sole eligible thing this year, and I'm proud of it in all its briny strangeness. So hey, please consider THE SALT ORACLE if you're nominating? 🖤🖤🖤
An awards eligibility graphic with one lonely book cover on and some arrows pointing to it for extra drama.
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Underfloor heating
(the top of the noodle's vivarium)
A very sprawled out void catten on a slightly worse for wear crocheted cat blanket on a wooden shelf that's actually a heated vivarium
December 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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They've put my books in two separate lots but hey, if you bid on one I'll send you both because you deserve it 🖤

#Creatives4Sudan
Promo graphic for the Creatives 4 Sudan auction with the text announcing CREATIVES SUDAN AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER BID TODAY! galabia.com/creatives4sudan Screenshot of my two lots - signed hardback copies + plus art cards for We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and The Salt Oracle
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🚨 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
Graphic with 36 Solaris titles shown as ebook covers
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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That headcanon is pretty accurate tbh! But no, there's no direct real world inspo. It was a mash up of rigs, floating turbines, lighthouses, this place 👇🏽 and my need for a library 😂
Photo of the maunsell sea forts - an abandoned military post in the North sea
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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In other news, paw
Photo of a tuxedo cat in a cat bed cave, sleepy black face just about visible and one white toed paw extended out of the cave in a louche fashion
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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
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A graphic using elements of the book cover, with this text "THERE IS NOBODY ELSE WRITING LIKE THIS, NOBODY CREATING SUCH RICH AND THOROUGHLY INNOVATIVE WORLDS THAT STILL FEEL SO EERILY CREDIBLE." — SAM K. HORTON, AUTHOR OF GORSE AND RAGWORT A graphic using elements of the book cover, with this text: "DARK ACADEMIA DONE RIGHT! BY TURNS HAUNTING AND HORRIFYING... ULTIMATELY HUMANE AND HOPEFUL. THIS IS A BOOK THAT DESERVES YOUR ATTENTION," - GARETH BROWN, BESTSELLING AUTHOR of THE BOOK OF DOORS Same graphic, this text "GRIPPING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING, AND GORGEOUSLY WRITTEN.* - SARAH BROOKS, AUTHOR OF THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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?
Copies of all of my books, spines up - this is our undoing, the way the light bends, mother sea, the salt Oracle, we are all Ghosts in the forest, and the last to drown - with the paperback of Ghosts & a Salt Oracle flat on either end. Yes, I know they're in the wrong order, it looked funny the right way around! A photo of my wee award collection - two BFAs, the SoA ADCI prize certificate and two SCKAward rocks
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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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

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Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I have seen three separate 'the sun won't set later than 6pm here until Feb' posts and give a hollow laugh each time

Scotland entered The Big Dark a while ago 🌚
Weather app screenshot showing today's sunset time of 4:40pm. My serotonin is withering as we speak
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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And on the 19th Nov, I'm in Dundee celebrating both THE SALT ORACLE and the gorgeous THE NEEDFIRE with @mkhardywrites.com.

Would love to see you there!

www.tickettailor.com/events/na13/...
Graphic with both book covers, a grey blue background of painted hills & large moon, with the text: Dundee book launch. DARK FOLKORE & SCOTTISH GOTHIC FICTION Join authors MK Hardy and Lorraine Wilson for an evening of chat and refreshments! WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19 7 - 9PM STENECKI COFFEE
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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On the 6th Nov - DOUBLE LAUNCH DAY - I'm in St Andrews for a book signing. Please come say hi if you're in the area!

www.waterstones.com/events/celeb...
Same kind of graphic with the text: Book Signing Event Nov 6th at 1pm Waterstones St Andrews
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🐙Upcoming events mini thread

This week I'm at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social🥳

I opted out of the mass signing but will be merrily signing anything put in front of me at the @solarisbooks.bsky.social launch party so please come find me there! (Or at the bar, I am friendly)
Graphic with gold background, Ghosts and Salt Oracle book covers, and the text: Find me at World Fantasy Con Strong female leads who don't kick ass Fri 10am Dark Academia- the lure of evil institutions Sat lpm Solaris Books launch Sun 10am
October 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM