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Melinda Salisbury

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Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets Author. https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/melindasalisbury Fix your hearts or die she/her

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

Hello, everybody! I have GREAT NEWS!!!!!

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 6d

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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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4m

It doesn't feel very fair that I have to wait for Luc Besson's Dracula. Believe me, I would have been born French if it had been an option

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 1d

!!!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 1d

Turns out I don't have a single unhinged literary opinion. I've racked my brain and it's all tepid at best

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Pace in The Fall is the result of a decades-long experiment to see what happens if all the hotness for an entire generation is concentrated in the body of a single man

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

OK, so there were three other people in the screen, but we all became instant best friends forever at the line, "A semen demon?"

What an absolute hoot! This year has been so good to us!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

No one else has booked into my screening of One Battle After Another this afternoon. It's just me. PRAY FOR ME

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

Terrifying news for around half of The Summer I Turned Pretty fans

Brett Groves @kurthectic.bsky.social · 2d

Btw re Conrad

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

We for sure would have been friends at school

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

You can take the goth out of the girl... Actually, no you can't. Goth is for life!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

Post you from a different era.

Plus ça change

A photo of me, a white woman, when I was younger, aged 18 or 19 I think. I still have a black bob, though no fringe, and a nose ring instead of stud. I'm wearing SIGNIFICANTLY more eyeliner than I do now, and also a Barbie necklace AND a pink studded dig collar. I look fantastic

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

Too late, I'm in the freezer

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

Yay for you, and me, earning a brief deep freeze reprieve!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

This is a very good haircut. It's giving Varda

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

At least I love it until a Bluesky Guy comes to tell me why, actually, it makes me pure evil to love it, and I should put myself in the deep freeze until I've frozen the evil out of me. Then I'll reassess

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

Ohhhhhh I love this!

Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 2d

Beginning with Wicked For Good, a newly-invented pair of glasses will allow cinema-goers to watch any film with subtitles.
filmstories.co.uk/news/subtitl...

Subtitles in cinema | Odeon and Universal rolling out new technology in 14 cinemas

Wicked For Good will be the first beneficiary of a technology set to provide subtitles across any screening of a film. More here.

filmstories.co.uk

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

No one else has booked into my screening of One Battle After Another this afternoon. It's just me. PRAY FOR ME

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 2d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Octopus - I won't eat anything smarter than me.

Dancer in the Dark - Holy God.

Dancing Queen - I hate it. I hate ABBA. I don't care what you think, I hate them

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

sea urchins

that werewolf movie with Gregory Hines

Lady In Red

Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh fun.

- Hard boiled eggs (can’t explain, just no)
- Children of Men (relentless)
- Sweet Caroline (does not require explaining)

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Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 3d

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 4d

Last year most of my town lost their water supply while I was on my period. As soon as the water people confirmed it would be at least three days to get it back up and running, I booked a hotel in Eastbourne and got on a train. So my plan is get some pills and whisky, and rock star out quietly

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

For the later-in-the-day crowd, I have GREAT NEWS!

A Publishers Marketplace announcement that reads:

"Deal Report: Local Gods by Melinda Salisbury.

Imprint: Sarah Barley Books, David Fickling Books.

Four-time Carnegie Medal-nominated author Melinda Salisbury's LOCAL GODS, a folk horror novel about a girl who must decide whether to save the hometown that hates her or burn it all down when a dying god hidden in the woods warns her of an impending catastrophe, to Sarah Barley at Sarah Barley Books, in a six-figure deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Pete Knapp and Stuti Telidevara at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management, on behalf of Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge and White (NA).

Rights also to Anthony Hinton at David Fickling Books (UK), by Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge & White.

Rights: samcoates at rcwlitagency dot com

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

Thank you!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

Thank you!!!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

I did at least have the mercy to not do that! I was very very quiet about it!

Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

I know! It Happened To Me!!!!

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Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com · 5d

Thank you!!!!