Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤
@ldlapinski.bsky.social
Author on the Black Isle 🏴, for kids and adults. Next book: Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker
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“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Cancel that, I just found three more
There is ONE signed copy of (Carnegie-nominated!) Kickflip left on my Etsy shop if people are looking for a signed and dedicated festive gift!
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Cancel that, I just found three more
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Calling all bookshops, libraries and festivals….!!
Bookshops! Libraries! Festivals! I want to work with you for the paperback of SOME BODY LIKE ME!
It’s publishing in early February, had some fab press reviews for the HB, and makes people leave deranged messages in my inbox. I really want to help my girls find more readers!
#scifi #sciencefiction
It’s publishing in early February, had some fab press reviews for the HB, and makes people leave deranged messages in my inbox. I really want to help my girls find more readers!
#scifi #sciencefiction
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Calling all bookshops, libraries and festivals….!!
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Another £1k sent to AKT from pin badge sales.
[over £46k in total]
24% or young homeless people are LGBTQ+ and AKT offers dedicated and informed support. So valuable, especially in winter.
🥰Thanks for continued support 🥰
AKT: www.akt.org.uk
Pin badges: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Recent purchases:
[over £46k in total]
24% or young homeless people are LGBTQ+ and AKT offers dedicated and informed support. So valuable, especially in winter.
🥰Thanks for continued support 🥰
AKT: www.akt.org.uk
Pin badges: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Recent purchases:
November 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Another £1k sent to AKT from pin badge sales.
[over £46k in total]
24% or young homeless people are LGBTQ+ and AKT offers dedicated and informed support. So valuable, especially in winter.
🥰Thanks for continued support 🥰
AKT: www.akt.org.uk
Pin badges: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Recent purchases:
[over £46k in total]
24% or young homeless people are LGBTQ+ and AKT offers dedicated and informed support. So valuable, especially in winter.
🥰Thanks for continued support 🥰
AKT: www.akt.org.uk
Pin badges: www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop
Recent purchases:
Double (or triple) stamps when you preorder from Waterstones this weekend 👀
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Double (or triple) stamps when you preorder from Waterstones this weekend 👀
Bloody hell WHO is doing marketing and pr for the greens right now because they are not being paid enough
#HopeIsHere
#HopeIsHere
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Bloody hell WHO is doing marketing and pr for the greens right now because they are not being paid enough
#HopeIsHere
#HopeIsHere
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Absolutely thrilled to share that SOME BODY LIKE ME is one of @newscientist.com's best scifi books of 2025!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Absolutely thrilled to share that SOME BODY LIKE ME is one of @newscientist.com's best scifi books of 2025!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
There is ONE signed copy of (Carnegie-nominated!) Kickflip left on my Etsy shop if people are looking for a signed and dedicated festive gift!
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There is ONE signed copy of (Carnegie-nominated!) Kickflip left on my Etsy shop if people are looking for a signed and dedicated festive gift!
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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Can’t wait! 😍
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Can’t wait! 😍
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These books are fantastic. For the last two years, we've enjoyed them as a family - including the older family members who are slightly too cool to have mum read to them.
Last chance to get a signed copy of Stepfather Christmas before the Advent countdown starts on Monday! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
These books are fantastic. For the last two years, we've enjoyed them as a family - including the older family members who are slightly too cool to have mum read to them.
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Last chance to get a signed copy of Stepfather Christmas before the Advent countdown starts on Monday! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Last chance to get a signed copy of Stepfather Christmas before the Advent countdown starts on Monday! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Me: here, the fire is on, come warm yourselves
Hector: thank you for this blessing, I shall sleep beside the fire
Rory: absolutely not I’m going to sleep on a shelf in the coat cupboard
Hector: thank you for this blessing, I shall sleep beside the fire
Rory: absolutely not I’m going to sleep on a shelf in the coat cupboard
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Me: here, the fire is on, come warm yourselves
Hector: thank you for this blessing, I shall sleep beside the fire
Rory: absolutely not I’m going to sleep on a shelf in the coat cupboard
Hector: thank you for this blessing, I shall sleep beside the fire
Rory: absolutely not I’m going to sleep on a shelf in the coat cupboard
Cover reveal ICYMI!
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Cover reveal ICYMI!
Absolutely thrilled to share that SOME BODY LIKE ME is one of @newscientist.com's best scifi books of 2025!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Absolutely thrilled to share that SOME BODY LIKE ME is one of @newscientist.com's best scifi books of 2025!
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“It was an unsaid goodbye, in case they didn’t get the chance, later on.”
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
Thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for Artezans: The Last Spellbreaker, illustrated by @joetoddstanton
geni.us/Artezans3
They want us all dead for sure
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
They want us all dead for sure
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Last chance to get a signed copy of Stepfather Christmas before the Advent countdown starts on Monday! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Last chance to get a signed copy of Stepfather Christmas before the Advent countdown starts on Monday! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Tax on people who ask children’s authors when they’re going to write “a real book”
Tax on people who go to lane swimming and then swim very slowly two abreast so they're hard to get round without swimming into people coming the other way, having a bit of a chat
Tax on people who get off an escalator and then immediately stand still to find something about their person
November 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Tax on people who ask children’s authors when they’re going to write “a real book”
The budget. Business rates.
The reduction in the multiplier to 38.2p BUT the removal of the 40% business rates relief PLUS an increase in the rateable value means a 45.9% increase in my business rates for next year.
Yay.
The reduction in the multiplier to 38.2p BUT the removal of the 40% business rates relief PLUS an increase in the rateable value means a 45.9% increase in my business rates for next year.
Yay.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Son: the best bit in Calvin and Hobbes is when Hobbes cuts off Calvin’s hair
Me: haha, you mean Calvin cuts his own hair off
Son: No, Hobbes does it
Me: Hobbes is pretend though
Son, utterly outraged: He’s REAL! Parents just don’t have enough imagination.
Me: haha, you mean Calvin cuts his own hair off
Son: No, Hobbes does it
Me: Hobbes is pretend though
Son, utterly outraged: He’s REAL! Parents just don’t have enough imagination.
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Son: the best bit in Calvin and Hobbes is when Hobbes cuts off Calvin’s hair
Me: haha, you mean Calvin cuts his own hair off
Son: No, Hobbes does it
Me: Hobbes is pretend though
Son, utterly outraged: He’s REAL! Parents just don’t have enough imagination.
Me: haha, you mean Calvin cuts his own hair off
Son: No, Hobbes does it
Me: Hobbes is pretend though
Son, utterly outraged: He’s REAL! Parents just don’t have enough imagination.
Rory is one year old in December, and is still so skinny in his back half, how does one fatten up a cat that never sits still and has no real interest in treats
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Rory is one year old in December, and is still so skinny in his back half, how does one fatten up a cat that never sits still and has no real interest in treats
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Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Every single person in Britain: "the chippy" or, if we're being fancy, "the chip shop"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
The New York Times: "the french fry restaurant"
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The Labour government will literally do anything except tax the rich.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The Labour government will literally do anything except tax the rich.