Aislinn O’Loughlin
@ashilockiewrites.bsky.social
Writer-y Book Nerd | BIG BAD ME - OUT NOW from Little Island Books
🧛♂️🐺 (she/her) 💖💜💙 | Rep: Amber Caraveo #teamskylark
🧛♂️🐺 (she/her) 💖💜💙 | Rep: Amber Caraveo #teamskylark
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BIG BAD ME is now officially out in the world folks!! It’s the zippy quippy monster book of my heart - and I can’t believe I get to share it with you all! You can buy it here: bit.ly/3fClmEe (includes links to lots of indie store) or grab it at your local bookstores!
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#sundayMorningBookChat little late - I’m on holiday and reading a staggering rate! For those with a week off for half term, what are you reading this week? I’m working my way through two: Felix and the future agency by Rachel Morrison and the Museum of lost umbrellas by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
May 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#sundayMorningBookChat little late - I’m on holiday and reading a staggering rate! For those with a week off for half term, what are you reading this week? I’m working my way through two: Felix and the future agency by Rachel Morrison and the Museum of lost umbrellas by Marie Louise Fitzpatrick
Because we all need to know now, the book it: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer. Out in October - which is nowhere near soon enough!!
Coworker: I'm buying a horror title for the library I think you'll like so I'm putting a hold on it for you. It's about a lesbian locked in a small town craft store fighting for her life using craft supplies & employees have a horrible secret
Me: how dare you assume correct things about me
Me: how dare you assume correct things about me
April 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Because we all need to know now, the book it: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer. Out in October - which is nowhere near soon enough!!
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Publication day is here 💃💃💃 Grab a copy of Wee, Snot and Slime Through Time today! You can pretend it’s the kids if you want. 🦠🧪🤢 shorturl.at/d25VS
April 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Publication day is here 💃💃💃 Grab a copy of Wee, Snot and Slime Through Time today! You can pretend it’s the kids if you want. 🦠🧪🤢 shorturl.at/d25VS
My 10-tomorrow-year-old made a lot of this cake himself - it might be one of my favourite things we’ve made together. The lumpy ganache ooziness is all intentional, he stuck chocolate truffles and cake cut-off to the sides of the cake to make it spookily uneven. It’s gonna haunt my fridge tonight
April 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My 10-tomorrow-year-old made a lot of this cake himself - it might be one of my favourite things we’ve made together. The lumpy ganache ooziness is all intentional, he stuck chocolate truffles and cake cut-off to the sides of the cake to make it spookily uneven. It’s gonna haunt my fridge tonight
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
9yo’s learning about WW1 in his online history course today, and all I can think about is the time my Dad mentioned “back when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated” and my glitchy brain went “what, all of them?” 🙈
a man playing a guitar with the words take me out written above him
ALT: a man playing a guitar with the words take me out written above him
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March 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
9yo’s learning about WW1 in his online history course today, and all I can think about is the time my Dad mentioned “back when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated” and my glitchy brain went “what, all of them?” 🙈
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A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz.
Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them.
Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them.
Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A little more about THE WOLF AND HIS KING, my Bisclavret retelling coming this November from Gollancz.
Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them.
Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
Please enjoy the manicules, I am very pleased with them.
Pre-order links here: finnlongman.com/books/the-wo...
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Excited to finally have a Publishers Marketplace screenshot of my very own, more than four years after I sold my first book! Not saying this is the highlight of selling US rights, but... y'know... it's more than a little bit fun. Thanks @erewhonbooks.bsky.social :)
March 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Excited to finally have a Publishers Marketplace screenshot of my very own, more than four years after I sold my first book! Not saying this is the highlight of selling US rights, but... y'know... it's more than a little bit fun. Thanks @erewhonbooks.bsky.social :)
My 9yo’s doing a history project on Alan Turing which basically means I’m doing a history project on Alan Turing and I’m suddenly so invested in poor little Christopher Morcom I’m, like, one Google search away from Alan & Chris fanfic. Are there any books about (or inspired by) them? Anyone know?
March 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
My 9yo’s doing a history project on Alan Turing which basically means I’m doing a history project on Alan Turing and I’m suddenly so invested in poor little Christopher Morcom I’m, like, one Google search away from Alan & Chris fanfic. Are there any books about (or inspired by) them? Anyone know?
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In case you want some sweet news today.
I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing.
For the entire school.
Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.
I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing.
For the entire school.
Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.
March 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
In case you want some sweet news today.
I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing.
For the entire school.
Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.
I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing.
For the entire school.
Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.
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please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?
March 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?
Catching up on the news before having my coffee is wild in this environment because I 100% thought they’d accidentally added Jeff Goldblum to the group chat. Didn’t even question it - the world is too stupid now, anything is possible
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Catching up on the news before having my coffee is wild in this environment because I 100% thought they’d accidentally added Jeff Goldblum to the group chat. Didn’t even question it - the world is too stupid now, anything is possible
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I have a brand new Loki out TOMORROW. But in the meantime, please feast your eyes on the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos, coming early SEPT... #BeLEssLoki #KidLitUK @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social Preorder NOW www.walker.co.uk/978152951581... or www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod...
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I have a brand new Loki out TOMORROW. But in the meantime, please feast your eyes on the cover of LOKI: A Bad God's Guide to Causing Chaos, coming early SEPT... #BeLEssLoki #KidLitUK @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social Preorder NOW www.walker.co.uk/978152951581... or www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/prod...
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
(seriously, name a more Doctor-coded author, I’ll wait…)
(seriously, name a more Doctor-coded author, I’ll wait…)
March 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Post your favourite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
(seriously, name a more Doctor-coded author, I’ll wait…)
(seriously, name a more Doctor-coded author, I’ll wait…)
Happy Birthday to this absolute menace of a Dad/Grandude/Mentor - I miss you every single day. Today I’m celebrating in the most Larry way possible, though, start a 4-week residency at Bridgetown Secondary School teaching performance poetry to 1st Years!! You’d have loved The WRaPParound, Dad
March 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Happy Birthday to this absolute menace of a Dad/Grandude/Mentor - I miss you every single day. Today I’m celebrating in the most Larry way possible, though, start a 4-week residency at Bridgetown Secondary School teaching performance poetry to 1st Years!! You’d have loved The WRaPParound, Dad
Giving my kids an important cultural lesson this mid-term, and I’ve just realised - after a lifelong obsession - that Ted “Theodore” Logan is so adorably clueless he even gets his own name backwards (the nickname goes in quotation marks 🙈) I love him, kids are mind-blown that John Wick is so sweet
February 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Giving my kids an important cultural lesson this mid-term, and I’ve just realised - after a lifelong obsession - that Ted “Theodore” Logan is so adorably clueless he even gets his own name backwards (the nickname goes in quotation marks 🙈) I love him, kids are mind-blown that John Wick is so sweet
9yo’s doing a history course online (through DCU’s CTYI program) - I’m in awe of his teacher, keeping 15 history-obsessed 9 to 12yos on track when ALL they want to do is to wow the class with their own trivia. They’re so smart & excited, she’s amazing at encouraging them without detailing the class!
February 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
9yo’s doing a history course online (through DCU’s CTYI program) - I’m in awe of his teacher, keeping 15 history-obsessed 9 to 12yos on track when ALL they want to do is to wow the class with their own trivia. They’re so smart & excited, she’s amazing at encouraging them without detailing the class!
Just got this from Mom, “Dad’s” care package arrived safe & sound! I was actually on the phone to her when the delivery guy came (I wanted to make sure she didn’t think it was a mistake & send it away) but she wanted me to see how it all looked together. I think Dad would approve?
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Just got this from Mom, “Dad’s” care package arrived safe & sound! I was actually on the phone to her when the delivery guy came (I wanted to make sure she didn’t think it was a mistake & send it away) but she wanted me to see how it all looked together. I think Dad would approve?
When you’re knackered & full of head-cold but you promised your 11 year old a Mommy-daughter #GaltentinesDay going to watch SIX at Garter Lane theatre with her friends. The make-up is doing its best, but the eyebags are winning 😭
February 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When you’re knackered & full of head-cold but you promised your 11 year old a Mommy-daughter #GaltentinesDay going to watch SIX at Garter Lane theatre with her friends. The make-up is doing its best, but the eyebags are winning 😭
My Dad loved making a fuss of Mom on Valentine’s Day, even when he was really sick he’d “trick” her into going for coffee in Tesco then off for flowers & choccies. I felt him nagging me earlier, so now mom has a surprise Tesco delivery of wine, choccies & flowers coming tomorrow. Hope Dad approves 😂
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My Dad loved making a fuss of Mom on Valentine’s Day, even when he was really sick he’d “trick” her into going for coffee in Tesco then off for flowers & choccies. I felt him nagging me earlier, so now mom has a surprise Tesco delivery of wine, choccies & flowers coming tomorrow. Hope Dad approves 😂
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This book. This author! 💛 Set in the 1980s, it's a moving story about resilience, identity and breaking free of expectations that hold you back. Huge congratulations @lesleyparr.bsky.social, you clever ducky!
The longlist! *gasp*
Thank you to all at @carnegiemedals.bsky.social and @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social ♥️
Thank you to all at @carnegiemedals.bsky.social and @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social ♥️
February 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This book. This author! 💛 Set in the 1980s, it's a moving story about resilience, identity and breaking free of expectations that hold you back. Huge congratulations @lesleyparr.bsky.social, you clever ducky!
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Hello, new and old followers! 😀
Who am I? A writer currently publishing fiction and non-fiction for MG (children aged 9-14). New to writing for TV, but hope to do more.
Interests: psychology, wellbeing, film. An advocate of 'beginners mind'. I'll be 50 this year and am excited for this next phase!
Who am I? A writer currently publishing fiction and non-fiction for MG (children aged 9-14). New to writing for TV, but hope to do more.
Interests: psychology, wellbeing, film. An advocate of 'beginners mind'. I'll be 50 this year and am excited for this next phase!
January 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hello, new and old followers! 😀
Who am I? A writer currently publishing fiction and non-fiction for MG (children aged 9-14). New to writing for TV, but hope to do more.
Interests: psychology, wellbeing, film. An advocate of 'beginners mind'. I'll be 50 this year and am excited for this next phase!
Who am I? A writer currently publishing fiction and non-fiction for MG (children aged 9-14). New to writing for TV, but hope to do more.
Interests: psychology, wellbeing, film. An advocate of 'beginners mind'. I'll be 50 this year and am excited for this next phase!
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I’ve started 2025 in a flurry of writing. Having ditched my old book 5 last year, I’ve started a new one.
New story, new characters, the lot.
And the good news is I am on track!! It’s going SO MUCH better.
The lesson? I’ve that rest can do wonders for your creativity. Who knew?! 😆
#kidlituk
New story, new characters, the lot.
And the good news is I am on track!! It’s going SO MUCH better.
The lesson? I’ve that rest can do wonders for your creativity. Who knew?! 😆
#kidlituk
January 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I’ve started 2025 in a flurry of writing. Having ditched my old book 5 last year, I’ve started a new one.
New story, new characters, the lot.
And the good news is I am on track!! It’s going SO MUCH better.
The lesson? I’ve that rest can do wonders for your creativity. Who knew?! 😆
#kidlituk
New story, new characters, the lot.
And the good news is I am on track!! It’s going SO MUCH better.
The lesson? I’ve that rest can do wonders for your creativity. Who knew?! 😆
#kidlituk
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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ME AND THE CHRISTMAS CARROLLS!!!!!! ❤️🎄🎅🏼
I hope everyone has a gorgeous festive season and a 2025 that is full of cheer.
(P.s. if anyone gets a copy of The Christmas Carrolls 1 2 or 3 for Xmas do feel free to send me pics! I love seeing them!!! ✨)
I hope everyone has a gorgeous festive season and a 2025 that is full of cheer.
(P.s. if anyone gets a copy of The Christmas Carrolls 1 2 or 3 for Xmas do feel free to send me pics! I love seeing them!!! ✨)
December 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ME AND THE CHRISTMAS CARROLLS!!!!!! ❤️🎄🎅🏼
I hope everyone has a gorgeous festive season and a 2025 that is full of cheer.
(P.s. if anyone gets a copy of The Christmas Carrolls 1 2 or 3 for Xmas do feel free to send me pics! I love seeing them!!! ✨)
I hope everyone has a gorgeous festive season and a 2025 that is full of cheer.
(P.s. if anyone gets a copy of The Christmas Carrolls 1 2 or 3 for Xmas do feel free to send me pics! I love seeing them!!! ✨)