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Lauren Mooney
@mooneylwrites.bsky.social
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Writer. Debut novel SERVICE out June 2026 with Manilla. Writer of theatre for Kandinsky & audio for Big Finish. Freelance dramaturg, tortoise keeper, slow swimmer.

Rep: 📚 Veronique Baxter, DHA.
Rep: 🎭🎥📺 Imogen Sarre, Casarotto.
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mooneylwrites.bsky.social
I will never stop thinking about "no yanks on the thread" unfortunately
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
Ahh thank you! Really hope you enjoy!
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Reposted by Lauren Mooney
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
I'd like to make it publicly known that, if they do, I am available 💫
July 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mooneylwrites.bsky.social
Thank you so much!
July 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM