Laura Elliott
@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
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💙📚 This evening on the #pedanticzebra book club we have an on fire quote from Awakened by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
📺Exciting news too we will be chatting to Laura on livestream in a few weeks!
Join our #bookclub on fable for friendship & chat 🖇️👇
📺Exciting news too we will be chatting to Laura on livestream in a few weeks!
Join our #bookclub on fable for friendship & chat 🖇️👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
💙📚 This evening on the #pedanticzebra book club we have an on fire quote from Awakened by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social
📺Exciting news too we will be chatting to Laura on livestream in a few weeks!
Join our #bookclub on fable for friendship & chat 🖇️👇
📺Exciting news too we will be chatting to Laura on livestream in a few weeks!
Join our #bookclub on fable for friendship & chat 🖇️👇
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️⚧️
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
girl who is very tired but has done her taxes 😌
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
girl who is very tired but has done her taxes 😌
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'Winter Beehives'
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
'Winter Beehives'
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
Ink on Paper
'Time of the Season'
Collaborative Exhibition at Two Doors Studio. Alsager.
alsager.nub.news/whats-on/art...
i second this! i usually go by the advice ‘treat your reader as though they’re at least as intelligent as you are’ & i also treat them as though they’re going to read properly. if people don’t then i’m afraid it’s not my problem, and i’m definitely not going to start writing for machines 😤
I've said in the past that I don't write for skimmers. If you skip past something and get confused, well Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the words.
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
So I'm certainly not going to write for scrapers and summarizers either 🤷♀️
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
i second this! i usually go by the advice ‘treat your reader as though they’re at least as intelligent as you are’ & i also treat them as though they’re going to read properly. if people don’t then i’m afraid it’s not my problem, and i’m definitely not going to start writing for machines 😤
thing i really dislike: when the vertigo is so persistent irl that you dream of having vertigo while asleep
this time i was clinging on just inside the open door of a speeding bus while everything span, trying to tell the driver he needed to let me in or i was going to fall 🙃
this time i was clinging on just inside the open door of a speeding bus while everything span, trying to tell the driver he needed to let me in or i was going to fall 🙃
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
thing i really dislike: when the vertigo is so persistent irl that you dream of having vertigo while asleep
this time i was clinging on just inside the open door of a speeding bus while everything span, trying to tell the driver he needed to let me in or i was going to fall 🙃
this time i was clinging on just inside the open door of a speeding bus while everything span, trying to tell the driver he needed to let me in or i was going to fall 🙃
hard agree - i’m also beginning to feel increasingly that we’re reaching an uncanny valley moment of many people having the same face, and quite frankly it’s freaking me out
This absolute obsession with Dorian Greying your face is so depressing to me, generations of women passing up the opportunity to pass into their powerful crone years
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
hard agree - i’m also beginning to feel increasingly that we’re reaching an uncanny valley moment of many people having the same face, and quite frankly it’s freaking me out
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Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.
Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Would you mind if I gave my zines a little push again? Hopefully the first batch(es) have reached owners now. Maybe a good Christmas gift for someone who likes photography 👀.
Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
Here are four pics of the same house taken over several years. #Zine #Photography
www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr...
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Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
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Amatica Health are offering over a £1000 worth of testing for teens under 18 with Long Covid/ ME.
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Amatica Health are offering over a £1000 worth of testing for teens under 18 with Long Covid/ ME.
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
Google form to apply is here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/u/3/d/...
caught myself singing 🎵 trimming my darlings, trimming my darlings🎵 as i cut small sections out of the second draft of book two, just in case anyone was wondering how this whole thing was going
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
caught myself singing 🎵 trimming my darlings, trimming my darlings🎵 as i cut small sections out of the second draft of book two, just in case anyone was wondering how this whole thing was going
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are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
so many people don’t realise that as well as being queen of horror shirley jackson was actually an incredibly funny writer, and dropping the bloviating or the surreally-pompous into a tense scene was one of her regular sly techniques! i love her so much
another funny bit from Hill House
"No fancy sauces for *me*," Arthur said firmly. "Tell my fellows it's the mark of a cad.... Fancy sauces, women waiting on you. *My* fellows wait on themsleves. Mark of a man."
"No fancy sauces for *me*," Arthur said firmly. "Tell my fellows it's the mark of a cad.... Fancy sauces, women waiting on you. *My* fellows wait on themsleves. Mark of a man."
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
so many people don’t realise that as well as being queen of horror shirley jackson was actually an incredibly funny writer, and dropping the bloviating or the surreally-pompous into a tense scene was one of her regular sly techniques! i love her so much
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Facing a grim eternity having been stitched together by a mad scientist with no conscience and vast hubris?
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Facing a grim eternity having been stitched together by a mad scientist with no conscience and vast hubris?
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
Do we have the read for you! A promise of love! A book to keep you company in your tragic desolation!
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
are you looking for your next Frankenstinian fix? perhaps featuring hubristic science, an enigmatic monster, and a literary dystopia set in the Tower of London?
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
well, Victor has the book for you!*
order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
*Awakened not officially endorsed by Victor
Euan Blair owns an AI company
Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Euan Blair owns an AI company
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky
Jhalak Prize submissions open for 10th year
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November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Submissions for the 10th year of the Jhalak Prize are open 👇 #BookSky
heard J upstairs on the phone say ‘you aren’t near a defibrillator are you?’ & i thought ‘oh god one of his elderly parents has collapsed’ & started mentally prepping how we’d help- until a moment later he said ‘i’m out of gear’ & i realised he’s playing a videogame with his friends 😤
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
heard J upstairs on the phone say ‘you aren’t near a defibrillator are you?’ & i thought ‘oh god one of his elderly parents has collapsed’ & started mentally prepping how we’d help- until a moment later he said ‘i’m out of gear’ & i realised he’s playing a videogame with his friends 😤
this is why it’s so difficult to satirise the current tech world, because they keep consistently proving they’ve never understood a book anyway
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
this is why it’s so difficult to satirise the current tech world, because they keep consistently proving they’ve never understood a book anyway
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Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
with apologies to booksellers who i’m sure this might annoy, my brother has taken to turning Awakened cover-out on the shelves whenever he finds it in a bookshop 😂
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
with apologies to booksellers who i’m sure this might annoy, my brother has taken to turning Awakened cover-out on the shelves whenever he finds it in a bookshop 😂
POV: hercule purrot is smiling at you
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
POV: hercule purrot is smiling at you
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at what point do i tell everyone who’s obsessed with GDT’s frankenstein that my literary horror dystopia was described as ‘Frankenstinian’ in the Bookseller and features a man/monster doing a Silence of the Lambs-esque moral reckoning with the scientist protagonist, because-
loving this little bit of spooky season promo from my excellent publisher @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!
it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
it’s true, and you can find order links here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
at what point do i tell everyone who’s obsessed with GDT’s frankenstein that my literary horror dystopia was described as ‘Frankenstinian’ in the Bookseller and features a man/monster doing a Silence of the Lambs-esque moral reckoning with the scientist protagonist, because-