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Deborah Tomkins
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Author of prize-winning #ecofiction.

#Nature. #Climate.

"Aerth" (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social‬)
"The Wilder Path" (@aurorametro.bsky.social‬)

deborahtomkinswriter.com

If you enjoy my novels, maybe leave a review? Thank you!
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A “best book” of 2025 according to @thetelegraph.bsky.social !! Am amazed and thrilled!
@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social @thelanigan.bsky.social @zona42.bsky.social @hugobarros.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I'm delighted to have a post up on apersonalanthology.com/category/deb...

Huge fun to think about favourite short stories, very difficult to choose. Many thanks to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social, curator of this rather wonderful website.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A cave, a cormorant, a climate reckoning. Recent #fiction from
@aurorametro.bsky.social
and me... #booksky 📚 🌎 #climate #eco-anxiety #Nature
The Wilder Path, available in any bookstore.
Original art by
@michellehughes.bsky.social
Paperback novel alongside original artwork by Michelle Hughes, a linoprint in teal green, black, white and yellow, depicting a winding path with steps on a craggy cliff, with a beach and the sea in the distance.
September 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Really pleased to have framed illustrations of my books to keep inspiring me! Many thanks to Hugo Barros and @michellehughes.bsky.social
Copy of novella Aerth, plus print of the cover, framed and mounted in yellow (same colour as novella). Original lino print, framed in sea green and hung on wall - the cover for The Wilder Path.
August 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Excited to be taking part in this great writers conference in Geneva!
August 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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This is such a beautiful cover! I am so proud every time I see it. @michellehughes.bsky.social @aurorametro.bsky.social
Also very proud to have won the Virginia Prize for Fiction with this novel.
#booksky
#virginiaprizeforfiction
Novel cover of The Wilder Path. A lino print in black, sand and teal greens, showing a coastal path and cliffs, with sea and beach below. Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction.
July 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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A happy afternoon signing books (and buying some others!) in Toppings, Bath, this week.
Author holding both books, Aerth, and The Wilder Path, in the gallery of Toppings Booksellers, Bath.
June 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Chatting to #VirginiaWoolf yesterday, before reading from and discussing my novel #TheWilderPath, winner of the #VirginiaPrizeforFiction! A memorable evening! @booksontherise.bsky.social @aurorametro.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Looking forward to this event in Richmond, London on Thursday! Come along if you can! #booklaunch #London #writing #ecofiction booksontherise.com/event/fbf-20...
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Excited to receive author copies of #TheWilderShore, my second #ecofiction publication this year. The stunning backdrop is an original print from
@michellehughes.bsky.social. Publishers
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#climate #nature #love #grief. Launch event
@booksontherise.bsky.social next week!
10 paperback copies of The Wilder Shore with original print of the cover showing cliffs, sea, beach and a winding path.
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Thrilled to have my very own linoprint of the cover of my forthcoming novel The Wilder Path! @michellehughes.bsky.social @aurorametro.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Looking forward to this event next week - Bristol, UK. Helping local libraries and talking about climate.
March 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Signing books at the wonderful @mrbsemporium.bsky.social last week... #booksky @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social @neilgriffiths.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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A wonderful #booklaunch last week for my prizewinning novella #Aerth, at
@stanfordsbristol.bsky.social - thank you to all!
January 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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...and my author copies have arrived! (Yes, that is two mugs of tea).
Aerth from Weatherglass Books weatherglassbooks.com/shop/aerth
Joint winner of their Novella Award. Ali Smith loved it...
Available to preorder from the publisher and major bookstores.
(Am very proud ☺️)
Copies of book on desk with 2 mugs of tea. The book has a surreal planet in a black sky, a garden, all in the top half of the cover, and is vibrant yellow below. There is also a blue circular sticker saying that this is a Weatherglass Novella Prize Winner. Plus my name and the title! There are also two mugs of tea on a small tray on the right hand side. You can just see the edge of a keyboard, mouse mat, and mouse (all blue), plus the corners of various handwritten notes.
December 4, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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New post on my website - news about my prizewinning novel, The Wilder Path.
www.deborahtomkinswriter.com/news/
A linocut book cover in soft greens and blues, showing cliffs, beach and a path.
November 23, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Tall fungi on spindly stems, growing in bark chippings, backed by timber and spinach.
November 16, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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But, twice a day, I was made explicitly aware of our reliance on fossil fuels, when usually this knowledge is at the back of mind, an implicit awareness. And it made me aware of my complicity in this system of energy, my complicity in warming the planet.
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Coal burning in a fireplace.
November 12, 2024 at 11:03 AM