Louise McLaughlin author she / her

Discovery - Urban Fantasy Blurring the Lines Between Conspiracy and Reality At the urging of her beloved grandmother, Cassie takes an apparently safe and humdrum job in a government office in Glasgow. However, it turns out the conspiracy theorists are right. She is drawn into...

I'm excited to announce that my SFF novels are discounted. So many fab books are FREE
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to celebrate Read an Ebook Week from March 1 - March 7.

#ebookweek26 #EbookWeek #BookSale #EbookSale #booksky #fantasy

a purple background with fairylights, crystals and a forest at the edges of the frame. In the centre, in white, is text that reads "Thank you, 12,000 followers. I am grateful for every one of you on this journey"

A book cover. The cover is beige coloured with medieval fantasy icons, including a castle, dragon, knight on a horse, around the frame. In the centre in a paper scroll is the title of the book "Deviation" under the scoll is the subtitle of the book Wandering gods.

This is a book cover. It is in black and grey tones. To the right of the cover is a female with blue eyes in a close-up portrait. It has scratch lines across it. To the left is the text for the three short stories: Advent: a dark christmas origin, Live Forever: Oasis fan reunion, Night Shit: it's murder working nights

A book cover. The main colour is purple. Around the frame are fantasy and icons from the book, including a skyline of Glasgow and London, pints of ale, a tea cup and a tea pot, bombs, a witch hat, a timer, a lock and key, and the all-seeing eye. The title of the book is in the centre "Discovery"

12,000 wow.
Go on, grab some free books👇
Deviation: Wandering Gods (prequel to Discovery) bookhip.com/CAMQGZQ
Darkness: Three short stories bookhip.com/XNZJLNF

Samples of Novels, well, ok then.
Discovery: bookhip.com/DMWXZBT
Dimensions: bookhip.com/GNNSZRZ

#freebooks #writer #fantasybook 💙📚 🧙‍♀️

a purple background with fairylights, crystals and a forest at the edges of the frame. In the centre, in white, is text that reads "Thank you, 12,000 followers. I am grateful for every one of you on this journey"

A book cover. The cover is beige coloured with medieval fantasy icons, including a castle, dragon, knight on a horse, around the frame. In the centre in a paper scroll is the title of the book "Deviation" under the scoll is the subtitle of the book Wandering gods.

This is a book cover. It is in black and grey tones. To the right of the cover is a female with blue eyes in a close-up portrait. It has scratch lines across it. To the left is the text for the three short stories: Advent: a dark christmas origin, Live Forever: Oasis fan reunion, Night Shit: it's murder working nights

A book cover. The main colour is purple. Around the frame are fantasy and icons from the book, including a skyline of Glasgow and London, pints of ale, a tea cup and a tea pot, bombs, a witch hat, a timer, a lock and key, and the all-seeing eye. The title of the book is in the centre "Discovery"

12,000 wow.
Go on, grab some free books👇
Deviation: Wandering Gods (prequel to Discovery) bookhip.com/CAMQGZQ
Darkness: Three short stories bookhip.com/XNZJLNF

Samples of Novels, well, ok then.
Discovery: bookhip.com/DMWXZBT
Dimensions: bookhip.com/GNNSZRZ

#freebooks #writer #fantasybook 💙📚 🧙‍♀️

I just love the way he was setting off the alarm as if he was saying "I live here now. Everyone else out." 🤣

Glasgow college posts ‘no cats allowed’ sign after students adopt ‘wee campus mascot’ Glasgow Clyde College posts 'no cats allowed' signs after friendly tabby Rocket becomes campus favourite. Staff urge students not to feed or let him…

This is hillarious. Ginger tabby banned from college, apparently he's been entering classes and setting alarms off.
I think he should get a "Best Scot Award" - he clearly values education and rebellion in equal measures plus he's ginger. #cats 🐈 🚨

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YouTube video by Jonathan Pie A Royal Reckoning

A Royal Reckoning.
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That moment when you re-read your manuscript for the third time and decide an extra chapter is needed for flow. Beta readers feedback has been great. It'll be ready for the ARC readers first week in March. #writer #wip #writingnights
Until then there's cats. #caturday

Thank you for the mention. I'll be following those suggested, looks like an interesting bunch. Thanks.

Good morning, Glasgow, and what a start to the day! This is what it looked like on the Clyde waterfront at about 9am.

#glasgow #goodmorning #cityscape #reflections #theclyde

Now thats a great idea.

Beautiful sunset.
#sunset #Scotland.

A Robin on a tree stump.

A waterfall in full flow. There are trees at the side of the waterfall. It is cloudy but there are clear blue skies through the clouds.

A squirrel standing on a tree stump eating a nut. The tree stump has a hole in the middle of it where the squirrel had a stash of nuts.

Sometimes life really is a walk in the park.

#Parkside #Robin #squirrel #waterfall #Scotland

Brandy is gorgeous.

Are you jealous you didn’t get to come to our event with Jennie Godfrey last night? Don’t worry, I interviewed Jennie for a bonus episode of The Bert’s Books Podcast - available wherever you get your podcasts from!

Are you jealous you didn’t get to come to our event with Jennie Godfrey last night?

Don’t worry, I interviewed Jennie for a bonus episode of The Bert’s Books Podcast - available wherever you get your podcasts from!

Saja looking up at Smudge and wondering how much trouble he can get into

Here, have a kitten, this seems like a day where one might come in handy

Black ragdoll cat, with very long fur. She's sitting on a blue leather sofa with a green cushion behind her.

Black shorthaired cat. He's lounging on a green cushion on a blue leather sofa.

kitty cats ... Just because.
##catsofbluesky #softpaws

75% of the Manchester United registered squad are not British born. Yet he thinks being not British born is bad for business... he wouldn't have a business without non british born. www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2025-202...

I'm doing another read through of the new novel. As usual there will be rewrites after this, but sometimes my brain amuses me.

"Saving the world sounds all fun and games, until a hundred angry elves are glaring at you in a frozen, secret village in the Arctic Circle."
💙📚 #booksky #fantasybook #wip

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

Sounds like a plan. Xx

Thank you. You were such a gorgeous bride. But eeek half a century, thats gonna need cake today. Xxx

Thank you sis. That was a perfect day. X

I tend to use the notebooks for plot & character development. And some ideas. Then I move to another notebook and I use a bio (for flow and speed) that and write out the chapters. I only move to the computer after ive got it clearly structured. I think I might be a dinosaur lol.

Better believe it. 😆

A leather bound notebook, with a fountain pen lying across it. In the background there is a small orb of the moon lit up and an ink pot.

I'm ready to be creative. What fantasy chaos am I about to unleash withing these pages? Maybe a dash of Science-Fiction. Of course Scotland will be the backdrop.
##booksky #fantasybook #author #writer #ScienceFiction #writercommunity #fantasysky #sffsky #sffbooks

The service was very respectful.
Love the idea of Angels sounding like Enya (thats a blast from the past). Well thats my night on Spotify sorted.

The picture is of Tom Holt Saint and Sinners collection.

I was at church today (funeral) and it got me thinking about angels. Angels are non-human, unemotional, do as their creator says, here to help humanity or tempt it (the fallen kind). My SFF brain went... What if AI were angels, what if AI stood for Angel Interface.
#sff #writer #fantasybook #scifi

It’s now official.

Scotland will have an extra bank holiday on Monday 15 June to mark our return to the World Cup. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Picture of a metal spearhead from the Carnoustie Hoard.

Are we losing our archaeological and historical record? With so much digital data, but less books, cash, photos, etc. If the data is lost, in hundreds of years, how will they think we lived? Maybe they will think the Aztecs were right and we died in 2012.

www.digitscotland.com/events/scotl...

A cream tea pot is pictured on wood with a sandy coloured background. There is a quote above the teapot. The quote says, “I’ll require tea and Hobnobs. The b*tch is back.” Willard smiled, “Ma’am, you never left.”

Disclosure - A hidden world. A rising power. A truth too dangerous to remember.

The second draft is finished. One more read-through, review, and then it'll be advanced reader copy time.

Maybe this "Inbetween Jobs" time is a blessing.
#writer #writingcommunity #wip #Fantasyauthor #Urbanfantasy