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I hate to do this, but it's 1 month until UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE STORY is published and so I'm contractually obligated to share some of the nice things reviewers have been saying.

If you'd like to read yourself before anyone else, I'm doing special personalised pre-orders via West End Lane Books!!

Amazing!! Thank you, Paddy!

Threads post from an entity that calls itself @sabbbrwna: what do y'all use instead of ChatGPT?

My brain.

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Elle McNicoll joins Pan Macmillan in eight-book deal

ICYMI: Bestselling author Elle McNicoll has joined Pan Macmillan in an eight-book deal 👇 #BookSky

Yep, should be. Also doing signed and personalised orders with West End Lane Books and Portobello Bookshop.

And yay! That's awesome! Hope they enjoy it, I'm always around if they have any questions xx

This is going on my MUST buy list! ⬇️ #BookSky

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Taking my anti-fascist love story on tour.

Events will include fun, laughter, slight naughtiness and defiant joy in the face of whatever each of us is going through.

I know no one sees this on here, and I have no idea how this app works, but links will be in the second part of the thread.

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Cannot actually believe we're getting to do this!!

As one of so many bookshops who adore @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social ‘s body of work, this really warms the cockles.
#KidLitUK

To quote @goodlawproject.org we need to take personal responsibility in keeping the far right out of the Scottish parliament. Trump’s little puppet Farage wants to do to us what MAGA is doing to the USA. It can be so simple. We just need a good turn out in May. Make sure you’re registered to vote

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

Read and share the statement from the parents of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse who was shot and killed by border patrol.

Unapologetic Love Story by Elle McNicoll (Signed) — West End Lane Books Signed and Dedicated Pre-Order Hardback Published 2nd April 2026 Enter Raina Lewis, London’s hottest It Girl - effortlessly cool, endlessly intriguing, and beloved for her smash-hit podcast ...

I'm getting married and releasing my first adult romance novel in the same year. This year. The book is out on the 2nd of April.

Wedding invites are still in the works, but if you'd like a signed, personalised special edition of Unapologetic Love Story, here:

www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/unapo...

I'm happy now. Isn't that strange? Aren't I odd for saying it?

It wasn't staring into the abyss that made me live.

It wasn't accepting cold hard "truths" from people who don't understand women like me.

It's because I believed the stories. And mine came true. And I love that.

And after a lifetime of being treated like a zoo animal, or a mermaid stumbling about on land, isn't that fucking radical?

I'm so pleased I get to do it

It feels meaningless to say it... but I wish I could throw it in a time machine. For the young woman who needed it.

Because

I'd much rather write a novel that will bring someone the joy that I needed as a young woman.

Humour. Pain. Some wit, I hope. Sex. London. Darkness. Light. The truth, wrapped in pink confetti and beautiful endpapers.

I chose the title. I was being honest. That's what it is.

A part of me knows that if I wrote a miserable book, capturing all of the worst parts of being neurodivergent, I would be applauded. It would be called important.

But that's so easy. Tragedy is so close to hand. Easy to grasp. Easy to reproduce. In some ways, it feels cheap.

When I was 14, I would escape into romance novels. They reignited my love of reading and of life.

They would take me away from being a shy autistic teen. Because no matter how dark things would get in them, the happy ending was promised.

Mine will be out on the 2nd of April.

thank you xx

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Gentle reminder that EVERYONE shot by ICE or the police is innocent. Every single one. Cops aren't Judge Dredd. A person is innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT, so until a person is found guilty by a judge or jury, they're innocent. They're ALL innocent.

Anti-fascist author note

"Current trends say that the political environment is making people scared to invest in disabled fiction."

Cool. Fuck those people. Cowards should get out of publishing and into the AI business. Don't let the door hit you on your spineless back on the way out

It's a new year. And I'm back to work.

Headline: 90 percent of Reform-supporting comments on social media are bots

Nobody could have predicted this.

Personalised preorders of Unapologetic Love Story are available at West End Lane Books (my London local) and Portobello Bookshop in Scotland (my hometown local).

Thank you so much to those who have already ordered a copy. You're amazing!!!

And you'll be rewarded with something very special!

And what better way to mask an unwanted attraction than to get a bit silly.

I wrote the first draft of this romance in lockdown, having never been to a party at this museum. Now, I've been to several. Though none inspired this particular chapter, I assure you. No, really. Don't send me emails!

I can now say that my first adult book comes out this year!

Unapologetic Love Story opens with a very fancy black tie event at the V&A. At this party, enemies are made and sparks fly--all because a neurotypical writer gets a bit flustered upon meeting an autistic podcaster whose star is on the rise

Billionaires want to kill art with AI because they can’t do art. They can’t throw money at obtaining a skill they’ll never have, so instead they’re throwing money at destroying it, and persuading you that the process of human creation never had any value anyway.

Hi. If this is about Unapologetic, tell her I'm sorry that it's for adults but I have an autumnal YA out next year as well, and will still be writing middle grade books for younger readers.

I'm really grateful to her for being a reader and I hope we can meet one day so I may say thank you!

Elle xx