Laura Elliott

A vast library with light streaming in from many floors up, occupied by a raven, a cat and the shadow of a dog. There are ornate lamps because...i drew it and I have a thing about lamps. Pencil on Bristol board. Colour applied.

Good Morning, especially to @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social and every librarian, everywhere. .

A colourful collage with a central image of a 1960s young thin white woman with big bouffant blonde curls and her face coloured in like an Andy Warhol screen print surrounded by stars with a cut out of a half peeled banana and a pink and white blob reading perfume of magnetism, above her old wallpaper with leaves covered in organic shapes that suggest bowels

Age of Aquarius
Collage made from 1960s Vogue and Women’s Realm magazines, Ladybird books, Wills cigarette cards & mid century wallpaper

I loved this one!

just discovered that the teddy bear’s picnic is still in copyright to Warner Brothers of all places, and I’ve used it as a load-bearing rhyme in the first half of book two

shoot me dead/let me go down the fair use rabbit hole for my afternoon why don’t you 😭

this book is well worth dancing over, just an fyi

blue sky AND i have tulips!

the gods of spring are smiling on me

hahahahaha this is why i have the yearly reading challenge set up: it tells me i should add the books i’ve read 😂

this is the only reason I track my reading with Goodreads - my memory for past books is SO BAD unless i jog it with something 😬

Spotted on socials so...exciting news, Dark Crescent is going International! I'm so delighted that there will be a Ukrainian translation with Yakaboo Publishing, out later this year (and what great company to be in!) This is such a cool author first! ✨️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 yakaboo.ua @lunapress.bsky.social

there is blue sky above my house for the first time this year I FEEL SO HAPPY

oh the first draft is always terrible - but it’s a great psychological trick to see the pages piling up next to me so I can actually feel like I’m progressing instead of it all being on a computer document 😂

this is so on brand and i love it

spending an hour on the phone to various NHS departments trying to track down a lost set of blood test results wasn’t how i intended to spend my morning, but finally managed to speak to a nice neurology secretary who thinks she can send them to my GP. all praise to her, may her pillow always be cool

no idea how others do it but my 1st draft is a hard copy on a typewriter, draft 1.5 is that typed onto scrivener & nominally edited as I go, then the 2nd draft I’m on rn is that same document rewritten page by page BUT if I delete huge sections I have a notes folder I paste them into just in case!

This one came out before the election and…you know. Anyway, it got some amazing nods—Stoker, Locus, glowing NYT review, NPR—but never took off. Seeing it getting love this week for being 100% boricua? Yeah…agradecido. Oh, and it’s on sale! Mil gracias. Much love.

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

james: how’d writing go today? did you hit your word count?

me: no i deleted 1500 words i decided weren’t working

james: …

me: …

james: …

me: …

james: …is that… good?

me: idk but it’s done now

MY REACTION EXACTLY

bsky.app/profile/tiny... we are on the same page

A promotional panel for Loba by Valentina Cano Repetto. The cover features a lighthouse with concentric rays emanating from it. The cover is by Alice Coleman. The text reads: Cover Reveal

A promotional panel. The text reads: "Loba is a love song in minor key to the rugged and violent mystical beauty of my tiny and often overlooked native home." Acquisition Announcement.

A promotional panel. The text reads: Valentina Cano Repetto, Acquisition Announcement. The panel features a photo of the author. A woman with long, curly black hair and dark eyes.

"She is not the first lighthouse keeper to lose her mind on the shores of Cabo Polonio. But she is determined to be the first to survive it."

Another fantastic new voice joins our list. Welcome Valentina Cano Repetto!

Loba publishes on November 10th.

A foxlike creature with a wreath of small white flowers offers a nearly handlike paw. Pencil drawing with colour applied.

...aanyway. Here's a Fox Bride from Hookland for you.

a friend just found a large bag of cadbury mini eggs being sold for £17.50 in a supermarket and this is my final straw. VIVE LA REVOLUTION we ride at dawn

arrghhhhh!!!

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Javier Mayoral.

it’s been a while since i’ve had to argue with the NHS but my GP ordering an ultrasound & the hospital cancelling it because they want me to wait 4 months to see the surgeons even tho there’s nothing visible & they’ll just order an ultrasound is now my 2026 villain origin story

love this 😂

Laura’s hand holding a book with a red cover. The book is North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud another short

5. North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud

another short story collection and this one was entirely up my street. a collection of weird lit fic centred on the working class in the US. The Monsters of Heaven was this one’s standout story for me

LOVE this

Pencil drawing with applied colour. A citadel city built of many layers and stories is mostly covered with vines and flowers. Only the topmost part of the city is revealed and it shines blue-green. Flower-vines are in the foreground, and a small figure beholds the city.

Good afternoon part II

Remember when we used to bind criminal trial papers in the skin of the guilty perpetrators? Good times. Anyway—

sounds wonderful! (also that book for your fiance is ADORABLE)