Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤

I’m sure he’ll be much happier when it’s done, it can’t be avoided.

Hardcover copies of SPLINTER & ASH: CITY OF SECRETS on top of paperback copies of SPLINTER & ASH. An illustrated cover, with wonderful art by Vivienne To, shows the two main characters.

Dusting off my account to share that SPLINTER & ASH 2: CITY OF SECRETS is out now!

This series is my love letter to the fantasy adventures that I grew up on, but with a disabled princess and a nonbinary squire taking the lead in the fight to make their wartorn kingdom kinder and fairer. 💙

Thank you so much to everyone who’s clicked and messaged and donated and bought books and generally been there for us today. 💙💙💙💙

A rare highlands win, I am taking this

There’s been a lovely little flurry (thank you!!!) and stock is now rather low, so grab signed books whilst I have them! 🩵

Now includes SBOM hardbacks and Doctor Who books!

I also have signed books for sale in my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/StarsIn...

Scotland take note!!! Us next, please?

I never do this and don’t even feel obligated to click the link (shares would be nice!) but our first fur baby needs dental surgery and, I won’t lie, I am climbing the walls with anxiety about it.

gofund.me/b8fa10852

Oh thank you (website is impossible to navigate), and thank you again!! I’m going to repost….

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

We're seeking a prose writer to cover my colleague's research leave. Academia as a whole is a shit show but we're a friendly team in a lovely department and as a part-timer you'd still have writing time. Imagine that! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

PhD requirement, nooooooooo 🥲

WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way…. To get to know my new home better, I am waiving my school visit fee for schools in the Scottish islands during World Book Week 2026 (2nd - 6th March). Organisers must cover transport and accommodation. I am based on the Black Isle, and able to drive to Inverness airport, Ullapool ferry port, Oban, and Aberdeen. I can supply books to sell, if given plenty of notice! Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

WORLD BOOK WEEK OFFER

Are you a school in the Scottish islands? Would you like an author visit with no author fees? Step this way and check out the alt text below….

Please get in touch via my website contact form 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @slgscotland.bsky.social

Love to write topical books. Some Body Like Me is out now.

Stepfather Christmas: A heartfelt funny festive story that sparkles with Christmas wonder and magic! A heartfelt funny festive story that sparkles with Christmas wonder and magic!

Anyway, get it from Bookshop.org instead: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/step...

Stepfather Christmas is having a surge on Amazon, can only assume everyone is determined to get their bookish advent calendars secured early

As long as you’ve told a good story, I’m not sure there are any real rules!

SBLM is about 80k but it was sold when it was about the 65k mark - it’s a slim volume for the genre, but Becky Chambers’ books are even shorter.

Someone who’s walked Vesuvius help a bro out here…. We have tickets to do the walk, yay, but how do we actually get to the national park??? Google Maps is literally no help. I am willing to get a taxi if that’s the easiest option.

Honestly, same 😭

I heartily recommend both the chocolatine from this Sarajevo bakery AND @ldlapinski.bsky.social's "Some Body Like Me". What a ride. I don't even read sci-fi and had a great time with it.

Ahhhhhh Polis thank you so much!! 🩵🤖💜

Sunday in Rivendell

See an England flag hanging limply off someone’s window feels like seeing an old Red Nose Day nose from twenty years ago still stuck to the front of a van.

😘🤖🩵

Re-loading my bookshelves and making sure the VIPs are accounted for

Windscreen appears to be intact this time, which is a plus

Well the power stayed on but we were woken at 2am and 7am by boys with chainsaws trying to clear the road of fallen trees

The electric keeps having a wobble, istg if we’re without power for four days again…..