What a lineup! Can’t wait to chat with CJ, Shane and Theodore 🌿 📚
What a lineup! Can’t wait to chat with CJ, Shane and Theodore 🌿 📚
A Botanical Daughter is going to Brazil!
She’s appearing as A Criatura do Jardim, in her new dark cover, HARDBACK, and with sprayed damn edges 😍
🌿 O germinar de um novo Frankenstein 🌿
Come through, mama! Can’t wait for this one 🚀 💫 ✨
The main characters in A Botanical Daughter both have silent letters in their names, X+Y:
Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon
Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk)
Art by @angellilou.bsky.social
The pain of writing a banger of a sentence knowing no one will read it for probably years at this point!
Spotted at Queer Lit Manchester by amazing shelf neighbour @noahmedlock.bsky.social.
🧛🏻♂️🦇🌕🩸🌺🌸🌿💀
Still crazy to see BLOOD out in the wild.
Go Queer Team @titanbooks.bsky.social!
Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI.
The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds.
If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.
And shout out to everyone who picked up A Botanical Daughter, the royalties of which are paying for said therapist
Shout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭
I let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:
This is such a great summary haha! Thank you so much 🌿
can I just. listen. *cups your face in my hands* l i s t e n go read @noahmedlock.bsky.social's book. it's ADHD x autistic gay couple. it's our marriage is kinda failing but surely having a baby will fix it. it's let's frankenstein the baby out of plants and fungi. shit fuck bad idea abort abort
Ah sweet! I still need to read American Psycho myself, looks amazing 🌿
Much love to the protesters today in London, and anybody making noise about it online.
To those of us supporting online, remember to reach out beyond author spaces — we need to change the public’s hearts on this.
I’ve learned the hard way recently that the public aren’t with us yet
My writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
Just seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄
If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!
A cherished blurb!
I finished reading it and it was SO DAMN GOOD! This was the best book I have read in a very long time. The story is well-paced, the characters are perfectly imperfect and the language is so delightfully witty! Go read „A Botanical Daughter“ !!! #ABotanicalDaughter
This is thrilling to hear — I’m so glad you liked it! 🌿
Over 30 million users on Bluesky now, so I'm bumping the starter packs, starting with my OG: Queer Masculinity in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Both authors and subject matter, people doing great work with exciting perspectives!
go.bsky.app/32GAjzH
Yeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh*
Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack
If you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter?
🌱 tender and inquisitive
🌱 made from 100% recycled materials
🌱 biological imperative to kill for you
🌱 mossy in all the right places
Time to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel:
A tersely worded and devastating letter
The horror author in me is fascinated by how wrong traditional versions get Puck. He screams forest entity, pagan/demonic changeling, obsessed with the revenant dead.
Playful, yes. But both the subject and object of horror. Oof this is gonna be good!
I am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York!
Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era
My plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter
I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ?
Sketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025:
INFORMATION
🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up
😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model
📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions
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IMPACT
♻️ Power and water usage is astronomical
🙅♂️ Having learned from humans, these systems have been shown to be discriminatory
🧠 When we outsource our critical thinking skills, we ultimately lose them
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