Lulu Allison

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#thecricket

BEAST
Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social

Bluemoose Books
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

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Congratulations Lulu! A dazzlingly original novel. 'Its hour come round at last...'

Thank you so much David! I'm thrilled that you think that. Thank you.

Beast a book by Lulu Allison. Beast explores how dreams and desires can both liberate or confine the dreamer. Eve, a young self-taught musician sits on a bench overlooking the grassy crossroads of a model village. She is dreaming ...

Beast is published today by @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and is available at all good bookshops.

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beas...

A page from Faust with 5 clear ovals on top. They contain flowers and snakeskin, each has a letter that spells out the word BEAST

Myths get layered up - they raise questions. Beast is in part an exploration of the questions that rise for me from my reading of the Faust myth, specifically as told by Thomas Mann.

I wondered what if the musician's hand reaching into the cosmos was looking for the divine, not for fame and money?

YouTube video by Madman Films Life in One Chord - Official Trailer

Here’s the trailer for a film about my friend Shayne. I played bass in the first iteration of Dimmer when I lived in NZ. Shayne’s autobiography Dead People I Have Known is excellent. youtu.be/_BEWB2XGTfw

Because it’s a big day I’m getting scatter-head interference hysterically yelling at me that EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FINISHED BY THE BIG DAY!! Quick! Do that conversion in the airing cupboard! Take all that shit to the dump!! You didn’t pot up the tomato seedlings!!! OH MY GOD!!!!

It will pass.

On my way south.

To see demon and rabbit

At the launch of Beast by @luluallison.bsky.social at Waterstones Dorchester.

Thanks Drew x

I love publication day.

Congratulations @luluallison.bsky.social

Today we publish.

BEAST - Launching at 6.30pm tonight.

Waterstones Dorchester

Brilliant.

@waterstones.bsky.social

Thank you Paul. I’m so glad you liked it.

Thank you Rónán x

The book Beast (red background, cosmic rabbit in black, white font) on a red tooled leather pouf

B E A S T will be published tomorrow - thanks to @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

It’s bonkers really, thinking how many words and thoughts and walks and scrawls and garbled passages deleted and emails and head scratches and bombed out cloud stares it has taken. I hope a few of you will like it.

Oh amazing! Really hope you enjoy it. Thank you. Thanks too to @bertsbooks.bsky.social - booksellers are wunderbar x

Good morning.

Getting ready for the launch of:

BEAST by @luluallison.bsky.social

Waterstones Dorchester 31st July at 6.30pm.

Marvelous.

@waterstones.bsky.social

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas. I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

On hatred.

My one of them is noticing yesterday's sock is still wedged up my trouser leg.

A horned and winged demon stands over Faust' mediaeval home town, misty moonlight glints behind one vast wing. Still from the 1926 movie.

Book cover for Beast: textured red background with a black rabbit silhouette, scattered with cosmic stars. Beast, Lulu Allison in white over the top.

I love this still from the 1926 Faust film, directed by F.W.Murnau, because it looks like Demon standing next to the model village in my novel Beast.

Publication day - Thursday 31st, Dorchester Waterstone's. Please come.

Fantastic! Three cheers

BEAST
Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social

Bluemoose Books
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

#independentpublishers #indypublishing

#writing #writers #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #amwriting #TheWritingLife #books #reading #amreading #bookshops #Booksky

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Domestic abusers are often the shooters and the lone wolf killers too. THEY ARE ALREADY EXTREMISTS - battering your partner, your family, your ex, is extreme. Why we act as though it is a big-picture-harmless and inescapable part of the social landscape is beyond me.

Hello, I am a stern female detective on the tv. I am having a no-frills, gutless long-term affair with a colleague. My father is an alcoholic (we both blame ourselves for my mother's death two years ago) and my teenage daughter barely talks to me and about to get kidnapped by the baddie.

Stick it up your bollocks Joey Barton

I love Lucy Bronze

Bit niche unless you’re listening to TMS. And even then …

Graham Swan and the Pavilions.

I remember stacks of old circus fascia in unlikely corners. Such unlikely and lovely mayhem.

Please do support your local bookshops. They are esential for independent publishers and have been the patron saints of my writing career through their word-of-mouth support.

I asked ChatGPT what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what it said to me:

Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours to see
Que sera, sera
STICK YOUR HAND IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL