Lorraine Wilson

@rainewilson

Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· 13d

This baby has gone back to my agent to hopefully be yeeted at editors in the near future, please pray for it!🖤 For all your faded baroque theatre in a flooded town needs, I offer you murders, weird feral children, possessed dancers, strange tides, a dying seamstress and bloodthirsty puppets...

a mood board for A Monstrous Theatre, featuring creepy theatre mask, sad wet man, flooded gothic building, dramatically draped over a chair gothic woman, bleeding ballet feet on broken glass, a moody stage spotlight, someone sewing lacy material, a wee candle in front of a mirror, some child figures running through fog and a creepy hare/wolf shadow puppet figure

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· 18d

I am, if you hadn't guessed by their guest appearance in The Salt Oracle, unequivocally Team Orca. They're having a splendid day today folks. I wish them well.

screenshot from a facebook page (I think) showing a photo of a mostly sunk yacht and a rescue boat, and the text, which has been auto translated from Spanish: Four orca interactions before Spain. A yacht sunk, three others damaged. Never before have there been so many incidents with orcas on a single day'

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· 20d

Guess who forgot to take any photos at her bookshop event again?

Train pic of a low sun and distant hills from the Tay rail bridge, the Tay looking more pewter than silvery but we'll let it off this time

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· 22d

This Wednesday! If anyone lurking around the North-East fancies coming to chat bookish things, oceanic fantasy and dangerous (fucked up) children. @rtorrubia.com @solarisbooks.bsky.social tickets here: inkandquill.co.uk/products/an-...

Graphic for a book event with myself & Rafael Torrubia at the Ink and Quill in Montrose this wednesday at 6pm. It's got both our book covers and a promise that we will chat, and sign books and other authory sorts of things.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jun 2

This is where I'll be at @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend, as well as just generally loitering. I am EXTREMELY EXCITED, as always, for this welcoming, warm-hearted, brilliant festival. Do come join us & say hi if you see me

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jun 1

I mean. I dedicated a whole book to my 3 decades long grudge...

Photo of the (spite) dedication page for The Salt Oracle. Which reads:

To Mr Short,
My secondary school science teacher who told me, repeatedly, that girls weren't cut out for science. My PhD and I beg to differ.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 14

Heyyyy lovelies I have bunch of events with splendid folks coming up in June & it would be tops if some of you felt like joining us! 🖤 @cymerafestival.co.uk tix: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26 Dundee: www.waterstones.com/events/rafae... Edinbugh: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

graphic with the covers of The Salt Oracle & We Are All Ghosts In The Forest on a graded blue background with dark tentacles & the text: Cymera Festival! Edinburgh, 5-7th June

In conversation with Rafael Torrubia
Waterstones Dundee
Thurs 11th, 6pm

Dark Academia with Naomi Gibson
Waterstones Edinburgh West End
Thurs 25th, 7pm

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 13

I love that readers' favourite character card has been this one 👇🏽 I am all out of vengeful ghost orcas & need to order more for all my June events - we're all Team Orca I guess? 🖤

Character art for THE SALT ORACLE drawn by @hibernalbeast & laid out like an oracle card titled 'vengeance'. It has a large orca diving through water littered with bits of burning wreckage, madam orca is partially glitching as she's a digital ghost, she's having a splendid time though.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 11

My proper & much beloved camera died without warning 😭 so I couldn't do my usual 6 million photos of butterflies & miscellaneous bugs. But flowers (and utility boxes) are slower to run away, even if the phone cam quality is crap

Low angled photo of a pyramid orchid (small, pink, dense flower head) amidst lots of yellow rattle flowers & grass, in warm light

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 11

I do love places where utility boxes are considered canvases for art. But also, roses! Bellisima! (I tried to post this while away but eh let's pretend I'm still in Italy & still allowed to hide from all things publishing)

A peach red rose vivid against a sandstone wall and dead vines

A rose bush covered in deep red roses rambling against a huge sandstone wall

Photo of some kind of utility box doors in a sandstone house wall. The doors are painted with a rural farm yard scene including a horse & a backdrop of hills. The photo shows part of a cobbled street & a climbing rose.

Another mystery utility box in another sandstone wall, this one with a painting of terraced fields, distant mountains and two faded figures just about discernable in the foreground.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 7

It's THE SALT ORACLE's 6 month-iversary! I love this book, it was a BSFA finalist an' all, but I'd love it to find more readers So if you like folklore, opinionated oceans, oracles, a lil light murder, odd dark academia & weird futures please give it a go? It has ghost orcas causing havoc...

Graphic laid out like a tarot card with a lightning storm background & the text: A deadly miracle child
This girl in the tower is there
for everyone else's safety.
THE ORACLE

A mood board for The Oracle, featuring images including a heavy chain emerging from waves, some decaying type reading 'I'm breaking apart', a glowing jellyfish, some deep water Monstrous tentacles & a white line drawing of a girl curled in on herself with her hair a storm around her

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· May 5

I do love me a chonky orchid

A dense lady orchid flower spike against a backdrop of hazel leaves

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 30

Blurry train photo from train 1 of 5 on a Scotland to Italy escapade

Photo looking out over a wee church, some rooftops & a stretch of sandy beach to the sun silver & blue of the firth of forth, one of the inner firth islands & the Lothian coast in the distance

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 29

A blue day, but the nice kind

View out to sea towards the Isle of May, there are black lines of near shore rocks and both sea and sky are serenely blue.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 28

Today's procrastination came in the shape of a mood board... ... spot the image where I went 'crap, this book's meant to have some utopic elements beneath *the horrors*, quick! shove in something *warming*' 😂😬

A daft image graphic for a book called Quiet Walkers. There are images of bloodstained money, freaky church worshippers, a broken & overgrown window, a mossy skull, some cloaked dude in an alley, a barefoot woman on a log bridge, missing people posters, scales of justice, a giant freaky skull beast staring through a door... And a bunch of hands stacked in group solidarity form...

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 22

Oh hey it's #EarthDay and @solarisbooks.bsky.social are having a sale on books full of the wild places, ecological themes and excellent (or fucked up) beasties! Go fill yer boots! 🌍📚🖤

Graphic of a range of Solaris ebook titles on sale for 99 (p or c) against a leafy background. Authors include me, Sam K Horton, MK Hardy, Natania Barron, Karin Lowachee, Adrian Tchaikovsky & Aliya Whiteley

Similar graphic just for my two books We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and The Salt Oracle

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 17

Gotta say this is an insightful read & frames a very hopeful future via a Charter Of The Commons, but ye gods the summaries of how we got to where we are are BLEAK.

Photo of my hand holding a copy of a book by Guy Standing called 'Plunder of the Commons - a manifesto for sharing public wealth'. It's a real paperback with a lone tree stump on the cover

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 14

Event organiser just throwing their hands up at the 'pick a genre' challenge for my books 😆

a screengrab of part of an event programme with the text 'Room 1, Lorraine Wilson, magical realism / dystopian / science fiction / folkloric and dark fantasy /eco fiction. Room 2, blanked out author name, urban fantasy'

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Apr 4

The indignant face of a noodle who doesn't agree that she's done snootling around the lounge actually

Photo of a corn snake who's draped across a hide & glowering at me through the vivarium glass having just been put back in. (she was cold and cats had reappeared, so contrary to her statement, sometimes I know best)

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Mar 24

Voting for the Hugos, BSFA's and Locus Awards all close soon so can I just gesticulate at THE SALT ORACLE once more? This book has ghost orcas, what more could do you possibly need? ALSO & MORE IMPORTANTLY, please go vote for the AMAZING cover designer, Sam Gretton and editor Amanda Raybould? 🖤🌊🖤

a graphic with a quote from the book that says 'nothing is impossible. We only need the right tools, and the right motivations. Or the wrong ones.' Which isn't at all in reference to me getting hugos votes, no sir.

Flat lay of the book on blue and turquoise silky material, with the text 'BSFA finalist' at the top and 'best novel and artwork' at the bottom.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Mar 11

The wonky loaf of a catten who *teleported* out of my bedroom earlier after knocking a plant pot off the windowsill. I was watching him jump up and he fully *vanished* without noise or movement the moment the pot fell. Clearly a space cat occupying multiple extra dimensions

A void catten on a (filthy, don't zoom in) black blanket on a brown sofa. He is in lopsided loaf form & has one clipped ear & a vaguely accusatory expression

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Mar 4

I love these old net wynds so much. They speak so strongly to the interweaving of community & sea

Photo of a wee cobbled lane between stone wall & gable wall, leading to the sea which lies silver blue and suspiciously calm

Photo from a different net wynd, showing the steep, narrow stone steps leading down to a rocky shore & that tricsky blue sea beyond

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Feb 14

Today's blog post got a wee bit ranty... Enjoy. Maybe. www.patreon.com/posts/149012...

A graphic for said blog post - a red toned arty photo of a woman... Licking a gun? Idk. Text saying 'welcome to my weird girl lit rant...', article title 'why are we still infantilising women in fiction' and the address of my free Patreon: Patreon.com/LorraineWilson

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Feb 7

He has several cat beds, blankets, *heated blankets*, sofas & human beds to sleep on. And yet. Recycling bin is tops.

Le void catten lying looking very voidy and smug in a wicker basket that is meant to be full of paper recycling, which is instead piling up on my bedside table. Thanks Snicket.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 21

I post a lot of very calm sea photos. Just for balance, it also does this

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 20

Reposting because I got the time wrong. Arghhh Please join us two hours earlier than previously advertised...

Same event graphic as quoted post - for MK Hardy and myself (The Needfire, and The Salt Oracle and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest) at Waterstones Aberdeen on Sat 31st Jan, but at 5:30pm, not, as previously said, 7:30.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 19

Aberdeen & north-east Scotland folks, I and the fabulous @mkhardywrites.com duo are coming to Waterstones Aberdeen. In LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, so please book tickets and come join us! There may be book origami creatures 🐈‍⬛🐝🐳🐙 tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/conve... @solarisbooks.bsky.social

graphic for an event at waterstones aberdeen on Jan 31st at 7:30pm. It has a yellow/amber background with dark tree roots at the top and tentacles at the bottom, and over that headshots of the auathors and covers of the books The Needfire, The Salt Oracle, and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest.

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 18

The teen is making me a swarm of book bees! 🖤🐝🖤🐝🖤

Nine small origami bees made from pages of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest are sitting on top of said book in a circle, watching bee number 10 do a waggle dance

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 15

First attempt at doing something with the damaged books - ORIGAMI ORLANDO 😂 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

A slightly tatty but very cute origami cat made from a page from a copy of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest, which he is also sitting on

Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson· Jan 12

Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance* *one of these might be a lie. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...