Lauren (LJ) McMenemy
@laurenwrites
👻Writes the dark stuff 📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society 🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers 🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult 🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com 👩💻Day job: Content & community 🇦🇺in🇬🇧 🤓Curious/exhausted
Just watched Die My Love. It was all very well done, but I’m not 100% sure what I made of it yet. Going to have to sit with it for a bit.
This next session might seem left field, but isn't that the point when you're discussing paranormal time & place? @stevetoase.bsky.social returns to Writing the Occult-land to tell us more about the dystopian worlds seen in 1970s biker pulp subculture fiction. Meet biker and horror writer Steve ⬇️
Here's our first representative of the non-fiction world, and they're bringing the goods for one of the biggest and most talked about mysterious lost lands ever. It's also publication week for their latest book, Atlantis Through Time, which is all rather exciting. Meet @parthenoid.bsky.social ⬇️
The ways we tell stories are rooted in time and place - but how does narrative format impact how we tell those stories? SF author and lifelong gamer @stewarthotston.com joins the good ship Writing the Occult to explore this very question. Meet him ⬇️
The latest crew member is very experienced in the ways time & place impacts narratives, and we're excited to bring him on board for Writing the Occult on 5 Sept. It's none other than freelance writer and producer - and many times a writer within established IP - @0tralala.bsky.social! Meet him ⬇️
This Writing the Occult crew is shaping up to be one in a million: here comes icon of the dark side Mark Morris with his cargo-load of publications to join our journey through time and place/space. Meet him ⬇️
Joining the crew on our venture through time and place/space is the legend of theatre, books, TV and radio that is Robert Shearman! Meet him 🧵⬇️
First traveller to join our ship through time and place is the one and only @unamccormack.bsky.social! Meet her 🧵⬇️
It’s something we don’t really think about, that importance of the here & now, the time & place that anchors our lives. Yet time travel & teleportation have always been an ever-present goal for many. Which is why it's the topic of the next edition of Writing the Occult. 🧵⬇️
After being unable to function due to heat last week, I’m now scrabbling to finish this amazing book before speaking with the author tonight for the BFS. Seriously, this is the book for our times. AI medical experiment turns comatose human into basically a robot. How much does the human realise?
You’ll find me here for the rest of the heatwave. Will need to hide when they close, mind.
Nope. I refuse to do this week. 38C used to trigger us getting sent home from school because it was too hot - in AUSTRALIA, where it’s actually built for this shit 😭
Charlie is 100% most definitely NOT cursed nor haunted. cc @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social for your collection
Accidentally had dinner in the pub from Hot Fuzz. Here, Mr L does his best cop pose in its courtyard.
...And yes, we will be back! We're tackling the dark worlds of time & place in September. Tickets are already on sale from the usual place; line-up coming soooooon. See you there? Seen you there already? Seen you someplace else? ... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
And that's a wrap! Case closed! Conclusion... inconclusive. Thanks to all who joined us live for Writing the Occult: Seekers today - and to those who'll be watching on replay, godspeed 🫡
The truth is out there. Today, we're in search of it (and the paranormal, and maybe some UFOs while we're at it).
Time is running out, folks. Are you in or are you on *their* side? Jump straight to the tickets for Writing the Occult: Seekers: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
Tomorrow. It happens tomorrow. Disclosure Day. The Big Hunt. Case files loaded. Grab your ticket for Writing the Occult: Seekers. Join us online to talk all things weird and paranormal investigations. Tix/full details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.
We're on target and it's t-minus TWO DAYS to grab your ticket for Writing the Occult: Seekers. Join us online to talk all things weird and paranormal investigations. Tix/full details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
We're interested in creating stories that centre on the big questions, right? Is this house haunted? Where is the portal to hell? This Saturday, you get to ask a master of the practice how to do just that as @acwise.bsky.social joins us at Writing the Occult: Seekers! Tix: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Pssst... Sources tell us you've got just THREE DAYS to grab your ticket for Writing the Occult: Seekers and join us online to talk all things weird and paranormal investigations. Tix/full details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Saturday's Writing the Occult: Seekers will kick off with a Q&A with "ghost hunter". So, what have you always wanted to know about ghost investigations? Let me know by replying - or come along and ask them yourself! Tix on sale now: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
If you're thinking about weekend plans that can involve sitting in front of a computer with multiple fans keeping you cool, get in quick: You've got just FOUR DAYS to grab your ticket for Writing the Occult: Seekers. Tix/full details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co
Maybe you grew up on famed supernatural detectives, the Scooby Gang! Those pesky kids went around investigating the strange before unmasking the real culprit, usually some evil corporate. If you love a bit o' Scoob, we highly recommend checking out @folklorepod.bsky.social's book Zoinks! 🧵⬇️
In pop culture, you'll find them in TV and film based on some of the more enduring occult detective fiction, as well as from graphic novels (hello, Constantine and Hellblazer), or as off-shoots from other properties (Angel, anyone?). 🧵⬇️