Lorraine Wilson

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Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds

A void catten sitting on a (grubby, I know, ugh) pine floor, looking up at the camera And caught half way through a disgruntled complaint.
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
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'
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
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.
graphic of a dark wavy background, with the Cymera festival logo, the words 'this weekend!' and two event graphics for a panel with EJ Swift on Saturday 12pm, and a book reading on Saturday 5pm
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.
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
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.
Low angled photo of a pyramid orchid (small, pink, dense flower head) amidst lots of yellow rattle flowers & grass, in warm light
A peach red rose vivid against a sandstone wall and dead vines
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 dense lady orchid flower spike against a backdrop of hazel leaves
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
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.
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...
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
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
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'
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)
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.
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
Photo of a wee cobbled lane between stone wall & gable wall, leading to the sea which lies silver blue and suspiciously calm
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
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.
Crappy phone video of a stormy sea in the gloaming, waves breaking high over the harbour wall both in the middle distance and close to the camera. There's a herring fleet sculpture to the right side. Yes I got wet filming this
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.
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.
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
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
event graphic for a scottish speculative fiction panel with myself, Angie Spoto and Christopher Caldwell at Waterstones Argyll street, glasgow, on thurs 22nd Jan at 7pm.
A circular void that previously took the form of a catten called Lemony Snicket but that is now distorting local space and time from its nexus point in a pile of wrapping paper on a reddish (I hate it why is carpet so expensive) lounge floor
Close up of a tabby cat mid yawn. He's not screaming but it still counts
View south over harbour walls to the outer firth of forth & a low occluded midday sun, the sea is dark and choppy, painted silver gilt where the light catches it
Graphic for an event on 22nd Jan, with wee photos of the three authors and our books covers - The Salt Oracle, The Bone Diver and Call And Response. With the text: Scottish Speculative Fiction Panel. With Christopher Caldwell, Angie Spoto and Lorraine Wilson, chaired by Elaine Gallagher at Waterstones Glasgow Argyll Street. Thursday 22 January, 7pm.
An awards eligibility graphic with one lonely book cover on and some arrows pointing to it for extra drama.
A very sprawled out void catten on a slightly worse for wear crocheted cat blanket on a wooden shelf that's actually a heated vivarium
Promo graphic for the Creatives 4 Sudan auction with the text announcing CREATIVES SUDAN AUCTION NOW LIVE! RAISING LIFE-SAVING FUNDS FOR PEOPLE ESCAPING GENOCIDE IN EL-FASHER BID TODAY! galabia.com/creatives4sudan
Graphic with 36 Solaris titles shown as ebook covers
Photo of the maunsell sea forts - an abandoned military post in the North sea
Photo of a tuxedo cat in a cat bed cave, sleepy black face just about visible and one white toed paw extended out of the cave in a louche fashion
A graphic using elements of the book cover, with this text "THERE IS NOBODY ELSE WRITING LIKE THIS, NOBODY CREATING SUCH RICH AND THOROUGHLY INNOVATIVE WORLDS THAT STILL FEEL SO EERILY CREDIBLE." — SAM K. HORTON, AUTHOR OF GORSE AND RAGWORT
Copies of all of my books, spines up - this is our undoing, the way the light bends, mother sea, the salt Oracle, we are all Ghosts in the forest, and the last to drown - with the paperback of Ghosts & a Salt Oracle flat on either end. Yes, I know they're in the wrong order, it looked funny the right way around!
Photo of the paperback of We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and hardback of The Salt Oracle with a lamp, some flower stems & blue glass buoys
Weather app screenshot showing today's sunset time of 4:40pm. My serotonin is withering as we speak
Graphic with both book covers, a grey blue background of painted hills & large moon, with the text: Dundee book launch. DARK FOLKORE & SCOTTISH GOTHIC FICTION Join authors MK Hardy and Lorraine Wilson for an evening of chat and refreshments! WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19 7 - 9PM STENECKI COFFEE
Same kind of graphic with the text: Book Signing Event Nov 6th at 1pm Waterstones St Andrews
Graphic with gold background, Ghosts and Salt Oracle book covers, and the text: Find me at World Fantasy Con Strong female leads who don't kick ass Fri 10am Dark Academia- the lure of evil institutions Sat lpm Solaris Books launch Sun 10am
A graphic titled The Oracle, with a background of dark sky & lightning, the text reads: She is: A 16 yr old girl who channels digital ghosts of the sea. She wants: ... What can a girl who doesn't know herself know of wanting? She knows: How to drown. Her secret: Something from the deep has made her a terrible promise.
Freshly hatched copies of The Salt Oracle hardback and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest paperback on a green cloth, looking handsome
Graphic with the title Dr Celestine Dubois, over a dark background of contour & grid lines. The text reads: She is: The senior researcher - Weather forecasting. And Raphaël’s oldest friend. She wants: Auli’s job. She knows: The world is fucked so live for the moment. Her secret: Sleeping with a murderer would be gauche, no?
graphic with the title 'Raphael Giroux' and a background photo of a yacht beneath a moon on dark water. The text reads: He is: The Captain of the Bellwether’s security force. He wants: To do his job with minimal interference from bloody scientists. He knows: Caring for anyone is foolish on the Bellwether. His secret: Auli.
Photo of a tabby cat lying on my desk between me & my laptop, head resting on my wrist. Sabotaging my creative endeavours like a capitalist
Graphic over a photo of a lamp on a wooden pier in foggy dusk. With the title Dr Auli Fraser and the text: She is: The senior researcher of the least important group in the Bellwether She wants: To belong, to believe her work makes the seas safer. She knows: Her mentor was murdered. Her secret: She's woefully unready to take on his job
Tarot card style graphic titled The Bellwether, with the text: What: The New Baltic College of Oceanographic Research Where: Åland Islands, Baltic Sea Why: To study the Salt Oracle and rebuild lost maps, climate forecasts & fisheries models from her cantations. Who: A crew of scientists and boatmen guards. And a lot of deadly digital ghosts. ' All over a dark image of a lighthouse and tentacles.
A graphic using parts of the cover design of The Salt Oracle (waves & orca fins, a background of a girl with fish bones and hooks in her hair) with the text 'the salt oracle is evocative, elegaic, and beautifully stylish. A gorgeous read.' from Aliya Whiteley, award winning author of three eight one.
An oracle type card with a border that's partly octopuses, jellyfish and fish skeletons & the title 'judgement'. The image is of two flying ravens against a backdrop of sea and giant tentacles.
Photo of a sleeping black cat with upsidedown head and white toes (but, importantly, black toebeans) on a black blanket & brown sofa.
graphic with the book THE SALT ORACLE, & a heading saying '6 weeks to publication' against an oceanic backdrop taken from the book cover art (by Sam Gretton)
a gold and sepia toned moodboard for A LAKE OF SMALL FIRES with images of two sisters looking urgent, wooden boats candlelight, a kite in front of a wildfire, hands cradling a burned book, and an array of spices in brass pots.