L.C.Winter

Thank you! I'm now lounging determinedly with cats and chocolate 😄

I'm recovering after a mad few days book signing in London one day and York the next, my book officially being published and then a launch party.

It's been an absolute dream come true!

#authorlife #booksky

LC Winter ‘Spider Spider’

In the wild! @lcwinter.bsky.social

Hurrah!

Release day is here! Actually it was yesterday but my social media manager* (cough) forgot to post it here.

*me

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Thank you! I am having a lovely time. 😀

My article on a Victorian cult is here:

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Have you heard of the Agapemonites?
LC Winter (Spider, Spider) investigates a bizarre 19th-century religious community based in Somerset.
It's probably remembered best as a Victorian sex cult and the cause of several scandals.
Find out why at historiamag.com/victorian-sex-cult.
@lcwinter.bsky.social

4 great historical novels to read in March This month’s picks include a small-town Scottish drama, a Victorian gothic revenge story and the life of Cleopatra reimagined

Spider, Spider is one of the Times' march picks for historical fiction! 😁

#histfic #gothiclit #booksky

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I hope you're taking care of yourself. And I hope we see each other at one of the booky things this year!

Sorry to hear this. 🫂

The cover of The Wise Witch of Orkney by Anna Caig.

My friend's book is out this week and it's so good. She listens to the hidden voices of phenomenal women and brings them out in her writing.
#booksky #histfic

The Wise Witch of Orkney by Anna Caig

Thank you! 😍

Friends are everything. If I could give one piece of advice to my fellow early career authors, and all the seriously aspiring authors out there it would not be any craft related tidbit.

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Writer friends are the best. #authorlife #booksky

Mapping London's Poverty Charles Booth was a failed politician turned social reformer, and as part of a wide ranging investigation into Londoners’ lives in the late 19thC he made his famous maps; a visually striking represent...

Today's substack post is about Charles Booth's poverty maps.

#histfic #booksky

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A Victorian enquiry At its best the Victorian spirit of enquiry is curious and charitable; at its worst paternalistic and bigoted.

On my substack today I'm on about reading Mayhew as research for my book. #booksky #histfic

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Thank you 😊

Me smiling in front of some art, holding a hardback copy of Spider, Spider.

Author copies of my book are here! #booksky #histfic #gothiclit

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

My path to publication, part 2 From agent to debut!

Part two of my Path to Publication. Agent to debut.

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My path to publication Part one - getting a wonderful agent

Today I wrote about my path to publication on my substack. Ups and downs and in betweens! Spider, Spider is my third or fourth book, depending on how you count, so this is how I got there (part 1 - up to getting my agent).

#booksky #histfic #authorlife

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Thanks for the intro!

"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.

Ha! Thank you.

I somehow managed to miss this when it first came out. Lots of exciting books here!

Gothic fiction, Wuthering Heights, unreliable narrators, and writing from a ghost’s point of view.
We’re joined by @essiefox.bsky.social on the latest Rock Paper Swords episode.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3F5f...
📺 youtu.be/42EkcxvnV1I

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In Fiction We Love Poison Isn’t the perfect murder one in which no-one even realises there’s been a murder?

It's only two months until my book Spider, Spider is out - it's a gothic historical revenge story and if that's your kind of thing you can follow my substack where today I had a ramble about arsenic and a look forward to 2026.
#histfic #fiction #gothic #booksky
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Oh no! Packets being not what they say they are is so frustrating.

Make art. It doesn't have to be "good"--it's all good--it just has to be real.

Here’s my list of things the public doesn’t seem to know, but historians broadly agree upon 👇