A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
I’m thrilled to share this breathtaking creature of a book cover for The Lamb
@wnbooks
A gripping and sinister coming-of-age tale which wrings the relationship between of mother and daughter until blood drips from it…
I’m absolutely thrilled to have been selected for the
@cbcreative
Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough mentorship. Over the next nine months, I’ll be working on my new WIP with a really exciting author. I can’t wait to start 🖤
So… there might be a little more to my forthcoming novel than I let on. I’m thrilled to be working with
@alexavh
and the incredible team at
@wnbooks
on not one novel, but TWO! THE LAMB will be published in January 2025, with a second novel to follow 👀
.
@wnbooks
has acquired
@lucyrosecreates
' "tender" début novel The Lamb, a contemporary folktale which uses cannibalism to dissect how women must swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts.
Read here:
🥩🥩🥩MEAT KLAXON🥩🥩🥩
Here she is in all her meaty glory 🥹 the US Edition of THE LAMB coming Jan 2025 from
@harperbooks
🥩
Link in bio xo
#horror
#booktwitter
I’m really tired of people funding men who are obsessed with writing about women’s pain instead of funding women to write about it themselves.
There’s a space for male allyship but not at the expense of women telling their own stories.
2 years ago I was very bold and applied for a
@cbcreative
mentorship with a note asking if I could work with one of my heros - the incredible
@kirstylogan
. I can’t believe, 2 years later, I get to say that she has blurbed my first book with this absolutely insane quote 😭❤️
Heyo
#WritersOfTwitter
✨
I’m Lucy 👋 writer of literary horror, folktales and films 🌿 my debut novel, THE LAMB, is coming Jan ‘25 with
@wnbooks
&
@harperbooks
You’ll mostly find me on Instagram and TikTok as LucyRoseCreates 🥰
can we bring back
#WritersOfTwitter
again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕
I’m seeing it happen with my peers - EXCEPTIONAL filmmaking talent is leaving the UK film industry because it will not fund horror. it’s getting absolutely ridiculous. It makes so much money. There’s a huge demand. UK commissioners - where are you when it comes to horror?!
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
The next time you see the Girl Dinner shirt, we’ll be doing a cover reveal for THE LAMB 🐑🥩
See you next Wednesday xo
@wnbooks
Today, I received issue 92 of
@Mslexia
and I can’t believe that a piece of fiction I wrote is printed inside. This is a magazine I love and admire so much. I really feel like this is such a huge milestone for my writing 🖤
@MariaVCgalizia
@CandleAndBell
and I will be launching a crowdfunding campaign for our next film on 11/10/21 ❤️ we are both nervous and excited and would love to have support on this story! Please like/comment and I‘ll DM you a cheeky link when it’s live 🖤
#gothic
#women
#horror
I found out yesterday that I was shortlisted for the Curtis Brown Creative Scholarship and though I didn’t secure the spot, I’m so proud of myself for making the short list of ten out of hundreds of applications. I can’t wait to continue working on the piece ❤️
“The Lamb is a contemporary folktale soaked in the shadows of cannibalism, motherhood, queerness, belonging and first love. With this dark and breathless debut, Lucy Rose wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.”
(Preorder link in bio 👀)
It’s almost been a whole year 🥹😭 since then I’ve:
📝finished my book
💌got an amazing agent
📚got a 2 book deal in the U.K. at auction
@wnbooks
🇺🇸got pre-empt in the US
@HarperFiction
📝written a draft of my next ms
What a whirlwind. Thank you
@cbcreative
&
@kirstylogan
💕
I’m absolutely thrilled to have been selected for the
@cbcreative
Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough mentorship. Over the next nine months, I’ll be working on my new WIP with a really exciting author. I can’t wait to start 🖤
🧵 1/4 What am I grateful for this year?
🥩 Making my film, Taste, with
@CandleAndBell
🎥 Being selected for EIFF Talent Lab via
@eiffindustry
✍️ Being selected for the highly competitive Curtis Brown Creative Breakthrough Programme with my novel via
@cbcreative
(1/2) I am thrilled, overwhelmed, and humbled that my gothic folktale feature film has been selected to take part in 2021’s EIFF Talent Lab Connects
@edfilmfest
• I’ve pinched myself every single day since I found out.
#Filmmaking
#Writer
#Director
#Horror
Many thanks to the
@eiffindustry
team for picking us to be part of this years Talent Lab Connects.
We'll be working with
@lucyrosecreates
on her feature film Man at the Window.
Looking forward to meeting all the other participants!
I’m THRILLED to say that I’ll be writing a column for
@mslexia
over the next year on all things short films. If you’re curious about filmmaking, my column will cover all the basics you need to get started on screenwriting for short films and beyond ✨
#writing
#filmmaking
Literally still can’t believe I have a column in
@mslexia
💕✨ if you want to know all things screenwriting and short films, please come find me on page 81! I’ll be writing for the next three issues 🙏
#filmmaking
#writing
#screenwriting
Way back in 2020, I made a spooky folk horror ghost story. With my next horror film almost finished, I’m just reflecting on this little short film and how much I loved making it. If you want to watch it, head to the link in my bio 👻
#horror
#filmmaking
I was lucky enough to read a proof of The Lamb by
@lucyrosecreates
and I'm here to tell you all to run click that pre-order button RIGHT NOW. It is worth ALL the hype! 🐑🥩
A thread about a film I made🧵🥺
I’m really excited to start shouting about my next film ‘Taste’ 🥩 It’s currently in its final stages of being made and it’s looking beautiful and haunting and harrowing.
Horror is such an expressive genre where we can dig a little bit deeper…
the writer // the tropes
If you are looking for the next cinematic YA romantasy, where a recovered schizophrenic teen discovers a fantasy world hidden within his own and has to venture out on a thrilling quest to protect it, you can preorder it here!
(1/2) We wrapped on Taste yesterday. I started outlining the story five years ago after I left Uni, the lovely Maria of
@CandleAndBell
started developing it with me two years ago, and now we’ve wrapped filming. I got the pleasure of working with the most beautiful cast and crew.
Making this film was such an enormous challenge but I'm so proud of everyone that made it happen. To my gorgeous cast and my insanely talented crew/creative team - and of course, to everyone who put money towards our crowdfunder!
Trailer below.
This news put an ache in my chest. Devastating. This was a gorgeous natural landmark that people travelled the globe to come witness and now it’s gone. This beautiful place has been a source of inspiration for many.
Tender is the word. I love horror. It’s in every facet of my DNA, but I’m also soft and gentle, and that had to be there too. The Lamb, for all the blood, the bodies and the horror, was written to be a tender, intimate and soft story about wanting to be loved 🌿
"It’s not just trying to shock. At its heart it’s a dark, literary, coming-of-age story"
@wnbooks
has acquired
@lucyrosecreates
' "tender" début novel The Lamb.
Read here:
I can’t quite believe this but I just got Arts Council DYCP to develop my next literary/writing project.
I’m speechless and grateful. And it still doesn’t feel real at all.
Seriously, thank you guys so much. Halloween is my favourite time of year (although I celebrate it all year round haha) so to hit the target today feels so spiritual. It means the world that people have supported us and this story. THANK YOU. You're all amazing 🖤
we hit our target on Halloween!!! 🎃🎉 we want to thank everyone so so much. we are beyond (the grave) grateful. i know we will make an amazing film (and an important one too). please, if you can, spare some pennies and keep sharing - every little really helps
#horror
I just got an acceptance from ✨
@smallleafpress
✨ and I had to take an hour to convince myself I’d not misread the email 🥺I can’t wait to have this piece finally see the light of day and with such a perfect press too!
🥩MEAT KLAXON🥩
If you’re at Waterstones Book Fest today and you’re hungering for some mother/daughter cannibals (and some chocolate goodies), find the lovely Jav at the Orion stand on floor 3 👀 use the code word MARGOT to collect your delicious goodies 👀🎀
#horror
@wnbooks
Just had a novel rejection from a really prestigious organisation saying that the book wasn’t quite right for them but they *did* say my writing and my voice were really strong and asked me to query my next book 🥺😭 a little bit of a happy rejection there 👏👏👏
✨publication news✨
I’m thrilled to have been commissioned to write a personal essay for Ghouls On Film Belfast’s forthcoming zine.
Here’s a clue for my personal essay 👀
POV: you’re the only woman at the horror filmmaking networking event.
Celebrating some positive losses today. Over the weekend, I found out I'd been shortlisted for a literary journal I love and that my novel was shortlisted for the Faber Academy Scholarship. While I didn't quite reach the win, I want to use this as motivation to keep pushing.
So much producer chat this weekend… Other than the fact there’s clearly a shortage, it seems a lot of writers/directors starting out don’t consider what a producer actually does. Why do you think it’s such a misunderstood role?
(1/3)🧵 A *real* pinch me moment happened today. It's been a little bucket list dream for me to write for
@DreadCentral
for a very long time.
I'm really proud of this piece. I get to talk about why I really love horror, and why it's a genre that has helped me reclaim…
2/4 I’m truly THRILLED to announce that my book, THE LAMB, went to auction in the U.K. and was bought by
@wnbooks
(Orion/Hachette) - more details to come on this very soon 👀
…AND I’m also very excited to say that
@HarperFiction
bought the US rights for THE LAMB (pre-empt).
So… there might be a little more to my forthcoming novel than I let on. I’m thrilled to be working with
@alexavh
and the incredible team at
@wnbooks
on not one novel, but TWO! THE LAMB will be published in January 2025, with a second novel to follow 👀
I've had this story in my head for years. I've been working on a feature treatment since August 2020... but for the first time, I finally feel like I have a draft that is...really good? Did I *actually* figure out the kinks?? 😭🥺❤️
#Screenwriting
I can’t believe that’s my last column for
@Mslexia
on all things short films 😭💕 I’m so grateful to have written for this gorgeous magazine!
My latest column talks about life beyond the script and the adventures that lay beyond the writing itself ✨ enjoy ❤️
#screenwriting
A publishing network for those “concerned about the impact of gender ideology on our sector and wider society” launched today for publishing professionals, authors and creatives 👇
200+ cuppas.
72 pages.
23 sleepless nights.
5 long months.
3 big cries.
2 different tutors.
1 assignment.
About to go through the last draft of my dissertation with a fine tooth comb 💅🏼
#creativewriting
#dissertation
#ma
I hope we get much more horror in 2024. I want more queer horror, more horror from BIPOC writers, more horror mixed with whatever authors love, more cerebral horror, more horror that doesn't give a fuck about being easy to digest, and more place-specific horror. I want it all.
Thrilled to have another screenwriting column in
@Mslexia
• in this column I tackle all things ‘drafting with others’ and taking notes from other creative professionals 💗
Thank you to the amazing team at Mslexia for having me 🥰
As cinephiles, can we stop pretending we don’t enjoy fun movies? Like I’m sick of pretending I only watch high brow auteur films. I watch so much trash and I LOVE IT 💅🏼
I've embarked on a new project today which was born of a flash fiction I wrote before Christmas. I'm excited to step into this world and write about love, and wonder, and loss, and the ghosts that haunt us. Wish me luck 🖤
I don’t know who is thinking about doing an MA in creative writing but I’ll tell you that mine has slowly worn down my spirit and completely dissolved any self confidence✌️
So proud to be included in this amazing collection brought together by the extraordinary and wonderful
@saeedtaji
👻 It’s truly a collection to behold. I can’t believe my work gets to nestle between the same pages as some of these incredible pieces💕
#horror
#writertok
#essay
Going through audition tapes for TASTE
@shelivesalone
has been such a huge privilege. I can’t believe the sheer volume of people who sent something through (and gave us beautiful monologues) ❤️ feel so grateful right now to be a filmmaker and to be able to see such amazing talent
🚨 Sapphic Cannibal Klaxon🚨
Just doing a lil’ casual research… do I know any arts/books journo people who’d potentially be interested in a PR copy of my sapphic cannibal mommy issues literary novel? 👀 putting my feelers out 👀 for reasons 👀
I’m so thrilled to say a flash fiction I wrote will be published with Nymphs Literary Journal • if you love Bluebeard, gothic, and mysteries, this is one for you 🏰 You can read ‘Anon, Bluebeard’s Final Wife’ tomorrow 👀 via
@nymphswriting
🍂🍁
Thank you
@J_DavidReed
📷 for making me feel like a powerful and confident person today ☀️ when I first saw the RAWs, I felt so capable and empowered because I look like a proper person and not a slimy, sun-deprived, goblin-esque writer 🥹💗
Literally been verbally abused on the street TWICE today for wearing a mask. Like me wearing a mask, in no way, impedes the way in which you go about your day. It hurts nobody. Why do you feel the need to shout at people on the street for quietly going about their business????
🤙 Book deal babyyyy
🥺 being financially stable for the first time in my life
🥰 steady job in publishing that I actually enjoy
🤩 sending my short film off to festivals
This week, I had a no social catch up week. And I got SOOOOO much writing done in my little hidey hole. It was such a much needed retreat after a crazy few weeks and it was so nice to just feel creative again and hang out with my lovely cat 🐈⬛
Lots of writing and editing today! I’m taking a look at the first draft of a manuscript I finished last month after taking a break 📝 (safe to say, I’m sort of nervous to see what I’ll find because I wrote it in an absolute fever dream of a month) 🌿🌱