About Rosie Talbot Author

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Rosie Talbot

Author

A lover of the strange, the magical, and the downright spooky, Rosie (she/her) writes contemporary fantasy and horror books for Young Adults and Adult readers. Like her, all of her stories are very queer.

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Rosie is a graduate of Curtis Brown Creative and Write Mentor. By day she works as a bookseller. By night, she spends time sewing big skirts with outrageously large pockets and wondering why her family has a suspiciously large collection of cauldrons. She currently resides in a mysterious pocket of the Sussex countryside with a very patient spouse and two cats called Tinkerfluff and Captain Haddock.

If you want to chat books and writing, you can find her as @merrowchild on TikTok, Instagram & Twitter.

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The Guardian 'A Moment That Changed Me'

Sick of impractical or nonexistent pockets on women’s clothes, I started making my own historical garments. Now I feel liberated, chat to strangers – and never lose my belongings

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The Bookseller announcement ...

Yasmin Morrissey, senior commissioning editor, acquired world rights to two books directly from the author. The first, Sixteen Souls, will be published in paperback original on 13th October.....

Curtis Brown Creative interview

Rosie Talbot was a student on our six-month Writing Your Novel course in 2019. Her debut YA novel Sixteen Souls became popular on TikTok ...

Rosie talbot says that a reader is never wondering why without an answer being offered

United By Pop interview

Rosie Talbot, known on BookTok as @merrowchild, has finally released her debut YA novel, Sixteen Souls with Scholastic after an unusual publishing journey.

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Fictional Hangover: A Taste of Darkness Halloween Live

In this LIVE Halloween episode of Fictional Hangover, Amanda and Claire talk with Amy McCaw, Dawn Kurtagich, Kat Ellis and Rosie Talbot about their short stories from the anthology A Taste of Darkness.

1 hr 44

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Fictional Hangover: Interview with Rosie Talbot

In this bonus episode of Fictional Hangover, Amanda and Claire play Would You Rather and talk with author of Sixteen Souls Rosie Talbot about petting a polar bear, putting ghosts in baubles, blaming Sean Bean and sitting around having an existential crisis while eating chips.

1 hr 25

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