Author of queer weird fiction - he/him A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER - March 2024https://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3mgwqz3zpfs2fWhat a lineup! Can’t wait to chat with CJ, Shane and Theodore 🌿 📚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwqz3zpfs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3mgwqz3zpfs2fWhat a lineup! Can’t wait to chat with CJ, Shane and Theodore 🌿 📚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgwqz3zpfs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3mgsdroqj622eA Botanical Daughter is going to Brazil! She’s appearing as A Criatura do Jardim, in her new dark cover, HARDBACK, and with sprayed damn edges 😍 🌿 O germinar de um novo Frankenstein 🌿11 Mar 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgsdroqj622ehttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3mg6qn3p6j22pCome through, mama! Can’t wait for this one 🚀 💫 ✨ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6qn3p6j22phttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3m4qm72l4ok2mThe main characters in A Botanical Daughter both have silent letters in their names, X+Y: Rievaulx is a ruined abbey in Yorkshire, gothic and austere like Simon Sandys sounds like Sands, a reference to ‘Inspector Sands’ which is a common code for a fire (iykyk) Art by @angellilou.bsky.social03 Nov 2025 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qm72l4ok2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3m3fiia2o3s2cThe pain of writing a banger of a sentence knowing no one will read it for probably years at this point!17 Oct 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fiia2o3s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lqd6tt6jws27Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI. The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds. If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.29 May 2025 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqd6tt6jws27https://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lqd6tt6jws27Human authors cannot coexist with GenAI. The gardener carefully removes all invasive, self-sowing species of plants. If she didn’t, her whole garden would become a monoculture of weeds. If we want richly diverse human stories tomorrow, we cannot tolerate GenAI today.29 May 2025 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqd6tt6jws27https://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lq5srto6jc2wShout out to my therapist who researched some literary references I’d made last session, and came back armed with profound insight into the characters and how they relate to me 😭😭😭27 May 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq5srto6jc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lprln2qf522kI let my main character edit the trope map for his own book:22 May 2025 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprln2qf522khttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3llw4msaqf22hMy writing is the most vulnerable part of me. I share myself gladly with readers, in the hope that they might resonate with my pain and my hope. Meta has stolen that work and used it to power their chat bot. https://www.change.org/p/protect-authors-livelihoods-from-the-unlicensed-use-of-their-work-in-ai-training03 Apr 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3llw4msaqf22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lh763do7wk2pJust seen my book for sale second for the first time — which is thrilling! We’re permeating the ecosystem 🌿 🍄 If you can get down to The Bookish Type in Leeds today, you can grab a bargain and support the store!02 Feb 2025 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh763do7wk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lgokqbpx2k2iYeah I didn’t hit my chapter goal for this week. But I’m cutting myself some slack, given… *sigh* Well anyway I’m cutting myself some slack26 Jan 2025 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgokqbpx2k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lgfy6pzm4s2jIf you’d like a big hug from a plant monster, can I suggest Cʜʟᴏᴇ from A Botanical Daughter? 🌱 tender and inquisitive 🌱 made from 100% recycled materials 🌱 biological imperative to kill for you 🌱 mossy in all the right places23 Jan 2025 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgfy6pzm4s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lg6przdyqk2yTime to write the most crucial component of any Noah Medlock novel: A tersely worded and devastating letter20 Jan 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg6przdyqk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfxfhzgoss2oI am VIBRATING with excitement to say that I’ll be playing Puck in a few months here in York! Calling it now — 2025 is my goblin era17 Jan 2025 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxfhzgoss2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lforc7r3fc2rMy plan is to have a pretty clean draft of this eldritch ballet horror by the one year anniversary of A Botanical Daughter I just need to get a chapter out a day (these chapters are short at ~1000 words each) ? https://media.tenor.com/JKoPdlxctUUAAAAC/gene-wilder.gif?hh=260&ww=42014 Jan 2025 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lforc7r3fc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfmwvct3js2rSketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025: INFORMATION 🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up 😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model 📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions (1/3)13 Jan 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmwvct3js2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfmwvct3js2rSketching out issues with AI technologies as they stand in 2025: INFORMATION 🤔 AI powered search is frequently inaccurate, and if it doesn’t know something it will make it up 😳 Surrendering your sensitive data to it trains the model 📱 Many apps are junking up with useless AI functions (1/3)13 Jan 2025 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmwvct3js2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfi54wfchs22A Botanical Daughter is cheap on Kindle US at the moment! Go fill your boots with plant-based Frankenstein realness — two gay dads grow themselves a daughter… of sorts 🌿 💀 🥀 If I say it has the found family trope I mean, like, found with a shovel #queerbooks #horror11 Jan 2025 16:33 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfi54wfchs22https://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfdf3owqpn23Having a very disordered day after yesterday’s high. Feel like my nerve endings are tied in knots. Fighting back with a cosy cardigan and a new nail polish colour. Might have a bath later. Take THAT, central nervous system!09 Jan 2025 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdf3owqpn23https://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfbampvb2z2mJust wrote up three stonking chapters if I do say so myself. SUCH a good feeling as it comes together. For a musicological horror, it’s coming out very pacey. I think this bonkers idea might work!08 Jan 2025 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfbampvb2z2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lfapnuxgeh2x“I’m using ‘dick’ as a placeholder until I can find something better to shove in there” is something I just said out loud. Author problems…08 Jan 2025 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfapnuxgeh2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/noahmedlock.bsky.social/post/3lf6md2b3g227Throwing my hat back into this platform for now — didn’t quite “get” it first time around Hi hello hi, it’s me Noah; I wrote A Botanical Daughter, a gothic horror about plant gays and gay plants07 Jan 2025 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:vvjcgpzikzejtl22ntvd3thw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf6md2b3g227