BOOKS

THE LAMB / More Info
Literary fiction novel
W&N (Hachette) UK
Harper (Harper Collins) US

The Lamb is a folktale, a horror story, a love story, an enchantment. With this coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire and animal instincts – and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.

OF THE FLESH
Horror short stories
The Borough Press (HarperCollins) UK

These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine fear… From folk horror to body horror and everything in between.

SOMEONE LIKE ME
Nonfiction about autism
Verve Books UK

While the ‘nerdy white man’ stereotype of Autism dominates in media and popular culture, other Autistic people miss out on seeing themselves, their unique experiences, their hardships and their triumphs.

More books coming soon.

FEATURED FICTION & NONFICTION

How writing about female cannibals changed my relationship with food • Nonfiction • The Observer/The Guardian (Print & Digital) • January 2025 • Describing issues of autonomy, femgore, worth and hunger all had an impact on what I wrote and how I felt about myself, says Lucy Rose

5 screenwriting tools that helped me write my novel • Nonfiction • Mslexia (Print Magazine, Issue 101) • March 2024 • Nonfiction, balancing the craft of screenwriting and prose • Where these two worlds collide, the author is given the rare opportunity to invite the reader into their world, to explore the tangible detail that cinema can offer to its viewers.

Screen Shorts • Column  Mslexia (Print Magazine) • 2022/23 (4 Issues) • Nonfiction, how to write short films (and how you can use them to progress) • When I’m setting out on a new project, I ask myself just one question: What have I always wanted to say out loud, but never had the courage to? That is the baseline for every story I have ever told. 

Touch as a List of Horror Films • Personal Essay • Meat (Limited Print Anthology, Touch) • September 2022 • Nonfiction, how I fell in love with horror films • When I felt trapped inside my own skin, it was sitting in a darkened room and watching these films that saw into me at my messiest, my most fragile. It was these films that sat me down and explained to me that I was going to be okay. 

How I Reclaimed the Final Girl as an Asexual • Personal Essay • Dread Central (Online Magazine) • June 2022 • Nonfiction, how I got to know the final girl, and how she helped me reclaim myself • The final girl is a fiction, so we, those who feel a little lost somewhere in the obscurity of the margins, can make her whoever we need her to be in order to survive.

Itch • Flash Fiction • Mslexia (Print Magazine, Issue 92) • December 2021 • Literary Fiction, an unhinged therapist and a frightened patient • She wants to see inside. Unspool all that is dark. I wonder if she is mad like me.