Louisa Preston

@louisapreston.bsky.social

Scotland based publishing studies and contemporary book cultures academic - the one that draws - & a zine enthusiast. Researching publishing found at the juncture of the visual arts and literary worlds.

A #sharpies26 highlight was Beth Driscoll’s keynote, choosing my reader avatar - and trying to visualise it very sketchily (eh-hem). Another delight was making my zine program which was handily supplied by SHARP, which I then hand bound into my little note-sketch book for the conference!

Sketch of a person with pig tails wearing yellow glasses alongside notes about my reader avatarPhoto of hand bound note book with watercolour cover drawing and text 
Photo of the program with the keynote session details on it.

Blue sky at last! Symbolic of my first Bluesky post! - and of what feels like the first day of real summer here in Perth (UK) breaking up the horrid stretch of grey skies, drizzle and downpours we’ve been getting recently.

Picture of the clear blue sky with a house in the foreground.