⭐ #Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams): "A short, atmospheric tale told through @franceshardinge.bsky.social ’s skillful fairy-tale prose + Emily Gravett’s art, which intertwines, illuminates, + sometimes takes over pgs altogether" www.hbook.com/story/review...

Hoy a las 16:00 estaré de nuevo en el #Festival42, esta vez charlando sobre fantástico oscuro con @franceshardinge.bsky.social , @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , @theprofrog.bsky.social y @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Se puede ver en streaming también. share.google/8B4lH3jCf5vy...

Espectacular la mesa redonda de @benaaronovitch.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social y Roger Luckhurst al #Festival42 moderados por @sergiviciana.bsky.social 🤩

Aquesta és la setmana del 42 🚀🖤 www.barcelona.cat/festival42/ca

Great news! My partner in crime, the brilliant Emily Gravett, has been nominated for the #Carnegie Medal for Illustration for her wonderful pictures in our book #TheForestofAThousandEyes! carnegies.co.uk/illustration...

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

ICYMI, later this week I will be appearing at #Festival42 in Barcelona! Here are the details of my events on 7th and 8th November. www.barcelona.cat/festival42/e...

Happy Halloween, everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink! www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...

Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.

Why do they look like they’re from a 1970s British sitcom?

Then, broth the ramen: “over-pour.”

The database of eligible books for the Anthropic lawsuit settlement is now live: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

If you believe the specific requirement for additional registration with the US Copyright Office is excluding work you know was stolen for the LibGen database, let the SoA know.

Featuring @alixeharrow.bsky.social @ldlewiswrites.com & @franceshardinge.bsky.social !

#TheForestOfAThousandEyes, my second collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, is released in the US today! www.abramsbooks.com/product/fore...

By the way, reporting it as a 'fake profile' doesn't appear to work since it demands to know what my real Facebook account is, and doesn't seem to accept other URLs any more. But reporting it as 'scam, fraud or false information' does seem to work.

Mythopoeia is a subgenre of speculative fiction where the author develops fictionalized or artificial mythology. This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social

Sorry to bother people again, but yet another fraudster Facebook account has appeared pretending to me. To reiterate, I am NOT on Facebook. Is there any chance people could report this scam account as well? Thank you! www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Most doctors agree on a simple plan for life: - drink water - get some rest - exercise once every thousand years - cover your corporeal form in moss & wildflowers - shamble slowly through the old forest and become a dark legend of the wildlands

A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards! www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...

THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams) by @franceshardinge.bsky.social‬; illus. by Emily Gravett will receive a starred review in the September/October 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

I'm utterly delighted to reveal that Island of Whispers (one of my collaborations with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) is on the shortlist for the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards! mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

#nature #photography #raven #birds This raven was nice enough to pose for a photoshoot. That, or it was here to warn of my impending doom. Either way, I think I got it good side.

Welcome to the archives.

A charming Egyptian figurine of a hippopotamus carved from calcite some 5,000 years ago! 🦛❤️ Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 📷 by me #Archaeology

For while there is a language of flowers, it is in the meadow that it becomes poetry. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Flowers

Oh boy, Lost Gardens is in the window at #Hatchards. Okay, so it's smaller than the others and at the back but I'm A Contender! Thanks to @franceshardinge.bsky.social for the photo!

Delighted to hear Mars Evacuees and Space Hostages are being re-released. These are some phenomenal mid-grade SF books, some of the very small list of books my son really took to, and which I hugely enjoyed reading to him.

@franceshardinge.bsky.social www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/06/01/o...

From May/June #HBMag Special Issue: Perception and Reality "#HBRealityReimagined: The Paint" by @franceshardinge.bsky.social : "[T]hemes that matter to me tend to creep into my stories from the darkened corners" www.hbook.com/story/realit...

Another reminder that this delightful thing is apparently taking place next year: www.facebook.com/profile.php?... I am referring to it as the 'Conference of Me', and it is accepting submissions of papers! The deadline is September, and here is the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A starred review in Kirkus for #TheForestOfAThousandEyes, my second collaboration with the wonderful Emily Gravett! "Sumptuous worldbuilding and deft plotting make for a harrowing dystopian story that nonetheless thrums with hope." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A lovely starred review of The Forest of a Thousand Eyes in @PublishersWkly! www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-7...

@traceybaptiste.bsky.social @adriannacuevas.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social @as-king.bsky.social @sachalamb.bsky.social @shauniedarko.bsky.social @wordsiren.bsky.social @philipreeve.bsky.social @littlebadger.bsky.social

When you think you're buying a church on eBay and don't read the measurements properly.

Yesterday we passed a sign for 'Birdineye Farm'. Um... ouch? I really hope there isn't a story behind that...

A revolving bookcase with a hidden stairway behind it, so that unsuspecting guests could stumble upon my secret alchemical laboratory, full of weird equipment and tomes. Lots of tomes. Some of them chained to the wall and sporting visible teeth.

Honestly, I’d just send copies of Mister Invincible out to every school.

Note - the cute white plush bats in my last post are a cunning representation of Honduran white bats, which really do look like little pompoms with bright yellow ears, and which nestle under big leaves, using them as tents...

Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! Here's just a few of my bat-friends. (I have far too many to fit in one picture.) In this house, every day is bat appreciation day...

11. Advice for badger attacks.

This is two weeks late, but here are photos of the lovely FAB Award event on 1st April. Many thanks to everyone who organised, and all the students who took part! Great hanging out with fellow shortlistees @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social and @beafitzgerald.bsky.social. Congratulations to Bea, the winner!

@traceybaptiste.bsky.social @wordsiren.bsky.social @adriannacuevas.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social @shauniedarko.bsky.social @as-king.bsky.social @sachalamb.bsky.social @littlebadger.bsky.social @philipreeve.bsky.social

New interview! We catch up with Katherine Woodfine @katherinewoodfine.bsky.social to celebrate ten years of mystery and adventure with Sophie and Lil! @farshorebooks.bsky.social #kidLit #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/ten-...

Get yourself friends who 'steal' your chapters to send them to a publisher on your behalf. - one of our takeaways on the importance of friendship and community as a writer from our keynote speaker @franceshardinge.bsky.social

Getting to hear from a published author about their research and writing process is one of our favourite things (and magical exploding cheeses) @franceshardinge.bsky.social 🤩

This was a joyous and fascinating day. I loved hearing all the papers, and being interviewed by for the keynote session. Many thanks to the @uofglasgow.bsky.social's Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, @mjrsangster.bsky.social and everybody else who made me feel so welcome!

Photopoem shared 4th April 2025 This one is for Makepeace . . . (IYKYK) @franceshardinge.bsky.social

It’s hard to overstate how sickening the concept of ‘opting out’ is here. It’s like having to go to individual criminals and fill out a form to opt out of their right to steal from you. Artists are *already* at a disadvantage trying to enforce their rights over their work against big companies.