I love this book so much. Shopping mall gothic! Audrey II as a gaslighting orchid! Lesbians!!

This was such a good event!

Tonight - @edinburghlitsalon - We are delighted to welcome Lyndsey Croal, author of several publications including In This City, Where it Rains, plus Angie Spoto, author of The Bone Diver and The Grief Nurse, and Erin Hardee who is one half of the writing duo MK Hardy. Join us in person or via Zoom!

Grab your early bird weekend pass for this year's @cymerafestival.co.uk before time runs out. One of my favourite genre literary events in the writing year, and all the better for being nearly on my doorstep www.cymerafestival.co.uk

Calling Glasgow horror fans 🪓 @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and I will be at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social on July 14th to chat about HOME SICK and THE PACKET. It's still a way off, but tickets are available now for all you early birds -> www.waterstones.com/events/chill...

"We have to separate the art from the artist," I tell you, explaining the goal of this heist.

Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon rides to Dundee with Gavin Cameron (poet) Rafael Torrubia (prose) Erin Farley (storyteller) Ash Alexander (another local poet) and featuring T L Huchu (prose) Hosted by MK Hardy 23rd April www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/even...

A few days late and probably several dollars short, but I finished my Green Jay for this month's @birdwhisperers.bsky.social! What a lovely bird.

Deadloch, man. Season 1 was good but season 2 is some Wainwright-tier shit inject it into my veinnnnns.

"She did not look anything like a horned horse, as unicorns are often pictured, being smaller and cloven-hooved, and possessing that oldest, wildest grace that horses have never had, that deer have only in a shy, thin imitation and goats in dancing mockery."

Because dykes love the trans youth and have had about fucking enough of having our names taken in vain by het transphobes.

Fun fact: the university also just shut down its Comics masters.

when the funding body calls projects schemes and it makes everybody sound like a cabal of supervillains

TK-15//THREE-MONTHS-TO-LAUNCH pre-order now: linktr.ee/benedictanning

It's official. The Packet is out today! Thanks to NewCon Press and the brilliant Vincent Sammy for his outstanding cover art. You can grab one in person at Eastercon next week, buy online from the publisher's website or order from wherever you buy your books. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Have just started reading this and am already blown away - super well-crafted and unique. The setting is lush and beautifully described and the characters are deftly drawn. Can't wait to see what happens! Fantasy readers, don't sleep on this one.

🚨 Goodreads giveaway alert 🚨 Enter below for a change to win an early copy of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY from Saga Press. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The suggestions list for this year’s British Fantasy Awards is now open! Anyone can add their favourite SFF titles first published in 2025! forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5...

Here she is!! The cover is absolutely spectacular and we can't wait for you all to meet Avis in all her snarky, Sherlockian, emotionally stunted glory. Read a bit more about her on our newsletter here: mkhardywrites.beehiiv.com/p/boat-book-...

NORTH AMERICA, SUBNAUTICAL INSANITY IS EN ROUTE ⚠️

But what they're all really concerned for is women's safety... (Notable: I don't really like Pink News but they seem to be the only outlet making this observation.) www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/e...

shrimpo #art

well I went to watch Kind Hearts And Coronets for the first time tonight and 75 years' worth of critics and cinemagoers absolutely had it right, it *is* just fantastic

I've read this book and it is a BANGER - sign up for the KS, you won't be disappointed!

This book deserves your love

Happy World Book Day! Did someone say...Double Plus Stamps @waterstones.bsky.social ? Here's a selection of Solaris recent and forthcoming releases to help you fill your basket! @julietmarillier.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com

The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall. Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber. High drama and high CAMP! Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops! BACK THE BOOK TODAY! #booksky bit.ly/3OIVfNs

Sometimes when I am having difficulty with the universe I remember that in Dundee there is a dragon guarding a branch of Greggs, and this cheers me up.

*submarine creeps intensify*

TK-15_ACTIVE // COUNTDOWN_BEGINS pre-order here: linktr.ee/benedictanning

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI: I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

Glencoe, January

In Baltimore Eugene Tooms do it (Though that's technic'ly bile) Xenomorphs with cocoons do it And they do it with style

Birds do it Bees do it Other creatures in the trees do it Let's do it Let's create a residential structure using our own saliva

when you don't have to pay for the spooks

GUYS! The sequel to THE OUTCAST MAGE is coming out THIS YEAR! Book 2 of The Shattered Lands is going to be called THE VOID DRAGON, and despite everything IS COMING OUT THIS YEAR. THE VOID DRAGON will be out October 2026 and you can PRE-ORDER NOW. Come on an adventure with me!

If you adore Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA, you need @mkhardywrites.com 's THE NEEDFIRE, it's got the isolation of a new bride with an evasive husband in a isolated house and an unsettling housekeeper whose vibes are both creepy AND sapphic. A Rebecca for the Highlands, where even the land is angry

when you don't have to pay for the spooks

If you haven't checked out book #1 yet, go remedy that, and then grab book #2!!

The Needfire paperback is in the Waterstone's 25% off sale! If you, like us, like a nice softcover then now's your chance to pick one up for cheaps. PB will be out in May.

My agent brings the wise, again 'it’s healthier, especially in this current market, not to assign any kind of moral or qualitative value to being traditionally published.' among other nuggets of great advice portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/so-your-bo...?

Some books I've enjoyed lately, in no particular order. Some already out, some that will be out this year. First! Meet Me at the Surface by Jodie Mathews is an atmospheric, slightly feverish tale of a young woman who returns home to confront family secrets on the Cornish moors. (Out now!)

As it's Valentine's day & yesterday was Friday 13th, take the opportunity to snap up some spookily-romantic titles in our Valloween 0.99 eBook sale! https://geni.us/Solarissale @natania.bsky.social @alexdecampi.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com

This book is a banger and you're gonna want to read it!! Deep sea cosmic freaky horror baybee!

If you know anyone who's ever come to the UK to live alongside you, and you'd either miss them if they were gone, or at the very least reckon they deserve to be treated humanely, please put aside some time to fill this in.

There are still some tickets remaining for the Glasgow event on 17th February! Join @toribovalino.bsky.social and @mkhardywrites.com as they discuss all things I, IN THE SHADOWS 👻 tinyurl.com/4ktys263

Recently I (M) rearranged our lounge to hook the vintage 80s amp up to our nice new speakers, catalogued and sorted our CD collection, and vowed to get back to physical media and, most especially, back to listening to albums. Thought I might share our first few listens. 🧵

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

It’s Black History Month in the US and LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. I’m a citizen of both, and I have a book that’s both Black and queer, like me.

How will this be remembered? This History Month, we’re asking you to get in touch with the Scottish Government to ask them how their actions now will be remembered in the years to come: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/howwillthisb...