"You talkin' to me? To you? To me?"

Christina Orlando highlighted Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea as one of their most anticipated books of 2025, and now we're sharing an excerpt!! Check out a piece of this Tlingit-inspired epic quest fantasy 🌊 reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

THE NEEDFIRE is out in the wild! If you're a fan of the legends that are Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters, or you love a book about a creepy house, or you just love a good story, @mkhardywrites.com have written a stonker. 🔥 Available now where all books are sold! (Or in your library!)

When a Type A character receives a completely unrelated compliment in the middle of a tirade and their brain short circuits

Canadian SFF writer friends, don't forget it's the last day to vote in the Aurora Awards! I mean don't forget like I, uh, almost did www.csffa.ca

We've got THREE titles in Indigo's "Most Anticipated SciFi Books"!!!! THE GANYMEDAN @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social THE HUNGRY GODS by @aptshadow.bsky.social AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by @voidcricket.bsky.social AND you can preorder them for 25% off for only 1 week only! bit.ly/4lyaTH4

I finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell so will patiently await my medal in the post. (It's wonderful, but everyone already knew that.)

Not sure how much reach this will get, but I'm going to give it a try. Publishing friends, I really need to find some additional work as a copy editor or proofreader. Ideally for SFF, because that's been my bread and butter for almost a decade, but I would consider other opportunities as well.

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

We're so excited that Indigo Books have selected Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA as one of their "Most Anticipated Fantasy Books"! To celebrate, from 7th-13th July you can preorder for 25% off exclusively through Indigo - what are you waiting for?! bit.ly/4euljo9

Ffs absolutely clownery from Kent council

Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement: Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK! It’s not open yet. But while we wait… AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.

Delighted to announce:

Apologies if I owe you an email, I'm nearing the end of a virus that steamrollered me at the beginning of this week and can't wait for the morning that I wake up without a horrid taste in my mouth 🙏🏻

Huge congratulations to all of this year's nominees, including @vajra.me! The @solarisbooks.bsky.social family are delighted we get to bring his work to UK readers 😁

Little do they know, someone in my town has become my nemesis. I'm trying to read the Clarke Award shortlist before the winner's announced next week. Not only did this person have the audacity to utilise our library service and nab Ian Green's Extremophile before I could, but now it's OVERDUE 😤

What a brilliant list! Huge congratulations to all of the nominees. 🥳 (UK readers, august clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN is out this October from @solarisbooks.bsky.social and is available to preorder now! www.waterstones.com/book/metal-f...)

We’re looking for a hardworking and motivated individual to join our team of booksellers on a part-time basis! All the details here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/vacancy/book... (1/5 - info in thread)

Had a brilliant weekend at @cymerafestival.co.uk! Huge thanks to the organisers and volunteers for all their hard work. 👏🏻 And shout out to @solarisbooks.bsky.social gems @emmanewman.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social, @rainewilson.bsky.social and @roannelau.bsky.social for their fab events!

When you have an evening reception at 7 but have to crawl the cathedral steps in penance for getting Thomas Beckett killed at 3

Can confirm Raine is very friendly!

It me!

Another thing you can do for the queer artists and writers and so on whose work you admire this Pride month: go give their books etc solid star ratings on (sigh) sites like Amazon and Goodreads. Because people who hate the existence of that work are always gonna be punitively low-rating them,

Very excited to be in Edinburgh this weekend for the always fantastic @cymerafestival.co.uk! This year's programme is fantastic, and includes Solaris gems @emmanewman.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social, @rainewilson.bsky.social, and @roannelau.bsky.social 🔥

*blows dust off account* ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

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Have you ever read Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA and thought, "yes, amazing, but I wish it was even more queer"? THE NEEDFIRE by @mkhardywrites.com, a sapphic Gothic tale set in 19th century Scotland, is out this July! What better way to celebrate Pride Month than with a preorder? geni.us/needfire

For Pride Month, I’m transcending this plane of existence and becoming a haunted, flannel-wearing mist

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Please consider this your friendly reminder that queer books aren't only queer when they include a central romance. Queer people are queer all the time, whether they're in a romantic relationship or not, and arguing otherwise excludes folks on the aromantic spectrum.

It's difficult to pick only two, but @alixeharrow.bsky.social's prose is delicious, and I love an author who can sweep me away through both novels and short fiction. Similarly, @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social's writing is masterful. I haven't forgiven her for the way Those Beyond the Wall made me cry.

So excited to share this cover with the world, and even more excited to be sharing this book with you all this autumn! Readers and reviewers who love their epic fantasy should perhaps slide into my DMs and let me know 👀

There are lots of cool things in this auction, all in support of the wonderful @cymerafestival.co.uk! I'm offering a Zoom/Teams etc. PR and marketing chat, happy to talk through tips with writers or any aspiring publishing professionals interested in working in marketing and/or PR 😊

Fancy some excellent poetry? Of course you do! The excellent @tooshorttoread.bsky.social's equally excellent debut pamphlet, FLEET SALVAGE, is half price over on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social website right now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Coco and now Sinners… people don’t just want original movies, they want ones that don’t center white experiences. they want culturally rich, bold, empathetic, challenging stories. entertainment sectors (especially AAA games!) need to stop believing that people will only show up for white stories.

“To kill a language, you must first rip it from living throats.” Congratulations to OTHERSIDE fiction editor @rukman.bsky.social for this surreal and stunning publication! Go read “To Kill a Language” over at Apex, let it linger a while.

🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 "a thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social "furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com Solaris snaps up August Clarke's METAL FROM HEAVEN for the UK! Learn more: bit.ly/4m4va7H Preorder: geni.us/metalfhe

We're thrilled to share an exclusive excerpt from Emma Newman's piratical vampire fantasy THE VENGEANCE, out this week from Solaris! Read more: tinyurl.com/5n8ruaew

Huge congratulations to @vajra.me and all of the other winners and long-listed authors! 🥳

I won't know peace until I have The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social in my grubby hands

THE MOUNTAIN CROWN author @karinlow.bsky.social shared about the web of ideas related to character, culture, dragons, and magic that went into her dragon-riding frontier fantasy trilogy in "Character and Worldbuilding in THE CROWNS OF ISHIA." www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome...

THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY author @roannelau.bsky.social discussed centering friendship in her novel and reflected on getting a book deal during a time when romantasy is a big industry trend in "Crayon Trails: On Friendship, Grief, and an Unlikely Book Deal." www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome...

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨 Celebrate #aapiheritagemonth with a cover reveal! Feast your eyes upon the fabulous UK cover for THE KILLING SPELL by @shaykauwe.bsky.social: a fresh, exciting urban fantasy novel based on Hawaiian culture and mythology! Cover by Head Design. March '26. Preorders available soon. 🪐📚

So delighted to see @solarisbooks.bsky.social is one of the ten finalists for Best Publisher in this year's Locus Awards! 🥳

I've worked in the publishing industry for over ten years now (*insert "I'm old!" gif here*) and have always worked for indie publishers in that time. Incredibly proud to be part of the @solarisbooks.bsky.social team! Look at all our cool books 👇 #indiepressday

Our annual conference, Flights of Foundry, is OPEN for registration! Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation. Sign up today! 👇👇👇 flights-of-foundry.org/

Historian friends and colleagues! Please read, share and consider signing this letter from historians to UK MPs urging them to speak out in support of trans rights and avoid repeating mistakes that led to widespread discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+ people in the past. 🗃️

Happy inaugural #IndiePressDay! Solaris is a multi award-winning Indie Publisher based in Oxford UK, but we sell books all over the world! We're a home to Superb SciFi, Fabulous Fantasy, Sensational Spec Fic and Horrific Horror. Remember, we don't just publish books, we create worlds!

It's going to be a tad warm in the UK this week, so here's some Solaris books to help you keep cool! From horrifying Nordic Visions to darkly comic, ice-planet SciFi, swashbuckling in snowcovered Sweden to necromantic shenanigans and draconic mysteries in icy wastelands, we've got you covered!

So far this year: - My washer dryer stopped working - My laptop broke - My car broke down in the fast lane - My WiFi router stopped working - My dishwasher broke - I ended up on a train of football fans and got an elbow to the face when a fight broke out Starting to think I might be cursed