April shopping list is live! with new books from @claymcleod.bsky.social @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app @alexgrecian.bsky.social @dawnkurtagich.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @carterkeane.bsky.social @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social @cj-dotson.bsky.social & more: readjumpscares.com/2026/04/02/a...

HOME SICK NEWS INCOMING You'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what it is (TBF I only just found out myself), but if you're looking forward to HOME SICK this maaaaay be of interest to you. So keep your eyes peeled 👀

My book is out today in the UK! If you like Shakespeare, this book might be for you. If you hate Shakespeare, this book might be for you. But if you hate Agamemnon… this book is definitely for you! www.penguin.co.uk/books/470416...

Very happy publication day to @danaiwrites.bsky.social's stunning Vile Lady Villains 🗡️❤️ A cathartic, sapphic horror-romance adventure crossing time and space, with two incredible, fearsome main characters, this really does sound like a lot of fun! 💙📚🪐 #Romantasy

If you missed it earlier, here's the cover reveal from The Shape of Monsters, Tor UK. The gothic vibes are perfect I love it all.

Aaand here it is! I'm so thrilled by the TOR UK cover for The Shape of Monsters! www.instagram.com/p/DWl-OHOjYV...

Events!

Calls for Reviews & Essays: July 2026

Honeysuckle isn’t a sweet fairy tale, it’s a feminist Frankenstein with flowers Bar Fridman-Tell’s debut is a haunting dive into consent, creation, and the horror of “loving” someone into a cage. gnofhorror.com/bar-fridman-... @tornightfire.bsky.social @barfridmantell.bsky.social

#bookmailbonanza time! Side Hustle by Wendy Gee Out Now The Art of Marvel: Black Panther Ed by Eleni Roussos Out Now Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 14 July Thank you @jessgofton.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social 1/5

"Use Copilot at your own risk"

Restarting the PC because windows decided not to recognise the speakers all of a sudden. Newish PC. Slowed with bloatware and falling over already. How's that AI-written code working out for you, Microsoft? Because as a consumer it's fucking shit.

OUT NOW!

Such a fun event!! 🖤✨️

Hop over to @christinogle.bsky.social 's Substack to read her interview with our very own @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social where she talks all things HOME SICK (July 2026) for #WomenInHorrorMonth! "I’m a big believer that to find your mind you have to lose it first." Preorder https://geni.us/homesick

This was such a good event!

An evening of excellent gothic fiction with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, Angie Spoto and Erin of @mkhardywrites.com at the March @ediliterarysalon.bsky.social with fantastic chairing by Zuzi Pope. Room's packed! Gothic horror is definitely having a moment 💀

It's an all-caps kinda day

POUR IT INTO MY EYES ALREADY

You spend so long cranking the wordcount up, then you spend an age chipping it back down. Cut the ms down to the 107ks today. There's plenty more to go, but it's at last going. I briefly worried this edit would never happen, but it's here and it's working. Thank the gods!

King Solomon: Uhhhh you're on your own with this one, guys www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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...

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

Yes! This is a thing! I've been looking forward to HOME SICK for ages and if you like quality British horror, you really need to check it out. Come and join us in July!

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...

Here are all the Solaris Books you can request on Netgalley this spring! New titles from @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @neuvel.net @pennyvixen.bsky.social @corryllee.bsky.social @shaykauwe.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social Caskey Russell & more! https://geni.us/SolarisNG

Just finished reading my early copy of @smhallow.bsky.social's 💀HALLS OF THE DEAD💀 and must inform everyone: If GIDEON THE NINTH had a baby with KUSHIEL'S DART that was then raised by Showtime's PENNY DREADFUL, this is the book you'd get. And I mean that as an *immense* compliment!

Finally finished PALE FIRE and it is at heart a book about the dissonance of this miracle of empathy and beauty being entrusted to (and birthed by) a species of selfish, narcissistic, solipsistic, unreliable beings. I loved it.

Please stop spreading this rage bait. The quote everyone's angry about, about "crappy identity politics," is not from Weir.

I regret to inform folks that the advice to leave your MS for a few months before attempting to edit it is, in fact, correct. Just realised I can cut a huge element w/o affecting the story (the cur actually improves it) and feeling a bit silly for insisting on it being there for so long.

👻🚢🚨IYCMI COVER REVEAL!🚨🚢👻 Feast your eyes on @mkhardywrites.com 's forthcoming supernatural Victorian mystery - THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK - revealed by The Nerd Daily! https://bit.ly/4t8hxXM Setting sail in August 2026. Preorder now https://bit.ly/4c604cH Cover by Black Sheep Design.

SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN is an accurate representation of someone who's had a lot of therapy trying to deal with a family full of people who should get therapy

SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN is an accurate representation of someone who's had a lot of therapy trying to deal with a family full of people who should get therapy

I am investigating this, but in the meantime if you'd like to catch a cheeky excerpt of HOME SICK check out the spring/summer edition of Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books. Download for free here: www.buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/download-edi...

Thanks so much to @gnofhorror.com for including my disaster heroine in this collection of 16 new horror books by women. HOME SICK @solarisbooks.bsky.social Coming 14 (US) and 16 (UK) July 2026

Go see.

Forget the Final Girl trope. The real power in horror right now is in the hands of women writers. Here are 16 releases by diverse female authors that prove the genre is alive and screaming. gnofhorror.com/modern-horro...

Until 3/26, get 25% off preorders @barnesandnoble.com (with an extra 10% off for Premium members) by using PREORDER25! Snag a quarter off the psychological horror debut of the summer - @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's HOME SICK! Preorder now, or the sheep will be very disappointed.

LAST DAY

I'm back at editing t'other book. As I'd been a bit stop start, my usual process was failing me. So I've committed to going through chapter by chapter instead. It's going pretty well. I have a stronger idea of what I'm aiming for and I've cut 2k already.

Have you checked in to Sweetside yet? Readers are loving EL Chen's modern take on the gothic novella. "This novella is a gripping thriller filled with twists that keep you turning the pages." www.interstellarflig...

Another lovely review for Cthulhu Cymraeg: The Night Country! rue-morgue.com/book-review-...

Ok, who decided to put direct overhead lighting in the bra fitting rooms? *cracks knuckles* I just want to talk.

Reminder that there's just *ten* weeks to go until my launch event in Edinburgh for SOLITARY AGENTS! I'll be in conversation with my good friend and colleague, @bingewriting.bsky.social Book your ticket here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

THE SECRET I HAVE BEEN (BADLY) SITTING ON IS NO LONGER A SECRET Tor UK have bought the print rights for my Audible Originals The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-s...

Most hotly anticipated creepy read this year, I reckon!

Don't worry, I didn't go looking myself. Dale has gathered some comments from early HOME SICK reviews on Goodreads. Thank you so much to everyone who's read and shared their thoughts so far 🖤 HOME SICK @solarisbooks.bsky.social 14(US) & 16 (UK) July 2026 geni.us/homesick

Rebecca Solnit finds reasons to be optimistic: "What the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

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

Don't worry, I didn't go looking myself. Dale has gathered some comments from early HOME SICK reviews on Goodreads. Thank you so much to everyone who's read and shared their thoughts so far 🖤 HOME SICK @solarisbooks.bsky.social 14(US) & 16 (UK) July 2026 geni.us/homesick