Attention UK readers! The Bone Door, a horror fantasy escape room novel is now available on NetGalley UK! Go forth and request!! www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

The Bone Door by @franceswrites.bsky.social will be published in May by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social A story about ‘trauma, friendship & hope’ with a boy called Hop who finds himself in an ‘unsettling labyrinth where he must complete impossible tasks to survive.’ I’m looking forward to this!

Ahhh! It’s happening! My horror fantasy escape room novel, The Bone Door, is now available to request on NetGalley US! If you’ve ever said ‘boy, I wish I could just read something DIFFERENT, ya know?’ This may well be the book for you. 👀 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Yesterday I had an “office party” with some of the best colleagues and friends imaginable. Thanks @elizachanwrites.bsky.social , @franceswrites.bsky.social , and @sarahbrooks.bsky.social for touring York with me. (Mainly through drinking mulled wine and having a publishing chat in a pub!)

Next up in my paperbacks of the year is Voyage of the Damned by @franceswrites.bsky.social! Really loved this one: disaster-bisexual Dee is an adorable mess of a main character, stuck on a magical boat trip from hell in this murderous fantasy whodunit 🐟✨ #SFF 💙📚🪐

We’re so excited to bring you the stunning North American cover reveal for @franceswrites.bsky.social's new fantasy horror THE BONE DOOR!🗝️ All first-edition copies have beautiful endpapers and gorgeous sprayed edges - however they are limited to the first print run! Coming May 2026.

I am SO excited to reveal the US cover of my new fantasy horror novel The Bone Door! I am equally excited to scream about the STUNNING special edition. This will be a limited first print run. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. So if you want to ensure you get the pretty I advise you to pre-order asap.

I won a British Fantasy Award!! Sooo this happened! Yesterday I was awarded the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer for Voyage of the Damned. I know everyone says this but I really didn’t expect to win! I’ve always maintained I don’t write the type of books that win awards but apparently I do?

Ahhhh! I can’t believe it. Thank you so much! 😭💙 More when I’m actually coherent, but what an honour!

Thank you for all your love and support on the cover reveal for The Bone Door! I’m honestly blown away 😭 The book is included in Waterstones preorder sale available to all customers which lasts until Friday 17th October and you can get 25% off! www.waterstones.com/book/the-bon...

Ed as usual sums up one of my books better than I ever could 🤣

🐇 💀 COVER REVEAL 💀 🐇 I’m SO excited to reveal the UK cover of my next novel, The Bone Door! A fantasy/horror escape room novel, coming 7 May 2026

Recently read - Voyage of the Damned by Frances White Adored this diverse magical murder mystery by a fellow @edinburghsff.com writer @franceswrites.bsky.social! The characters are so compelling and sensitively written, not to mention hilarious. Highly recommend!

Thought I'd write some book reviews for #PrideMonth on these cute rainbow cards, only to find most of my reviews were already very queer and could just be copied over 😅 So that tells you something about my reading habits! 💙📚🪐 🌈📚 @franceswrites.bsky.social

Here are a few pics from yesterday’s panel! It was really great, made so by lovely fellow panellists, chairperson, arrangers and the wonderful audience. Thank you to @alethearlyons.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social for arranging this!

Last minute news! I’ll be popping along to London Comic-con on Sunday 25th at 12pm at the Writer’s Block to sign some books and hopefully meet some of you! I’ll have all my swag and also bookplates so no worry if you can’t carry books I got you 💙🐟 Can’t wait to see you!

Quick someone put ‘Agatha Christie queer hopepunk’ on a poster of my book!

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Thursday 8th May (Stockport) FANTASY BOOK PANEL featuring: Eliza Chan - TIDEBORN Thomas D. Lee - PERILOUS TIMES Frances White - VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @thomasdlee.bsky.social @franceswrites.bsky.social 🎫 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...

If you're based in Manchester or Stockport then do come along to my event with @franceswrites.bsky.social and @elizachanwrites.bsky.social on the 8th of May! www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/fantas...

Oh hey would you look at that. I'm back at it again with @brendandurkin.bsky.social for three more books at @gollancz.bsky.social! This one's got everything! Ghosts! Excessively virtuous knights! A distressing tower! A man who is also a tree? Lots of birds! Utopian anarchism! It's great.

🏳️‍🌈Event Announcement🏳️‍🌈 @britfantasysoc.bsky.social is teaming up with Social Refuge and Queer Lit in Manchester to bring you 'Queer & Weird', a panel on Making Fiction Gay. Featuring @emmasternerradley.bsky.social, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social, Frances White, and C. M. Kuhtz (and I'm moderating).

Happy International Asexuality day!! 🖤🩶🤍💜 It took me a long time to work out my identity, mainly because of lack of representation and knowledge of asexuality. I’m so glad that it’s becoming more widely known and fewer young people wrongly believe they are broken. ❤️

Loved doing this podcast! 🤩

Our lovely Patreon backers now have early access to this week's fun chat with the bestselling fantasy author, @franceswrites.bsky.social, who tells us about the journey to her huge debut success with Voyage of the Damned. Visit Patreon now to join up and listen (or watch!): patreon.com/ukpageone

Tideborn was launched on Tuesday in Manchester with big party! My thanks to @franceswrites.bsky.social for chairing, @illumicrate.bsky.social for sponsoring, the Waterstones Deansgate staff, family, friends, writers, readers.

Oh hey, Locus voting is still going on!!! I am wildly honored to have TLHBW appear the longlist, but also there are many other incredible works on here, and you should vote if you haven't already! Plus you can write in your faves! (I wrote in Voyage of the Damned by @franceswrites.bsky.social !)

This magical gay murder cruise by @franceswrites.bsky.social was a highlight of this month’s reads. As a straight AAPI cis woman, I’ve never resonated so hard with a main character in my life and didn’t expect to have so much in common with a blonde boy in a shimmering tracksuit. Legend. 🐟 #booksky

🤩WITNESS THE IRON ROAD COVER!🤩 Then head for the Hive for an exclusive blog post featuring ME #BookSky #CoverReveal

Voyage of the Damned has reached over 10k ratings on Goodreads! That is INCREDIBLE. Thanks to everyone who has read, reviewed and spread the good word of Dee! 💙🐟 Also if you’re so inclined, my next book THE BONE DOOR is now on Goodreads too and you can add it right now! 🖤💀

Know that I’m TREMENDOUSLY embarrassed to say this but… Voyage of the Damned is eligible for the Hugo awards this year so if you liked it maybe give it a nomination! You can nominate Voyage of the Damned in Best Novel and me for The Astounding Award. 🙈💙🐟

Words that make me immediately want to read a novel: Mixed reviews 🤤 Divisive 🤤 Love or hate 🤤 Sub-four star Goodreads rating 🤤 Yessss give them to me. Give me your divisive risk taking books that I will either want to throw across the room or clutch to my heart.

Yeah never did I ever see this happening. That’s my book! Ahhhh! 😱😱

I may be ever so slightly obsessed with the NA paperback edition of Voyage of the Damned! That edge tho 👀 Anyone know who says this line? Bonus is @barnesandnoble.com are having a preorder sale now!

Can’t express the love I have this book! I will be certainly reading it again this year! @franceswrites.bsky.social ‘s “voyage of the dammed” has become my favourite book! It’s so beautiful written, with amazing characters and a plot that made my heart race! Thank you for this masterpiece!

Voyage of the Damned is only 99p on Kindle UK for the whole of February! The perfect time to nudge your friend you’ve been bugging to read for ages! t.co/7uvQ7oiMZ8

Beloved readers! Do you want both books and the satisfaction of helping a poorly pup? Course you do! I have 10 complete paperback sets of Songs of the Drowned to send you in return for a donation to my sister's fund to help her pay for her dog's treatment (see below). 1/

…wonderful Waterstones booksellers in Stockport, Altrincham, Manchester Trafford, Manchester Arndale and Manchester Deansgate! And do yourself a favour - go buy the paperback copies of Voyage of the Damned and Fathomfolk!

Yesterday I had a wonderful day celebrating Voyage of the Damned being Waterstones book of the month with @elizachanwrites.bsky.social @emmasternerradley.bsky.social We visited a ton of bookshops all across Manchester to sign copies and meet lovely booksellers! Thanks for having us!! 💙🐟

Umm what?! This is so cool! Voyage is nominated for Best Trad Pub Debut! 🤩💙🐟 If you liked the book and would like to vote you can here: forms.gle/y2iVV14tkU8f...

Just a few more days of @franceswrites.bsky.social's brilliant Voyage of the Damned as our SFF Book of the Month. I've loved bringing so many customers on board for this magical, emotional, sparkling, murderous journey!

I’m sorry but what the actual hell is this. Not only erasing trans and non-binary people which is horrendous in itself but intersex too? Do they not understand what intersex actually means?

Just look at this amazing art by sara_parrenyo (IG) of a certain scene from Voyage of the Damned! I just adore the level of detail and also the look 👀 a certain someone is giving our sequin-clad hero. Thank you Parallel Journeys for commissioning this for your VOTD bookclub! I’m in love. 😭🐟💙

A long overdue photo of our bookshop window for @franceswrites.bsky.social's Voyage of the Damned! 🐟💙✨

Happy publication day to @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social! His wonderful debut LIGHTFALL is now available from @stmartinspress.bsky.social. Vampires, werewolves, sorcerers - what else could you want or need?!

I wrote a blog post detailing my debut year and how all the wild stuff that has happened for Voyage of the Damned came about. 💙 www.frances-writes.com/post/2024-my...

'I would combine my two favourite genres and the rest would be smooth sailing, right?! Wrong. Very wrong' On the W blog, @franceswrites.bsky.social reveals the inspiration behind her brilliant fantasy murder mystery debut, THE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED: www.waterstones.com/blog/frances... #WBOTM

Sorry to single out one Voyage review but it’s comments like these that really remind me what this is all about. This is why I will continue to write fat characters forever ever EVER. ❤️ (Yup the MC of my next book—The Bone Door—is chubby too!)

I’ve read this (author buddy perks) and the book stayed with me for so long afterwards. This one is special, folks!