Happy book birthday to The Writhing, Verdant End! I’m so honoured to share these pages with brilliant writers @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social and @ericraglin1992.bsky.social! Have some ecohorror to end the year 🌿 🩸

Heard from the other room (amid many demanding meows): "It's not cat food! It's chocolate chips! Poison!! Poison, Hazel!!" So my SO's cookie-making is going well

SO excited to be able to share the US cover of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD! Coming July 2026, from @orbitbooks.bsky.social Trapped in an underwater cave, a group of academics searching for the cult of the mythical Leviathan learn that the only way out of her ever-changing cloister… is further in. 👀🌊🔪

Thinking about how sometime in Fall when I was 16 and at a family gathering, I went up to my grandmother and told her I'd decided to be a writer. I don't know what it was specifically about that day that made me want to announce it, but it's now been another 16 years and I'm debuting next year 🥹

(in the same tone as a proud parent after a particularly good christmas concert): my cat not only got a gold star sticker at the vet & was told she was the best cat they'd seen all day, but she ALSO let them touch her belly AND they said we were lucky to have such a perfect cat AND THEY WERE RIGHT

HAPPY GOTCHA DAY TO THE BEST GIRL HAZEL BASIL !!!

The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is live! Come support Palestinian children and get a ton of TTRPG and Pring/Play titles for $10! itch.io/b/3299/pales... Free Palestine!

how am I supposed to write under these conditions???

IT'S IMPERFECT CREATURES DAYYYYYY 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Joe on a truly stellar, mind-bending book. It's been such a pleasure witnessing this book turn into something so multi-layered and heart wrenching!!

RELEASE DAY!!! Imperfect Creatures is OUT NOW! My weird, Twin Peaks X House of Leaves novel is finally out in the world and wants to take up space in your brain. You can get it here: diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...

Cozy brie bake Sunday 🩷

I can be your angle (eepy baby) or your debil (ferocious toy hunter)

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want. 👀👻🐟 (A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING, 2026)

Piiiiiiiiiink!!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!! 🩷🌸🩷 It's been 3 years since I last dyed it and I love it so much 🩷

Hazel is here to tell you to shoot for your dreams, especially if the dream is to sit directly in front of whatever work "needs" to get done given you are much more important than words on a monitor ❤️

Long time no post but I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my debut, An Inheritance of Lies, coming out on May 5, 2026 with Lake Union! You can pre-ørder now everywhere and àdd on Goodreads! 🔗 below

Cover reveal for Carnalis, my lesbian cannibal novella, which is out in MARCH from @nictitatingbooks.bsky.social!!

I'm going to get my hair coloured this weekend!! It's been a whole 3 years since I last dyed it, I'm so excited 👀

Writing in past after such a long time writing/editing in present is a bit of a trip. What do you mean this already happened. Who are we telling this to after the fact. I'm so used to reading it and I'll get used to it, it's just so alien right now!

Good GOD are you KIDDINGGGGG

Spirit of baseball heed one more point for the Jays I don't want to stay up until 4 am 🫶

"let the spirit of baseball take care of this game" objectively the funniest thing I have heard the announcers say as players pour out onto the field for a fight

Had a fun little trip down to the Valley today for speciality cheeses, Korean food, vinyl searching, and cider tasting 🧡🧡🧡

the energy tonight

Hark! It's a new Frog Pond, featuring sharks, ancient jawless fish, and why your teeth are so sensitive!! Plus book updates 🌊💙👻 thefrogpond.cloverlore.com/the-frog-pon...

As a girlie with nausea issues I want a "pretend food doesn't exist" setting on all apps where I can switch it on and scroll in peace to not get food reels mixed in with cute cats etc. There are dozens of us 😔

exCitement for yOur debut can be so Very funny because somE days I'm at my day-job or wRiting or playing with my cat and suddenly my brain'S like !!! remember hOw your childhood dreams are cOming true?? are you taking this in?? what it if goes wroNg?? what if it goes better than you'd ever hoped??😇

Had a lovely time at a local used bookstore today called Fluffy Cat Books! Posted a little haul video over on the tictacs: www.tiktok.com/@slhawthorn/... I'm still new to posting videos of myself BUT I'm happy with this one and even edited out at least half the ums! 🥰 📚👀 #booksky

🦋𝓒𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓪𝓵🦋 I am SO incredibly thrilled to finally share the beautiful cover & 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 of my YA dark academia contemporary fantasy BOUND BY FURY!! BOUND BY FURY is now available to preorder across all US/Canadian book retailers (🔗 is in my bïø)

It's been a while since a proper update!! I've kept busy finishing dev & copy edits on A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING, publishing behind-the-scenes things I can't wait to share, & keeping up with a full-time job to boot. I finally got a standing desk and walking pad. I think it's pretty cute honestly!!

had a fun day today 🧡

have you considered... her?

301 days until A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING is released 😳 Fun fact: The name of the island featured in the book changed over the centuries, including Isle Verte, Rous' Island, and Wood Island until it was known as Devils Island (due to a misspelled last name) with permanent settlement in the 1830s!

What are you reading lately?? 👀 I'm nearly done THE STARVING SAINTS, just started A WITCH'S GUIDE TO MAGICAL INNKEEPING (only 6 days left on my libby loan haha), and reading PROJECT HAIL MARY before bed (trying to get back into reading physical books and not just audio).

a very good problem to have: how to i fit everyone in the acknowledgements asking for a friend i am the friend help there are too many people who have been very kind and great and cared about this book!!!

back into the watery abyss i go!!!!!

oh boy working on your second book pre-debut sure can be Mr. Bones' Wild Ride of confidence fluctuation huh!

hehehe 👀 A FATE WORSE THAN DROWNING among many amazing reads!!!

Worth remembering that anytime I say "it's happening!" I'm talking about the Stardew Valley getting another new update.

Reached "buzzing with excitement for an idea now that it's working" with Work 2 concept, folks ✨

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Last day of my vacation, coffee scented candle burning, Work 2 pitch doc is up, and the research doc is nearly 230 pages (don't worry about it that's totally fine and normal). Let's do this 😤😤😤

Got to see three vineyards, a cheese shop, an antique bookstore, a church-turned-brewery, a few farmers' markets, and some goats today!

Up to 80 adds already on goodreads before the cover or nearly any info is up for AFWTD!! 🥺🥺🥺🌊

Highlight of yesterday: Fun beach day off from work! Lowlight of yesterday: Emergency alert for a wildfire <10 minutes from my place 🙃 (we're fine!)

A very fun part of researching historical settings and topics is just how wrong people have been about stuff. Especially space stuff! While I love learning the true scientific facts, the hoaxes, bad assumptions, & bold "There's a secret second Earth. Source: my dreams" of it all are very fun too.

This is the exact feeling I had this afternoon when my coworker turned to me and said "so we're not allowed in the woods starting tonight" with no context. No wonder Nova Scotia makes good horror writers!

Today's fun book research fact: Ploonets! A ploonet, or tidally detached exomoon, is a hypothetical exoplanet that was once an exomoon before being ejected from orbit. This can be caused by the tidal force (difference in gravitational attraction) during planetary migration.

Kicking my feet and thinking about how it's less than a year until I share a historical fantasy that is a love letter to my maritime hometown and its long history of folklore, the care and fear within sisterhood, toxic sacrifice, the ocean, shipwrecks, lighthouses, ghosts, and feminist revenge 💙🌊

You know those books you feel lucky to have gotten to watch through their whole journey? @writelikeashark.bsky.social Joe's book is one of those for me. Can't wait to finally have this cosmic horror, small town, grief-filled delight on my shelf!!