Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong. Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong. Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

I've finally gotten permission to use my Book Eaters epilogue. Originally it was only pubbed in the Waterstones hardback special edition. I thought about using it as a preorder incentive for the next book but I can't see anyone being that fussed about it. Would just free on the website be okay? 👀

🏳️‍🌈 🔥 THE NEEDFIRE is aflame! @mkhardywrites.com 's Scottish Sapphic gothic is roaring onto bookshelves! Here's what @sunyidean.com @natania.bsky.social @aliettedebodard.com @rainewilson.bsky.social and more wonderful authors think of the book! Buy now geni.us/needfire

There are a lot of horror stories about cover art in the trad space, so I just wanted to rock up and say out of the blue that the cover art Tor is commissioning for GWATF is so good that I changed details in my book to match it better. Because it’s just that pretty and just that cool.

For those who missed our last episode! Here you go podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/t... @sunyidean.com rocked hard in this episode and we are so grateful she was our first guest on the #podcast 💙📚 We discussed the marvelously spooky and gory ‘Leech’ by @hironennes.bsky.social

If the three legged dog in my sf book is named Triskele, would you instantly know who I’ve ripped off 🤔

We did a gender Conceal party for my son (then my unborn child of indeterminate gender). Got together, played games, ate cake (the reveal was a rainbow!) and admired my baby bump. And talked about how gender norms are bullshit and establishing them so firmly when a kid is in utero is Problematic.

Had a looooong chat with @sunyidean.com about what is and isn’t Gothic but something just occurred to me. Is gothic always necessarily horror? Defacto I think ‘gothic horror’ but would love to be shown otherwise 💬💙

reasons you WON’T like my next book: - no romance, at all 🙅🏻‍♀️ - 2nd person / 1st omniscient pov🤮 - ww2 in south china 🙄 - low magic 👎 - monstrous women 🤐 - 53yo mc 🧐

Thrilled to discuss this genius novel that I adored reading so much! These two are brilliant conversationalists too.

Kind of floored that gender reveals are still a thing, and in fact seem bigger than ever. Like it’s your life so have one if you want, but they’re low key fucking weird as a concept

Cover shaped ideas landing in my inbox 👀

English people, back me up

I did a thing a few weeks ago! If you’ve ever been tempted to go for Dining Across the Divide, let this be your sign lol. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This isn’t love. This is a real life Narcissus falling for their own digital reflection, and now there’s entire communities of them reinforcing each others’ insanity and self absorption “AI husband” smh 🙄

Wishing JD Vance a very pleasant Fuck Off And Never Come Back as he gracefully crawls back home from the UK

Unironically posted in r/republican The list of countries had me wheezing 🤣 these absolute spoons

Then don’t read it 🤷🏻‍♀️ The world doesn’t revolve around you and your preferences, or you and your cultural associations.

I will never get tired of that “cover to be revealed” graphic, it’s unreasonably exciting and mysterious. UK reviewers, if you’d love an arc, please reach out! Priority for physical and audio will be given to folks who have accessibility needs for certain formats ❤️ #advancedreadingcopy

Exciting news! The marvelous @sunyidean.com will be joining us on the Binge Reading Boockclub podcast on the 28th August to talk to us about Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social So follow us here so you forget and do your homework because so far this novel is just incredible! 💙📚 #writingcommunity

“beatings will continue until job figures improve”

A book going into production is lowkey my favorite part of the process 👁️👄👁️ hardly anyone has read the book and it still feels like a secret, but the big edits are done. Fun things start landing in your inbox, but none of the launch day stress is here yet. Also, you get paid! What’s not to love.

Are you ready for THE NEEDFIRE? @mkhardywrites.com 's Scottish Sapphic gothic will be hitting the shelves on 31st July! Here's what @sunyidean.com @natania.bsky.social @aliettedebodard.com @rainewilson.bsky.social and more wonderful authors think of the book! Preorder geni.us/needfire

Folks, esp those who like Gene Wolfe, do not less this novella pass you by. Yes it is a Greek retelling, but not as you typically know them, and the narrative is handled with such ambition and skill that it is humbling to read. It’s not out yet but will be soon. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

wow okay just call me out like that

I asked in a DIY group if dress rental was a thing in the UK, since the resale value of wedding gowns isn't great. Rental is common in East Asia / SEA for precisely that reason. Felt like this reply was lowkey rude or racist? Wdym all "asians" (which? kind??) wear dresses that fit badly 🤨 Girl what

I loved this so much!

Sent out very early electronic editions of the next book (which has no cover or announcement yet, not out till may 2026) to a slew of trusted reviewers and friends, and it was just quietly gratifying to at least be thinking about the next launch. A hint of movement after endless stalling.

@davidmbarnett.bsky.social @sunyidean.com @katiebruce.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @solarisbooks.bsky.social Harper Voyager @orbitbooks.bsky.social @hodderscape.bsky.social @panmacmillan.bsky.social Canelo @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

Random thought for the day. It is really difficult to find mixed race cake topper figures, and uncommon to find non white ones. You can get them custom, of course, but the cost is pretty extortionate. No, I’m not looking for recommendations. Just a random thought vent.

Sure, enemies to lovers is great, but how about them near-miss love stories which don’t work out and leave everyone involved with lingering, unresolved regrets

Wedding subculture is fascinating and bizarre. I had no idea people held such strong opinions on chair sashes 👀 Also when did weddings start having “colour schemes”? Am I just old, or has this always been a thing 😶

My partner’s band submitted a bio for a festival they’re playing at this year. The festival took their bio and fed it into AI to generate a new copy, and used that on all promo materials. It reads like fucking word salad 🫠

The first episode of Black Mirror s7 was soul destroying. Anyone feeling mega depressed after that? 😬

Quite interesting to see how many right wing Americans are cheering on the fall of the American film industry. They really have no clue that the film industry exports American culture and that is a huge source of America’s soft power in the world and without it, the propaganda weakens considerably.

Oh sure. When WE put a tariff on Tea you lot rebelled. Now you're just out there tariffing it yourselves.

Chicago and Pittsburgh 🇺🇸👀

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Repost with a pic and your age. Recently turned 5 😎

whew

One thing I was thinking about lately is how the Ask A Trump Supporter Reddit is full of liberals posing questions, but the Ask A Liberal reddit is mostly just liberals asking each other questions 1/2

Weights are amazing and have changed my life, fitness, sense of aesthetics, relationship with food, and perception of beauty

not me spam-refreshing the alt right forum my dad lives on, so that I can marvel at whatever mental gymnastics he’s about to pull off while justifying all this

It's been about 2.5 days out of the 14 for the campaign and we are at 91% of the base goal that secures funding! To clarify: the base goal does not cover all the costs of producing the anthology. We intentionally set the goal low to make it more likely we can reach the goal and make it.

Me, when someone asks me for the “elevator pitch”

when you're waiting to hear about four different projects but it’s all quiet on the publishing front

I'm CRYING he was speaking FRENCH

The only way I feel like I've been able to keep up momentum is by furiously writing and throwing books at people at a rate that most authors who have full time jobs would not be able to sustainably do. And even with them, people write at their own pace.

I've been thinking a lot about my author career lately, and the precarious position I feel like I'm in. I haven't put out a book since 2022, and my next isn't until at least May 2026. All the publisher folks who first acquired my debut are gone. My momentum is very stalled.