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Deep in the mazes of Kowloon Walled City, there are a lot of ghosts. Sunyi Dean's The Girl with a Thousand Faces centers on an exorcist, a mother/daughter pair hiding out the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, and a terrible accident. Read Mahvesh Murad's review:

The next panel was @sunyidean.com and @lyndseycroal.bsky.social’s ghost stories. A great discussion on Hong Kong’s experience of WWII, why so many ghosts tend to be women and why it doesn’t make sense for them to haunt cemeteries.

It's @rookeryp.bsky.social live from @cymerafestival.co.uk chatting narrative and games and all inbetween with @rtorrubia.com @sunyidean.com @justinleeanderson.com @marcorinaldi.bsky.social Lindsay & @andyleask.bsky.social you can watch along now/catch up later www.youtube.com/live/cLLbbed...

Next up, @sunyidean.com and @lyndseycroal.bsky.social talking with @emfields.bsky.social about ghosts and folklore.

This was such a lovely panel talking all things ghosts with @sunyidean.com! Thanks to our excellent chair @bethkesh.bsky.social! ✨️👻

Some bbc2 radio photos from yesterday 🌸

Sunyi Dean's THE GIRL WITH A THOUSAND FACES is one of horror's finest of 2026. A 53-year-old triad ghost talker in 1975 Kowloon, Chinese folklore, wartime history, a Catriona Ward-level twist. @sunyidean.com @torbooks.bsky.social

Get it in now folks, I'm literally doing my edits this summer 😂😂 Art from the WIP (The Silence of Heaven): *Credit to Mitchell Mayorga

On the blog this week I hugely recommend Mortedant’s Peril by RJ Barker for a fascinating mix of character and city www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

Congratulations on another fab book!

Amazingly passive-aggressive gift bag.

Set up a fan for a dog, who seems to be melting slightly (much like my kids, she hates the heatwaves) Tbf I’d probably hate the heat too if I couldn’t sweat

Another rj triumph honestly

I know objectively that the heat is a Bad thing climate wise, but holy Cthulhu it’s such a relief to not be cold 😩 feel like I haven’t been warm since October

England’s biggest private-renting reform in a generation has taken effect. The Renters’ Rights Act abolishes “no-fault” evictions, replaces fixed-term contracts with rolling tenancies, and requires landlords to repair mould & other hazards within strict time limits buff.ly/JG8Q9vX #ShareGoodNewsToo

Surrealist cover art for sf books No, I don’t care that they’re a marketing disaster. If I don’t mutter “what the actual fuck” when looking at an sf book, what’s even the point 😩

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Off to Waterstones tonight to see @rjbarker.bsky.social, @franceswrites.bsky.social and @sunyidean.com talk about their fabulous books. I’ve read Mortedant’s Peril and The Bone Door already and they’re both brilliant. Looking forward to picking up The Girl With a Thousand Faces!

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to the launch last week (and stayed for the afterparty too!) It was so fantastic to see everyone and the dancing was such a vibe! If writing doesn’t work out, I might pick up a side job organising book events 🤣

#Glasgow Alas, no cake for us! This event has now been cancelled. But if you're headed to Cymera Festival next month, you can catch Sunyi Dean on Saturday 6th June, while Neil Williamson will interview David Quantick on Friday 5th. @cymerafestival.co.uk @sunyidean.com @neilwilliamson.bsky.social

"A shattering, transofrmative conclusion." The first trade review of #SeasonoftheSerpent is in, and it's a 🌟starred🌟 review from Kirkus! (That's 2 stars from Kirkus now for this trilogy--huzzah!) www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

It's #podcast time, y'all! Ghost cats, haunted histories, and traditions, oh my! @shaunduke.net + @reading1000lives.bsky.social interview @sunyidean.com about The Girl with a Thousand Faces! Audio/Vid: skiffyandfanty.com/p... T#podcastanks for listening!

It’s been exactly two weeks since GWATF faves came out. Does that mean I can start talking about my new book yet, or is it too soon 😂😭 I’m so impatient folks, it’s written and in edits and is the philip k dick-esque Deep South social scifi of my teenage dreams

I will do my best to bring cake!

Catching up on my latest media with a REVIEW ROUNDUP: 4⭐️ - Songs of the Dead by @brandonsanderson.com & Peter Orullian 4.75⭐️ - The Girl with a Thousand Faces by @sunyidean.com 4.25⭐️ - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S02 4⭐️ - Daredevil: Born Again S02 3.25⭐️ - Ronin Island 4.25⭐️ - Big Mistakes S01

Why does every social post written by AI sound like it was penned by William Shatner v_v

Oh wow! This might be the nicest review I’ve ever gotten 🥹

No expense spared for this book launch!

Hello Lunchtime Crowd - a wonderful tale of ghosts for you today to tug the heartstrings

Me: the term romantasy is bad enough, we don't need more--- Publishing: HORROMANCE! SCIMANCE! ME: No, please,wai--- Publishing: COSIMANTACY! FORROR! HOSY! COSICOSIRPGEESEE! YOUCANTSTOPMESY! Me: *crawls into hole to die* Publishing: HORROBBIT!

New Review - a historical ghost story that is fantastic fantasy I strongly recommend The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean is out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/5/...

Ep. 202 is LIVE! Join guest author @sunyidean.com and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social & Greta Kelly for their masterclass on WRITING FOR THE READER EXPERIENCE. Stream/download/watch Ep. 202: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtu.be/bpc3TxSrgmg?... @torbooks.bsky.social

Ep. 202 of @sffaddictspod.bsky.social is LIVE! Join guest author @sunyidean.com, my co-hosts @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social Greta Kelly and I for our masterclass on WRITING FOR THE READER EXPERIENCE. Stream/download/watch Ep. 202: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtu.be/bpc3TxSrgmg?...

Fucking hell One of our local reform councillors, here for the next two years.

Iconic 😭

Sff addicts were kind enough to talk to me about my favorite craft subject!

New @sffaddictspod.bsky.social writing masterclass with the legend @sunyidean.com airs on May 12! Don’t miss it.

this absolute dinosaur egg that our white chicken laid 😳

I’m so glad I delayed my launch party for a week and also didn’t have it in a bookstore, because there weren’t books in stock on release. This has happened to both my novels in the uk, for different reasons each time. My random tip to newbie authors is to plan around that possibility.

Genuinely thought this was the onion for a second but no, it’s just the telegraph

Sunyi Dean joins us to launch The Girl With A Thousand Faces, set in Hong Kong after WW2, a ghost-talker with no memory faces off with a vengeful spirit & its mysterious connection to her past 👻 www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

In my new interview with author Sunyi Dean about her dual timeline, historical fantasy / literary-leaning Gothic novel "The Girl With A Thousand Faces," she says that so far, no one has guessed the twist in advance. To find out what else she had to say... paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 🎮👻

One month to go until @cymerafestival.co.uk! Can't wait! Check out the full programme below - I'm delighted to be doing a panel on ghosts with @sunyidean.com on the Saturday and running a workshop on experimental story structures on the Sunday! 👇 www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26

Wishing a very merry Go Fuck Yourself to everyone who voted reform yesterday May you get the local government you deserve. (Just a shame we have to get it, too).

For the GWATF launch I’ve tracked the following things and compared them to Book Eaters: goodreads adds giveaway stats reviews / ratings across GR and storygraph Netgalley Ingram app stock edelweiss reviews Trade reviews print run for uk and USA Amazon rankings social reach through posts on IG

check it out, I’m UNPREDICTABLE 😂💪 Sat next to the brilliant @emilytesh (we must stop meeting like this…) #locusmag #locusmagazine #emilytesh #sunyidean

Issue 784 Table of Contents, May 2026 locusmag.com/2026/05...

I'm going ON TOUR! I'd love to see some of you in Leeds, Edinburgh, Staines or London!

Hello Lunchtime crowd a great piece of science fiction for you today!