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MK Hardy
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Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.

The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!

Repped by John Baker @ BLM.

https://linktr.ee/mkhardy
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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · Aug 1
Our sapphic Scottish Gothic dark fantasy novel is now out! Follow Norah as she moves to the far north of Scotland to the foreboding Corrain House, where roots twist beneath the foundations and secrets stalk the corridors.

Buy it from your retailer of choice: geni.us/needfire
A photograph of MK Hardy's The Needfire with an artful arrangement of items, including a storm lantern, a mysterious bottle of red liquird, ivy, and a deer skull. The text overlaid in yellow font reads: "You are afraid of the border places. OUT NOW" There is a yellow Solaris logo in the corner.
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This was such a lovely event!! Definitely check out But n' Ben if you're near Stonehaven, it's a fab wee shop.
lyndseycroal.bsky.social Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 1d
A fab wee event at the lovely But n' Ben Books in Stonehaven today with @mkhardywrites.com, chatting folklore and the gothic and finding our books have plenty in common 🖤🤗 A lovely local bookshop, especially great SFFH selection, so if you find yourself in the area do pop in!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚✨️
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I swear I posted this before but apparently not. Better late than never... super excited to be heading to But n Ben books in Stonehaven for a signing and chat with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social this afternoon! Hope to see folk there!
An event graphic that reads: Folklore & the Gothic. Meeting Lyndsey Croal and MK Hardy. Signing and chat, Saturday 22nd November 2-4pm. But n Ben Books, Stonehaven.
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Grab The Needfire for 99p, along with loads of other fantastic spooky books. Ghosts and ghouls aren't just for Halloween, after all!
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3d
Halloween may be over, but we're still feeling spooky!

So, how about a bumper website exclusive #stillspooky sale of our spookiest titles for only 0.99 each? Shop the sale: geni.us/Solarissale

Titles available vary by your country of origin. Ends on 24th November 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
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HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED Alex de Campi GOTHIKANA Runyx BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS Lindy Ryan THE HACIENDA, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE and THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ Isabel Canas IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL and THE DEATH I GAVE HIM Em X. Liu SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD C. S. E. Cooney THE IMMORTALITY THIEF Taran Hunt WANDERERS Chuck Wendig SINOPHAGIA edited Xueting C. Ni GORSE and RAGWORT Sam K. Horton WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE Lorraine Wilson THE NEEDFORE MK Hardy RED RABBIT Alex Grecian THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and A THEORY OF HAUNTING Katherine Addison THE LIAR OF RED VALLEY Walter Goodwater THE VENGEANCE Emma Newman SIGN HERE Claudia Lux BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT and THESE LIFELESS THINGS Premee Mohamed NORDIC VISION ed. by Margret THE RITUAL CRIME UNIT THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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It’s here: the cover for the UK edition of VILE LADY VILLAINS, coming out April 02 2026 by Penguin Michael Joseph🖤
The cover for Danai’s debut novel, VILE VILLAINS illustrated by Audrey Benjaminsen
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Project Hanuman is here. I hope you'll take a look as I think it's a pretty good space opera - no hero's journey here - this is about community, how we build back better and, of course, mind bending space battles in sentient ships.

#spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction
Discover Project Hanuman: A Unique Sci-Fi Adventure
Discover 'Project Hanuman', a thrilling adventure of galactic civilizations, survival, and community. Get your copy now!
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November 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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We said goodbye to the best boy today.
A brindle dog lying on an ottoman covered in a red duvet in front of some bookshelves. A brindle dog in a field of long grass. A brindle long dog mid-roll on the grass with a big smile. A long dog silhouetted by the sun on the beach.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Me, having a birthday a week and a half ago: Wow, this last year had some real low points. I hope this next year is better.
This next year: hold my beer.
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...
The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Luna Press Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – 19/2 Price – £8.99 paper...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Had great fun at the Solaris launch event with the best stablemates a gestalt writing entity could hope for.
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The first full day at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social kicks off with a chat about strong female leads who do *not* kick ass. Here’s @mkhardywrites.com @rainewilson.bsky.social @lauraannegilman.bsky.social with moderator @pslivingstone.bsky.social.
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Writing is a lonely business?! Not for our panel, who have embraced co-creation with others. Come along to find out how it works.

Join us for Cymera's Writers' Conference on Saturday, 22nd November: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2025-confere...
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, hosted by Lighthouse Books

This year’s Book Fair theme is ecosystems of change, focusing on how we forge the coalitions vital to meaningful change and to building the world we deserve.

@lighthousebks.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙

lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...
Poster advertising Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair on the theme of Ecosystems for Change. 5th-9th November hosted by Lighthouse Bookshop at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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THE WARDS WILL FALL release day! (M/M dark fantasy)
Come read the first chapter. New chapters release for free on Mondays.

www.oleandercraw.com/chapter-one/

👁️ Expedition to a rotting magic city
👁️ Possessed and becoming Something Else
👁️ Ancient magic is returning

Cover by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We've just turned the clocks back in the UK to try & embrace some brighter mornings as the year draws to a close. So, how about a selection of Solaris Books with historical and historically inspired settings ft. @natania.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @emmanewman.bsky.social & more!?
A compilation of Book covers: GORSE and RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy NETHERFORD HALL and THE VISCOUNT ST ALBANS by Natania Barron THE VENGEANCE by Emma Newman A THEORY OF HAUNTING by Katherine Addison THE WATER OUTLAWS by S. L. Huang THE POMEGRANATE GATE, THE REPUBLIC OF SALT and THE KINGDOM OF ALMONDS by Ariel Kaplan QUEEN OF NONE, QUEEN OF FURY and QUEEN OF MERCY by Natania Barron THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson MASQUERADE by O. O. Sangoyomi SNOWBLOODED by Emma Sterner-Radley WHILE THE GODS SLEEP by L. D. Colter THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson THE CALCULATING STARS, THE FATED SKY, THE RELENTLESS MONN and THE MARTIAN CONTINGENCY by Mary Robinette Kowal. White text: "Solaris Books to Turn back the Clock.
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Next week, it's @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social! And we've got a very special event for you...

On Sunday 2nd November 10 am in Oxford Main Room; come to the Solaris Book Party for Chat, caffeine, wine, cake & books!

Catch @mkhardywrites.com @rainewilson.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social and more!
Promo graphic for Solaris' Book Party at World Fantasy Con.
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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GDT: I use costuming to underscore my character work.
Us: Yes, good, love it.
GDT: For example, Victor is very very guilty so he always has red leather gloves on.
Us: Caught red-handed. Delightful.
GDT: And Elizabeth is perfect and innocent and sublime so of course she is dressed like a beetle.
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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We're finally having our Dundee launch event... and we hope you can make it! Join us and the incredible @rainewilson.bsky.social on November 19th for an event celebrating both The Needfire and her new book The Salt Oracle. Get your tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/na13/...
An event poster that reads "Dundee Book Launch; Dark Folklore and Scottish Gothic Fiction. Join authors MK Hardy and Lorraine Wilson for an evening of chat and refreshments! Wednesday November 19, 7-9 pm, Stenecki Coffee."
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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We LOVE a query letter and we love independent queer publishing - go go go support @othersidespec.bsky.social!
othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 22d
With THREE DAYS LEFT in the Kickstarter, time is running out to grab a 2026 subscription + a query letter critique from the incredible MK Hardy (@mkhardywrites.com), author of sapphic gothic novel horror The Needfire!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...
A blurry purple background with white text. It reads "Query letter critique by MK HARDY, author of sapphic historical gothic novel THE NEEDFIRE (Solaris Books, 2025)." The author is pictured smiling away from the camera to the left.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Wait a second, so Frankenstein:

• Is immortal
• Sneaks into houses at night
• Sometimes leaves gifts for nice people
• Lives in the North Pole

🤔
October 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I am so excited for you all to read @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE - it's beautiful, tragic, haunting and filled with brilliant details - this is near future speculative fic of the fantastical.

Also TINY SPINE ORCA!
rainewilson.bsky.social Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 24d
LOOK WHO HATCHED!

New books are in my very own paws & they're looking so damn pretty I can't!

(Please admire the teensy spine orca whomst I adore)

(Also have I shown you my spite dedication? I can't remember)

@solarisbooks.bsky.social @literaryfey.bsky.social
Freshly hatched copies of The Salt Oracle hardback and We Are All Ghosts In The Forest paperback on a green cloth, looking handsome Close up of the base of both book spines, showing a tiny leaping orca on The Salt Oracle The dedication page from The Salt Oracle, that reads: To Mr Short, My secondary school science teacher who told me, repeatedly, that girls weren't cut out for science. My PhD and I beg to differ.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Good morning, friends!

Look, a giveaway!

Between now & Halloweeeeeeeeeeen (which is coming up way too soon, gosh I don't want October to end) you can enter for a chance to win a paperback ARC of my upcoming dual-timeline haunted house novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS!

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It's time for another GOODREADS GIVEAWAY. Now through Halloween you can enter for a chance to win one of 25 paperback copies of THESE FAMILIAR WALLS! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/enter_choose_address/419013-these-familiar-walls In 1998, desperate loneliness pushes preteen Amber to ignore the misgivings of her family, particularly her younger sister, when she befriends the troubled new kid in the neighborhood—a boy with dead eyes, a fascination with fire, and no remorse. Their turbulent relationship is brief but creates lasting consequences. Twenty-two years later, in 2020, he resurfaces to kill Amber’s parents, and is in turn betrayed by his accomplice and killed in Amber's childhood home. After the deaths, Amber inherits the house and, in an effort to save money, moves in with her husband and two children, hoping to reclaim some sense of stability in the grief and chaos surrounding her. Instead, she finds that the familiar walls are haunted by more than just bitter memories and lockdown stress. She shifts in and out of dreamlike trances, her reflection won’t blink, and a menacing voice whispers to her from the gathering shadows. Although she tried to brush off the strange happenings as stress-fueled hallucinations, Amber is soon forced to admit that something much more real—and more dangerous—haunts her family. But Amber has deadly secrets of her own, and she must resolve these long-buried truths or lose the life she’s contrived for herself.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Opened Whatsapp to send my mother a link to the recording of our event with Isabel Cañas & saw her last message, which was about a friend's daughter finishing a marathon. "I bet she's disappointed I've never done anything so impressive," I thought.

YOU LITERALLY WROTE & PUBLISHED A BOOK YOU NUMPTY
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Look at this stunning book in all its forms! I'm so excited for The Republic of Memory 😍
mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 26d
Arabfuturism is coming! It's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY cover reveal day. Don't ask me which one I like more. They're both epic! (It's Gollancz on the left and Saga Press on the right 🫡)
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM