MK Hardy

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock is now out in paperback, ebook, and audiobook from @solarisbooks. Join Avis and the other passengers of the Excambion as they undertake a transatlantic crossing full of ghosts, mysterious lights on the water, and hidden secrets... Get your copy today! geni.us/avisl

Very excited about this spooky event in Stow tomorrow night!

Final soup tally: 5 (french onion, spicy black bean, corn chowder, curried parsnip and broccoli cheddar) Apple cakes: 3 Birthdays celebrated: 1

The BFS is excited to announce our next in-person Reading event, The Things that Haunt Us: Writing the Gothic Today. Wed 28 Oct, 6:30pm. Waterstones, Broad Street, Reading. tinyurl.com/bfsgothic @mkhardywrites.com @mlinton.bsky.social @juniperjennyt.bsky.social ‬ @gretacolombani.bsky.social ‬

I once wrote "taking the piss" as part of an article and the American editor commented that 'piss is a liquid and therefore cannot be taken hold of' and I think I'll never receive a more perfect edit in my career

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

having a soup party this weekend and I'm so excited soup party soup party

Is there a drag king called Sex Ed

Tomorrow! Will there be enough books, enough tablet, enough chat to keep it all going? While I fret slightly about that, why not come along to celebrate forty years of great writers and great people.

Cold? Gloomy? Enjoy my Gothic novel! London, 1893: Judith is living alone. Her brother-in-law Sam, careless and charismatic, was missing (presumed dead). He's now returned (presumed not dead). Judith must leave London to seek answers in folk rituals. the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/unqu...

I really loved this Welsh folk horror - dark and cold and beautifully written!

🚨👻SCARILY GOOD DEALS!👻🚨 To celebrate #SpookySeason, until the end of October, you can snap up 4 Spooky Solaris titles in paperback with 21% off at Amazon UK! Grab them now before the deal is gone! @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @samkhorton.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

An absolutely stonking review from the lovely Womble! "... a story for those who would prefer something that is a little less frightening and more mysterious and very very engaging. Offering adventure, history, romance and most of all exquisite storytelling combined with wonderful character work."

I just think having a little cat friend that lives in your house with you is very important for morale

Add “for tax purposes” to a movie. To Have And Have Not For Tax Purposes

look I'd really just like if it the theme and execution of a book could just land fully-formed in my brain, this 'working through several drafts to unearth what it's about and how to make it good' schtick is pretty vexing honestly

This continues to fail to address the contradiction between 'there is no ethical use' and 'we'll agree some use is ethical to avoid hurting anyone's feelings' Also...

Now that I feel a semblance of normal in the midst of my grief, it's time to return to the publishing hustle. Hi all, I'm acquiring SFF&horror for Solaris, now part of Profile! We're curating the best across the genres: commercial, punchy with a strong hook, to literary & strange. My sample list:

It IS a gorgeous cover, and it was designed by www.blacksheep-uk.com!

New review - Sapphic slow burn, an skeptic against a medium, Victorian Gothic horror meets mystery.

Highlight of today's Fantasyconning - chatting nonsense on the 'How Weird Can Weird Fiction Get?' panel earlier with the fabulous @mkhardywrites.com @joannacorrance.bsky.social @philipasuggars.bsky.social and Geoff Dupuy-Holder ✨👻

🎂🎉Happy paperback book birthday to RAGWORT by @samkhorton.bsky.social ! Return to the dark moors of 18th century Cornwall with the paperback edition of RAGWORT - the much-anticipated sequel to deliciously dark folkloric fantasy GORSE! Buy now: buff.ly/zvokngG

What a delight yesterday's event at @blackwells.bsky.social Edinburgh for Haunted and Hunted! A pleasure to host - sixty people, listening to terrifying tales, followed by a ghosthunting in a haunted bookshop...what could go wrong? 👀✨️👻

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

It's also real good! USians, get it now!

Only a few days to go until British Fantasycon... Here is a short write-up about it and my schedule (also in the pic). sjgroenewegen.com/2026/10/05/b...

New wee counselling blog out this morning. Have a wee read & share if you fancy it. x

New creepypasta, courtesy of NextDoor

M had this classic LotR poster alongside a bunch of strategic pictures of pretty men in a futile attempt to convince everybody including herself that she liked boys.

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Really loved Resident Evil; 'normal guy caught up in Raccoon City's bullshit' was a great idea and it was executed perfectly. Bonus points for Austin Abrams' screaming and some great monster design.

Hey that's us! Come see us yammer on and maybe get an Avis swag pin if you're lucky. 💀

As #SapphicSeptember draws to a close, here's a compilation of Solaris' Sapphic recs to help you #ReadQueerAllYear! Whether you want you sapphics in space, in fantastical worlds or horrifying situations, we've got you covered! @lavanya.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social MK Hardy & more 1/4

Join @mkhardywrites.com, Alessandra Thom and @cdelull.bsky.social - tickets here: lighthousebookshop.com/events/queer...

There is some incredible literary talent in the North and we love to celebrate it - join us in toasting not one, but THREE queer novels from (4) Northern writers! Experience a hot Edinburgh summer, an eerie haunted ship in the Atlantic and a few years at university... 7PM next Wednesday!

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.