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Diana Fox @dianafox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Happy book birthday to A DIVIDED DUTY by @seananmcguire.bsky.social! I can’t believe it’s been seventeen years and this is book TWENTY (with more to come…) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW!! NGHI!!! VO!!! We are THRILLED to present an excerpt from @nghivo.bsky.social's next novel, a bloody Gilded Age gothic coming October 6th. Come check out The Scarlet Ball!

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Read an Excerpt From The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo - Reactor

An all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Singing Hills #8! Wandering cleric Chih and perfect hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant arrive at the imperial palace for a celebration of the life of the Empress of Salt and Fortune, where the food's amazing, the service is exemplary, and the clothes? Well, the clothes are just to die for. :P

A book cover on a tan background. The cover features a red kingfisher draped with a scrape of blue fabric, with a mirrored design on the lower corners of a threaded needle, and shears on the verge of cutting a twisting ribbon.

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The Judgement of Needles
Hugo Award-Winning Series
Nghi Vo
"A remarkable accomplishment."
-NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Coming your way in 2027: 🏳️‍🌈⛸️🏳️‍🌈

A Publisher's Marketplace new deal announcement on a background with a very unsubtle rainbow and pair of ice skates!

THE OFFSEASON
By Freya Marske
Imprint: Putnam
Sunday Times-bestselling author Freya Marske's THE OFFSEASON, her first contemporary queer sports romance, pitched as for fans of HEATED RIVALRY and YURI ON ICE, in which a former figure skater who walked away from the sport returns home, where reconnecting with his infuriatingly gorgeous childhood rival, now the current national champion, reignites his passion for the ice-and more, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2027 (NA).
Translation: bc@bookscrossingborders.com, Film/TV: Katherine Curtis at New Leaf

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Diana Fox @dianafox.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I just found out someone impersonating me is emailing indie authors, which is of course a super common scam many literary agents have had to deal with in recent years so I guess it was finally my turn. Needless to say, no real introductory business email from me will ever come from a Gmail address!

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Absolutely thrilled to announce that Cinder House is a Hugo finalist! And in the best company I can imagine! Thanks so much to everyone who nominated it, and congrats to all the other finalists & categories.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER! I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is! On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill. Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙 BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Announcing a BRAND NEW Gilded Age fantasy of ballrooms, bargains, and bloodshed from the one and only @nghivo.bsky.social!! The Scarlet Ball commences October 2026 🩸

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Announcing The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo - Reactor

A Gilded Age fantasy of ballrooms and bloodshed, arriving October 2026

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

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Housing the Heroine in “Cinder House” | BookTrib.

If you asked me today, and if you'd asked me two years ago, I'd tell you I'm very fond of my house. It's nothing special. It's a townhouse surrounded by other townhouses that look just like it, formin...

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Attention @seananmcguire.bsky.social fans! We’re pleased to announce a new mega-collection by Seanan (600+ pages, with 16 never-before-published stories!), Velveteen vs. the Consequences of Her Actions. Full details and preorder info here: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

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Announcing VELVETEEN VS. THE CONSEQUENCES OF HER ACTIONS by Seanan McGuire

We’re pleased to announce some of Seanan McGuire’s rarest—and previously unpublished—stories in the new mega-collection (over 600 pages), Velveteen vs. the Consequences of Her ...

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Cinder House in the New York Times!! with ART 🔥😍😍🔥 & some other spooky romances, too; Ladies in Hating is fantastic and I will be snapping up the other two directly

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

what ho!! MY LITTLE SPOOKY BOOK IS A BESTSELLER 👻🥳

a graphic picturing Freya Marske's novella Cinder House, the cover of which shows a shadowy house arising from stylised flames and turning into the figure of a standing girl. above it is the very exciting news that said novella is an instant USA Today bestseller.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Hey. Hey. On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle! us.macmillan.com/books/978125... The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

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A Mouthful of Dust

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Are you ready for the next steps along the improbable road? Coming in 2026, INKPOT GODS continues where TIDAL CREATURES left off, into the distance, into the dark.

A peacock feather in an inkwell, against a black background. The feather is on fire, and the inkwell is ringed in fire. The text reads "SEANAN MCGUIRE - INKPOT GODS."

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It's AMA time again, this time cosplaying as Mira Grant all day! Come ask me questions, so I don't get bored and wander away: www.reddit.com/r/horror/com...

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I'm Mira Grant--Ask Me Anything!

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

BOOKSTORES OF THE PLANET EARTH! Or, well, bookstores of mostly North America. We know you took a hit during COVID, and we would like to do what little we can to help! So we are once again doing a PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN for independent bookstores.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Are you ready to follow Nancy Whitman back through her pomegranate-gate, into the Halls of the Dead? Hope so.

A blue-tinted room full of white statues on marble plinths. One plinth is empty and bloodstained. The title text reads THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD | SEANAN MCGUIRE. At the top, smaller text reads "A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy." - NPR on Every Heart a Doorway

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We're on our way to Johrlar as Sarah Zellaby sees what she could have been had she not been born a queen in exile. Old enemies, old friends, and family must all come together to save her...and even that may not be enough. Also, Greg is here.

A black-haired woman in a purple sweater stands in front of a divided background, half a blue-tinted forest, half an orange-washed alien city. The text reads BUTTERFLY EFFECTS | An InCryptid Novel | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR | SEANAN MCGUIRE."

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Book day! It's my book day! OVERGROWTH, the closest I will ever come to an autobiography, is in the world today!

A picture of a blonde woman in front of a green background and a book cover with a plant menacing the Earth. Text reads: JOIN MIRA GRANT ON TOUR! | YOU WERE WARNED | OVERGROWTH | MIRA GRANT

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

A rectangular gray gravestone, inscribed with Whitin Badger, 1906-1992, Dwight Cooke 1908-1992, and underneath the line "THE UNICORN WAITS IN A DARKENING WOOD"

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Are you in Princeton, NJ tonight? Come join us over at the Princeton Library for a Great Gatsby at 100 event and the first stop on my book tour for Don't Sleep with the Dead! princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/13139832

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Author: Nghi Vo

Emma Sarconi interviews Nghi Vo at this book launch event for "Don't Sleep with the Dead," a novella about Nick Carraway and his life following the tragic ending of "The Great Gatsby."

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

BOOK DAY! Don't Sleep with the Dead is out today! Ever wonder what happened to Nick Carraway after the events of The Great Gatsby? And if the world was magic and everyone's making deals with devils? And if Nick was made of paper? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Don't Sleep with the Dead

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes Don't Sleep with the Dead, a standalone companion novella to The Chosen and the Beautiful, her acclaimed reimagining ...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This is a fun little blip article about OVERGROWTH and all its beautiful horrors: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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How ‘Overgrowth’ by Mira Grant Got Made

An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest thriller.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Coming in October 2025: CINDER HOUSE, a queer Gothic retelling of Cinderella in which our titular character is a very frustrated ghost! 🔥 Fire, skeletons, fairies, intense epistolary friendships, and lots of feelings about ballet. Preorder US - bit.ly/CH-buyUS Preorder UK - bit.ly/CH-buyUK

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I tried to tell you. It's not my fault you didn't want to listen.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Hey, you want something good to eat? Singing Hills #6, A Mouthful of Dust, is up for pre-order and out October 7! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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A Mouthful of Dust

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

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Alyssa Winans @alawinans.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Cover reveal day for another installation of @nghivo.bsky.social's Singing Hill series. These are always a pleasure to work on. Out 10/7! #bookcover

The cover for A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo. A full bowl and an empty bowl frame a white cat wrapped in red rope.

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Emery Robin @emwrobin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

did you know: my new book about Antony and Cleopatra IN SPACE comes out on Tuesday. I would describe it as influenced secondarily by Shakespeare and firstly by the most egregiously low-budget Doctor Who episodes of the 2000s. it has an incredible cover www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emery...

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The Sea Eternal

"Wherever Emery Robin goes from here, I'm going to follow." —Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom one of the most original voices in sc...

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Who's ready for a little chaos?

A book cover showing a brunette woman with a knife, splattered in blood, looking dubiously to one side. The text reads "COMING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025: New York Times Bestselling Author Seanan McGuire, SILVER AND LEAD, an October Daye novel."

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I am so excited to announce the Daphne Press edition of OVERGROWTH, complete with truly awesome alternate cover: www.daphnepress.com/book-landing...

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Daphne Press

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Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Who doesn't like gilded edges! Our WAYWARD CHILDREN Omnibus Deluxe Edition by @seananmcguire.bsky.social is now LIVE on #Kickstarter! Link in our bio and below!

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Diana Fox @dianafox.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Mira Grant returns to the UK! Daphne Press and Illumicrate will be publishing OVERGROWTH, @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s first new novel as Mira Grant in seven years, in May of 2025🛸🪴 (via ⁦⁦@the-bookseller.bsky.social) www.thebookseller.com/rights/daphn...

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Daphne Press signs Mira Grant's 'masterful' novel

Daphne Press has signed Overgrowth, a "refreshing take on a first contact story", from Mira Grant.

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Wraithmarked Creative @wraithmarked.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our omnibus of the first 3 volumes of @seananmcguire.bsky.social's legendary WAYWARD CHILDREN series is coming to Kickstarter in December! Sign up for a launch reminder today! Link in our bio and below!

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Oh my god, my story won a World Fantasy Award!!! All thanks go to @nisishawl.bsky.social, editor-extraordinary of New Suns 2, without whom that story would never have seen the light of day!

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

I can't decide whether the art or the rebind is more beautiful!! 😍

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

This one seems worth celebrating ⚔️🍾

A graphic informing you that my book Swordcrossed is an instant USA Today bestseller!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

@freyamarske.bsky.social's new book Swordcrossed comes out today!! A con artist swordsman and a royal...will they kiss? Maybe this excerpt will help you find out: reactormag.com/excerpts-swo...

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Read an Excerpt From Freya Marske's Swordcrossed - Reactor

High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Anyone free in Cambridge, MA tonight? Come see me and Sacha Lamb at our double book release at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! www.portersquarebooks.com/event/sacha-...

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

BOOK BOOK BOOK The City in Glass, my novel about a demon dealing with the end of the world and what comes after, is out today! It's about grief, love, revenge, city planning, the ones we love, the ones we lose, the ones who are right and the ones who are left. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The City in Glass

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.A Publ...

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

🥰 LIBRARIANS ARE THE BEST

A graphic announcing that Swordcrossed has been chosen as a Library Reads Hall of Fame pick for October. Because librarians are the heroes of the modern era!! Hug a librarian today. Or maybe give them some baked goods.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

To celebrate the countdown to the release of Swordcrossed (only 4 weeks to go!), I'm going to be posting some gorgeous character art every week, to introduce you to the book's main players! (Art by the amazing Mei-ing Nieuwland.)

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Don't Sleep with the Dead cover reveal day! In this novella follow-up to The Chosen and the Beautiful, we follow Nick Carraway through a darkly magical and devil-infested NYC in the first years of WW2. Cover art by Marisa Aragón Ware Cover design by @cfoltzer.bsky.social

Book cover of Nghi Vo's novella Don't Sleep with the Dead, featuring a paper sculpture heart on a field of black, a city in white silhouette across the bottom, text in gold tone.

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