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Home briefly before the MASSIF tour continues, going on to the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Canberra and then the UK. Thanks to everyone who came to see me at the Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival on the weekend. I didn't do selfies with audience (forgot) but here is one of goats where I stayed.

A nanny and a billy goat on a green lawn, outside the window of where I was staying in the Dandenongs for the literary festival.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thanks everyone for coming along to Robinson’s Bookshop in Glen Waverley last night, thank you to Jarryd and the booksellers! Off to the Dandenongs today for the Dandenong Ranges Literary Festival today and tomorrow. See you there!

Garth selfie with audience at Robinson’s bookshop.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The MASSIF Tour continues. Thank you everyone who came along last night to Dymocks Melbourne, thank you Louise and her team, and @amiekaufman.bsky.social

Selfie with Garth and audience at Dymocks Melbourne

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks everyone for coming along to the Geelong/Waurn Ponds Hotel event for MASSIF last night! A big thank you to Julie from Dymocks and convo partner Darren Nash. Not often I get to drink Guinness at a book event 😀

Selfie with Garth and attendees at dinner event, they’re all at tables.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

First event of the MASSIF tour done! Thanks to everyone who came along last night, thank you Siana from Dillons, Beth from Payneham Library, and my conversation partner @adelaidesean.bsky.social Next up Books in Bars at Waurn Ponds tonight!

Garth Nix selfie with the audience of the event at Payneham library

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 Canberra . . .

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October Tour Part 2 Wed 14 Gold Coast www.eventbrite.com.au/e/meet-an-au... Thurs 15 Brisbane www.eventbrite.com.au/e/garth-nix-... Sat 16 and Sun 17 Canberra canberrawritersfestival.com.au/artist/nix-g... Then the UNITED KINGDOM from 21st October, see www.garthnix.com/appearances-...

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

October Tour Part 1 Tues 6 Adelaide www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Wed 7 Geelong www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Thurs 8 Melbourne www.trybooking.com/events/landi... Fri 9 Glen Waverley www.simpletix.com/e/garth-nix-... Sat/Sun 10/ 11 Dandenong Ranges Lit Festival dandyrangeslitfest.net

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks! No current plans, but you never know. My next book is THE EVEN-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF EDINBURGH (2027) and after that, a new High Fantasy.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, I got both last week. One somewhat regretful day and then the continuing satisfaction of having checked off two necessary tasks …

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll be at the brand new QBD Books Top Ryde today (Saturday 26 September) at 12:30, signing books as part of their opening celebrations. See you there!

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're weirdly hard to get. Officeworks used to sell the boxes but not now. I get them from inkstation.com.au

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A spot of light signing work for the Book Addiction signed and numbered limited editions of all six Old Kingdom books.

Still life with boxes of pages to be signed, some signed SABRIEL pages on a table, blue Sharpies, and on the window ledge behind there are flowers, a mannequin of Mister Fitz, and a plush Disreputable Dog.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My Australian event schedule for MASSIF. A corrected version of my Australian tour graphic, as the previous one had the wrong Robinsons store. It will be Glen Waverley, not Frankston. UK details coming soon. No US tour this year, my apologies. www.allenandunwinblog.com/events/garth...

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

After a pleasant afternoon of stock signing, QBD Books Bondi Junction, Harry Hartog Bondi Junction, QBD Broadway, and Gleebooks all have signed copies of MASSIF (and others). Thank you, booksellers!

Garth Nix holding a copy of MASSIF in front of the Gleebooks illuminated window sign

Garth Nix holding a copy of MASSIF in front of QBD new release shelves

Garth Nix holding a copy of MASSIF in front of the Harry Hartog new releases table

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm sorry to say that for reasons out of my control, my event on Wednesday 23rd September at Kinokuniya has been cancelled. No change to my various other Australian events, which you can find at www.allenandunwinblog.com/events/garth...

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today! Talking books (particularly MASSIF) with Luke Bateman at the State Library of NSW as part of the Sydney Writers Festival Homegrown program. www.swf.org.au/program/out-...

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Garth Nix: Massif

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If you're looking for your next epic space opera check out Massif, the new SF/cosmic horror from the legendary @garthnix.bsky.social - out this week! Amazing worldbuilding with vast spacefaring mountain ranges, interstellar war, and deep mysteries about the nature of the universe... 💙📚🪐

The cover of the book showing a lone astronaut on a red planet surface heading towards a crashed spaceship, a mountain range floating in mid air in the distance

A green banner reading bookishsff's 2026 watchlist scifi fantasy horror and spec fic publishing

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ll be there next month! Not sure about next year.

Australian events for MASSIF. Details here https://www.allenandunwinblog.com/events/garth-nix-tour

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

MASSIF is out in the US/Canada and Australia, and will be out in the UK next week. Buying links here: www.garthnix.com/books/adult-... And check out the amazing endpapers in the US hardcover!

A US edition of MASSIF set on top of an open copy that shows the endpapers, purple and violet space scene with a Massif floating in front of a couple of planets/moons.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's publication day for MASSIF (here in Australia, where we live in the future, but it will be soon elsewhere). Please go forth (or stay in) and order your copy. Or copies 😀 Here in Australia, I'm happy MASSIF is a book of the month with the QBD chain, in fine company. They have signed copies.

QBD Book of the Month poster. With MASSIF and also books by Shara Curlett, Tamara Hoss and Jim Rogers.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think some of it is just bad data brought in from the pirate databases they used, and some comes from parasitical chancers of various kinds, including fringe publishers and the like.

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Senpai Tankard @senpaitankard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Presents for my sister. Proxies of #Sabriel and Chlorr from #The_Old_Kingdom series. @garthnix.bsky.social, always loved your work.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Like many authors I am grappling with the Anthropic settlement "Works Allocation" with various incorrect claimants on numerous books. Including a claimant called "Lirael" for my book LIRAEL . . .

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Good interview with me in THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD by Barry Divola, on the eve of the publication of MASSIF. It’s out September 8. I don’t usually like photos of myself, but this one by Herald photographer Steven Siewart is Ok, I think. www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Photo of Garth Nix wearing a blue shirt and black jumper leaning on a banister and looking like a serious writer.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 788 Table of Contents, September 2026 locusmag.com/2026/09...

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was a long time ago, audiobooks were still on cassette/CD, so no online samples or anything. The producer emailed me suggesting Tim Curry, among some others. I replied "That guy should change his name to avoid confusion with THE Tim Curry". They came back with "we mean THE Tim Curry" . . .

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am sad to hear that Tim Curry has died. He was a wonderful actor. I was very fortunate that he narrated the audiobooks of SABRIEL, LIRAEL, and ABHORSEN, which brought many people to the original trilogy.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My Australian event schedule for MASSIF (which is out September 8). I’ll also be in the UK for two weeks from 21 October, details to come. No US tour this year, sorry. I hope to see you all at an event 😀 www.allenandunwinblog.com/events/garth...

Graphic using part of the book cover, with tour details which are also at https://www.allenandunwinblog.com/events/garth-nix-tour

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I extracted my shoulder from the dog support position. Snufkin made it clear he wanted to remain. I had to move a cushion so he could stay there. Admittedly it is a very sunny spot today.

A black and gold brindle dog with sticky up ears precariously perched on the back cushions of a russet-tawny lounge, enjoying the sun through the window behind.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pirates have parrots on their shoulders. Snufkin has decided I should have a dog on my shoulder.

Me sitting on a lounge with Snufkin the dog perched partly on my shoulder and partly on the back cushions of the lounge. Garden behind through the window.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I recently realised that one of my favourite tropes is "self-entitled people get their comeuppance". In fiction and non-fiction. In films and series. In life. Actually, in everything.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I didn’t know about this game! Thanks. I found a Rarity-66 word worth 88 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 817 points · 10 rare words. Only 5 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. playoutlier.com/s/FS437E

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As part of the Sydney Writers' Festival Homegrown program, I'll be chatting to LUKE BATEMAN about MASSIF on Saturday 19th September at 6pm, State Library of NSW. www.swf.org.au/program/out-...

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Garth Nix: Massif

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Tomorrow night! Kinokuniya Sydney! I'll be talking to CHLOE GONG about EYES OF KINGS, the third book in her bestselling FLESH AND FALSE GODS trilogy. 6:30pm for 7:00pm, Wednesday 5 August. RSVP here: kinokuniya.com.au/events/an-ev...

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There’s something in the sky, a mountain range ascending into space! It’s dropping something!

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Or the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ …

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