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David Thomas MooahahahAHAHA! @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 8h

- Dungeons & Disorderly (6pm Saturday, Flame Tree Room): join me, @alasdairstuart.com, @ianthegreen.bsky.social, @megbontra.bsky.social, @tejturner.com and @mikebrooks668.bsky.social as we stumble incompetently through some sort of space opera armed only with a giant paper D20 and a gin and tonic...

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Got art of the two main characters of WHERE DEAD THINGS GROW done by one of my favorite artists ever, and I just think that’s neat!! Thank you so much to @haverdoodles for bringing Evangeline and Death to life. WDTG, my swampy horrormance, is now available to preorder! ✨🐊♥️

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helen @hejparry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honestly, academics trapped in an underwater cave + cult + unnamed horrors = a book far too scary for me ever to read. Congratulations though to Megan Bontrager @megbontra.bsky.social on the publication of The Sea Hides Its Dead! If you're braver than me, hunt it down. #horror

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

COVER REVEAL! 🐊♥️🌱✨🖤 So, so thrilled to share the cover of WHERE DEAD THINGS GROW, my southern gothic horrormance about a swamp, an au pair, and Death himself. Cover design by the incomparable Lisa Marie Pompilio. Coming June 2027 with Orbit US/UK! #writingcommunity

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

refusing to tolerate gen ai users is not ableism, you absolute doorknobs

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Illumicrate ✨ @illumicrate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Our Evernight July 2026 book was an adult cult cosmic horror - The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager! 📸: kllsym; kitpill_reads; catethereader; bookishreadsandme

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thank you so much for reading!! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🤩 and you’re right— some of them did absolutely get what they deserved!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thank you so much for this wonderful review!!! I’m so so glad that you enjoyed it! 🖤🌊✨

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank you so much for having me!! May we all help the Caros in our lives, and have the grace to be kind to ourselves when we ARE the Caro. 🖤✨🌊

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Indie bookstores in the UK! I goofed and ordered… a lot of bookplates. Like a lot. If anyone is interested in stocking signed copies of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD, give me a shout! I’ll send as many signed bookplates as you want!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD is a Sunday Times BESTSELLER‼️✨ Thank you so much to every reader who’s picked it up. Y’all have no idea how wildly my dreams have come true in the last few months. 🖤

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Phew, this review. Can I hang a review in my house? Is that allowed? No better feeling than when someone just plain GETS IT. Thank you so much for this stellar write-up 🖤🌊

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Absolutely blown away by this wildly insightful review. It really is a specific shade of amazing when someone just GETS it completely! Thank you SO much for reading!

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 02/08/2026

I totally missed the publication date for this brillaint book. The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager gnofhorror.com/the-sea-hide... @megbontra.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Had an absolute blast the whole week of the UK launch of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD! While I was taking photos of pigeons, lovely friends and family who came to celebrate from all over got lots of footage to remember it by. Feeling very celebrated, and very thankful 🖤🌊✨ TSHID is available everywhere!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Do we need to bring the “stop tagging authors in negative reviews” conversation over here as well because —

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Megan Bontrager: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the sea hides its dead Bontrager: where are the dead? Bontrager: you'll never find 'em Bontrager: and why's that? Bontrager: cuz the sea is hiding them

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD IS OUT THIS MONTH AND I'M FINE, IT'S FINE

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Come get it, y’all!! Folks in the US and Canada — free book alert! Orbit is giving away a paperback copy of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD, from now until the day before its US release! ✨

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

ONE MONTH until the US release of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD! Remember to preorder through Bards Alley to get a signed bookplate with your order! 🌊💀🖤

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The only picture that I took at the Orbit party on Thursday was of my shoe, which broke so irreparably that I had to tape it to my foot in the middle of a busy pub 😅

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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And finally, trapped and facing horrifying trials with THE BONE DOOR by @franceswrites.bsky.social and THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD by @megbontra.bsky.social, chaired by @lynseymay.com at @cymerafestival.co.uk

The authors sit on a stage. On a table in front of them are copies of their books.

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD in the wild! It’s real and it’s HERE (at Cymera)!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

An excerpt of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD is available to read on the Orbit blog RIGHT NOW! www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/...

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The finale of The Boys annoyed me just enough that I’m tempted to write an urban fantasy horror book about superheroes just to scratch the itch

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Canadian friends! Now is the time to get 25% off THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD, along with all the other titles on Indigo’s ‘Most Anticipated Horror of 2026’ list!

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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

New blurb! This time from fellow debut, @megbontra.bsky.social 🖤 I'm super excited to read Megan's hotly anticipated cosmic horror sea cave novel THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD coming July this year 👀

A graphic showing the cover for HOME SICK against a moddy pink forest background. Next to the book a quote from Megan's blurb reading "Masterful... a wild spiral of madness and magic, and the brutal truth of our darkest shadows."

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Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk · 20/04/2026

Tickets are now on general sale for our 2026 Festival! This year we are hosting a slew of exciting SFFH author panels, writing workshops, live performances, live podcast recordings, agent one-to-ones and so much more. Grab your tickets on our website: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Seeing my comically large face in The Bookseller felt like a good enough reason to buy Dolly Parton brand prosecco today. And it’s good, too!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Contrary to the name of the panel, you will NOT be trapped in a room with me and Frances White, but you WILL want to be! We’re talking horror at Cymera this year, and I couldn’t be more excited. Panel and festival details on the Cymera website!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SO proud to see this book flying the nest. Agents, you’re gonna want this one!!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

One day (soon?) someone will feel seen by the protagonist of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD in her struggle to break free from narcissistic abuse (which was my struggle) and unlearn its patterns (which still is my struggle) and then it genuinely will all be worth it. GENUINELY.

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Come and get it, y’all! THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD is available on NetGalley in the US! UK is coming soon — but in the meantime, off to the sea caves with ye!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

GOODREADS GIVEAWAY! ✨ Head on over to the link below (and in my linktree) to enter for a chance to win an eARC of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD. US only, unfortunately - but keep an eye out, because international giveaways are on the horizon!

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 16/03/2026

Cover reveal & crowdfunding announcement! I have written another book. Project Tasman is a sapphic dystopian book about a woman in a psychological experiment. I'm so excited to share this beautiful cover from @bmwillows.bsky.social Follow the BackerKit below, pls www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

A book cover for the book Project Tasman by S. Morgan Burbank. A woman with dark brown hair is free falling in front of a group of green, blue, and purple lights. She is wearing a blue zip-up hoodie and a black t-shirt along with blue jeans. She has black eyeglasses, as well as piercings on her right eyebrow and nose. She is watching a number of poker chips -- one each purple, red, yellow, black, and blue -- falling through the air near her. A sixth chip is resting in her right hand, this one colored white.

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The urge to turn my current WIP into a horrormance with a Leon Kennedy coded love interest is overwhelming. Y’all would not believe the state of my saved TikToks after finishing RE9. 😮‍💨

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

THRILLED to share the UK cover of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD! TSHID is a cult aquatic horror about a group of academics trapped in a sea cave who must reckon with cosmic horrors as they're forced to atone for their greatest sins. Cover design by Charlotte Stroomer, cover art credit by Andreea Dumuta.

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD is getting its UK cover reveal... TOMORROW! Y'all, it's so good. You aren't ready. 🌊🔪🪸🖤 Keep an eye on the Orbit UK socials for the reveal, and for some... other interesting tidbits 👀

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The Rights Factory @therightsfactory.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🌊📘 #THESEAHIDESITSDEAD by #MeganBontrager is now available for preorder, ahead of its July 14, 2026 release from Orbit Books. THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD plunges readers into a haunting world where the ocean remembers everything. 🔗 Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/megan...

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One of my favorite reads of the year, if not of all time. Y’all — READ THIS BOOK!

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Megan Bontrager | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD out now! 🌊 @megbontra.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I have a western horror short story that I LOVE that’s just floating around in the ether of my unsubmitted works, so if anyone knows of any historical/western horror anthologies looking for pieces soon… let a gal know 👀

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