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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 1d

*scrambles for the pre-order button*

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Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social · 1d

Page proofs are in 👀

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 1d

What are they, please? Little mozzarella? 😂

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 2d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Natalia Theodoridou @nassos.bsky.social · 2d

UK readers! Sour Cherry is 99p on Kindle this spooky season 👻🍒
amzn.eu/d/buvcraN

Sour Cherry: A fiercely haunting gothic horror novel examining gender and power, reimagining the fairytale Bluebeard eBook : Theodoridou, Natalia: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

amzn.eu

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sunyi @handle.invalid · 2d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 2d

Your lifestyle and commitments get pretty set around now. If you want to *do* things—make art, read more books, take lessons, travel—you need to make space for them and protect that space fiercely, or they just won't happen.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Out next month (with a beautiful new paperback cover by our very own Sam Gretton!): @rainewilson.bsky.social 's BSFA Longlisted WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST!

"Haunting, heartwarming, and brimming with hope" @lavanya.bsky.social

Preorder: geni.us/weallghostsPB

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

If they clean themselves with their own stinky breath, how do they smell so nice?

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Heads up UK Readers! Ahead of us bringing @kerstinhall.bsky.social 's ASUNDER to the UK in January 2025, did you know that you can dip into the first two chapters over at Reactor?

First Chapter bit.ly/4pR7rtu
Second Chapter bit.ly/4pR7rcY

Preorder: geni.us/asunder

Read the First Chapter From Kerstin Hall's Asunder - Reactor

Sabriel meets Witch King in Kerstin Hall's new standalone fantasy.

bit.ly

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

What Sundays are made for.

A POV of my lap: a kindle book open and a black and white cat sleeping on the sofa next to me.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 3d

FIVE DAYS UNTIL ITCH! RELEASES IN THE UK! In hardback, ebook and I think audiobook too (narrated by me).

US folks have to wait until Jan, but you'll be able to get the ebook next week!

I AM SO NERVOUS I want to crawl into a vent on the bottom of the ocean floor ahhhhhhhhhhh 🐜🐜
bio.to/Pre-orderITCH

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

You might be onto something! It's where I get a lot of book news and upcoming releases, though. I don't know if I trust that to filter through to me organically. 🤔

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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 7d

The Apex Magazine 2026 Kickstarter is LIVE!

Our initial goal is $20K to fund four issues for next year, with the opportunity to unlock issues five and six through stretch goals. I really, really want to go back to six issues a year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Idk, Instagram feels like a young person's game, and my back hurts. I'd rather hang out here with my fellow crusty people.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I am really trying to like Instagram. I've been lurking on there a while. The visual medium is relaxing. But the bulk of content seems to happen in stories that only last a day? You can't post stories on browser so it's a useless platform without your phone?? It's like 80% adverts???

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

I try to read them, but sometimes it's just nice to have an alert about a new story or book come to me instead of hoping I stumble across it on social media!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

Crouton would never!!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 3d

A haunting story. 🖤

Arthur H. Manners @arthurmanners.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to have my sci-fi/horror story "Woodsong" appear in the October issue of @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, which features tales of the deep, dark woods. www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

Issue cover for the October issue of Flash Fiction Online

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 4d

I fear Critical Role Campaign 4 is going to be my entire personality.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 4d

Happy birthday!

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 4d

It's one of those books that's been sat on my kindle for aaaages. 😬

G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

Mmm, good choice.

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G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social · 5d

Heeyyy, it's signed the right way up 🙃😜

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