@megbontra
Author of Horror and SFF | THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD (Orbit, July 2026) | PhD @ Maynooth University | she/her | rep: @literaryclara.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/megbontra
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. 😮💨
Hello hello!! I have an aquatic cosmic horror out in July with Orbit US/UK called THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD. It’s pitched as The Descent meets Dante’s Inferno, about a group of academics trapped in a collapsed sea cave with an eldritch monster! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/megan...
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.
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.
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 👀
🌊📘 #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...
Yes I know the year just started, but I know it will CONTINUE to be one of my top reads of the year! It’s just that good!
One of my favorite reads of the year, if not of all time. Y’all — READ THIS BOOK!
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 👀
A thread of things you can do to help folks in MN.
If you've got funds to throw our way, the below website is a great place to start. I also repost fundraisers regularly as do other people on the ground. 🧵
www.standwithminnesota.com
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The Sea Hides Its Dead 2026 by @megbontra.bsky.social
I feel very proud to be sharing a release year with Ann Leckie, ngl 😂
You can add TSHID on Goodreads at the following 🔗 if you want to keep up to date on more official giveaways run by the @orbitbooks.bsky.social team - and not by someone who glued their fingers together making bracelets 😅
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
✨GIVEAWAY TIME!✨
Thank y'all SO much for getting THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD (coming July of THIS YEAR!) to 1000 adds on Goodreads! My mind is truly blown, so we're doing a crafty giveaway. Open internationally! Like and share this post to enter.
Thank you so, so, SO much again for all the support! 💙
Build your #horror TBR with one of these great reads! Temple Fall – RL Boyle Dead First – Johnny Compton This House Will Feed - Maria Tureaud Saint Delilah – Isabelle Spotts She Haunts Me Still – De Elizabeth Winter’s Teeth – RA Betzer The Dirty Swallow – Sam West Hexes and Fangs – Brianna Malotke The Darling Killer – EM Jones It Looks Like You in the Dark – Mathilda Zeller Nowhere Land – Pamela K Kinney Fissure Face – Patrick C Harrison III The Quiet Resurrection of Sister Evelida Livingston – Nick Wallin Funerals are for the Living – Sami Ellis Carry Me to My Grave – Christopher Golden The Siren of Groves Peak – Glenn Rolfe Fabulous Bodies – Chuck Tingle The Sea Hides its Dead – Megan Bontrages
Build your #horror TBR with one of these great reads!
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WAITTT FOR REAL??? I could sense the talented vibes thru my laptop… should have known that two people as talented as y’all would know each other!!
YES I USED THAT MANY ADJECTIVES 🫵 YOU WOULD TOO IF YOU WERE ME
SO excited to be working with @nordlichtinla.bsky.social on her mind-bending post-apoc sci-fi horror mind-blowing RIDE of a book!!
bsky.app/profile/megb... support my newest WriteHive mentee in the meantime 🫵
The fact that I have to WAIT to announce my RTM mentee…. free me from yap jail. I want to lift up both my mentees and spin them like a disco ball.
Such a good book that I just had to go and dust off the old Photoshop — CANNOT wait to get to work with you!!
I'm SO excited to be working with @spottedsnake.bsky.social on THE WORLD BENEATH during this year's WriteHive mentorship program! I was genuinely hooked on this book from the jump, and couldn't stop thinking about it from the moment I started reading. Agents... get ready. This is a good one.
The author and their books: Rhiannon Grist, author of HOME SICK The book they'd love for Xmas KING SORROW Their favourite read of 2025 INCIDENTS ARROUND THE HOUSE THE DAY OF THE DOOR Their anticipated read of 2026 THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD NOWHERE BURNING
We asked @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social for her best book of 2025, the book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated read of 2026.
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @joe-hill.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social @megbontra.bsky.social & more!
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The author and their books: Taran Hunt, author of THE IMMORTALITY THIEF and THE UNKILLABLE PRINCESS The book they'd love for Xmas Claudius' lost HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CIVIL WARS Their favourite read of 2025 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD THE LIONS OF AL-RASSAN Their anticipated read of 2026 THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD
We asked @taranhunt.bsky.social for her best books of '25, books she'd love for Xmas & anticipated reads of '26.
Read on https://geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @voidcricket.bsky.social @guygavrielkay.bsky.social & more!
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Build your #horror TBR today with these can’t miss #horrorbooks Santa’s Shrine – Jyl Glenn Conjuring the Demon – John Durgin My Corpse has a Heartbeat – Nick Roberts A Fate Worse than Drowning – Sarah L. Hawthorn She Still Haunts Me – De Elizabeth Skybreaker – Tyler J Welch Kayak – Kristal Stittle Lichtenberg – Tom O’Connell In the Wrath of Legends – David Buzan The Widows of Winding Gale – Kealan Patrick Burke Wilson – Jack Finn The Sea Hides its Dead – Megan Bontrager The Skeleton Theory – Joe Clifford Do Better – Adam Allen Poison Soup – Wendy Dalrymple & Grace R Reynolds Dig – JH Markert A Darker Fleece – Rose Craft The House on Lantern Lane – Ashley Grey
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What a better way to start a Monday than with the second part of "A Jam's list to 2026 releases"?
Second part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog (depending on review copies and all):
jamreads.com/articles/a-j...
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Thank you so much for including THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD!! This list has just about doubled my tbr in one fell swoop 😅