Mairi

Travelling while disabled is always fun. They last minute changed platforms for my train from Fimsbury Park. So myself and two other less abled people missed the train because by the time we got to the new platform it had gone.

So tired of this shit. Great start to my World Fantasy Convention

Dalek wearing a progress pride flag as a cape

The dalek in the Gower Street Waterstones says queer rights or you will be exterminated

The current Labour party are just the Diet Tories. They claim they will be better for you but leave you full of the same crap and with a nasty taste in your mouth

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI' Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other Society of Authors (SoA) members will demonstrate outside Meta HQ after millions of pirated books were allegedly used to train Meta’s artificial int...

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#DoTheWriteThing - join the day of action - The Writers' Guild of Great Britain Following the The Atlantic’s article, which revealed that many UK authors have had their work taken without consent as part of the Library Genesis ‘LibGen’ dataset and used by Meta …

Following the news about Meta's mass theft of writers' work to train AI, we're joining the #DoTheWriteThing day of action today

- Make a noise on social media
- Write to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
- Tell Meta they don't have the right to use your books

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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence. Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

L.J. Smith (1958-2025) Author L.J. Smith, 66, died March 8, 2025 in Danville CA after a long illness. Smith was best known for the bestselling Vampire Diaries series and the Night World series. Lisa Jane Smith was born S…

This makes me sad. Her books helped teenage me get through an awful time and into writing fan fiction

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I have been given permission to reveal the upcoming cover of Bee Speaker, book 3 of the Dogs of War series, coming this June. Mad Max futures, Martian invasions, mad lizards, fungus witches and embattled monks, none of which are quite what they seem.

#BlackAlternateHistoryMonth

Kindred by Octavia Butler tells the story of a circa 1970s young black woman and her white husband who continually travel back in time and space to an early 19th century plantation where they both experience the brutal nature of slavery in the US.

Programme for Much Ado About Nothing signed by the cast

Last night I went to see Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell in Much Ado About Nothing, which is my fav Shakespeare comedy.

I had a fantastic time, it really was excellent and very funny. I was also lucky enough to briefly meet the cast and get my programme signed

Excellent event with Saara El-Arifi and Katherine Webber for the launch of Cursebound. The two of them were in top form, I laughed a great deal and my shiny new book is now signed.

Mairi's fundraiser for St George's Hospital Charity Help Mairi White raise money to support St George's Hospital Charity

I am terrified of heights and doing an abseil to support the charity I work for. How can this go wrong?

All support will help us make patients and staff have a better hospital experience

Wish me luck!

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Ouch! Glad you alright at least

Well good news I have written over 30K in the last two weeks.

Downside is it's all for my fanfic.

Still, it feels good to be writing again so it's definitely a win

6784 words written today! Sure, it's still all for fanfic, but I am proud of myself for getting back into it so it's still good.

Besides, I love writing fanfic so I am not complaining.

Coming soon: Wrath Month - An Anthology of Queer SFF The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.

Bona Books is slamming into the new year with a brand new project.

WRATH MONTH will be a punk anthology of queer rage. With the burning wreckage of 2024 behind us, we want SFF stories that crash mainframes, collapse empires, and trample normativity.

Smash “Follow” on Kickstarter:

Mixing C Drama soundtracks with all of the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movie soundtracks into one playlist and sticking it on random is excellent mood music for fantasy writing.

The two things actually blend quite well with each other

I have acquired a shiny new notebook for my research notes for the original project.

I am now out of procrastination excuses and will need to start doing the research, wish me luck!

Yeah! I think it was at an old national or regional game

Picture of a young woman in her early 20s wearing a long black velvet dress. She has pale skin, dark brown hair and has fake elf ears on, along with dangly silver earrings and a silver tiara

My friend sent me some ancient pics of myself. Look at me! I am baby!

Today I have written almost 2,500 words. I mean, sure, it's for fanfic and not my original project, but given I have written almost nothing for anything in the past year I am going to take this as a win.

"The only great darkness I'm good at fighting is the one inside all of us. I'd like to light a fire inside everyone that can burn forever"

Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to restrictive practices that are being directly felt by ...

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An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services

At 10k the Government will give a written response (it’s currently at 7k)

✍🏼 Please sign (even if it’s just to keep the pressure on)

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Sending you much love!

I highly recommend The Spear Cut Through Water, amazing book

You know what to do. (Pt.1)

"Aces deserve equality. Aces deserve protection. Aces deserve recognition. Aces deserve support. Aces deserve to be heard."

I wrote an blog for Stonewall about asexual discrimination in the UK and how my research is being used to influence legislation: www.stonewall.org.uk/news/progres...

Aagainst a dark background with orange flames, a flatlaid hardback of THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy. The white Solaris Logo is in the top right corner.

🚨COVER REVEAL🚨

We're celebrating St Andrew's day with a cover reveal! Feast your eyes upon the cover for @mkhardywrites.bsky.social's sublimely Scottish, sapphic, gothic novel - THE NEEDFIRE!

Out in the UK on 31st July 2025. Preorder now: https://geni.us/needfire
Cover art by Holly Macdonald.