Rhiannon Grist | Preorder HOME SICK 🪓🐑

A Bram Stoker haunted house statue, a Shirley Jackson Award nominee rock, and two books against a backdrrop of a painted rose. The books are first, BEULAH, cover blue, black, and tan. The image shows a girl hovering above a schoolhouse. Second, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, cover a red carpet leading up to a Victorian house. Author of both, Christi Nogle

For Women in Horror Month & to introduce myself to new followers, two books:
BEULAH, a haunted story of a weird girl, Bram Stoker Award for first novel and Shirley Jackson Award nominee
THE BEST OF OUR PAST, THE WORST OF OUR FUTURE, Shirley Jackson-inspired stories, Bram Stoker nominee #wihm

Everything's better in the countryside, right?

HOME SICK
July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: geni.us/homesick

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AHHHHH, Baby's first book poster!!!

A photo of Solaris Books Booth at London Book Fair

We're at London Book Fair this week with the Solaris Books team and our @2000ad.bsky.social colleagues!

If you're attending too, make sure to drop by and say hello!

(And to look at the pretty books of course)

Inc. giant posters of THE GODS MUST BURN by @authortrmoore.bsky.social HOME SICK by...

Everything's better in the countryside, right?

HOME SICK
July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Preorder here: geni.us/homesick

A graphic of the book HOME SICK against a moody grey background of farmed fields and a dark treeline. The book has a Publisher Marketplace Buzz Books sticker on it. The author is very proud of this. Next to the book is a quote reading "Beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the best horror books you can pick up in 2026 and beyond." Beneath the quote is the quoted author's name "Johanna van Veen author of Blood on Her Tongue."

An exceedingly kind blurb from Johanna van Veen for HOME SICK. I had the pleasure of chairing for Johanna's first book, My Darling Dreadful Thing, at Cymera festival in 2024. I haven't chatted so much about bog bodies before or since.

HOME SICK
July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Can confirm this is an excellent production

A graphic of the book HOME SICK against a moody grey background of farmed fields and a dark treeline. The book has a Publisher Marketplace Buzz Books sticker on it. The author is very proud of this. Next to the book is a quote reading "Beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the best horror books you can pick up in 2026 and beyond." Beneath the quote is the quoted author's name "Johanna van Veen author of Blood on Her Tongue."

An exceedingly kind blurb from Johanna van Veen for HOME SICK. I had the pleasure of chairing for Johanna's first book, My Darling Dreadful Thing, at Cymera festival in 2024. I haven't chatted so much about bog bodies before or since.

HOME SICK
July 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

If you've read THE SALT ORACLE and wondered about that fleeting mention of the Estonia Witch...wellll 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Trying to figure out how to fit a tattoo that reads "checking social media is not work" onto my knuckles.

*runs to buy immediately*

I've no idea why it's taken me so long to wear it again. I'm def going to break it out more often (after taking it to the dry cleaners because I, of course, got buttercream all over it)

Thank you, pals! 🚀

Good morning, Womble! I'm currently reading THE BRIDES by Charlotte Cross, a Dracula-inspired epistolary novel and I am LOVING it so far!

Ah, fantastic! Happy birthday!

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

Thanks! I'd been despairing over what dress to wear. Then I remembered my suit! I am, of course, wearing it with the Hayao Miyazaki "Anime was a mistake" t-shirt I got at Glasgow WorldCon

Thank you!

Aww thank you pal! 😊

Thanks pal!

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www.guttermag.co.uk/submit

Thank you! 😁

Thaaank you!

Thank you! 😁 Yeah I was beginning to worry I'd gone too morbid, but when I saw the cake I had no regrets

A photo of a funfetti heart-shaped cake with candles in the shape of a 4 and a 0. Written in pink icing is the phrase "halfway there".

When I picked up my birthday cake, another customer asked what I was halfway to. Retirement? I replied, while doing jazz hands, "To the graaaave!"

I have never seen anyone look so horrified. Anyway, big thanks to Dale and Krema bakehouse for indulging my morbid sense of humour.

Adding alt text here because, for some reason, bsky wouldn't let me do it on the previous post:

Rhiannon (white cis female with shoulder-length blue hair) poses and flips her hair in front of inflated 4 and 0 balloons.

BIRTHDAY 🎂

I very much hope those in government will read this and understand the risk they're taking with one of the UK's most consistently successful sectors - a risk profoundly bound up in an enormous speculative bubble and tech that has horrific externalities and is terrible at nearly everything.