fiona hardy
@fionathehardy.bsky.social
melbourne-based author, reviewer, bookseller & butthead
crime books/kids books/educational books
next up: unbury the dead 💀 out w/ affirm press march 2025
crime books/kids books/educational books
next up: unbury the dead 💀 out w/ affirm press march 2025
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Here are my favourite crime and thriller books of 2025 so far - Part 2! @fionathehardy.bsky.social Matthew Spencer @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social @mbrisso.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social @angiefayemartin.bsky.social @aspyalone.bsky.social John Lawton murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/mid-year-rev...
MID YEAR REVIEW: THE BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOKS OF 2025 … SO FAR!
I am about to head off on a seven week holiday, and thought it would be a good time to look back over the books I have read so far this year and sort through some of the main releases for the rest …
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July 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Here are my favourite crime and thriller books of 2025 so far - Part 2! @fionathehardy.bsky.social Matthew Spencer @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social @mbrisso.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social @angiefayemartin.bsky.social @aspyalone.bsky.social John Lawton murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/mid-year-rev...
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I’m also really enjoying this new crime fiction, set in Melbourne / Victoria. “Unbury the dead” by @fionathehardy.bsky.social. #BookSky 📚💙
July 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I’m also really enjoying this new crime fiction, set in Melbourne / Victoria. “Unbury the dead” by @fionathehardy.bsky.social. #BookSky 📚💙
So super nice to meet Kristin, and all these rad authors and readers! It was an excellent night and always good to meet people you know online in person! 😊
Nice to finally meet you in person @fionathehardy.bsky.social. So grateful to Sisters in Crime and Realm Library, Ringwood for this event. Lots of great & interesting insights about crime, writing & these amazing women of course. Vikki Petraitis, Christine Keighery and Mandy Beaumont.
April 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
So super nice to meet Kristin, and all these rad authors and readers! It was an excellent night and always good to meet people you know online in person! 😊
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Nice to finally meet you in person @fionathehardy.bsky.social. So grateful to Sisters in Crime and Realm Library, Ringwood for this event. Lots of great & interesting insights about crime, writing & these amazing women of course. Vikki Petraitis, Christine Keighery and Mandy Beaumont.
April 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Nice to finally meet you in person @fionathehardy.bsky.social. So grateful to Sisters in Crime and Realm Library, Ringwood for this event. Lots of great & interesting insights about crime, writing & these amazing women of course. Vikki Petraitis, Christine Keighery and Mandy Beaumont.
Beside myself right now with how amazing this review is (and she quoted so many of my favourite parts!!) 🥰
Today's review:
Karen Chisholm on Fiona Hardy's debut crime novel:
"Cleverly done, Unbury the Dead is not just highly entertaining crime fiction, it’s refreshingly different."
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/fiona-hardy-...
@fionathehardy.bsky.social
@austcrimefiction.org
#CrimeFiction
#BookSky 💙 📚
Karen Chisholm on Fiona Hardy's debut crime novel:
"Cleverly done, Unbury the Dead is not just highly entertaining crime fiction, it’s refreshingly different."
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/fiona-hardy-...
@fionathehardy.bsky.social
@austcrimefiction.org
#CrimeFiction
#BookSky 💙 📚
April 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Beside myself right now with how amazing this review is (and she quoted so many of my favourite parts!!) 🥰
❤️!
Currently reading Unbury the Dead by @fionathehardy.bsky.social, and it's an outstanding work of suburban yeah noir. I have to assume the only reason Stan hasn't already backed a truck full of cash up to her door is that they're still trying to source a Rolls Royce.
March 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
❤️!
This is the best advice, from the best of advisors ❤️❤️
In double support of @fionathehardy.bsky.social, who has been a bookseller since before I met her in 2009, you should purchase from a small local bookstore!! Keep neighbourhood booksellers in business please! Yes I know it costs more than the bad place DO IT FOR HER
February 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is the best advice, from the best of advisors ❤️❤️
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HAPPY NEW BOOK DAY to @fionathehardy.bsky.social for her exquisite new piece of Melbourne-based Yeah Noir fiction, UNBURY THE DEAD. I loved being asked to advise on this book, I can't wait for you all to read it and I hope it gets a sequel. Buy it from your local bookstore THIS WEEK.
February 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
HAPPY NEW BOOK DAY to @fionathehardy.bsky.social for her exquisite new piece of Melbourne-based Yeah Noir fiction, UNBURY THE DEAD. I loved being asked to advise on this book, I can't wait for you all to read it and I hope it gets a sequel. Buy it from your local bookstore THIS WEEK.
Imagine how anxious Kanye’s pre-teen kids are wondering what outfit their stepmother isn’t going to wear to their school play
February 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Imagine how anxious Kanye’s pre-teen kids are wondering what outfit their stepmother isn’t going to wear to their school play
In this age of zoom chats I was v excited to announce to anyone near me today “I am very busy going to a MEETING with my PUBLISHER!” It was rad to see some of my Affirm team in person AND meet the final print version of my book for the first time 😍
February 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
In this age of zoom chats I was v excited to announce to anyone near me today “I am very busy going to a MEETING with my PUBLISHER!” It was rad to see some of my Affirm team in person AND meet the final print version of my book for the first time 😍
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The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers is now open 🎉
Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now submit. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200.
Visit www.stephboweprize.com to enter!
Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now submit. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200.
Visit www.stephboweprize.com to enter!
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers is now open 🎉
Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now submit. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200.
Visit www.stephboweprize.com to enter!
Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now submit. The winner will receive $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200.
Visit www.stephboweprize.com to enter!
Anyway I just saw this and already feel better!!
For those who sometimes need a break from what's happening in the world, feel free to follow my #Uplift feed:
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Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
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Hand-curated by yours truly, criteria unapologetically subjective.
February 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Anyway I just saw this and already feel better!!
I still check Twitter most days, but I have this rule where I have to stop as soon as I see something depressing. Anyway today I kept persevering, hoping for gold, and just made myself sad instead because the algorithm is all “you’re here so I guess you want to see some jerks, huh?”
February 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I still check Twitter most days, but I have this rule where I have to stop as soon as I see something depressing. Anyway today I kept persevering, hoping for gold, and just made myself sad instead because the algorithm is all “you’re here so I guess you want to see some jerks, huh?”
PALS it’s my cover reveal and isn’t she just the best?? UNBURY THE DEAD is out on February 25!
Alice is driving a dead body to his final resting place. Teddy’s on the hunt for a missing person. Everything’s about to go wrong, and the two of them have to figure out what the hell happened. Hooray!! 💀
Alice is driving a dead body to his final resting place. Teddy’s on the hunt for a missing person. Everything’s about to go wrong, and the two of them have to figure out what the hell happened. Hooray!! 💀
January 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
PALS it’s my cover reveal and isn’t she just the best?? UNBURY THE DEAD is out on February 25!
Alice is driving a dead body to his final resting place. Teddy’s on the hunt for a missing person. Everything’s about to go wrong, and the two of them have to figure out what the hell happened. Hooray!! 💀
Alice is driving a dead body to his final resting place. Teddy’s on the hunt for a missing person. Everything’s about to go wrong, and the two of them have to figure out what the hell happened. Hooray!! 💀
AI journalism: incorrect, boring, taking jobs away from an industry that needs them
This journalism: 😍
This journalism: 😍
This is a terrific article about a "debate" that does the unthinkable: Investigates both sides's arguments on the merits and concludes that one side of the debate is wrong.
It can be done!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
It can be done!
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud?
Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian.
www.newyorker.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
AI journalism: incorrect, boring, taking jobs away from an industry that needs them
This journalism: 😍
This journalism: 😍
I know I’m in a perpetual rage about AI, but I think it’ll be a short-lived era. Because it is already awful and will only get worse, right? It will start learning from all the borked AI stuff out there and will think the incorrect facts are true and the messed-up graphics are fine?
January 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I know I’m in a perpetual rage about AI, but I think it’ll be a short-lived era. Because it is already awful and will only get worse, right? It will start learning from all the borked AI stuff out there and will think the incorrect facts are true and the messed-up graphics are fine?
Pals, I’m staying in Bendigo overnight for an evening shenanigan soonish — what fun things can I do there during my daytime hours?
January 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Pals, I’m staying in Bendigo overnight for an evening shenanigan soonish — what fun things can I do there during my daytime hours?
Some resolutions for 2025:
- Consume extra plastic, especially microplastics
- Practise unkindness
- Start smoking
- Double my screen time
- Eat more candy. Perhaps stolen from babies
- Be less mindful
- Consume extra plastic, especially microplastics
- Practise unkindness
- Start smoking
- Double my screen time
- Eat more candy. Perhaps stolen from babies
- Be less mindful
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Some resolutions for 2025:
- Consume extra plastic, especially microplastics
- Practise unkindness
- Start smoking
- Double my screen time
- Eat more candy. Perhaps stolen from babies
- Be less mindful
- Consume extra plastic, especially microplastics
- Practise unkindness
- Start smoking
- Double my screen time
- Eat more candy. Perhaps stolen from babies
- Be less mindful
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Crime fiction peeps, I am after your help. I am looking for suggestions for radical female authored crime fiction from the UK between 1970 and 2000. This is for a research project I am scoping out. Any & all recommendations would be very appreciated but please note my time frame before you post.
December 27, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Crime fiction peeps, I am after your help. I am looking for suggestions for radical female authored crime fiction from the UK between 1970 and 2000. This is for a research project I am scoping out. Any & all recommendations would be very appreciated but please note my time frame before you post.
Can anybody here make me feel better about my kid having to get herself home from high school next year by reassuring me about how they had to walk home ten miles uphill both ways in the snow etc from four years old?
December 27, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Can anybody here make me feel better about my kid having to get herself home from high school next year by reassuring me about how they had to walk home ten miles uphill both ways in the snow etc from four years old?
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"Our business only works with theft" boohoo then shut down you flogs
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:32 PM
"Our business only works with theft" boohoo then shut down you flogs
Imagine being so famous you become a waffle
December 15, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Imagine being so famous you become a waffle
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ChatGPT is the kid that didn't read the book before doing the book report, it just talked to other kids from the previous class. Maybe it got good information from them, maybe not, but it has no idea whether it's saying anything true.
December 10, 2024 at 2:46 PM
ChatGPT is the kid that didn't read the book before doing the book report, it just talked to other kids from the previous class. Maybe it got good information from them, maybe not, but it has no idea whether it's saying anything true.