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Rhiannon Grist
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Word Person | BFA winner | Best of British SciFi '19, '20 & '23 | THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (Luna Press) | HOME SICK (2026, Solaris) | She/Her | https://rhiannongrist.com

Preorders open for HOME SICK: https://geni.us/homesick
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Rhiannon Grist @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · Aug 25
Now with a shiny new end card! I've been busy making lots of sneak peeks and promos. I can't wait to share them with you. It's gonna be a scream 🥰
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
I think the reason romantasy is dwarfing sales of fantasy & sci-fi is that it's a subset of romance.

And romance is the biggest, most profitable category in literature.

Romantasy allowed romance readers, who read very widely, to take cross-genre romance mainstream & it's reaping the rewards.
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
This is very freaking cool!
solarisbooks.bsky.social Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Take a look at @samkhorton.bsky.social 's RAGWORT, gracing the front cover of @thebookseller.com 's South West focus issue!

Explore the deliciously dark folkloric fantasy world of Nancy Bligh, the Keeper of Mirecombe in 18th Century Cornwall.

Buy now: https://geni.us/ragwort
A splayed out selection of THE BOOKSELLER mags with Sam K. Horton's RAGWORT on the cover.
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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seizethepress.bsky.social
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent"

We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
Lyndsey Croal on Scottish ghost stories, ambiguity in folklore, and her book Dark Crescent | Seize The Press Magazine
Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon
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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
More from the People cover reveal for HOME SICK last Friday 👀🪓🐑
A screen grab of the People article headline reading "Rhiannon Grist's 'cottagegore' Horror Home Sick will make your skin crawl. See the cover! (Exclusive)." There is a picture of the cover which fearture two creepy sheep looking out at the viewer against a dark pink gradient. There is also a rather nice photo of Rhiannon, looking off as a golden beam of light dances across her eyes and cheeks. A screengrab from the article reading "Home Sick follows Tamsin, who is trying to move forward after a violent incident rocks her workplace. To get away, she finds a new home in the Scottish countryside, in a remote cottage where the possibilities to reinvent herself seem endless. But Tamsin’s new home isn’t as isolated as she thought. Beyond a thin wall is her neighbor, a woman who is never without an "unnerving smile,” per the book's synopsis. When a series of unsettling events begin to happen inside Tamsin’s cottage, she believes her neighbor may be even more sinister than she first suspected." A screen grab of the article reading "Grist deems Home Sick an “anti-Hallmark book,” putting a dark twist on the familiar trope of a main character’s fresh start. “A burnt-out woman moves to the countryside, but instead of falling in love with a local, she falls into a nightmare. Instead of escapism, she gets a confrontation,” Grist says. “It’s cottagegore with unhinged women, creepy folktales and the world’s worst fixer-upper." And Grist says she’s seen many early readers recognize themselves in Tamsin — an “eye-opening” experience that she hopes will continue upon publication. “There's so much pressure to have everything together these days, but so many of us feel like we’re holding on by a thread,” the author says. “I hope readers will find more than a horror story in Home Sick. I hope they use it to exorcise their own demons, too.”"
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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stewarthotston.com
if you are disgusted by government proposals for refugees - please, please write to both your local MP and to public.enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk

Fill their inbox with your shock and dismay. Be polite but be clear

If you want text then I'm happy to share what I wrote
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
The common advice is that horror books should be short, mostly because terror is a difficult effect to maintain. However, I've always been drawn to Horror epics. Give me people who spend their lives, maybe even multiple generations, haunted by an unspeakable horror.
sadiehartmann.bsky.social Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d
A reader named Amanda messaged me for my "long book" recommendations so I compiled a few favorites. Long books for the Long Dark.
IT
King Sorrow
review! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Our Share of Night
Wayward
The Square of Sevens
Blackwater
Plain Bad Heroines
Book stack of all the mentioned books
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
The common advice is that horror books should be short, mostly because terror is a difficult effect to maintain. However, I've always been drawn to Horror epics. Give me people who spend their lives, maybe even multiple generations, haunted by an unspeakable horror.
sadiehartmann.bsky.social Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 1d
A reader named Amanda messaged me for my "long book" recommendations so I compiled a few favorites. Long books for the Long Dark.
IT
King Sorrow
review! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Our Share of Night
Wayward
The Square of Sevens
Blackwater
Plain Bad Heroines
Book stack of all the mentioned books
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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sadiehartmann.bsky.social
A reader named Amanda messaged me for my "long book" recommendations so I compiled a few favorites. Long books for the Long Dark.
IT
King Sorrow
review! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Our Share of Night
Wayward
The Square of Sevens
Blackwater
Plain Bad Heroines
Book stack of all the mentioned books
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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tristangrayford.scot
Labour turning the dial that says "racism" and looking back towards the public like a contestant on the price is right only to discover every time they turn the dial the only thing that changes is Reform's increasing vote share.

Your strategy of xenophobia has already failed. More won't help.
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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eidyngray.scot
What's that, a new project in the works? 👀
Kickstarter page by Tristan Gray saying Watch this space, coming soon!
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Take a look at @samkhorton.bsky.social 's RAGWORT, gracing the front cover of @thebookseller.com 's South West focus issue!

Explore the deliciously dark folkloric fantasy world of Nancy Bligh, the Keeper of Mirecombe in 18th Century Cornwall.

Buy now: https://geni.us/ragwort
A splayed out selection of THE BOOKSELLER mags with Sam K. Horton's RAGWORT on the cover.
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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alrutter.bsky.social
I acquired this novel a while ago, and it's a stunning read - it's so clever, and intimate, and downright scary. It was brilliant when I first read it, but with the edits Rhiannon worked through it, it's just amazing. And Katie Klim produced the most perfect cover ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Rhiannon Grist’s ‘Cottagegore’ Horror 'Home Sick' Will Make Your Skin Crawl — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Rhiannon Grist is debuting a new psychological horror novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive preview of 'Home Sick', a new book that puts a dark spin on the haunted house story.
people.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
HOME SICK
14 JULY 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Cover by the amazing @katieklim.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Rhiannon is an amazing writer and I am so deliriously excited for this 🤩
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jamreads.com
Love the cover
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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dorianmaffei.bsky.social
😍!! It's a perfect time for you to preorder!
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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jessgofton.bsky.social
I'm beyond excited for everyone to get their hands on this book next summer! I can't remember the last time I had to put a horror novel down for a little bit in the middle of reading because it hit too close to home (sick).

HOME SICK is a phenomenal debut and it's available to preorder now! 🏘️
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
HOME SICK
14 JULY 2026
@solarisbooks.bsky.social

Cover by the amazing @katieklim.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
Sorry for the delay.
We had to wait on timezones.
Because HOME SICK just had its cover reveal in People Magazine.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Rhiannon Grist’s ‘Cottagegore’ Horror 'Home Sick' Will Make Your Skin Crawl — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
Rhiannon Grist is debuting a new psychological horror novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive preview of 'Home Sick', a new book that puts a dark spin on the haunted house story.
people.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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helleborezine.bsky.social
Our Piper at the Gates of Dawn jumper stirred a bit of Satanic Panic! Thank you, @davidmbarnett.bsky.social, for covering this story for The Guardian.

By popular demand, you can get the jumper that got banned from Westminster Abbey here: everpress.com/hellebore-pi...
Guardian headline: 'Demonic' Wind in the Willows jumper banned from Westminster Abbey
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
"This place, I thought it would be perfect.
I thought, I want it to be perfect.
Please, let it be perfect."
- House by Charlie xcx ft. John Cale

HOME SICK cover reveal tomorrow.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
A moody graphic of a blank book cover with a question mark in the front, against dark misty trees, surrounded by the words "Home Sick cover reveal tomorrow".
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
"This place, I thought it would be perfect.
I thought, I want it to be perfect.
Please, let it be perfect."
- House by Charlie xcx ft. John Cale

HOME SICK cover reveal tomorrow.
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
A moody graphic of a blank book cover with a question mark in the front, against dark misty trees, surrounded by the words "Home Sick cover reveal tomorrow".
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
Cover reveal coming soon... 👀🪓🐑
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
It's getting closer...
A cover reveal teaser graphic of a book with a question mark on its cover set against a moody backdrop of dark mist-wreathed trees. The words "Home Sick cover reveal coming soon" surround the book.
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM