Frances Hardinge
@franceshardinge.bsky.social
Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
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ICYMI, there's been another fake Facebook account pretending to be me. I am NOT on Facebook. If you come across (or are approached by) a Facebook account pretending to be me, it's a fraudster. Please report them to Facebook as a fake!
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⭐ #Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams): "A short, atmospheric tale told through @franceshardinge.bsky.social ’s skillful fairy-tale prose + Emily Gravett’s art, which intertwines, illuminates, + sometimes takes over pgs altogether" www.hbook.com/story/review...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
⭐ #Fiction #HBReviewoftheWeek THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams): "A short, atmospheric tale told through @franceshardinge.bsky.social ’s skillful fairy-tale prose + Emily Gravett’s art, which intertwines, illuminates, + sometimes takes over pgs altogether" www.hbook.com/story/review...
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Hoy a las 16:00 estaré de nuevo en el #Festival42, esta vez charlando sobre fantástico oscuro con @franceshardinge.bsky.social , @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , @theprofrog.bsky.social y @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Se puede ver en streaming también.
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Fantàstic, gòtic i terror pop, amb Frances Hardinge, Ben Aaronovitch, Roger Luckhurst i Grady Hendrix
Què tenen en comú un historiador del gòtic, un autor de terror pop, una escriptora de fantasia obscura i un hibridador de gèneres exguionista de Doctor Who? Més del que sembla! Tots escriuen i pensen ...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hoy a las 16:00 estaré de nuevo en el #Festival42, esta vez charlando sobre fantástico oscuro con @franceshardinge.bsky.social , @benaaronovitch.bsky.social , @theprofrog.bsky.social y @gradyhendrix.bsky.social . Se puede ver en streaming también.
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Espectacular la mesa redonda de @benaaronovitch.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social y Roger Luckhurst al #Festival42 moderados por @sergiviciana.bsky.social 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Espectacular la mesa redonda de @benaaronovitch.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social @franceshardinge.bsky.social y Roger Luckhurst al #Festival42 moderados por @sergiviciana.bsky.social 🤩
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Aquesta és la setmana del 42 🚀🖤
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/ca
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/ca
Hi ha altres mons, i tots hi volen, pel 42. Us animeu a pujar-hi?
Del 5 al 9 de novembre el vestíbul de la Fabra i Coats s'omplirà de llibres durant el Festival 42 de gèneres fantàstics.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Aquesta és la setmana del 42 🚀🖤
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/ca
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/ca
Great news! My partner in crime, the brilliant Emily Gravett, has been nominated for the #Carnegie Medal for Illustration for her wonderful pictures in our book #TheForestofAThousandEyes!
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The Carnegies
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November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great news! My partner in crime, the brilliant Emily Gravett, has been nominated for the #Carnegie Medal for Illustration for her wonderful pictures in our book #TheForestofAThousandEyes!
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Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
November 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
ICYMI, later this week I will be appearing at #Festival42 in Barcelona! Here are the details of my events on 7th and 8th November.
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/e...
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Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge, born in Brighton in 1973, is a writer of dark fantasy for children and young adults.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICYMI, later this week I will be appearing at #Festival42 in Barcelona! Here are the details of my events on 7th and 8th November.
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/e...
www.barcelona.cat/festival42/e...
Happy Halloween, everyone!
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Happy Halloween, everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
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First Ink unveils award-winning Frances Hardinge’s YA historical fantasy
First Ink has acquired Traitors’ Nest, a historical YA fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of the Costa Book of the Year 2015, The Lie Tree.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm very happy to announce that my next novel TRAITORS' NEST will be published in July 2026 by Macmillan's imprint First Ink!
www.thebookseller.com/rights/first...
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Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Vallvidrera, near Barcelona, has a curling club. Each season, the members of the club go to the local reservoir and toss a stone in to see if the ice is strong enough to play. Since the water never freezes, they go for brunch instead and raise the toast, ‘We shall play one day’.
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Why do they look like they’re from a 1970s British sitcom?
I just learned about the hyrax. An animal that looks like they're just done with everyone's bullshit
October 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Why do they look like they’re from a 1970s British sitcom?
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Then, broth the ramen: “over-pour.”
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Then, broth the ramen: “over-pour.”
The database of eligible books for the Anthropic lawsuit settlement is now live:
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If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish.
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If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish.
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Submit a Claim
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October 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The database of eligible books for the Anthropic lawsuit settlement is now live:
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
If you're an author and any of your books are in the database, this site lists your options and lets you file a claim if you wish.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
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If you believe the specific requirement for additional registration with the US Copyright Office is excluding work you know was stolen for the LibGen database, let the SoA know.
A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If you believe the specific requirement for additional registration with the US Copyright Office is excluding work you know was stolen for the LibGen database, let the SoA know.
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Today at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social , I ask @franwilde.bsky.social about her Six Books
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6 Books with Fran Wilde
Fran Wilde is the award-winning author of A Philosophy of Thieves, out 30th of September from Erewhon Books. You can find her at her website...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#TheForestOfAThousandEyes, my second collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, is released in the US today!
www.abramsbooks.com/product/fore...
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Forest of a Thousand Eyes
This original illustrated middle-grade fantasy fromacclaimed author and illustrator duo Frances Hardinge and Emily Gravett follows a girl who must venture through the ravenous, dangerous Forest that h...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#TheForestOfAThousandEyes, my second collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, is released in the US today!
www.abramsbooks.com/product/fore...
www.abramsbooks.com/product/fore...
By the way, reporting it as a 'fake profile' doesn't appear to work since it demands to know what my real Facebook account is, and doesn't seem to accept other URLs any more. But reporting it as 'scam, fraud or false information' does seem to work.
Sorry to bother people again, but yet another fraudster Facebook account has appeared pretending to me. To reiterate, I am NOT on Facebook. Is there any chance people could report this scam account as well? Thank you!
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August 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
By the way, reporting it as a 'fake profile' doesn't appear to work since it demands to know what my real Facebook account is, and doesn't seem to accept other URLs any more. But reporting it as 'scam, fraud or false information' does seem to work.
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Mythopoeia is a subgenre of speculative fiction where the author develops fictionalized or artificial mythology.
This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social
This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social
Winners of the 2025 Mythopoeic Awards (announced August, 2025) 6 books by Lia
Mythopoeia is a subgenre of speculative fiction where the author develops fictionalized or artificial mythology. The Mythopoeic Society honors authors in this space each year. Acknowledged masters…
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August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Mythopoeia is a subgenre of speculative fiction where the author develops fictionalized or artificial mythology.
This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social
This year, The Mythopoeic Society honors @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @amiekaufman.bsky.social, Minsoo Kang, & Stefan Ekman! hardcover.app/@liashl/list... @mythsoc.bsky.social
Sorry to bother people again, but yet another fraudster Facebook account has appeared pretending to me. To reiterate, I am NOT on Facebook. Is there any chance people could report this scam account as well? Thank you!
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August 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sorry to bother people again, but yet another fraudster Facebook account has appeared pretending to me. To reiterate, I am NOT on Facebook. Is there any chance people could report this scam account as well? Thank you!
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
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Most doctors agree on a simple plan for life:
- drink water
- get some rest
- exercise once every thousand years
- cover your corporeal form in moss & wildflowers
- shamble slowly through the old forest and become a dark legend of the wildlands
- drink water
- get some rest
- exercise once every thousand years
- cover your corporeal form in moss & wildflowers
- shamble slowly through the old forest and become a dark legend of the wildlands
July 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Most doctors agree on a simple plan for life:
- drink water
- get some rest
- exercise once every thousand years
- cover your corporeal form in moss & wildflowers
- shamble slowly through the old forest and become a dark legend of the wildlands
- drink water
- get some rest
- exercise once every thousand years
- cover your corporeal form in moss & wildflowers
- shamble slowly through the old forest and become a dark legend of the wildlands
A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards!
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The Mythopoeic Society - Mythopoeic Awards 2025
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August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A lovely start to the month! Island of Whispers (my first collaboration with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) has won the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Awards!
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
www.mythsoc.org/awards/award...
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THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams) by @franceshardinge.bsky.social; illus. by Emily Gravett will receive a starred review in the September/October 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
THE FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (Amulet/Abrams) by @franceshardinge.bsky.social; illus. by Emily Gravett will receive a starred review in the September/October 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...
I'm utterly delighted to reveal that Island of Whispers (one of my collaborations with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) is on the shortlist for the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards!
mythsoc.org/news/news-20...
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The Mythopoeic Society: 2025 Mythopoeic Awards finalists announced
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June 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I'm utterly delighted to reveal that Island of Whispers (one of my collaborations with brilliant illustrator Emily Gravett) is on the shortlist for the Children's Literature category of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards!
mythsoc.org/news/news-20...
mythsoc.org/news/news-20...
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#nature #photography #raven #birds This raven was nice enough to pose for a photoshoot. That, or it was here to warn of my impending doom. Either way, I think I got it good side.
June 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
#nature #photography #raven #birds This raven was nice enough to pose for a photoshoot. That, or it was here to warn of my impending doom. Either way, I think I got it good side.
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.