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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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HOME SICK news is on the horizon, but I can't say more than that yet 🤐

Till then, here's another sneak peek of what you'll find on the back cover:
A moody pink graphic featuring the shark-eyed sheep from the cover of HOME SICK. Over the top the text reads: “The symmetry should have tipped me off.” After a violent incident at work, Tamsin goes looking for a fresh start in a remote cottage far away from her old life. Here she could make real friends, find a job she loves, become a whole new person, even. But the solitary cottage is actually a semi-detached, with only a thin wall separating her from a total stranger. Her neighbour is an enigma. Dowdy one moment, vivacious the next, but always wearing an unnerving smile. Tamsin can’t shake the feeling that there’s something wrong with her, especially when she starts experiencing disturbances in her own home. As the locals share strange stories about her house, and her barely contained paranoia spirals out of control, Tamsin begins to suspect that the past she was so desperate to escape might never let her go.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Cheeky Monday Christmas market (when it's not totally hoaching!)
Rhiannon (cis white female with blue hair and a pink wool scarf) and Dale (cis white male with brown wavy hair) stand taking a selfie infront of a festive mulled drinks stall covered in evergreen branches and fairy lights). They hold up paper cups of mulled wine and smile to the camera.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Behold! Tree!
A photo of Rhiannon's Christmas tree decorated in red, gold and white decorations. Handmade red fabric stars. Painted wooden nutcrackers, moons and stars. A million robbins and leaping reindeer. So many tiny gold bells from lindt chocolate santas.
December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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First baileys of the season :3
A photo of a monogrammed glass with a gilt art deco R for Rhiannon. Inside it carries the cold sweet goodness of baileys. It will not last long.
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Behold! Soup!
A saucepan full of homemade chicken soup
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Unexpected item in the bagging area
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. The book sits on a backdrop of mist-wreathed trees. Text around the book reads: This house isn't haunted. She is. A brand new psychological horror from award-winning author Rhiannon Grist.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Book stuff aside, went to see Inside No9 Stage/Fright last night thanks to a very generous gift from a friend.

No spoilers, but I've never been so tense and laughing at the same time in my life!
Photo of the outside of the Edinburgh Playhouse theatre at night. The Inside No9 logo is lit up in red along with several 5 star reviews. Rhiannon (white cis female with shoulder-length blue hair) and her husband Dale (white cis male with short wavy brown hair and beard) smiling and taking a selfie sat on the red seats inside the theatre.
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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After a violent incident at work, Tamsin makes a fresh start in a cottage far from her old life. But the solitary cottage is actually a semi-detached, with only a thin wall between her & a total stranger.

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
Storygraph: tinyurl.com/6j5n5xyx
The cover for HOME SICK on a gradient pink background with half a sheep's head. The cover features two sheep heads looking to the viewer, one with black shark-like eyes. The title of the book is in a pointed, thick font, swirling and dominant. Around the book text reads "This house isn't haunted. She is."
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I, Rhiannon Grist, am not your boss. I am incapable of making you fill out your timesheet, answer your emails, or preorder my cottagegore horror HOME SICK coming out with @solarisbooks.bsky.social in 2026.

So only do it if you want to. Preorder, I mean.

You should probably do your timesheets.
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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As you probably noticed, I completed my @solarisbooks.bsky.social dev edits last month (and went slightly mad in the process).

Well, I recently got feedback on the edit and - good news! - it went great :D

Here are some comments from my editor @alrutter.bsky.social to whet your appetite 👀
A quote against a moody pink backdrop. Quote: "The new BLANK scene was very well embedded. And I confess I snorted at the idea of a teeny BLANK." A quote on a moody pink backdrop. Quote: "I, too, am very pleased with the new BLANK scene - I had chills as I read it." A quote against a moody pink backdrop. Quote: "I think the edits added were breath-taking. I think the book feels so complete now."
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Dropped into the Scottish Christmas Book Fair today to sign some copies of THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (and catch up with the indomitable Fra of @lunapress.bsky.social)
Rhiannon and Fra pose together as Rhiannon holds up a copy of her award-winning novella with a "signed" sticker on it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Preorders are open for HOME SICK 👀🪓🐑
* Cottagegore
* Unhinged women
* Female rage
* Creepy folktales
* I tHiNk I'm GoNnA dIe In ThIs HoUsE

geni.us/homesick
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A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. Text beneath the book cover reads "A troubled woman seeking a fresh start in the Scottish countryside believes her neighbour may be behind the strange disturbances in her home in this psychological horror debut for fans of THE LAMB and WE USED TO LIVE HERE. The cover for HOME SICK surrounded by text reading "Preorder now" and "14th July 2026".
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I'm never underestimating the @solarisbooks.bsky.social PR team ever again
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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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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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"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.
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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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Cover reveal coming soon... 👀🪓🐑
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November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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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
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More info coming soon...
The publishers Marketplace announcement for HOME SICK against a moody backdropy of dark mist-wreathed trees. The announcment reads: British Fantasy Award-winning author of THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS Rhiannon Grist's HOME SICK, a debut horror novel in which a burnt-out career woman escapes to the Scottish countryside in desperate need of a fresh start, but the cottage she thought she bought turns out to be a semi-detached house in the middle of nowhere--unnerviiung neighbour included--and the place she hoped would be a sanctuary becaomes a snare as she loses her grip on reality.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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It's about to get proper unhinged over here 🪓🐑
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Don't say I didn't warn you 🪓🐑
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A graphic showing a blank book cover with a question mark on it. It sits against a moody backdrop of dark misty trees. The words "Coming soon" float around the book.
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I've got some cool stuff happening next week, so this is your final warning to mute me now before I go absolutely feral on main 🪓
Rhiannon stares off screen as if contemplating exciting secrets. Her lips are sealed shut in a very unattractive manner which is why you're getting the picture here and not on instagram where she has to be more "presentable". That's right. Follow me on blue sky for the truly feral updates.
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Heh, nice
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November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Happy publication day to @rainewilson.bsky.social's THE SALT ORACLE!

Looking forward to diving in 🌊
A hardback copy of THE SALT ORACLE sits in a bed of raw blue silk rippling like stormy waves. The book's cover features a golden faced girl with ropes and fish bones in her hair, adrift in a storm-tossed sea beneath dark windy skies.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM