Genoveva Dimova
@gen-dimova.bsky.social
Author of FOUL DAYS and MONSTROUS NIGHTS 🧙♀️ and the forthcoming THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT 🏛️ Archaeologist ⛏ Immigrant 🇧🇬🏴 (She/her)
Pre-order The Shape of Monsters online at Waterstones now for a discount - that's a neat 25% off! Modern gothic fantasy where two siblings are about to return to an ancestral home and summon a monster. Dark and mythic, complicated family dynamics, queer disasters @portyliterary.bsky.social
Hidra publicará el 26 de octubre la novela NOCHES MONSTRUOSAS de Genoveva Dimova @gen-dimova.bsky.social, desenlace de la bilogía EL BESTIARIO DE LA BRUJA, en el que la protagonista debe detener una serie de fenómenos sobrenaturales que amenazan con destruirlo todo: distopolis.com/la-editorial...
Shouting out a recent favourite: Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social is a brilliant, twisty, hilarious horror about a woman who moves to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands but her cottagecore dreams quickly turn into cottagecore nightmares. Absolutely loved it.
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HEY MY DEBUT IS OUT TODAY AND IDK I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY TBH THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME DO YOU WANNA BUY IT NO WORRIES IF NOT also also i'm finally listening to the full audiobook and jfc kristin atherton is a fucking legend www.penguin.co.uk/books/474739...
Atomic Coffin
'Combines a cold war spy novel with lurking horrors beneath the sea . . . a creepy, disorientating journey into fear.' Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN 'Feels like an underwater version of Event Horizon, with ...
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John is an absolute treasure. I'm so excited for The Dragon Has Some Complaints to come out in July!
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoHad a great time talking with Renan about The Dragon Has Some Complaints, as well as the fraught concept of "monstrosity." Along the way, I couldn't help by gush about @gen-dimova.bsky.social and @breebird33.bsky.social.
In light of recent acquisitions announcements (inc. @gen-dimova.bsky.social and @davegoodman.bsky.social !) we thought now would be a good time to remind you of our Solaris authors starter pack, where you can find all of the wonderful authors who have made it over to the Blue Side all in one place!
Slowly taking over the Solaris list 😈
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 5mo agoIn honour of @cymerafestival.co.uk - Scotland's excellent festival of SFFH - revealing their programme for 2026, meet the Solaris authors who make Scotland their home! @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @davegoodman.bsky.social @gen-dimova.bsky.social
📢 The #Cymera2026 programme is LIVE NOW! 🤩 Check out our website for the full list of this year's panels — featuring authors like Fonda Lee, Shannon Chakraborty, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Claire North, Paul Tremblay and SO much more! Browse the programme: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26
THE SECRET I HAVE BEEN (BADLY) SITTING ON IS NO LONGER A SECRET Tor UK have bought the print rights for my Audible Originals The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light! www.thebookseller.com/rights/tor-s...
Tor snares The Shape of Monsters and a sequel by CL Hellisen
Tor UK, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired The Shape of Monsters and A Million Points of Light by author CL Hellisen.
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🎉ICYMI🎉 We've snapped up THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT by @gen-dimova.bsky.social for the UK! 👉 https://bit.ly/4sg10Rn THE SPELLSHOP meets NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM in this cosy fantasy! @alrutter.bsky.social acquired UK/BC English language rights from @benglishhh.bsky.social.
👻🚢🚨COVER REVEAL!🚨🚢👻 Feast your eyes on @mkhardywrites.com's forthcoming supernatural Victorian mystery - THE HAUNTING OF AVIS LOVELOCK - revealed by The Nerd Daily! Setting sail in August 2026. Preorder now https://geni.us/avisl Cover by Black Sheep Design.
Here it is! HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS my new Babel x Buffy the Vampire Slayer historical fantasy novel out 28th July Cover by Toma Nguyen, art director Ella Garrett
I'm so excited that my archaeology-inspired cosy fantasy THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT is coming to the UK with one of my favourite publishers!
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago🎉ACQUISITION ANNOUCEMENT🎉 We've snapped up THE TRAVELLING MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT by @gen-dimova.bsky.social for the UK! 👉 https://bit.ly/4sg10Rn THE SPELLSHOP meets NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM in this cosy fantasy! @alrutter.bsky.social acquired UK/BC English language rights from @benglishhh.bsky.social.
NORTH AMERICA, SUBNAUTICAL INSANITY IS EN ROUTE ⚠️
Saga Press Books@sagapressbooks.bsky.social · 6mo agoATOMIC COFFIN by @benedictanning.bsky.social is the Tom Clancy horror novel you didn’t know you needed. In 1984 East Berlin, Heidi Sperling, a British spy, uncovers a hidden USSR underwater base with a terrifying secret. Deep-sea claustrophobia & David Lynch vibes? This is one twisty debut.
Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon. All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
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John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 12mo agoUnveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
Hey Glasgow/central belt folks, please do come join us for this next week. Apparently there's tickets left & I can promise to rave about orcas, tell you ghost stories and dance* *one of these might be a lie. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
Love Lethal Death Divine is on NetGalley! You can request it today!
think I'm going to re-read Foul Days (The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1) by @gen-dimova.bsky.social such a great duology and is set during these days of winter. Slavic folklore and an East Bloc vibe, a witch fights monsters loose in the walled off city of Belograd during the unblessed days
You want my top ten favorite books I read this year? How about my top ten movies? Top ten games? You got it. Made all three lists and made one giant rack of positivity for your solstice pleasure. Come celebrate great art with me. johnwiswell.substack.com/p/the-best-p...
The Best Parts of A Hard Year
Good job crossing the finish line, fellow temporal beings.
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The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.
Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 9mo agoI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
I got to beta read this and it's excellent!
Cee Jordan@cjorwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago#Roundtablementor #A #F #R #UN A maiden stripped of magic must seduce her people’s greatest sea-faring enemy – then use him to break her curse and regain her family’s long lost honour. THE FOXGLOVE KING’s scheming protagonist meets A FATE INKED IN BLOOD's swooning romance inspired by Irish myth.
Heyo! On Tuesday, 11/4 join me and *the* @hanalee.bsky.social at Books Inc. for THE KING MUST DIE’s book launch!
🚨This is an emergency🚨 This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life. Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban @transsolidarity.bsky.social #ScrapTheBathroomBan
The first two books are so good, I'm so excited for the third!
Solaris Books@solarisbooks.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚨ICYMI ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 It's time to complete the trilogy! We've snapped up @csecooney.bsky.social 's third instalment in the World Fantasy Award-winning SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER series: SAINT DEATH'S DOORWAY. Spring 2027. Lanie Stones will be back. Learn More bit.ly/4nCm2HR
ICYMI yesterday. "Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.” www.julietemckenna.com/new-book-new...
🐇 💀 COVER REVEAL 💀 🐇 I’m SO excited to reveal the UK cover of my next novel, The Bone Door! A fantasy/horror escape room novel, coming 7 May 2026
Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
