So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽
Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗
@solarisbooks.bsky.social 🖤
Ian Mond, Locus: Slatter is a tremendous writer, with a body of work that puts her in the top echelon of contemporary fantasy authors. With AFD, she’s elevated those skills to another level giving us a work that isn’t just a cracking story richly told, but also connects at a personal intimate level.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
This book made me cry with joy and heartache every time I read it for edits. Beautiful, delightful and poignant all in one
Did you wish Kwa had more 'screentime' in book 1? Then you'll love this one
Against a gold background, white text: "Solaris Books on Locus' Recommended Reading List" Below, a series of book covers with white text indicating the category in which they are nominated. THE SALT ORACLE by Lorraine Wilson (scifi novel) THE NEEDFIRE by MK Hardy (horror novel) THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ by Isabel Cañas (horror novel) THE TOMB OF DRAGONS (fantasy novel) and THE ORB OF CAIRADO (novella) by Katherine Addison STARSTRIKE by Yoon Ha Lee (Young Adult)
🎉 We're so excited to see SIX Solaris books on @locusmag.bsky.social 's 2025 Recommended Reading list! https://bit.ly/3ZwRhK5
Feat. @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com @isabelcanas.bsky.social @pennyvixen.bsky.social and @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social
Locus Awards Voting closes 1 April.
My cat Pip rubbing his face against a stack of books I edited. The books are: The Unkillable Princess, A Covenant of Ice, The Desert Talon, The Needfire, Ragwort, The Door on the Sea and The Ganymedan
Proud of all my authors from 2025! And proud of how much I have grown editorially. More from these authors and beyond in 2026
Hello whoever reads this, I am alive, still editing, but also growing and aching and trying to find life away from social media
Amnesty International has a great guide for filling in this strategically poorly constructed survey.
Also having just gotten ILR I see red if I think about this whole thing for too long
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd of hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews have gathered outside ICE headquarters in DC for the largest ever Jewish protest against ICE’s violence and crimes. #jewsagainstICE
[aggressively adds to my TBR]
I am eligible for Best Long Form Editor, but there are about fifteen editors I would vote for before myself 😁 Talented folk, in the SFF editorial field!
Working with Margrét on Nordic Visions was a brilliantly enriching experience, so I’m unbelievably excited to be collaborating again on NORDIC NIGHTMARES! Jumped at the chance to help bring this collection of contemporary Nordic horror into the hands of readers worldwide. Fall 2026!
A great resource and a chance to remind people what great stuff is out there!
Yes! Drop me an email and we can schedule something in!
Omg I love Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise, I had no idea he wrote a whole book on Wagner. I must look into this 👀
Turns out I'll be tagging in for @alrutter.bsky.social at World Fantasycon this weekend: I'll be in the PUBLISHING DEMYSTIFIED panel on Friday and the EDITING AND EDITORS panel on Saturday! Hope to see you there!
As I try to pick clients, I want to make sure they're people who will actually work well with a human in edits. I can't tell if using aids like Grammarly is an immediate red flag. (Using chatGPT for a full draft/whole process is an obvs no) How have you seen ppl using these programmes?
I do freelance editing in addition to my day job &I am encountering more people using programmes eg ProWritingAid to 'assist' in writing their first drafts before coming to me for dev edits/coaching. Wrt making a decision about taking on a client, I'm not sure what to make of this /1
Me holding up a physical copy of my book The Ganymedan
Inside title page: The Ganymedan R.T. Ester Solaris
Page/excerpt from The Ganymedan: DEPROG In the days following Archer Lenox-Pileser’s death, the official account of what happened on the outskirts of Paradox would go unchallenged. A spacer—a sentient ship—had unwittingly ferried his assassin to the station. While docked for a refuel, the spacer learned of its error and alerted Martian Patrol. The assassin then broke out of the spacer using a signal skipper and a wedger. He died of vacuum exposure before Patrol arrived. Every news feed was whipped into endless war speculation by then. The matter of Archer Lenox-Pileser’s final death—shocking as it may have been when it broke—vanished in a few weeks. At Gan, a woman who’d also been in the news allowed her brother to bring a pair of sentients near her tent. She wept into her palm heels while a song for the killer played, harkening back to ghosts pre-Frontier and past evictions from dome houses they built on Ganymede. When she could spare some composure for the sentients, she invited them in. They dropped off a device the killer had wanted her to keep, then gave the full account.
In less than a month, my novel The Ganymedan, which combines Altered Carbon with the spacefacing intrigue of The Expanse, will be out in stores. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. If you already have, thank you kindly!
geni.us/ganym
I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.
If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)
Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book
Realised with a jolt that World Fantasycon is around the corner. I would love to meet folks, especially writers in the folk fantasy and horror spaces! Or please just do say hi!
(I loved writing my theatre review like an AO3 entry, way too proud of it as an idea)
Against a background of blue and teal swirled fabric with red and blue ribbons with a hardback copy of THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russel laid on top. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series
🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska
📕 One of Reactor & Indigo's "Most Anticipated" Books of 2025
🐦⬛ Features a REALLY rude Raven
🎂🎉Happy UK Book Birthday to Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA!
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Only October, but we're already looking ahead to the fantastic books coming out next year: give us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing any of these January titles!
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I'm embarrassed I didn't even think of all the wild and weird film adaptations out there, let alone this one! A bunch of aspects of the book now make even more sense in relation to it. Thank you for reading the review!
Really enjoyed how this review brings theater & speculative criticism together. Good stuff!
I'm also resigned to admit that that 2016 RSC Tempest production will haunt me until I die.
My theatre life and publishing life collide in a book review of this fascinating SF re-imagining of The Tempest!
Good morning it’s their day
