September 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Celebrating being shortlisted for the LA Times' First Fiction Award.during today's #5amwritersclub.
Last year's LA Times Festival of Books was a blast, &I'm excited to return!
Truly humbled &honored by the recognition! 🥳💚
#LATimesfestivalofbooks #debutfiction #Caribbeanauthor #ReadCaribbean
Last year's LA Times Festival of Books was a blast, &I'm excited to return!
Truly humbled &honored by the recognition! 🥳💚
#LATimesfestivalofbooks #debutfiction #Caribbeanauthor #ReadCaribbean
February 19, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Celebrating being shortlisted for the LA Times' First Fiction Award.during today's #5amwritersclub.
Last year's LA Times Festival of Books was a blast, &I'm excited to return!
Truly humbled &honored by the recognition! 🥳💚
#LATimesfestivalofbooks #debutfiction #Caribbeanauthor #ReadCaribbean
Last year's LA Times Festival of Books was a blast, &I'm excited to return!
Truly humbled &honored by the recognition! 🥳💚
#LATimesfestivalofbooks #debutfiction #Caribbeanauthor #ReadCaribbean
Here it is, the cover of my debut fiction. Cover by Stuart Bache. Editing and copy editing by Kenneth Zink. Publication date June 1st. ARCs available now on BookSiren and Bookfunnel (let me know and I'll send you a link). #debutfiction #dystopian #upmarket #writingcommunity
March 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Here it is, the cover of my debut fiction. Cover by Stuart Bache. Editing and copy editing by Kenneth Zink. Publication date June 1st. ARCs available now on BookSiren and Bookfunnel (let me know and I'll send you a link). #debutfiction #dystopian #upmarket #writingcommunity
Pretty excited get a decent Kirkus review for my debut, & also this little box that says "Our verdict GET IT" which Google tells me is a very good thing. Book comes out June 1. Advance copies available... www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #writingcommunity #debutfiction
April 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Pretty excited get a decent Kirkus review for my debut, & also this little box that says "Our verdict GET IT" which Google tells me is a very good thing. Book comes out June 1. Advance copies available... www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... #writingcommunity #debutfiction
Proud to be supporting this gorgeous debut that is now out in paperback 🫶 @wearefootnote.bsky.social @florawillis.bsky.social #paperback #debutfiction #mongrel #booksky #bookish #booklovers #londonbillboard #bookcommunity
February 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Proud to be supporting this gorgeous debut that is now out in paperback 🫶 @wearefootnote.bsky.social @florawillis.bsky.social #paperback #debutfiction #mongrel #booksky #bookish #booklovers #londonbillboard #bookcommunity
A stunning novel that I recommend everyone reads! Now out in paperback 🥳 #booksky #publicationday #newbookrelease #debutauthor #debutfiction #booklovers #bookcommunity
We're so excited that this extraordinary debut is out now in paperback!
Get your copy of Hanako Footman's Mongrel: geni.us/MongrelPaperback
Get your copy of Hanako Footman's Mongrel: geni.us/MongrelPaperback
February 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A stunning novel that I recommend everyone reads! Now out in paperback 🥳 #booksky #publicationday #newbookrelease #debutauthor #debutfiction #booklovers #bookcommunity
I went back to my alma mater, West Virginia University, and I read from my book. When I was an MFA student attending readings, I said, "Someday it's going to be me up there." Yesterday, it was. This is a picture of me this morning standing outside of Colson Hall holding my book. #debutfiction
November 12, 2024 at 11:35 PM
I went back to my alma mater, West Virginia University, and I read from my book. When I was an MFA student attending readings, I said, "Someday it's going to be me up there." Yesterday, it was. This is a picture of me this morning standing outside of Colson Hall holding my book. #debutfiction
🌟 We're thrilled to have the amazing @rachelneely.bsky.social, from Mushens Entertainment and Imogen Nelson from Transworld as our judges this year.
We can't wait to see which new fiction captures their attention🌟 #FirstNovelPrize #DebutFiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting
We can't wait to see which new fiction captures their attention🌟 #FirstNovelPrize #DebutFiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting
May 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🌟 We're thrilled to have the amazing @rachelneely.bsky.social, from Mushens Entertainment and Imogen Nelson from Transworld as our judges this year.
We can't wait to see which new fiction captures their attention🌟 #FirstNovelPrize #DebutFiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting
We can't wait to see which new fiction captures their attention🌟 #FirstNovelPrize #DebutFiction #WritingCommunity #amwriting
Next week, advance copies will be available! Here's a little cover peak of my debut fiction: The Binding. An alternate history set in an America where the colonists never made it West of the Appalachian Mtns. #writingcommunity #debutfiction #dystopian #althist #indieauthor
February 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Next week, advance copies will be available! Here's a little cover peak of my debut fiction: The Binding. An alternate history set in an America where the colonists never made it West of the Appalachian Mtns. #writingcommunity #debutfiction #dystopian #althist #indieauthor
March 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Today we're unboxing our upcoming issue, One Story #339, "Monarch" by PK Damilare Abiodun. This issue will hit mailboxes on July 16th & is a debut fiction publication! #reading #litmag #fiction #debutfiction #shortstories #readers #unboxing #fictionfirst
July 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Today we're unboxing our upcoming issue, One Story #339, "Monarch" by PK Damilare Abiodun. This issue will hit mailboxes on July 16th & is a debut fiction publication! #reading #litmag #fiction #debutfiction #shortstories #readers #unboxing #fictionfirst
It's publication day for my debut solo novel, The Mercy Step. Kicking things off is a wonderful interview with Nadine Matheson for 'The Conversation" podcast
#TheMercyStep
#debutfiction
#windrush
#blackauthors
#TheMercyStep
#debutfiction
#windrush
#blackauthors
In this clip, @mhut25.bsky.social answers the question: Who is Mercy? We also talk about how we celebrate our successes, even when it doesn’t always come naturally.
🎧 You can listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts
📺 Watch the full episode now on my YouTube channel
🎧 You can listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts
📺 Watch the full episode now on my YouTube channel
July 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It's publication day for my debut solo novel, The Mercy Step. Kicking things off is a wonderful interview with Nadine Matheson for 'The Conversation" podcast
#TheMercyStep
#debutfiction
#windrush
#blackauthors
#TheMercyStep
#debutfiction
#windrush
#blackauthors
The audio book (narrated by none other than yours truly) lands on 22nd July. Get yourself in The Mercy Step mood by listening to my Mercy Spotify playlist. rb.gy/xomn39
#TheMercyStep
#blackwriters
#Debutfiction
#northernwriters
#audiobooks
#TheMercyStep
#blackwriters
#Debutfiction
#northernwriters
#audiobooks
July 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The audio book (narrated by none other than yours truly) lands on 22nd July. Get yourself in The Mercy Step mood by listening to my Mercy Spotify playlist. rb.gy/xomn39
#TheMercyStep
#blackwriters
#Debutfiction
#northernwriters
#audiobooks
#TheMercyStep
#blackwriters
#Debutfiction
#northernwriters
#audiobooks
My book is a #1 Bestseller in Kindle in the category of Death, Grief, and Spirituality and #1 New Release in Kindle in those categories. I am so grateful! #womenwriters #fiction #grief #writer #bookstagram #hellosunshine #debutfiction
February 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My book is a #1 Bestseller in Kindle in the category of Death, Grief, and Spirituality and #1 New Release in Kindle in those categories. I am so grateful! #womenwriters #fiction #grief #writer #bookstagram #hellosunshine #debutfiction
Officially out on sub as of today with my debut speculative novel, "The Binding" A hopeful alt/history dystopian. THIS TENDER LAND meets FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD. So grateful to finally be at this stage of the anxiety :-) #writingcommunity #debutfiction #specfiction
December 10, 2023 at 11:30 PM
Officially out on sub as of today with my debut speculative novel, "The Binding" A hopeful alt/history dystopian. THIS TENDER LAND meets FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD. So grateful to finally be at this stage of the anxiety :-) #writingcommunity #debutfiction #specfiction
Deep in the English countryside an evil presence awakes…
The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Deep in the English countryside an evil presence awakes…
The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
The Decadence by Leon Craig is the queer horror lockdown novel you’ve been waiting for. It's absolutely brilliant and launches this Thursday at @owlbookshop.bsky.social
#debutfiction #leoncraig @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
ARCs of my debut novel arrived and they’re gorgeous so that’s a nice Monday. Pre-order www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ma...
#debutfiction #booksky #reading
#debutfiction #booksky #reading
February 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
ARCs of my debut novel arrived and they’re gorgeous so that’s a nice Monday. Pre-order www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ma...
#debutfiction #booksky #reading
#debutfiction #booksky #reading
Meet Hive’s Fiction Rising Writers for May… ✨
🌿 Ekin Oklap – First Summer
💬 Jem Calder – I Want You to Be Happy
📚 Rachel Mills – The Players Club
👉 https://www.hive.co.uk/books/rising-writers/c
#RisingWriters #DebutFiction #HiveBooks #Bookstagram
🌿 Ekin Oklap – First Summer
💬 Jem Calder – I Want You to Be Happy
📚 Rachel Mills – The Players Club
👉 https://www.hive.co.uk/books/rising-writers/c
#RisingWriters #DebutFiction #HiveBooks #Bookstagram
May 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Meet Hive’s Fiction Rising Writers for May… ✨
🌿 Ekin Oklap – First Summer
💬 Jem Calder – I Want You to Be Happy
📚 Rachel Mills – The Players Club
👉 https://www.hive.co.uk/books/rising-writers/c
#RisingWriters #DebutFiction #HiveBooks #Bookstagram
🌿 Ekin Oklap – First Summer
💬 Jem Calder – I Want You to Be Happy
📚 Rachel Mills – The Players Club
👉 https://www.hive.co.uk/books/rising-writers/c
#RisingWriters #DebutFiction #HiveBooks #Bookstagram
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social have you sorted with all your book needs for debuts in 2025 & I already have my eye on 3 or 4 here:
#debutfiction #2025readingrecs #2025reads
#debutfiction #2025readingrecs #2025reads
Debuts 2025
Check out this list on Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org
January 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social have you sorted with all your book needs for debuts in 2025 & I already have my eye on 3 or 4 here:
#debutfiction #2025readingrecs #2025reads
#debutfiction #2025readingrecs #2025reads
Check out this five-star review of my book, The Monsters Are Here, on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
#fallreads #debutfiction #shortstories #booksky
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
#fallreads #debutfiction #shortstories #booksky
November 24, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Check out this five-star review of my book, The Monsters Are Here, on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
#fallreads #debutfiction #shortstories #booksky
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
#fallreads #debutfiction #shortstories #booksky
Leo's novel of exile and return has been one of 2024's big debuts. A wonderful evocation of the experience of displacement felt by refugees, and the difficulties of returning to a lost homeland. I admire it so much. #debutfiction @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Leo's novel of exile and return has been one of 2024's big debuts. A wonderful evocation of the experience of displacement felt by refugees, and the difficulties of returning to a lost homeland. I admire it so much. #debutfiction @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social
Congratulations to Matthew, Joe & the team at Delphinium! Can't wait to see this one on the shelves. It's a beauty!
#TheStager #OlswangerLiterary #DelphiniumBooks #agentjoy #adultfiction #contemporaryfiction #debutfiction
#TheStager #OlswangerLiterary #DelphiniumBooks #agentjoy #adultfiction #contemporaryfiction #debutfiction
August 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Congratulations to Matthew, Joe & the team at Delphinium! Can't wait to see this one on the shelves. It's a beauty!
#TheStager #OlswangerLiterary #DelphiniumBooks #agentjoy #adultfiction #contemporaryfiction #debutfiction
#TheStager #OlswangerLiterary #DelphiniumBooks #agentjoy #adultfiction #contemporaryfiction #debutfiction
Debut Alert!
🌹 Duty meets destiny. Princess Rhiannon accepts her arranged marriage—then love at first sight changes everything.
https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-rose-and-the-ivy/
#FantasyRomance #DebutFiction #LoveStory #CoffeeHouseWriters
🌹 Duty meets destiny. Princess Rhiannon accepts her arranged marriage—then love at first sight changes everything.
https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-rose-and-the-ivy/
#FantasyRomance #DebutFiction #LoveStory #CoffeeHouseWriters
April 2, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Debut Alert!
🌹 Duty meets destiny. Princess Rhiannon accepts her arranged marriage—then love at first sight changes everything.
https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-rose-and-the-ivy/
#FantasyRomance #DebutFiction #LoveStory #CoffeeHouseWriters
🌹 Duty meets destiny. Princess Rhiannon accepts her arranged marriage—then love at first sight changes everything.
https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-rose-and-the-ivy/
#FantasyRomance #DebutFiction #LoveStory #CoffeeHouseWriters
Daughters of the Nile by Zhara Barri is listed as one of @thenewarab.bsky.social's Best Books of 2024!
This bold multi-generational debut novel explores themes of queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
https://buff.ly/4jmGOJH
#DaughtersoftheNile #debutfiction #queerlit #Muslimfiction #book
This bold multi-generational debut novel explores themes of queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
https://buff.ly/4jmGOJH
#DaughtersoftheNile #debutfiction #queerlit #Muslimfiction #book
January 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Daughters of the Nile by Zhara Barri is listed as one of @thenewarab.bsky.social's Best Books of 2024!
This bold multi-generational debut novel explores themes of queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
https://buff.ly/4jmGOJH
#DaughtersoftheNile #debutfiction #queerlit #Muslimfiction #book
This bold multi-generational debut novel explores themes of queerness, revolution and Islamic sisterhood.
https://buff.ly/4jmGOJH
#DaughtersoftheNile #debutfiction #queerlit #Muslimfiction #book
Today we're unboxing our upcoming issue, One Story #340, "It Happens" by Anthony Walker. This issue will hit mailboxes on August 20th and is Anthony Walker's debut fiction publication (our third first-time author this year)! #reading #litmag #fiction #debutfiction #shortstories #zines #unboxing
August 17, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Today we're unboxing our upcoming issue, One Story #340, "It Happens" by Anthony Walker. This issue will hit mailboxes on August 20th and is Anthony Walker's debut fiction publication (our third first-time author this year)! #reading #litmag #fiction #debutfiction #shortstories #zines #unboxing