cheers to you! to us!! 🥂

Absolutely thrilled to announce that Cinder House is a Hugo finalist! And in the best company I can imagine!

Thanks so much to everyone who nominated it, and congrats to all the other finalists & categories.

Get my French up to fluent and my Italian up to mediocre. Learn acoustic guitar. Skate or do yoga every day. Read every single unread book in my house and buy more and read those too. Start writing poetry again and cheerfully burn all evidence of the learning process at the end of the year.

!!! if there is anything I know about Alex, it's their FELICITY WITH FOOTNOTES 👀

Image on a purple-to-black gradient background of the Locus Award trophy, a teardrop-shaped lucite tablet engraved with art by Shaun Tan of a rocket blasting off to a distant planet, surrounded by stars.

Brisbane in 28 congratulates all the Locus Awards Finalists, especially our Australasian creators! 🏆

locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

Horror Novel: The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Angela Slatter)

Novella: Cinder House, Freya Marske

Artist: Kathleen Jennings and Shaun Tan

Editor: Jonathan Strahan

Guess which novella just made it onto the 2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists??!

locusmag.com/2026/04/2026...

so exciting to have a new book of yours on the horizon! and I love the Escher vibes & colours of that cover.

A COMPROMISE WAS REACHED: I wrote 280 words and sulked about it. and now it's whisky time.

I am definitely having some feelings about my most ambitious work to date being a WHOLEASS REAL BOOK.

& if you too would like to have feelings about five type-A assholes all trying to win at the group project (solving a murder) then please preorder! links are here!

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my semi-anonymous hand is holding a paperback ARC of my upcoming novel Bodies of Magic, which has a cover that fucks extremely in a "dark academia vibes" and "um is that a tree or an internal organ" kind of way.

oh wait I do have some news I can share which is ARCs ARRIVED TODAY

the shoulder-devil is in league with my toddler, who decided that I only needed five hours of sleep last night

having a real bad case of the shoulder-devils over here; I've been sitting on more than one piece of Cool Secret Author News and the neurotic shoulder-angel is all KEEP WRITING SO THERE CAN BE MORE COOL NEWS ONE DAY!! and the devil's like, but what if we were in bed at 7pm with a glass of whisky

Dowloaded Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social on borrowbox last night.
Started reading, then finally had to force myself to put the phone down and go to sleep.
Such a brilliant book.
#Booksky
💙📚

that is gorgeous and I can't WAIT to spend more time having my emotions shredded by these beautiful assholes

Congrats, that's fantastic! 🥳

One last boost before the Hugo nomination deadline! I'm extremely proud of this novella & would probably turn to ashes [joyful] if it made it onto the ballot!

I finished reading this about 30 seconds ago and I’m blubbering, it has just about all my favorite story ingredients in it & some *wonderful* characters for whom I would die & a deeply grounded world & *fantasy jacarandas* just as a charming cherry on top that feels tailor made for me!! so buy it!

I am so glad you enjoyed the jacarandas!! and everything else of course, but,,,

I read an ARC of this for blurbing purposes and I will just say that it ENTIRELY lives up to that incredible cover 🔥🔥

surely whatever fancy jeweller estiene frequents will do custom designs

yes!

this book is exquisite and it has my precious darling anxious high femme in it, she is a joy + a delight, it is truly unfair she lives in a word w/out gemstone fidget rings 😭

possibly Freya's messiest queers yet! murder! intrigue! sex mysteries! terrible phd advisors! daddy issues!! imperialism!!!

someone should definitely invent them for her! in my head she is going to learn crochet from ysabel's mum

a graphic of the cover of Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske, a dark blue academic building against a background of pale lungs. overlying text reads: B&N preorder sale - 25% off - code PREORDER25

It's B&N preorder sale o'clock!

Do consider BODIES OF MAGIC: perfect if you enjoy queer mess, murder mysteries, trauma flashbacks to finals week, or The Pitt's brand of competent, caring assholes having a horrible time.

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bodies-of-...

there's something about the month of march. it's when you get asked to say yes to a lot of things, and in your head you're like "it's still the start of the year!" and "that's soooooo far away!" and I'm here to tell you that october-you is calling and she is SO MAD.

I was about to say, that is simultaneously the loveliest and most cursèd room I've ever seen

A graphic featuring a copy of Cinder House by Freya Marske and text that says: "Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderell retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske. Perfect for fans of..." The graphic also features the covers of Spinning Silver and A Spindle Splintered underneath text that says: "Reimagined fairy tales." There's also the covers of Nettle & Bone and The Bloody Chamber under text that says: "With a Gothic twist." There's also the tv poster of The Haunting of Bly Manor and the cover of The Time of the Ghost underneath text that says: "She may be dead, but her story isn't over yet." And there's the covers of Wicked Beauty and Iron Widow underneath text that says: "Thrilling poly romances."

Searching for another fairytale retelling to be obsessed with? Discover Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social, a Gothic reimagining of Cinderella!🔥

Edwin & Robin from The Last Binding series by @freyamarske.bsky.social !

#thelastbinding

I don't have time to write a forty chapter opus called The Two Ladies Penwood, I need someone else to do it

unscheduled fannish post: I am 3/4 of the way through the latest season of bridgerton and I can't believe ao3 is down so I am unable to go and see if someone (fandom) has made my two faves (cressida and araminta) have messy nemesis sex and then fall in extremely bitchy love