4 DAYS TO GO until Ten Low, my new science fiction novel, is published. Argh! It's already out in some shops, but if you order / preorder before Tuesday (or have already read it) you can request some FREE and exclusive bookswag, including a signed, stamped, numbered postcard and a themed vinyl sticker. Link in bio!
Set on a desert moon, the story follows an ex-medic called Ten as she attempts to atone for her sins. It's been called "innovative and inclusive SF" set on "the most vibrant desert world since Dune" that "leaves the old guard masters in the dust". 😁
This is my first step into SF and I've been overwhelmed by the support of readers and other authors in this community so far. Thank you all, and roll on Tuesday!
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Guess what? It's surprise cover reveal day! NINTH LIFE, the third book in the Factus series, is coming at you June 4th.
It's also my birthday, so if you did feel like preordering, that would be an excellent gift. 😎 Link in my stories and synopsis below! Cover design by Julia Lloyd.
✨ The Ballad of Halo Jones meets Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers by way of 3:10 to Yuma; a clash of law and lawlessness, storytelling and truth in a headlong romp across the stars.
After forty years of wreaking havoc across the galaxy, the outlaw Nine Lives – AKA Former General Gabriella Ortiz – has finally run out of lives. Shot down into a backwater at the system’s edge, she is rescued by deputy marshall Havemercy Grey.
Hav is a true soul, trying to uphold what is right in the heedless wastes. Hav is determined to see justice done. And Hav could sure use that 20-million bounty...
But escorting the most dangerous fugitive in the system across the stars is no easy task, especially when decades of fire and destruction are catching up with her, and every gutspill with a pistol also wants the bounty. So when Ortiz offers a deal - to keep them both alive, as long as Hav listens to the stories of Gabi's lives - Hav can't refuse.
There's just one catch: everywhere they go, during every brawl and gunfight and explosive escape, people say the same thing - don't let her talk...
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Am I doing this right?? Just seen the interior pages and covers for the ARCs of HEL'S EIGHT and they look amazing.
Such a strange moment when the Microsoft Word document morphs into a *real* book... Excited, nervous, excited to see what people think of this one. (If you're a reviewer or bookseller and would like an ARC drop me a line or a DM)
Oh and if you'd like to read a sneak peek of Chapter One, I just posted something on my Patre0n... link in bio!
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#helseight #starkholborn #booksof2023
Summer's creeping on and I'll be about the place doing Things with Good People. Here are some of them! Ticket links in stories 🍻
May 24th with @writeopolis2 !
May 28th at @forbiddenplanet London with the brilliant @theonly_temioh
June 10th, excited to chat to Lex Croucher for @mrbsemporium
June 20th, ready yourselves, it's RichmondCon (thanks @lavietidhar and @kimecurran )
July 21st, back in Bath to talk knights with @thomas_d_lee
Hope to see some of you there!
Adding another event to the lineup! Really looking forward to chatting with @starkholborn at @mrbsemporium in Bath on the 21st of July. Ticket links in bio!
It's that time again! If you're voting any time soon, these bad boys are eligible! I'd particularly appreciate a vote for FOR THE ROAD, acid western queer romance novella of my heart ⛓️🛤💔
- FOR THE ROAD (novella, Absinthe books)
- TRIGGERNOMETRY FINALS (novella, Rattleback books)
- LAST GASP (in Of Shadow, Stars and Sabers)
Huge thanks to @grace_curtis_posts and @thefantasyhive for the lovely quotes.
I'll stick a voting link in stories!
Some new followers on here so feels like it might be time for a bit of a reintroduction... and where better to begin than with the book that started it all.
This is NUNSLINGER, my debut novel, published as Hodder's first (and to date, only) digital serial, then as a complete omnibus paperback in 2014. Over twelve installments it tells the tale of Sister Thomas Josephine, who sets out for California in 1864 and is deeply and irrevocably changed but whar follows. It's an ode to pulp, revisionist westerns, and the murky morality of a complex and problematic genre.
It's, shall we say, *cult*, but has an incredibly loyal fan base and been optioned for film and TV repeatedly over the years (including right now).
Anyway, if you haven't read it and love epic stories, nuns with guns, cliffhangers galore and moral wrangling then it might be for you!
(Oh and cover art is by the brilliant @philipharrisillustration )
Finally got my hands on a hard copy of this beauty! The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope brings together 100+ short essays on every aspect of games writing and design, including one by ME. An honour and a delight to be part of such a great project. Huge thanks to Jon Ingold of Inkle for putting it together. I'll put a link in my stories. 📝
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Ediciones El Transbordador publicará en 2026 la novela PLOMO A LA CUARTA de Stark Holborn, tercera entrega y conclusión de la mítica saga de los Matemágicos. Esta obra salió al mercado anglosajón el 4 de febrero de 2025 bajo el título TRIGGERNOMETRY FINALS gracias al sello Rattleback Books.
Disfruta de la noticia completa en nuestro espacio web:
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#Libros #Novedades #PlomoALaCuarta #Bookstagram
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It's Sci-Fi Awards Season!*
Come and hear two of this year's nominated authors read from their books:
Stark Holborn @starkholborn
and
Caspar Geon @caspar_geon
Book your free spot for Tuesday 10th March here:
srfcmar2026.eventbrite.com
*For some of the awards. There's are others throughout the year
New anthology alert! I have a short story in LAND OF OZ, edited by @marieoregan8101 and @paul.kane.376 and coming from Titan in September.
I had a lot of fun ransacking the lore of Oz and the result is possibly one of the most deranged things I've written... a hardboiled noir pastiche about stolen eyes, balloon addicts and a crime-solving sentient jack boot (it makes sense, I swear). Anyway, look at that line up! Can't wait to see this one walking the world. Blurb below.
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Journey beyond the Yellow Brick Road, click your heels together and enter the dark heart of the tornado… if you dare.
Join the award-winning Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane as they bring together some of genre fiction’s bestselling and acclaimed authors as they explore the wild imagination of L. Frank Baum and his wonderful Land of Oz.
With 13 original stories of dark fantasy from the masters of fantasy and science fiction, including:
Simon R. Green
Caitlin Rozakis
Louise Carey
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ian Whates
M. R. Carey
Paul Magrs
Delilah S. Dawson
Robert Shearman
Stark Holborn
Christina Henry
Una McCormack
Jonathan Maberry
#wizardofoz
#landofoz #anthology #shortstories #writingcommunity
SRFC is back on Tuesday 10th March!
We're incredibly pleased to welcome (back):
Stark Holborn! - An SRFC favourite returns - and right now nominated for the 2026 British Science Fiction Association Awards for her weird west novella For The Road
and
Caspar Geon! - A new name with a reality warping novel, The Immeasurable Heaven - nominated for the 2026 Philip K. Dick Award
Readings, chat, q&a, and the (entirely optional) chance to meet like-minded readers.
As ever, it is free! (Donations also welcome, as ever)
Grab your spot here: srfcmar2026.eventbrite.com
and sign up for our mailing list here:
srfantasy.club
@starkholborn@caspar_geon
