Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mldqlka2ms23‘Use a thing without a brain to brainstorm’ makes as much sense as ‘use pudding as an umbrella.’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldqlka2ms23https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mldpsjcnys23I just wish to see Veronica and Zoraida and Sarah Mac on a panel in NYC together because I love them. That is my simple wish! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldpsjcnys23https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mldkw7gddk23OH MY GOD STAIRS AND EVERYTHING 😍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 10:54 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldkw7gddk23https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlcn2tzzok2cI’m so glad you’re lucky number 2, and even more glad you showed me these glorious holds! They’re right to want that audiobook… Moira Quirk and a Special Guest! [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcn2tzzok2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlck2cm2oc2cC.S. Pacat also alerted me most strongly to this. Readers you can TRUST. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlck2cm2oc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlcdetczbk22Oh my god the Flower of Life and Death! I’ve just been so speechless and so touched by this whole process. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcdetczbk22https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlccu3cfic2xChaos comes! Everything is going great. 🔑07 May 2026 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlccu3cfic2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlc445q2622xthank you lucky 28!!! 🎉 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlc445q2622xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlc3ukbjc22xOh my evil joy! Thank you lucky number 25 for showing me, and to all 25… and the librarians if they order more. 💕 I feel so proud to have a long wait and also making people wait seems appropriately wicked… [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlc3ukbjc22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlaxfkeqx226Read it to my niece. Admittedly claimed the rider on a pale horse was named Party. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaxfkeqx226https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlaxdty5q226Listen you WANT every novel in the 19 novel @seananmcguire.bsky.social October Daye series. (Also I shall be at Worldcon.) [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 09:58 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaxdty5q226https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mlawit5iuc26aw thank you for all three - rereading (the best compliment), patronising the library and making me look in fancy demand to the librarian. 💜💚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 09:43 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlawit5iuc26https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3ml7ta6rfxk2gthe cheerleader speaks for me 😌 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ta6rfxk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3ml7bdibhy22eI said what I said.06 May 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7bdibhy22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3ml4umd224s27We fly home. They have downloaded episodes. I am sitting behind them working while concerned I’m going to have to translate Ilya’s passionate Russian speech of love to the whole plane. #heatedrivalry #iwilldoit #youknowiwill [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4umd224s27https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3ml4nx26wl22pThe hour of chaos is nigh. So nigh! Though not so late you can’t preorder. geni.us/AllHailChaos05 May 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4nx26wl22phttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3ml2t3hsxlk2vOn holiday with schoolfriends and watching #heatedrivalry. One sofa full of ladies is vociferously Team Shane (the socks won them over), the other strong Team Ilya. The subtitles are in Spanish so I am valiantly translating and putting a lil theatrical spin on it as I go.04 May 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2t3hsxlk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mkzvlhozgc25My mother this weekend: as you shall be at @norncon.bsky.social next weekend shall we see you this weekend? Me: I am not at home. Mother: Are you working very hard? Me: Yea. (Sends picture.) Mother: You sicken me. Me: I understand your sentiments, mamma.04 May 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzvlhozgc25https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mkzdqghjgk2i(Less than) thank you for being consumed by longing and showing off my FairyLoot edition! I just love that the book within the dust jacket is the book within a book, it was so thoughtful and meta of them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzdqghjgk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mktab2a2ak2fHappy Fanart Friday #booksky! Behold my shining boy the Golden Cobra in raiment resplendent, and if you follow the link you can see yellowraincoat’s art on full display plus a lil early taste of chaos with the Cobra, his betrothed and his Emperor… https://www.tumblr.com/sarahreesbrennan/815452282769539072/a-little-taste-of-chaos01 May 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktab2a2ak2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mksntassbc24I wanted to say: thank you to readers excited about the book 3 title, because I had to fight for it rather than a more reassuring one. I truly loathe the push for toothlessness in art and I try to always keep in mind for my art a line from an Auden poem: ‘The sense of danger must not disappear.’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksntassbc24https://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mkqoumgl7s2rFor my final meal I would have one of those cakes with a key in, thus I would escape even though they posted an un-seducable guard at the gate. This would be very embarrassing for the guard because everyone would assume… you know. #SFFChat [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqoumgl7s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mkqjnojuok2rSpeaking of chronic illness, I’m really proud of my sister for this report. I don’t have Long Covid but I have scarred lungs from repeated bouts of cancer-induced bronchitis & it is tough when your breathing apparatus is broken. These people deserve help & homes. https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2026/0427/1570460-long-covid-healthcare-workers-face-uncertainty-as-supports-expire/30 Apr 2026 21:11 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqjnojuok2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social/post/3mkqj5fhdps2rWhen you’re making a video about ze chronic illness and how it strikes at terrible moments like when you have a book coming out… and at the psychological moment, YOUR CAT INTERRUPTS YOU.30 Apr 2026 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:ckh4wufzfp5fkeb22l2vuulw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqj5fhdps2r