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Revealing the cover of Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan

Happy Halloween! We’re delighted to share the UK cover of Another Fine Mess by Lindy Ryan, designed by our very own Sam Gretton.

This sequel to Bless Your Heart will be released in Summer 2025. Haven’t read it yet? Grab it in our HallowEEK! eBook sale, and beware spoilers in the blurb below…

For over a hundred years, the Evans women have kept the undead in their strange southeast Texas town from rising. But sometimes the dead rise too quick – and that’s what left Lenore Evans, and her granddaughter Luna, burying Luna’s mother, Grace, and Lenore’s mother, Ducey. Now the only two women left in the Evans family, Luna and Lenore are left rudderless in the wake of the most Godawful Mess to date.

But when the full moon finds another victim, it’s clear their trouble is far from over. Now Lenore, Luna, and the new sheriff ― their biggest ally ― must dig deep down into family lore to uncover what threatens everything they love most. The body count ticks up, the most unexpected dead will rise – and force Lenore and Luna to face the possibility that the undead aren’t the only monsters preying on their small town.

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Solaris to publish Southern vampire horror Bless Your Heart for the UK

Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan for the UK.

Set in Southeast Texas in 1999, Bless Your Heart follows the Evans women—Ducey, Lenore and Grace—owners of the only funeral parlour in town, whose job for the past eighty years has been ensuring the dead stay dead. When the body of the town gossip rises from her coffin, it’s clear that the Strigoi―the original vampire―have returned.

As more folks turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, the Evans women must take up their blades to protect their town.

UK/BC Rights (excluding Canada) were acquired by Amanda Rutter from Kerry Nordling, Vice President/Director of Sub-Rights at Minotaur Books.

Bless Your Heart will be released in July 2024.

Author Lindy Ryan on the acquisition:

“I’m delighted to steep UK readers in Southern charm and introduce them to the Evans women and their monstrous southeast Texas hometown by working with Solaris on Bless Your Heart.”

Acquiring Editor Amanda Rutter:

“Lindy’s sharp, clever, funny writing is a perfect match for the Solaris list, and I am over the moon that we have signed Bless Your Heart for the UK market. I cannot wait for readers to enjoy the charm and terror of this amazing book.”

Lindy Ryan is a Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated and Silver Falchion Award-winning editor, author, short-film director, and professor. Ryan is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, the world’s leading horror culture and entertainment brand, and a regular contributor at Booktrib and LitReactor. Her guest articles and features include NPR, BBC Culture, Irish Times, Daily Mail, and more. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. In 2022, she was named one of horror’s most masterful anthology curators, alongside Ellen Datlow and Christopher Golden, and has been declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness (2023). Her animated short film, Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray, based on her children’s book of the same name, won the Grand Prix Award at the 2022 ANMTN Awards.

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