This is magic that I've worked so hard for for 15 years, and that may not last the week. But damn does it feel good from my duvet fort with my box of chocolates.
Thank you everyone who has taken the time to read, share, review and love this fiesty wee quest.
#Godkiller
Well, yesterday I launched Godkiller. It was wonderful.
Thank you all so much for your support and love for the book. It means the world to me. I will try to reply when I can.
Nothing like holding your first book in your hands. Especially when she's THIS pretty.
Editions shown here are the Broken Binding special edition and tbe Waterstones exclusive.
The
@HarperVoyagerUK
team gave crushed it.
#Godkiller
#Jan2023
#2023debut
Well lads, it's publication week and I'm sick with nerves/excitement/anticip-p-pation.
So if you like books with bad bitches, noble knights, mysterious girls with powers, and cute/dangerous wee gods, consider adding
#Godkiller
to your January buys.
A milestone I never imagined because it didn't exist!
Beside myself that Waterstones chose Godkiller to be its *FIRST* SFF Book of the Month. So glad there will be many many more SFF books receiving this insane honour.
Thank you to
@Waterstones
and its wonderful booksellers.
Who guessed it would be the god of white lies? Isn't he gorgeous?
If you like the look of him you might like my book
#Godkiller
.
If you don't like the look of him, you'd be correct. He's a cheeky wee bastard.
A slayer of gods and a disillusioned knight must join forces in a perilous quest to defeat an indestructible deity in
@HFKaner
's breathtaking fantasy debut, Godkiller. Pre-order our stunning Exclusive Edition with Sprayed Edges here:
Bow down before
#Godkiller
✨
We are beyond thrilled to share that
#Godkiller
by the incredible
@HFKaner
is now a Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller!
Thank you 🖤
Huge congratulations to
@HFKaner
as her debut epic fantasy
#Godkiller
- following Kissen whose life was saved by a god but now dedicates her time to destroying them - is pre-empted by
@NatashaBardon
at
@HarperVoyagerUK
and in Russia!
Look at us hanging out with P Hizzle on the
@Waterstones
website
@Illustratom
!
Thank you everyone who has bought a copy of Godkiller this week! Each one is a gift to this wee god of fire, fables and wine (that's me!)
Drum roll please 🥁
#Godkiller
is officially a No. 5 Sunday Times bestseller!!
Huge congrats to
@HFKaner
and a massive thank you to all the booksellers and readers who have championed this incredible book xx
SO, it looks like the Waterstones signed special edition may be sold out.
BUT there are copies of the beautiful gold foiled
@binding_broken
edition still available *signed* with colour map.
It's here! It's FINALLY here! THE BIG ONE.
Kissen: badass; bisexual; disabled; GODKILLER. Painted by
@millyillus
.
Godkiller is out in the US and Canada on September 12th! You can preorder with
@BNBuzz
(And canadians can get 30% off at
@chaptersindigo
! )
A Godkiller update!
She's storming the world! The amazing team
@MushensEnt
have sold rights to: US 🇺🇸 Brazil 🇧🇷 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Croatia 🇭🇷 France 🇫🇷 Germany 🇩🇪 Greece 🇬🇷 Hungary 🇭🇺
Italy 🇮🇹 Poland 🇵🇱 Romania 🇷🇴 Spain 🇪🇸 Turkey 🇹🇷
More details
Guess what we have 👀
#Sunbringer
proofs are in, our email request inbox is ready and I have a cup of tea to calm my nerves from the incoming demand
Get ready to worship the sequel you’ve been waiting for ✨
Oh and there’s a chance to win one of these at
#YALC
this weekend!
Yes I went to the Harper Collins party. Yes, it was amazing and I met some legends.
No I didn't take any pictures because my left hand had canapes and my right hand had a cocktail and my mouth was flapping. That took maximum coordination.
THE HUGOS. This took me by complete surprise!
I'm so overwhelmingly humbled to share this list with such amazing writers. I'll be there absolutely YELLING for whoever takes home the award!
To anyone who put my name forward for this, I don't know how to thank you.
The finalists for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer are:
Moniquill Blackgoose (1st year of eligibility)
Sunyi Dean (2nd year of eligibility)
江艾 / Ai Jiang (2nd year of eligibility)
(1/2)
So a book group is doing a Godkiller reading and asked for recipes from the book and I am a) beside myself and b) hungry. Does anyone else want food from the book? I could do a thing at some point.
You are not welcome here, Godkiller
We're thrilled to reveal the stunning cover of
@HFKaner
's fiery debut
#Godkiller
!
Something is rotting at the heart of this world and the price to stop it may be too high to pay...
Cover art: Thank you Tom Roberts 👏
I need to choose a proper author photo what do we think?
A: nice green jacket nice green leaves
B: oh its breezy out but I lost my jacket
C: yellow flowers and a tattoo am I cool yet?
Option D is the one I already snuck onto my profile.
Trying to keep up with messages but falling rapidly behind.
Thank you so much, everyone. Aside from the wonderful teams who pulled Godkiller together; the readers, reviewers, booksellers and bloggers who have championed this book are my heroes. This is impossible without you.
For everyone wondering what's happening in book 2, currently -
Elo: weary and hot
Kissen: weary and cold
Skedi: weary and babysitting
Inara: causing trouble
One Month until Sunbringer by
@hfkaner
hits shelves.✨
Pre-order your escape into the epic sequel of the internationally celebrated fantasy that has hearts racing and minds whirling. 📚✨
#Sunbringer
#Godkiller
#fallengods
This was a gruelling but excellent day and, as you can see, I am unable to keep a straight face.
Could not have done it without this incredibly hard working team. And can you believe
@RobynMWatts
made this video overnight? What a legend.
#Godkiller
#19Jan
#2023debuts
Was so deeply immersed in The Poppy War by
@kuangrf
that I did the nose-in-book waddle off the train and only realised I'd left my bag behind when I was on the bus...
@ForbiddenPlanet
@HFKaner
is author of Godkiller, which entered the charts as a
#1
Sunday Times bestseller. She is inspired by world mythologies, angry women, speculative fiction, and the stories we tell ourselves about being human.
#Godkiller
killing it as per usual
(I have no shame and will continue to use that pun at every opportunity)
We're so happy that
#Godkiller
has been longlisted for
@blackwellbooks
Book of the Year! Thank you so much to all the booksellers! 🖤
@HFKaner
Meet Skedi by
@millyillus
, a god of white lies without a shrine who must confront who and what he is.
Godkiller has a free ARC giveaway on Goodreads for US folks, and 30% off with
@chaptersindigo
in Canada!
Goodreads:
Indigo:
Brianna Ghey deserves more. Our trans communities deserve more. I'm so sorry to anyone who will feel even more unsafe just being who they are. I'm so sorry that the world refuses to protect you as it should.
We’re delighted to announce, in collaboration with Hannah Kaner (
@HFKaner
) and HarperVoyager (
@HarperVoyagerUK
), our Illumicrate Exclusive edition of Sunbringer!
@NickBuckleyMBE
@Wickes
I'm not gay, I'm bi/pan, but I am now wayyy more likely to use Wickes. Rather than just sliding in and out of rainbows they're showing thought and support. I love it.
Wake up fantasy lovers! It’s time for the reveal of
#Sunbringer
by
@hfkaner
, the follow up to the
#1
international bestseller Godkiller. ☀🦌☀
On sale March 12th (available in the UK Feb. 15th).
Good news! Godkiller is going global! Italy, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Brazil, Turkey and Romania! Huge thank you to the team
@MushensEnt
🤯 and for every reader who has made this happen.
🦌Rights to
@HFKaner
's bestselling GODKILLER trilogy have sold to Oscar Fantastica (Mondadori) in Italy and the first book is now sold in Bulgaria to Ciela.
Next on the September 2023 LibraryReads list is GODKILLER by
@HFKaner
!
Annotation by Tommy Buttaccio, Supervising Librarian, The New York Public Library
@librarylovefest
100000% this. Booksellers, your power and passion is insane - I am beyond grateful for your work and love for Godkiller and Sunbringer
Thank you so much
I came, I read, I had mic problems. But the audience were so patient and
#Cymera2022
sorted me out.
Thank you so much for being the first people to hear Godkiller read aloud before a marvellous panel from
@tashadrinkstea
@LR_Lam
and
@C_L_Clark
.
January 2023
#Godkiller
🏆2ND ANNUAL FFA AWARDS🏆
And the winners are...
Best Indie -
@RCahillAuthor
Best Indie Debut -
@JoaoSilvaWrites
Best Trad -
@Mark__Lawrence
Best Trad Debut -
@HFKaner
Massive congrats to the winners & to all of the runners-up. YUGE shout to all who voted and shared!
I was already excited about a Medea retelling, but
@Rani_writes
has transformed her story into a powerful, vital commentary on empire, race, money, women and power, beginning in Calcutta in 1757. A magnificent book, I could not put it down!
#SavageBeasts
, out next month!
Spent some time going wherever I was invited in North East England, a proper homecoming: Darlington, Durham, Whitley Bay, Gateshead, Morpeth, Newcastle.
It was so special to be where I grew up and first dreamed of being a writer. My heart is so full.
When I tell you that the character art sketches I just received made me lose my damn mind, I tell you no word of a lie. My partner is concerned.
#Godkiller
"So, writing GODKILLER, I wanted to write a woman who never learned how to be small in a world that didn’t expect it of her."
@HFKaner
on the experiences that shaped her own protagonist in today's Women in SF&F Month guest post, "Don't damsel your fury."
@Blind_Nycteris
It is the thing and the whole of the thing!
Also kind of feels like turkeys lining up for christmas. "Come collaborate with what capitalism will frame as your own obsolescence."
Luckily I made a quick dash off the bus again and snuck onto the train to retrieve the almost-missing stowaway. Otherwise would have had a VERY bedraggled hogmanay
Rights to Hannah Kaner’s
#1
Sunday Times Bestseller GODKILLER have sold to Morro Branco (Brazil), Gabo (Hungary), Jaguar (Poland) and Nemira (Romania).
I’d heard the hype and the hype is correct.
Godkiller by
@HFKaner
is a feminist The Witcher - but instead of killing monsters, we kill gods.
Prose is sparkly & witty - am getting The Blacktongue Thief vibes from the humour and prose (which I love)
#teamInara
Oh my gods... the
@binding_broken
edition of
#Godkiller
is ready and WAITING.
1. Signed sealed delivered 🖋
2. Sexy naked boards (that foil 🌟)
3. Special endpapers: map in 🔥COLOUR🌈 by
@Illustratom
4. Spredges dark as doom 🌚
@HarperVoyagerUK
have outdone themselves 😱
One month today, Godkiller is out in the world. I still can't believe it.
Preorder soon to get your hands on a special edition! Numbers are running low. . .
#Godkiller
#19Jan2023
🌷 🐣 This
#Roman
brooch has leapt right out of
#Oxfordshire
and into our hearts 🐰 Featuring enamelled decoration, it's a pawsitively enchanting little running bunny, symbolising fertility, spring and renewal.
Hares bounded into Britain before the Romans, who observed that Iron
Thank you
@HarperVoyagerUK
&
@fictionpubteam
for this stunning ARC of Godkiller by
@HFKaner
The cover caught my eye when I first saw it but in real life it’s even more gorgeously detailed & shiny! Love how the scene continues on the back
Looking forward to this!
@HarperInsider
New ink, baby!
The incredible artist of the magnolia is Sam Claw at Den of Iniquity. Her absolute skill, patience and attention to detail was ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Calling Scottish and northern readers!
I'll be launching Godkiller in the fantastic city of Glasgow on the 24th January with the legend that is
@KatalinaWatt
.
We'll sink our teeth into fantasy worlds, and I'll bring a gold pen for signing.. and a stamp!
When I joined
#TeamMushens
going on 9 years ago now I remember reading Jen's work and being agape! Godkiller definitely has some Copper Promise inspiration.
And now at last I get to send her my paper baby in return muahahaha
TODAY IS THE DAY. I've hit the next decade. I've reached the next level. I've maxed out my stats, defeated my 20s and 4 Prime Ministers. Thirty, flirty and thriving.🎈🎈🎈
16 days till the trials begin..
#TheFinalStrife
@saaraelarifi
, according to the stamps both
@C_L_Clark
and I would be competing for the Guild of Strength. As I cannot compare with The Arms or the sword. I accept defeat.
Also apologies to Rebecca Zahabi for stamping her face...
TODAY IS DRAGONFALL DAY. This epic, queer norm fantasy with a non binary thief who falls hard (and far) for a dragon is a complete beauty, inside and out.
@LR_Lam
congratulations. Arcady and Everen 4 lyf with
@hodderscape
#Godkiller
character art commissioned from
@millyillus
Elo is a weary knight turned baker who reluctantly
picks up his sword to do one last quest for his king. Out in the UK now and in the US on 12th September! RT to give Elo some love
More on insta
I'm going to Bigolas Dickolas this book. DAZZLING by
@chemelumadu
is SO GOOD. Read it in your face. GO FERAL. Please please anyone else who has read it come talk to me because I WANT TO SHARE HOW GOOD IT IS.
I know it’s only February, but I’m announcing
#Godkiller
in my top 5 books of 2023. I can’t see many other books topping this fantastic fantasy debut and the amazing world
@hanfrankan
has created. 😍
#booktwt
The world of Godkiller is inspired by the trade cities and collision of cultures and knowledge in the mediterranean. The gods and shrines, however, are from celtic wishing trees, stone circles to the cult of saints... As well as alpine, old northumbrian and scottish landscapes.