Hester Fox

I just saw a cover concept for A KINGDOM OF MIST AND MOURNING and I am in complete...it's just....it's utterly perfect.

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

UPDATE: Live feeds from several Global Sumud Flotilla ships are now *dropping* as several sources indicate Israeli ships are approaching the flotilla

The flotilla is carrying 500 volunteers from 45+ countries trying to break Israel's siege of Gaza & aid starving Palestinians

Mohammad and his wife Shahd are expecting a baby in the coming weeks, possibly days. Their baby will be born in a tent surrounded by bombs and hunger. We want to be able to get them enough money to buy supplies and nutritious food for Shahd...anything to make things even a tiny bit easier

This is the Al-Najar family, one of the families the raffle is benefiting. Hamada has been living with shrapnel near his lungs and heart since the aid site where was trying to get flour from was shelled. He needs money to afford surgery to have the shrapnel removed.

Few other details:

-If you don’t have PayPal, please contact me for an alternative method

-Because of the high cost of shipping, this is a US only raffle. However, donations of any size from anyone are very much appreciated and welcomed.

To enter:

Each entry is $10. You can enter multiple times

Send entries via PayPal to hesterbfox@gmail.com (please check “family and friends” in paypal)
Write in the note what prize # you are entering for

Raffle runs until 12pm EST Friday (Oct 3rd)

PRIZE #5: Bundle of three vintage paperback Gothics from my collection. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1968), WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1962), REBECCA (1961)

PRIZE #4: Tarot Book Club Bundle: Goddess Tarot creator @kriswaldherr.bsky.social will Zoom with your book club to read tarot cards for you and discuss her novel The Lost History of Dreams. This bundle includes six autographed hardcovers

PRIZE #3: Signed book bundle of Diana Biller books THE WIDOW OF ROSE HOUSE, THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN PARIS, HOTEL OF SECRETS

PRIZE #2: A critique from Gothic romance author Natalie Kikic on your query letter AND the first 10 pages of your manuscript

PRIZE #1: an epic book bundle of nine gothic novels from authors @janyretromp.bsky.social @megancollinswriter.bsky.social @tanyapell.bsky.social @dawnkurtagich.bsky.social Katharine Beutner, Marielle Thompson, Paulette Kennedy

I’ve teamed up with some amazing authors to fundraise for four families in G/za. Direct aid is one of the most effective ways to help right now, as food, medicine, hygiene supplies, etc are prohibitively expensive.

A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING ebook is currently on sale for $5.99 across platforms

Did NetGalley change the formats and how you access arcs? I can't get them in my adobe digital editions library anymore 😩

Trying out Bookbub's new author website service...anyone else use it and like it?

Donate to Help evacuate Mustafa and his family to safety, organized by Hester Fox I am fundraising on behalf of my dear friend Mustafa Hamida and his family. … Hester Fox needs your support for Help evacuate Mustafa and his family to safety

Please see read the latest update from Mustafa's campaign. We've had a huge setback 😩
gofund.me/fc6750e4

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If anyone is looking to give direct aid to a family in Gaza, my friend Mohammad is desperately trying to raise enough money to buy a bag of flour to help feed his family of 14. This is his GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-mo...

Thank you so much for this lovely review Sherri 💙

Best New Books: Week of 6/24/25 Lisa Jewell, Megan Abbott, Amy Bloom, Rob Hart, Leila Mottley, David Litt, and more.

Beat the heat with a book (and air conditioning)! We've got the week's best below, feat. Lisa Jewell, @meganabbott.bsky.social, Amy Bloom, @robwhart.bsky.social, Leila Mottley, @davidlitt.bsky.social, @hesterbfox.bsky.social, @christinahillsberg.bsky.social, and more! #books #BookSky

Mansour Sami Abdi, a father of four, described the chaos: "People fought over five pallets. They told us to take food—then they fired from every direction. I ran 200 metres before realising I’d been shot. This isn’t aid. It’s a lie. Are we supposed to go get food for our kids and die?" “I was shot at 3:10am. As we were trapped, I bled constantly until 5:00am. There were many other men with me. One of them tried to get me out. He was shot in the head and died on my chest. We had gone there for nothing but food — just to survive, like everyone else”. Mohammad Daghmeh, 24, a displaced person in Al-Qarara, Khan Younis.

Read this horrifying testimony from Israel's massacre of people just trying to get food:

Israel is implementing its final solution in Gaza, slaughtering hundreds of starving Palestinians in a matter of days. U.S. media must name what is happening: genocide. Anything less is shameful. @apnews.com @cnn.com @msnbc.com @axios.com @reuters.com

Books to read for this moment in time. Have you read any of these?

yesss I did that too...Beyond powerful and motivating

Still a few days left to enter to win a finished copy of my gender-flipped The Little Mermaid retelling set in the Dutch golden age:

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A Magic Deep and Drowning Holland, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty…

Three days left to enter for a chance to win an advanced copy of A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING

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Mahmoud Khalil was a breaking point, the vertex of so many contradictions.

Now, Mohsen Mahdawi presents one more chance for all of us in this country to look at each other, and to know this is not what we choose to be part of.

There is nothing to be done in this moment except everything.

All seven of mine. When I brought this to my agent's attention last year, I was told there's nothing we can do.