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Happy Monday! We are delighted to be hosting today an exclusive excerpt from Passing Strange, an upcoming Tor.com book by Ellen Klages “A slice of history, filled with memorable characters, topped by fabulous writing — a recipe for great…
Hello everybody, and a happy Sunday to all. We only have a few more weeks to go before the end of the year, we can TOTALLY DO IT. This Week on The Book Smugglers On Monday, we will be…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
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Over at Kirkus: Arrival and Story of Your Life
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana does a compare/contrast of Arrival, the new movie with Amy Adams and Ted Chiang’s short story Story of Your Life that inspired it. Go over there to check it…
Originally appearing in the second volume of our Quarterly Almanac, Where to Start with Portal Fantasies is the part of an ongoing series of essays detailing where one can start with any number of SFF/popgeekery topics. For this round,…
Daisy and Hazel are back in their fifth mystery – this time, a mystery in a Cambridge college during the Christmas holidays. Title: Mistletoe and Murder Written by Robin Stevens Genre: Middle Grade, Murder Mysteries Publisher: Puffin Publication Date:…
Introducing Book Smugglers Publishing’s first four official novellas for our Novella Initiative 2017! BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PROUDLY PRESENTS Four Novellas for the Savvy Reader Earlier this year, we announced our newest venture: The Novella Initiative. Starting in 2017, we…
Sometimes we need to find comfort whichever way we can – so I thought about putting together a list of happy, beautiful reads in YA and Middle Grade that I read and reviewed here over the years. This is…
Title: Certain Dark Things Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Publication Date: October 25 2016 Hardcover: 323 Pages Welcome to Mexico City… An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires… Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid,…
Hello everyone, and happy Sunday! Let’s dive into it, shall we? An Extrahuman Ebook Sale Guess what? The first two books in the Extrahuman Union series, Broken and Sky Ranger, are currently available as an ebook for $0.99 for…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana starts her annual freak-out tradition… … of looking at ALL the books that need to be read before the end of the year.…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
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Three Horror reads for this Halloween Season: TWO TO KEEP, ONE TO SKIP
Three Horror reads for this Halloween Season: TWO TO KEEP, ONE TO SKIP. The Family Plot by Cherie Priest (Tor Books, September 2016) is Southern Gothic meets Haunted Mansion: Dahlia works at a salvage shop contracted by one Augusta…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today – to celebrate Halloween and possibly prepare for the coming US elections – Thea is looking at recent examples of Dystopian Political Futures: Go over there to check it out.…
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Joint Review: Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Illuminae Files #2)
Another spectacular, gut-wrenching beauty of a book. Title: Gemina Author: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Genre: Science Fiction, Epistolary Novel, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication Date: October 2016 Hardcover: 608 Pages The highly anticipated sequel…
Hello everyone, and a Happy Sunday to all. Halloween is almost here and we have an informal Halloween Week in the works this week! This Week on The Book Smugglers On Monday, we kick off the week with a…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Title: A Closed and Common Orbit Author: Becky Chambers Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication Date: October 20 2016 Paperback: 512 Pages Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new…
One of our absolutely favourite books of 2015 was the excellent SciFi YA novel Illuminae, co-written by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The follow-up novel, Gemina, is out this week and we are delighted to post this exclusive Q&A…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! It’s novella bonanza day as Ana takes a look at Runtime by S.B. Divya and Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny Go over there to check it out!…
Hello everybody! Delighted to be sharing the full cover of Extrahumans by Susan Jane Bigelow over at Tor.com. Extrahumans is the never-before-published final book in the Extrahuman Union series. About the book Being “The Sampler” isn’t easy. As the…
In which we showcase the cover and excerpt of Laura Ruby’s (author of the excellent Bone Gap) upcoming novel, York. Without further ado, behold! The smugglerific cover! About the Book: It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in…
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Extrahumans: On Ending a Series
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…