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Middle Grade Review Bonanza: Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly, Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen, and Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens
The Middle Grade Review Bonanza is a feature with 2-3 mini-reviews for short MG books we really wanted to read. It’s a new Regular Thing (and we’d love to hear your thoughts and recommendations for future entries). The city…
“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 talks about an excellent debut novel set in Mexico City and written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Go HERE to see this review in three parts.…
A Wicked Thing is a reimagining of the fairytale Sleeping Beauty, a variant that combines the Disney version’s Aurora and Perrault’s version. It opens as Aurora opens her eyes when a prince kisses her lips awakening her from a…
In the Land of Contrived Plots, a young woman rises from the gutter to find out she is different after she meets a stranger who conveniently turns out to the crown prince. Title: Red Queen Author: Victoria Aveyard Genre:…
Frances Hardinge is a Smuggler Favourite and we await anxiously for every single new release. The Lie Tree is her upcoming novel (publishing on May 7 2015) and we couldn’t be happier to be hosting this exclusive excerpt and…
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SFF in Conversation: Jared Shurin – Poking at Awards: Stop trying to make ‘prestigious’ happen
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! WHEN WILL THIS WINTER GO AWAY? NEVER Let’s get down to business. Around the Interwebs: This has been the week of awards! Biased Opinion – Gender and the Hugo Awards – A great gender…
Dracula meets Ghostbusters in this thrilling if somewhat frustrating YA horror. Title: Shutter Author: Courtney Alameda Genre: Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Publication Date: February 3 2015 Paperback: 384 Pages Horror has a new name: introducing Courtney…
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The Mussel Eater by Octavia Cade Nominated for a BSFA Award
The shortlist for the BSFA Awards 2014 has been announced and one of the six stories we published last year is on it! We are pleased and proud to announce that The Mussel Eater by Octavia Cade has been…
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Old School Wednesdays: The Dark is Rising (The Dark is Rising Sequence #2) by Susan Cooper
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smugglers feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
“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 which means we are over at Kirkus! Today Ana reviews The Anderson Project, a collection of three novelettes inspired by a piece of art. You can read all three stories over at Tor.com and check out Ana’s…
“The framing of The Very Best of Kate Elliott is clear: feminist stories featuring a diverse group of female characters presented in a variety of roles and journeys. The most obvious extrapolation here for me given my personal interests…
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Ana here writing from NY where we Book Smugglers are having our first State of the Union meeting of 2015. THE PLANS, THEY HAVE BEEN MADE. But let’s get down to business. Giveaway winners:…
“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 that time of year again – awards season is here! Today we will be talking about the Hugo Awards! The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious under the SFF umbrella, and each year the winners are announced…
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Old School Wednesdays: Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising #1) by Susan Cooper
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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From the Page to the Screen: All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow
Hello everyone! For this edition of From the Page to the Screen, we will discuss All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow. The official timeline: 2004: the book, All You Need is Kill, a Japanese science fiction…
TIME magazine recently published their lists of Top 100 Young Adult & Top 100 Children’s Books of All Time. The lovely Candlewick Press has 6 titles on the Young Adult list – and they are pretty great and include…
“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: Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
It’s Friday, which means we Book Smugglers are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana, having started the frantic reading for awards season, is talking about a novella by Genevieve Valentine (author of one of Ana’s top of 2014: The Girls…
The results for our February Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 118 votes, the book we will be reading is HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON by Naomi Novik. Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as…