In which we reveal the cover for the next short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, Nussia by Michele Tracy Berger! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story Nussia… I said her name like a wish. All Lindsay Fields…
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Hello everybody! We are celebrating the release of our new novel – The Ninety-Ninth Bride by Catherine Faris King – which is out today, with a giveaway! The Novel “Sister, would you please tell me a story?” Dunya is…
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A Smugglerific Cover: THE NINETY-NINTH BRIDE by Catherine Faris King
In which we reveal the cover for our new novel, THE NINETY-NINTH BRIDE by Catherine Faris King! The novel, based on the author’s short story “The Ninety-Ninth Bride”, is out tomorrow, June 19. Behold the smugglerific cover: About the…
When the Letter Comes by Sara Fox Published 5/22/2018 Henry believes that someday, something awesome will happen–everything will turn out all right and all her problems will disappear once her letter arrives, welcoming her to magic school. So even…
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When the Letter Comes: Sara Fox on Inspirations & Influences
“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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A Smugglerific Cover: WHEN THE LETTER COMES by Sara Fox
In which we reveal the inaugural cover for the first short story in our 2018 season, Awakenings: When the Letter Comes by Sara Fox. Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story Henry believes that someday, something awesome will happen–everything…
The Book Smugglers are finalists for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine! The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Convention–aka Worldcon–which is also responsible for administering them each…
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The Hugo Awards 2018 Nominees (and Aurealis, Ditmar Award News)
It is that time of year again, folks–awards season! We are thrilled to share with you the news of three major speculative fiction awards: The Hugo Awards, The Aurealis Awards, and the Ditmar Award. The Hugo Awards are one…
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BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PRESENTS SUMMER 2018: AWAKENINGS SHORT STORIES
Courtesy of our Kickstarter backers… Introducing The Book Smugglers’ summer 2018 season of Awakenings short stories! BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PROUDLY PRESENTS Six Short Stories for the enlightened reader Once upon a time (in 2014…), we launched our short story…
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Girl Reporter Nominated for the Aurealis Award
Extra! Extra! It is with the utmost delight that we are proud to announce that Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts, the novella we published in December of 2017, has been nominated for TWO Aurealis Awards: Best YA Short…
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Announcing Gods and Monsters: The Anthology (and a Giveaway)
As you may know, we published six original short stories this year online for free, and as standalone ebooks, each story following the theme of “Gods and Monsters.” Today, we are thrilled to announce that we have collected each…
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“I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters”
Something a little different for today…. a guest post from reader, friend-of-the-blog and book pusher Estara , whose taste in books matches our own and whose recommendations have graced our TBR for years. Estara is here today to talk…
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Presenting The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst
In which we celebrate the publication of beautiful new print editions of three of our very favorite books: The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst! Beautiful Cover Art by Kirbi Fagan We Book Smugglers have been busy in 2017–we…
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The Novella Initiative Giveaway: Year One
To celebrate the release of Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts, the fifth and last entry in our 2017 Novella Initiative lineup, we are thrilled to offer up a giveaway! THE NOVELLA INITIATIVE GIVEAWAY: YEAR ONE YEAR ONE includes……
Book Smugglers Publishing Quarterly Almanac The Novella Initiative
Girl Reporter: Tansy Rayner Roberts on Inspirations and Influences
“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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Pop Culture Recs for The Dark Days – by Carlie St. George
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Today’s Smugglivus guest…
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Out NOW (& Giveaway): Food and Horror – Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
HELLO EVERYBODY! Earlier today we kick started Smugglivus and mentioned that we’d have a surprise later in the day. Well… SURPRISE! WE HAVE A NEW BOOK OUT TODAY! In 2016, we hosted an amazing monthly column by one of…
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A Smugglerific Cover: Girl Reporter by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Guess what, friends! We have a new novella coming out this year! Girl Reporter is Tansy Rayner Roberts’ newest work of fiction, set in the same world as her award winning short story “Cookie Cutter Superhero” and our very…
Nini by Yukimi Ogawa Published 10/31/2017 | 6,626 Words What happens when an AI learns about old Gods, long forgotten by her worshipers? What happens, then, when that AI–call it Nini–decides to take matters into its own hands? Yukimi…
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Announcing an Open Call for Contributors: JOIN THE SMUGGLER ARMY!
WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR NEW SUBMISSIONS AS ALL OF OUR 2018 SLOTS ARE TAKEN. Do you smuggle books? Do you have #OPINIONS? Are you passionate about diversity, representation, and above all else, awesome SFF? JOIN OUR ARMY. We…
WE HAVE AWESOME NEWS! We are delighted to announce that Michele Tracy Berger, the author of our novella Reenu-You is appearing on TV tomorrow Tuesday October 10th at 8:00pm on the North Carolina Channel & on Sunday, October 15th…
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Book Smugglers Publishing: Open Call For Short Stories Submissions (2018, Awakenings)
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. As of October 5, 2017 Book Smugglers Publishing is currently open for short stories submissions for publication in 2018. General information and theme We’re looking for original English language short stories from all around the…
Hello, brave readers! As you may have heard, we Book Smugglers have been in the midst of our very first Kickstarter Campaign. On Friday, we successfully hit our funding goal–and while there are still four days and change left…
Hello everybody!!! We have 7 days (!!!) left in our Kickstarter and we are just under 85% and starting to think this is GOING TO HAPPEN OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! We had a few updates to our campaign,…
Hello everybody! We are literally half way through our campaign at literally 50% – what BEAUTIFUL symmetry. We have added new rewards – and there is only one of each and once they are gone, they ARE GONE! There…