Hello everybody and we have Most Excellent news to share! Zen Cho – author of SORCERER TO THE CROWN, THE TRUE QUEEN and more recently, THE ORDER OF THE PURE MOON REFLECTED IN WATER – has a new book…
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The Best of British Fantasy 2019 contains two dozen tales of the weird and wonderful: featuring pensive houses, angry gods, ghosts, monsters, living statues, were-creatures, sorcerers, swordsmen, spells, skeletons, and, of course, the end of the world. Stories by Lavie…
Hello!!! We are delighted today to be hosting the awesome folks from Twelfth Planet Press and the cover reveal for their new SFF anthology! Without further ado… Thank you for joining us for the cover reveal for Rebuilding Tomorrow,…
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Good people, bad magic, and how magical systems shape character in fantasy – An essay by Ginn Hale
Today, we are delighted to welcome Ginn Hale back to the blog to celebrate her new novel, Master of Restless Shadows (out today!) and to talk about magical systems and characters in Fantasy. From metal-eating allomancers of Brandon Sanderson’s…
Hello everybody!! The Kickstarter for Uncanny Magazine Year 6: Raise the Roof, Raise the Rates! is now up and running and delighted to be hosting a guest post from incoming Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu telling her story of being an Uncanny reader as a teen,…
Imagine a world… A world changing fast, and faster, a world of machinery and innovation. A world where the rich and powerful want nothing more than to expand their empire at any cost… yet even in the grimiest hearts…
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Asexual Representation in Mainstream Speculative Fiction
In modern speculative fiction (henceforth SFF – Science Fiction and Fantasy), one of the earliest examples of an asexual protagonist is likely Tarma from Mercedes Lackey’s Vows and Honor series. The first book, The Oathbound, was published in 1988,…
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Eight Nerdy Chicago People and Organizations We Love By Matt Peters and Michi Trota (Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter shout out)
Hello everybody!! The Kickstarter for Uncanny Magazine Year 5: I Want my Uncanny TV is up and running and we are more than delighted to be hosting a guest post from Matt Peters and Michi Trota talking about the…
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Alternatives to Romance: Nicole Kornher-Stace on writing platonic relationships in Archivist Wasp and Latchkey (& a Giveaway)
Hello everybody and happy Thursday! As you may recall, a few years ago Ana read and loved Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace. There is now a sequel out – Latchkey and we are delighted to welcome Nicole to the…
Happy Monday! The new season of Bookburners will be available on June 13th from Serial Box and we have one of its creators here today – Brian Slattery – to talk about the collaborative process behind the series. When…
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Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy – Yoon Ha Lee on the Machineries of Empire
Revenant Gun, the third book in the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee is out next week (I CAN’T WAIT) and we invited the author to talk about writing the series. Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy…
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Standing Under the Mistletoe with Interlude Press and Pene Henson: It’s All in the Kiss
A kiss can lead to so many unexpected things…especially one that takes place under the mistletoe. Join authors Killian B. Brewer, Pene Henson, Erin Finnegan, Lilah Suzanne, and Lynn Charles as they explore the most tantalizing literary kisses and…
In which we host Karen Healey in support of The Empress of Timbra Kickstarter – a high fantasy novel co-written with Robyn Fleming. The Kickstarter is doing super well and with six more days to go, there are some…
On November 1st, Serial Box released The Fisher of Bones, written by the awesome Sarah Gailey. This is Serial Box’s first release in collaboration with Fireside Fiction and we have invited Sarah Gailey today to give us a bit…
Hello all! A couple of years ago, I read – and LOVED – Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin. The book – and adventure fantasy novel with a side of romance – is now being re-released with a new cover…
I’ve had the Lord of the White Hell series by Ginn Hale on my radar for a long time – I’ve heard nothing but praise for it. It’s with pleasure that we host Ginn Hale today to introduce the…
We are thrilled to have William Ritter, author of the Jackaby series–a YA historical paranormal mystery series following the irascible R. F. Jackaby, and his assistant Abigail Rook. Give it up for Will, folks. All The People That You…
We are delighted to welcome Angela Slatter here today to celebrate the release of a new Verity Fassbinder novel – Corpselight, the sequel to Vigil – by talking about the new monsters in it. So a new Verity Fassbinder…
Today we are delighted to host Sarah Kuhn to talk about the experience of writing Heroine Worship, the sequel to the amazingly fun Heroine Complex. When I started writing Heroine Complex—the first book in my series about Asian American…
Part of Pride 2017, this is a guest post by Book Smugglers Author Dianna Gunn , talking about the work of author & editor Casey Lawrence. When the Book Smugglers reached out and asked me to talk about LGBTQ+…
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Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World – Kelly Jensen on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“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…
This month on Food and Horror – Octavia Cade on THE ART OF COOKING: HAUTE CUISINE AND HANNIBAL LECTER Octavia Cade is the author of Book Smugglers Publishing’s The Mussel Eater. Food & Horror is a regular monthly column…
Thea recently read – and enjoyed it a great deal – Behind the Throne by K.B. Wagers and we invited the author to talk about the idea behind Kingdoms in SPACE. Why monarchies? In space no less. If people…
Sherri L. Smith has a new book coming out next week, a YA thriller called Pasadena. To celebrate the release we have the author over with a list of her favorite whodunits. Listicle of Sherri L. Smith’s Favorite Whodunits…
Today, in true Book Smuggler spirit, we have a guest post… in epistolary format. <3 YA authors Siobhan Vivian, author of THE LAST BOY AND GIRL IN THE WORLD and Morgan Matson, THE UNEXPECTED EVERYTHING chat about books and…