In which Nova Ren Suma talks about teenage ghosts and her new novel, The Walls Around Us. We Book Smugglers are huge fans of Nova Run Suma’s work. Both of us loved her YA novel Imaginary Girls – a…
Inspirations and Influences
The Ninety-Ninth Bride: Catherine F. King 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…
The Astronomer Who Met The North Wind: Kate Hall 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…
The Mussel Eater: Octavia Cade 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…
“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…
Mrs Yaga: Michal Wojcik 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…
In Her Head, In Her Eyes: Yukimi Ogawa 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…
Hunting Monsters: S. L. Huang 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…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
Today’s guest is Grady Hendrix, author of the upcoming horror novel Horrorstör – an Ikearific haunted superstore novel in a catalog-looking package (you might remember we hosted the cover reveal a few months back). Yes, you read that sentence…
Today we are thrilled to have guest author Kat Zhang over for a guest post to talk about the third and final book in her Hybrid Chronicles series, Echoes of Us. Thea was a big fan of What’s Left…
The Girl From the Well: Rin Chupeco on Inspirations and Influences (& Giveaway)
Today we are thrilled to have author Rin Chupeco over to talk about Inspirations and Influences for her debut novel, YA horror story The Girl From the Well. Thea loved the book, so we are delighted to have Rin…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
World of Trouble Blog Tour: Ben H. Winters on Inspirations & Influences
Today we are delighted to host a stop on Ben H. Winters’ blog tour to celebrate the conclusion of his Edgar Award-winning pre-apocalyptic Last Policeman mystery series. Thea was a big fan of The Last Policeman (book 1) and…
Starbreak Blog Tour (& Giveaway): Phoebe North on Inspiration & Influences
Today we are thrilled to host a stop on Phoebe North’s blog tour celebrating the release of Starbreak, the second book in her Starglass sequence. Thea was a fan of Starglass, the eponymous first book in the series, so…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
The Dyerville Tales: M.P. Kozlowsky on Inspirations & Influences
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Grave: Joan Frances Turner on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
Grave is the newest book by Joan Frances Turner, and the third entry in her Resurgam trilogy. Thea was a huge fan of Dust, book 1 in this zombie saga, and so we were thrilled when we were given…
The Killing Woods: Lucy Christopher on Inspirations & Influences
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Today we are thrilled to host a guest post from author Erin Bow. We’ve been fans of Erin’s since reading Plain Kate, and have been eagerly anticipating her new book, Sorrow’s Knot for a while. Here to talk about…
Shadowlark Blog Tour & Giveaway: Meagan Spooner on Inspirations & Influences
Greetings, friends! Today we are thrilled to have Meagan Spooner as our guest of the day as we host a stop on the blog tour celebrating her newest book, Shadowlark. The second novel in a YA dystopian series that…
Ancillary Justice: Ann Leckie on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Once We Were: Kat Zhang on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
Hello everyone and happy Friday! Today, our guest is Kat Zhang, author of the superlative young adult speculative fiction/dystopian Hybrid Chronicles series. Thea read the first book in the series, What’s Left of Me and loved it; naturally we…