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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Thrilling: MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Title: My Sister, The Serial Killer Author: Oyinkan Braithwaite Genre: Literary Fiction, Thrillers Publisher: Doubleday Books (US) / Atlantic Books (UK)Publication date: November 2018 / January 2019Hardcover: 240 pages When Korede’s dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call…
In which we Book Smugglers present our top 10 books of 2017 and other assorted goodies… Ana: Hello, I’m Ana. Thea: And I’m Thea. Ana & Thea: And we are…BOOK SMUGGLERS!!!!!!! *play facemelting riffs on air guitars* We’ve brought…
Hello everyone! Happy Sunday–let’s get down to business! This Week on The Book Smugglers On Monday, we post Sarah Gailey’s primer for her new Serial Box story, The Fisher of Bones Tuesday, we reveal the cover of our upcoming…
“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…
What does Halloween sound like? Is it all thrills and chills and spooky sounds that make sleep impossible in the dead of night? Or is it something more quiet and drawn out, an anguished sigh in the dark when…
This year’s Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter campaign is well underway, seeking to fund the Magazine’s Year Four as well as the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction special issue. Right now, the campaign is into the stretch goal of producing print…
Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday! It’s WORLDCON WEEK, FOLKS! That means we are off to Helsinki very soon–so let’s dive right in shall we? WorldCon 75 This week, from Thursday onward, we will be in Helsinki, Finland for the…
Hello everybody and a happy book birthday to our very own Cassandra Khaw! We finally unleashed Bearly a Lady into the world today and we are celebrating with a giveaway! Go over to our Instagram page for a chance…
Today, to celebrate the release of Robert Beatty’s Serafina and the Splintered Heart (Book 3 in the Serafina series) we are delighted to be hosting a giveaway in partnership with Disney-Hyperion! About the Serafina Series: Set in the magical…
Hello everyone! Happy Sunday–let’s dive into this week’s edition of the stash, shall we? This Week on The Book Smugglers On Monday we kick off the week with a guest post from Yosia Sing, as they talk about their…
As you may have heard, The Book Smugglers are finalists for this year’s 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…
Hello everybody! It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus. Today, Ana reviews a promising new novella from Tor.com Brother’s Ruin by Emma Newman is very good but also very frustrating. Go there to see why.…
Title: Gilded Cage Author: Vic James Genre: Dystopia, Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: February 2017 Hardcover: 368 Pages A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2016! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2016, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2017, and more. Today’s Smugglivus guest…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2016! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2016, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2017, and more. Next on Smugglivus…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! This week, Ana starts wish-listing her way into 2017… with 6 books to highly anticipate for early 2017!…
Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday! Let’s dive right into the festivities, shall we? We say “festivities” because… Smugglivus Is HERE It is that magical time of year once again! SMUGGLIVUS–our month-plus long celebration of our favorite books, bloggers, and…
Hello, friends. We were supposed to be posting book reviews and essays this week but frankly, we haven’t been able to focus or muster the energy to do so because of the result of the United States presidential election.…
“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…
Today, we are happy to host Michi Trota, Uncanny Magazine’s managing editor with a special guest post about this year’s Kickstarter campaign – stretch goals, guys! GO, GO GO! I’ve always been drawn to SF/F stories that leave me…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus for our regular weekly column! It’s Thea’s turn today with her review of graphic novel The Fall of the House of West by Paul Pope, J. T. Petty and David…
We’ve got some really cool news to share today on behalf of Solaris Books and editors Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin! Djinnthology: a collection of stories and tales inspired by the unseen world Introducing the first-ever anthology of original…
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Sweet Tooth Friday: “Endangered Species” (Vol. 4) by Jeff Lemire
“Everywhere you go, pain and misery seem to follow. Well, I’m done following along with it. I won’t be a part of your violence anymore. And I won’t let the children be infected by it either.” Title: Sweet Tooth:…
Title: Stitching Snow Author: R.C. Lewis Genre: Fairy Tale Retellings, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication Date: October 2014 Hardcover: 338 pages Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands…