Happy Thursday to all! We are delighted to be hosting the cover reveal for Leanna Renee Hieber’s new book, The Spectral City, along with a few words from the author herself <3 Without further ado, behold! The smugglerific cover!…
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Finding excellent short SFF can often feel like hunting for buried treasure. Sometimes it takes a guide to help fill in the map, connecting readers with fantastic fiction and showing where X Marks The Story–a new monthly column from…
A Smugglerific Cover: THE GIRL WITH THE FROZEN HEART by Y.M. Pang
In which we reveal the cover for the next short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, The Girl with the Frozen Heart by Y.M. Pang! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story A girl lies bleeding in the snow;…
Women To Read is a monthly column from A.C. Wise highlighting female authors of speculative fiction and recommending a starting place for their work. Welcome to another Women to Read! This time around, I have two novels and two…
Happy Monday! We are thrilled to be hosting the cover reveal for Fireside Fiction’s newest addition–a speculative fiction novella entitled Every River Runs to Salt by World Fantasy Award nominee and Tiptree Award honoree Rachael K. Jones. Without further…
You don’t have a self until you have a secret. Kit had never known ambition until she met Diane. It was as though Diane’s brilliant mind showed Kit everything she could be, everything she ought to be, everything she…
“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…
Old School Wednesdays: The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
Old School Wednesdays is a regular 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)…
“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…
Finding excellent short SFF can often feel like hunting for buried treasure. Sometimes it takes a guide to help fill in the map, connecting readers with fantastic fiction and showing where X Marks The Story–a new monthly column from…
Happy Monday! Today we are delighted to be hosting the cover reveal and exclusive excerpt for Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin, a haunting coming-of-age story set in Ireland which is out this spring. Without further ado,…
Women To Read is a monthly column from A.C. Wise highlighting female authors of speculative fiction and recommending a starting place for their work. Welcome to July’s Women to Read. By coincidence, all four pieces this month deal with…
“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…
Hello everybody! Today we are delighted to be hosting the cover reveal for the anthology Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein, a new anthology bringing together five great new and established writers to explore the world of Mary Shelley’s all-time…
Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. This month’s entry takes a slightly different approach… Ever since reading Sarah Gailey’s wonderful, moving Between the Coats essay about navigating…
A Smugglerific Cover: NUSSIA by Michele Tracy Berger
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…
Finding excellent short SFF can often feel like hunting for buried treasure. Sometimes it takes a guide to help fill in the map, connecting readers with fantastic fiction and showing where X Marks The Story–a new monthly column from…
Non-Binary Authors to Read: June 2018
Non-Binary Authors To Read is a quarterly column from A.C. Wise highlighting non-binary authors of speculative fiction and recommending a starting place for their work. Welcome to another edition of Non-Binary Authors to Read. This month’s recommendations include two…
Old School Wednesdays: The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) by Jonathan Stroud
Old School Wednesdays is a regular 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)…
Trash and Treasure: The Avengers and my Controversial Geek Stance of the Month
Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. With Avengers: Infinity War now out at the cinemas and inflicting grievous emotional damage on the general populace, I’m once more…
Happy Tuesday! Today we are delighted to be hosting the cover reveal for the UK edition of L.L. McKinney’s debut novel A Blade So Black – a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! Without further ado,…
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…
Finding excellent short SFF can often feel like hunting for buried treasure. Sometimes it takes a guide to help fill in the map, connecting readers with fantastic fiction and showing where X Marks The Story–a new monthly column from…
Women To Read is a monthly column from A.C. Wise highlighting female authors of speculative fiction and recommending a starting place for their work. Welcome to another installment of Women to Read. In this month’s column, I have a…
Old School Wednesdays: The Wicked Heart by Christopher Pike
Old School Wednesdays is a regular 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)…