It’s October already (hooooow) and we decided to have some fun on Instagram this year! We are hosting our very first Instagram Challenge with super fun daily prompts: We posted the first one today – go check it out…
We Smugglers have been super excited about Rick Riordan’s new imprint with Disney, which highlights mythologies from all around the world. We read and loved the first book, Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi, a…
Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. Over the years, I’ve had what I’d a call an on-again, off-again relationship with anime. My tastes are fairly scattergun, and…
Phantom Limb by Reiko Scott Published 9/25/2018 I received my first cybernetic arm when I was eight years old. Naomi Shimizu has undergone several enhancements. A cybernetic arm, to replace her crushed one. Smooth pale skin and visual implants,…
Awakenings Book Smugglers Publishing Inspirations and Influences
Phantom Limb: Reiko Scott 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…
Bubbleheads, Crumblies, Specials, rejoice! The world of the Uglies is back with Scott Westerfeld’s Impostors! We Book Smugglers were lucky enough to join Scott Westerfeld in a conversation about his newest book, set fifteen to twenty years after the…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a list–this time inspired by Kiersten White’s The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein. Thea’s been a fan of Kiersten White’s since reading And I…
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…
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A Smugglerific Cover: PHANTOM LIMB by Reiko Scott
In which we reveal the cover for the next short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, Phantom Limb by Reiko Scott! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story I received my first cybernetic arm when I was eight years…
It’s Monday and we are over at Kirkus! Ana reads a new novella by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Prime Meridian, a story of loneliness, second chances and Mars. Go over there to read the whole thing.…
“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…
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 September’s Non-Binary Authors to Read! This time around, I’m recommending three short…
Title:The Book of M Author: Peng Shepherd Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia Publisher: William Morrow / Harper Voyager Publication date: June 8 2018 Paperback: 485 pages Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a review of Seafire by Natalie C. Parker. A novel about lady pirates on the high seas, in a future post-apocalyptic style SFF world…
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A ROOM AWAY FROM THE WOLVES: An Interview with Nova Ren Suma (& Giveaway)
Today we are thrilled to present an interview with long-standing Book Smuggler favorite Nova Ren Suma and a giveaway to celebrate her newest novel, A Room Away from the Wolves. We’ve been huge fans of Nova’s since reading and…
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Trash & Treasure: Accepting imperfection in media while still valuing criticism
Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. This month’s entry is a lengthy look at accepting imperfection in media while still valuing criticism, critical discourse around critics and…
We are delighted to be spotlight another existing series from Serial Box today. On August 15th, Serial Box released Dead Air, a series that combines a true crime podcast (which you can listen to here) and a thriller series…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana lists 10 books she is looking forward to reading this fall. Go over there to check out the whole list.…
Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. This month’s entry is a recap of Worldcon 76 that took place in San Jose between August 16-20… This year, I…
Running by Itoro Udofia Published 8/28/2018 I’ve got an ancestor on my back. Arit is a young woman, growing up in a home that balances two different worlds. On the TV, a preacher speaks of a God who looks…
Awakenings Book Smugglers Publishing Inspirations and Influences
Running: Itoro Udofia 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…
Happy Monday and welcome to a regular monthly feature in partnership with Fran Wilde and Aliette de Bodard’s Cooking the Books Podcast! Today’s guest is Jeannette Ng, talking to Fran and Aliette about her Gothic novel Under the Pendulum…
It’s Friday and Thea is over at Kirkus! Today, Thea offers us a list of books that explore the dynamics of power, from the perspective of those who have it, as well as those without. Go over there to…
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A Smugglerific Cover: RUNNING by Itoro Udofia
In which we reveal the cover for the next short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, Running by Itoro Udofia! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story I’ve got an ancestor on my back. Arit is a young woman,…
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Old School Wednesdays: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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)…