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,…
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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…
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…
Title: Spinning Silver Author: Naomi Novik Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Del Rey Publication Date: July 2018 Hardcover: 448 Pages A fresh and imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted, which was hailed as “a…
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Book Review Roundup: TEMPESTS AND SLAUGHTER by Tamora Pierce + THE POPPY WAR by R.F. Kuang
I’ve been reading a lot of fantasy lately, and two novels have recently struck me with their thematic similarities (though both are intended for wildly different audiences): Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce and The Poppy War by R.F.…
“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…
IT’S FRIDAY WOOHOOOOOO (and there is a Brazil x Belgium World Cup game in the horizon). We are also over at Kirkus – this time, with a review of The Calculating Stars. I LOVE IT GO READ IT.…
I love fairy tales, and some of my favorite novels and films are fairy tale adaptations. Adapting a fairy tale comes with a unique set of challenges, as I found out when I adapted the story of Scheherazade for…
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…
Happy Wednesday 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 Mary Robinette Kowal, talking to Aliette and Fran over at the main kitchen, about…
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)…
Nussia by Michele Tracy Berger Published 6/26/2018 Nussia… I said her name like a wish. All Lindsay Fields has ever wanted was to have a best friend–someone to share all her likes and dislikes, who would truly understand her.…
It’s Monday and we are over Kirkus! GUYS! GUYYYYYYYS! I so freaking loved Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse! <3 Go over to Kirkus to read more.…
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Nussia: Michele Tracy Berger 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…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn this time, with a review of Awakened by James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth. A summer horror blockbuster in book form, Awakened is the story of…
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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…
Hello everybody! We are celebrating the release of our new novel – The Ninety-Ninth Bride by Catherine Faris King – which is out today, with a giveaway! The Novel “Sister, would you please tell me a story?” Dunya is…
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A Smugglerific Cover: THE NINETY-NINTH BRIDE by Catherine Faris King
In which we reveal the cover for our new novel, THE NINETY-NINTH BRIDE by Catherine Faris King! The novel, based on the author’s short story “The Ninety-Ninth Bride”, is out tomorrow, June 19. Behold the smugglerific cover: About the…
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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…
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Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read Changed my Life – an Essay by Sarah Gailey
I’m queer, which is why I always thought I’d be dead by now. I grew up standing just inside the open door of the closet, like a cat looking out the window at a bird and thinking she’s outside.…
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…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus!! Today, Ana reviews Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova, the sequel to last year’s Labyrinth Lost. I love it! Go over to Kirkus to read more!…
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Guest Book Review: Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Today, we are giving the floor over to Charles Payseur, a member of our Smuggler Army with his monthly column X Marks the Story and a Book Smugglers Author, to talk about Sam J. Miller’s recently published novel Blackfish…