Today we’re thrilled to have guest author Chloe Gong over to chat with us about history, representation, and monsters from her book These Violent Delights. A Chat with Chloe Gong The Book Smugglers: These Violent Delights prominently features rival gangs…
A young woman finds out the truth about her past and escapes a monster in Christina Henry’s newest novel, Near the Bone. Title: Near The BoneAuthor: Christina HenryGenre: Horror, ThrillerPublisher: BerkeleyPublication Date: April 13, 2021Paperback: 336 pages A woman…
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 monthly column from Charles…
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 monthly column from Charles…
Non-Binary Authors To Read is a regular column from A.C. Wise highlighting non-binary authors of speculative fiction and recommending a starting place for their work. Welcome to the December 2020 edition of Non-Binary Authors to Read. It’s been quite the…
Veronica Roth is back with an adult(ish) SFF offering, taking the Chosen One trope to the next level. Title: Chosen Ones Author: Veronica Roth Genre: Speculative Fiction/Science Fiction Publisher: John Joseph Adams / Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: April 2020Hardcover: 432…
Title: Oona Out of Order Author: Margarita Montimore Genre: Fiction (Speculative Fiction) Publisher: Flatiron BooksPublication date: February 25 2020Hardcover: 352 pages A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today with a review of Kiersten White’s newest: YA urban fantasy novel Slayer. Like basically every other SFF nerd of the past 20 years, Thea is…
Today we bring bring back our feature, “What She Said…” in which we both review books that the other has previously read and reviewed. This feature arose because of a very serious dilemma we faced at Casa de Smugglers:…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn this time, with an impassioned defense of some favorite anti-heroes–inspired by her reading of Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C Dao. Heroes are great and all, but are a…
“Where to Start With” is our ongoing series of essays detailing where one can start with any number of SFF/popgeekery topics, from where to begin with the morass of X-Men comics to diving into the expanded Star Wars canon.…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today with a review of Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri. The debut novel from Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand is a historical fantasy novel inspired…
We are delighted to share an excerpt from the second novel in Tade Thompson’s highly acclaimed Wormwood trilogy science fiction series, The Rosewater Insurrection. About the Book The second volume in a vibrant and compellingly told trilogy by one…
Timshala by Leah Cypess Published 10/30/2018 Siara has always known that every step of her life is predestined—with the exception of a few true choices, a few points in time where she can exercise free will. But when she…
“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 which we reveal the cover for the last short story in our 2018 Awakenings series, Timshala by Leah Cypess! Behold the smugglerific cover: About the Story Siara has always known that every step of her life is predestined—with…
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…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a review of V.E. Schwab’s Vengeful. The long-awaited sequel to ViciousVengeful is a delightful return to the world of EOs and stars a brand…
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…
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…
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…
We are delighted to announce two very special book birthdays today: A Glimmer of Silver by Juliet Kemp and Accelerants by Lena Wilson. These two books are the newest additions to the Book Smugglers’ Novella Initative–and they are both…
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…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn, with a list… This week was BookExpo 2018 and BookCon 2018–annual book gatherings for publishing professionals, media, and booklovers of all ages. Each year, Thea puts…
We are over at Kirkus today for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn this time, with a review of Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman. Unbury Carol is a western with a killer premise–about a woman who has died multiple…