Trash & Treasure is a miscellany of monthly opinions on SFF, fandom and general geekness from Foz Meadows. Welcome to the first instalment of Trash & Treasure, a monthly column where I get to review, rave and/or rant about…
Monthly Archives
January 2018
Do you like military science fiction? I like military science fiction. I grew up reading a lot of historical fiction about wars and soldiers, and in time it melded with my other favorite genre, and so my lifelong fondness…
Desopilar is important. This is a super great – and untranslatable – word in my mother tongue Portuguese that means: “to help forget the tensions of the day”. My favourite way of “desopilar” is to get home and sit…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews the last novella in the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor *sniff* I can’t believe it is all over, I loved this series a lot! Go over to Kirkus…
Smugglerific Cover
Cover Reveal: The Underwater Ballroom Society – edited by Stephanie Burgis and Tiffany Trent
Happy Thursday! Today, we are delighted to host the cover reveal and book announcement for a delightful anthology edited by Stephanie Burgis and Tiffany Trent! THE UNDERWATER BALLROOM SOCIETY includes Science Fiction and Fantasy stories that feature an underwater…
Title: The Only Harmless Great Thing Author: Brooke Bolander Genre: Alternate History, SF Publisher: Tor.com Publication date: January 23 2018 Paperback: 96 pages In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark,…
“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…
Book Reviews Kirkus
Over at Kirkus: A Post-Mortal SFF List (Inspired by THUNDERHEAD by Neal Schusterman)
We are over at Kirkus early this week for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a list of post-mortal SFF inspired by Neal Shusterman’s excellent Thunderhead (book 2 in the Arc of a Scythe series). In Scythe…
Title: Truly, Devious Author: Maureen Johnson Genre: Crime, Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Publication date: January 16 2018 Paperback: 432 pages Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It…
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…
It’s Monday and we are over at Kirkus! Inspired by A.C. Wise’s recent Women to Read column, I went and got me a copy of the novella Pretty Marys All in a Row by Gwendolyn Kiste… … and loved…
Hello everybody and a happy Sunday to all! Smugglivus is now done and we are resuming regular programming! In Case You Missed It: We had a lot of cool things happening last week including: Celebrating ten years of The…
Book Smugglers Publishing Giveaways Gods and Monsters
Announcing Gods and Monsters: The Anthology (and a Giveaway)
As you may know, we published six original short stories this year online for free, and as standalone ebooks, each story following the theme of “Gods and Monsters.” Today, we are thrilled to announce that we have collected each…
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 a new year of Women to Read and a brand new home for…
Book Smugglers Publishing Guest Review
“I walked into adventure and adventure has given me blisters”
Something a little different for today…. a guest post from reader, friend-of-the-blog and book pusher Estara , whose taste in books matches our own and whose recommendations have graced our TBR for years. Estara is here today to talk…
Today we are delighted to be partnering with Simon & Schuster to share a giveaway of Thunderhead by Neal Schusterman, the second book in the Arc of a Scythe series! Thea was a huge fan of Scythe (book 1…
HAPPY SMUGGLIVUS, EVERYONE! Today is our official blogoversary – we are TEN years old today. We’ve had a multitude of incredible guest authors, bloggers, and publishers over the course of the month talking about their favorite moments of the…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017: A Year In Review. Today, January 7, 2017, is our bloggoversary–and it’s a big one. Today we officially turn ten years old. To celebrate, we’re looking back at 2017 to document our year, as well…
We are over at Kirkus early this week for our regular column! It’s Thea’s turn today, with a review of Blood and Sand by C.V. Wyk. A reimagining of Spartacus–if Spartacus was a young woman–Wyk’s Blood and Sand is…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. We reach the…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Smugglivus continues with…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Smugglivus continues with…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Smugglivus continues with…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2017! Throughout this month, we will have guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2017, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2018, and more. Smugglivus continues with…
It’s Wednesday and we are over at Kirkus! To celebrate the new year, I came up with a list of books to look forward to, including: Go over there for the whole list. What about you? What are you…