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…
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May 2018
Happy Friday 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 C.L. Polk, talking to Aliette and Fran over at the main kitchen, about Witchmark…
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,…
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Series Review: The Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst
And now for something a little different—I’ve recently read all three books in the Queens of Renthia trilogy by Sarah Beth Durst and I have some feels. Today’s review is a roundup of all three books: The Queen of…
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana reviews Artificial Condition, the long-awaited sequel to All Systems Red by Martha Wells featuring the one and only Murderbot. It’s super great! Go over to Kirkus to learn more.…
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A Most Dangerous Woman: Brenda Clough on Writing serialized fiction in today’s world.
Hello everybody – we are here today with MOST EXCELLENT news about Serial Box’s new series. Creator Brenda Clough returns to the roots of serialized fiction with a sequel to The Woman in White by Wilkie Collin, with A…
When the Letter Comes by Sara Fox Published 5/22/2018 Henry believes that someday, something awesome will happen–everything will turn out all right and all her problems will disappear once her letter arrives, welcoming her to magic school. So even…
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When the Letter Comes: Sara Fox 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 Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman. Unbury Carol is a western with a killer premise–about a woman who has died multiple…
Awakenings Book Smugglers Publishing Smugglerific Cover
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…
We are here to share some pretty sweet news with regards to Joanna Russ! On May 8, Open Road Media published the ebook editions of The Female Man, And Chaos Died, and Picnic on Paradise—all of which were finalists…
We are over at Kirkus today with a review of a NEW DIA REEVES NOVEL WHAT That’s right, there is a new Dia Reeves novel out there set in the world of Bleeding Violet! Go over to Kirkus to…
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…
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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)…
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You Will Be Assimilated: Data vs. the Borg – An essay by Marina J. Lostetter
I’ve got a robot-empathy problem. I like to tell people that if you put googly eyes on a trash can, I’ll empathize with it. I can’t help but imagine that, to some degree, it has become alive. Try it.…
It’s Friday and after a short break, we are over at Kirkus. Today, Ana reviews Circe by Madeline Miller, the follow-up to the amazing The Song of Achilles. Go over there for the full review.…