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…
June 2018
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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…
Old School Wednesdays: The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus #1) by Jonathan Stroud
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)…
Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy – Yoon Ha Lee on the Machineries of Empire
Revenant Gun, the third book in the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee is out next week (I CAN’T WAIT) and we invited the author to talk about writing the series. Oops, I Accidentally wrote a Trilogy…
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…