Today we are honored to have Kate Elliott over as our guest for the day. Kate is the author of amazing fantasy fiction (we are huge fans of her Spiritwalker Trilogy), and we’re thrilled to have her here to…
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Hello everyone, from New York Comic Con! This weekend, your friendly neighborhood Book Smugglers are at the Javits Center, enjoying the panels, exhibitors, and assorted sundries. While we’re out, we are thrilled to run a giveaway of the paperback…
Today we host the cover reveal for a brand new anthology! The Cabinet of Curiosities is a website that is run by middle grade authors Claire Legrand, Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, and Emma Trevayne. Each week one of these…
Today we are very excited to have Kami Garcia over to talk about her new book, YA paranormal thriller Unbreakable. The first book in a planned series, Unbreakable is Kami’s second solo novel effort (she’s also one of the…
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Shadowlark Blog Tour & Giveaway: Meagan Spooner on Inspirations & Influences
Greetings, friends! Today we are thrilled to have Meagan Spooner as our guest of the day as we host a stop on the blog tour celebrating her newest book, Shadowlark. The second novel in a YA dystopian series that…
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Ancillary Justice: Ann Leckie on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Title: Vicious Author: V.E. Schwab Genre: Speculative Fiction, Superheroes Publisher: Tor Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 368 Pages A masterful, twisted tale of ambition, jealousy, betrayal, and superpowers, set in a near-future world. Victor and Eli started out as…
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A Smugglerific Cover + Excerpt & Giveaway: Greenglass House by Kate Milford
Kate Milford is a Smuggler-favourite and we have loved all of her books so far (The Boneshaker, The Broken Lands and the short The Kairos Mechanism). That’s why today, we are thrilled to host the cover reveal for Greenglass…
Picture Me Gone is a beautiful, thought-provoking book, exactly the type that Meg Rosoff is so good at writing. Unfortunately I am not going to be able to write the review like I meant today1 so 1) I want…
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Once We Were: Kat Zhang on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
Hello everyone and happy Friday! Today, our guest is Kat Zhang, author of the superlative young adult speculative fiction/dystopian Hybrid Chronicles series. Thea read the first book in the series, What’s Left of Me and loved it; naturally we…
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown: A Chat With Holly Black + Awesome Giveaway
We will just start by saying this: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is an AWESOME book, a throwback to old-style vampires that are both creepy and extremely alluring. Ana will be reviewing it on Monday next week but for…
Hello everyone and happy Friday! To kick off the long weekend in style, we are thrilled to have Sarah Beth Durst over for a guest post. To celebrate the upcoming release of her new novel, paranormal contemporary young adult…
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The Year of Shadows Blog Tour (& Giveaway): Claire Legrand on Believing in Ghosts
We are thrilled to be kicking off the blog tour for Claire Legrand’s second novel, The Year of Shadows, a middle grade ghost story about love, loss, and friendship! Today, Claire is over to talk about ghosts – specifically,…
Today, we are thrilled to host the cover reveal for R.J. Anderson’s forthcoming middle grade novel, Nomad (sequel to Swift)! We’re big fans of R.J.’s – Thea loved Ultraviolet and Quicksilver so very much – so we cannot wait…
Into The Grey was first published in 2011 in Ireland and has won both the CBI Book of the Year Award (formerly known as the Bisto Award) and the CBI Children’s Choice Award in 2012 (the first book to…
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The Glass Puzzle: Christine Brodien-Jones on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Today, we’re excited to offer something very cool, in the form of a flash giveaway. If you’re like Thea, you freaking love Kate Daniels. You’ve been waiting anxiously for the newest book in the series, Magic Rises. If this…
Today, we are thrilled to do something a little bit different. We’ve got not one, but a whole set of smugglerific covers to reveal. The title is Countdown City by Ben Winters, sequel to 2013 Edgar Award-winning science fiction…
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The Thousand Names Blog Tour: Django Wexler on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
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Belle Epoque: Elizabeth Ross on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
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Phoenix Rising Blog Tour: Ryk E. Spoor on Inspirations & Influences
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Hello everyone! Today we are happy to be a part of the blog tour for Proxy by Alex London. Here to talk about the characters and relationships in this book, particularly the relationship between main characters Knox and Syd,…
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Cold Steel: Kate Elliott on Inspirations & Influences (& Giveaway)
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The cool thing is that the writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Hello everyone, from BEA! While the both of us are at the show and are pushing through the pain (literal pain – blistered feet, tired muscles, bicep and shoulder workouts thanks to all the books), today we are thrilled…
Today we are pleased to be running a giveaway of the two books – Deadweather and Sunrise & New Lands – in the The Chronicles of Egg series by Geoff Rodkey. ABOUT THE BOOKS: Deadweather and Sunrise (May 2012,…