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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 10d

Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves!

Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.

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A grid with a book-filled window and author with short brown hair, an author with long, silvering hair sitting with a pile of books, an author signing books.

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 10d

Happy pub date @franwilde.bsky.social! A Bookbub and BookRiot Must Read, A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES -- Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist -- has hit shelves! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781353...

A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde: 9781645661948 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Robin Hood meets Parasite meets Six of Crows in multi-award winning author Fran Wilde’s thrilling, high-tech adventure heist wrapped in a futuristic fantasy where thieves are entertainment for the...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 10d

Goodnight WONDERLAND BOOKS in Bethesda! Thank you so much. What an amazing Thieves’ Eve!

LITTLE DISTRICT BOOKS, Venessa Vida Kelly and I will see you tomorrow night for Thieves’ Launch Day!! #APhilosophyofThieves

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 16d

In less than a week — six days! — the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts!

Make sure you catch your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!) Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you!

www.penguinrandomhou...
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Just one week until A Philosophy of Thieves!
Make sure you catch them!

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 24d

A sighting of NOTHING BAD HAPPENS HERE by @rachelcourage.bsky.social on the Best in YA Table at @booksamillion.bsky.social!

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Sarah Beth Durst @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social · 24d

COVER REVEAL!!! I’m so excited to share the beautiful cover of SEA OF CHARMS — my newest cozy fantasy in the world of the Spellshop series!

Cover illustration: Lulu Chen
Cover design: Esther S. Kim

Coming 7/21/26 and now available for preorder: sarahbethdurst.com/SeaofCharms....

SEA OF CHARMS by Sarah Beth Durst (coming 7/21/26)

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 25d

Great seeing this call out of @rachelcourage.bsky.social's NYTimes Bestselling MURDER BY CHEESECAKE: A Golden Girls Mystery!
www.audible.com/blog/article...

Grab your headphones and a slice of cheesecake—we’re celebrating 40 years of “The Golden Girls”

Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia—thank you for being our friends.

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 25d

Loved seeing @franwilde.bsky.social's A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES on Book Riot's list of Superb New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of September 2025: bookriot.com/new-sci-fi-a...

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to be keynoting the 10th Anniversary @futurescapesww.bsky.social Conference this Weekend with the incredible @franwilde.bsky.social. It's going to be a great conference!

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 29d

Great seeing @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social's THE SPELLSHOP as a top book club pick for August!

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely thrilled to announce that Mithu Storoni's HYPEREFFICIENT has won Business Book of the Year

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 29d

Ok KGB is LIT

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · 29d

Laura Brooke Robson's A CURSE FOR THE HOMESICK comes out in the UK today! @hodderscape.bsky.social hodderscape.co.uk/products/a-c...

A Curse for the Homesick

'ACHING AND POIGNANT' AVA REID'BITTERSWEET, HOPEFUL' ALLISON SAFT 'STUNNING, HEARTBREAKING' MEG SHAFFER SOMETIMES LOVE IS A RISK WORTH TAKING The island of Stenland is cursed: women, chosen at random,...

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Sep 10

Loved seeing @franwilde.bsky.social's A PHILOSOPHY OF THIEVES as one of @bookbub.bsky.social's This Seaso's Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: www.bookbub.com/blog/best-sc...

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Sarah Beth Durst @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social · Sep 10

Happy book birthday to the German edition of THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! I'm so excited to share this book with readers in Germany! Thank you to everyone at Fischer Tor, as well as translator Aimée de Bruyn Oubot! Danke schön!

www.fischerverlage.de/buch/sarah-b...

The Enchanted Greenhouse (German edition)

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Loved seeing @leahcypess.bsky.social's THE DISCOVERY OF DRAGONS in the @washingtonpost.com named by librarians one of the best new books for this Fall.

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 14

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social -- 4th Week on the @nytimes Bestseller List!

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · Aug 13

I’m over at @scalzi.com’s Big Idea today, trying to figure out the big idea of a whole short story collection - which was hard! So glad I had some help! Thank you Scalzi!

whatever.scalzi.com/... #ACATALOGOFSTORMS #fairwoodpress

The Big Idea / Whatever homepage for August 13, 2025 - with Fran Wilde and A CATALOG OF STORMS

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Sarah Beth Durst @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social · Aug 11

COVER REVEAL!!! I am thrilled to share the gorgeous cover art by Fernando Juarez for the new edition of THE LOST! Coming 11/11, it will have a brand-new expanded ending, the ending I always wanted this book to have! So tremendously excited!! sarahbethdurst.com/TheLost.htm

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Junior Library Guild Selection THE DISCOVERY OF DRAGONS, the second book in @leahcypess.bsky.social's adorable early reader series, MIRIAM'S MAGICAL CREATURE FILES, hits shelves today!
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Discovery of Dragons (Miriam's Magical Creature Files #2): A Chapter Book

A Chapter Book

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 8

So excited about this next book in the Golden Girls Cozy Mystery series by NY-Times bestselling author @rachelcourage.bsky.social!

andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social - 3 Weeks on the NYTimes Bestseller List!
www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 7

MURDER BY CHEESECAKE by @rachelcourage.bsky.social is back on the IndieBestseller List!
www.bookweb.org/news/indie-m...

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andreasomberg.bsky.social @andreasomberg.bsky.social · Aug 6

So excited about this important, unputdownable book by Rachel Weaver, coming out with @wvupress.bsky.social!

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · Aug 5

In just one week, my first short story collection, A CATALOG OF STORMS, appears from Fairwood Press!

I’m so delighted by what writers I’ve long admired have to say about it — and I’d love for you to grab your own Catalog of Storms, here: fairwoodpress.com/st...

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Michael Swanwick, overlaid on a seaside photo. “ Subtle, quiet, and convincing. This is the shape of science fiction to come.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Caroline M. Yoachim, overlaid on a seaside photo. “ A beautiful collection of vividly-imagined worlds and well-realized characters, depicted in gorgeous prose.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by Nancy Kress, overlaid on a seaside photo. “Wilde is an alchemist, turning the ordinary into the richly, rewardingly strange.”

A Catalog of Storms cover and blurb by A.C. Wise, overlaid on a seaside photo. “Gentle humor, beautiful rage, exquisite worlds that imagine the past, the future, and the never-was… a gorgeous collection that will sweep readers away.”

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