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STARVINITY @starvinity.bsky.social · 9d

#Starvinity #scifi #SciFiAdventure #scififantasy #spaceopera

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 9d

Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October.
www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

Cover art shows a lethal, pale-scaled serpent-dragon or wyrm lurking in woodland. It looks straight at you as its forked tongue flickers between open, sharp-toothed jaws.

Cover copy reads: THE GREEN MAN’S WAR

For a few years now, the Green Man has sent Daniel Mackmain to resolve clashes between ordinary people and the supernatural world. Dan has found allies among folk from myth and met other humans who can see the uncanny.

He has also made dangerous enemies. Someone has decided to put a stop to this interference once and for all.
Dan and his friends are about to find themselves in the firing line.

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Zesmerelda in Hellda @zesmerelda.bsky.social · 10d

"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" -Stephen Graham Jones. Truly creepy, well-done vampire tale that interweaves Indians, historical events, massacre, revenge, bent clergy, gluttony, and a cat lady. It works well and is easily on of the best books I've read this year.

#Booksky #194

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Ben Galley @bengalley.bsky.social · 10d

I have to show off this again because Denis Kornev has done such a good job, but here are two of my favourite pieces of art going into the next Emaneska hardcover. Which is yours, angry dragons or giant wolves?

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Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com · 10d

The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...

The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure

The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure eBook : Abercrombie, Joe: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

4 star #bookreview repost
A Poison Tree by @johndolanauthor.bsky.social
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"Despite the dark tone of the story Dolan's light touch keeps things moving along"

Phil Leader's review of A Poison Tree (Time, Blood and Karma, #3)

4/5: David Braddock has a happy home life and a successful business he enjoys running. When he runs into occasional acquaintance Jim Fosse in a bar, things begin to change. Jim makes him a surprising ...

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Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social · 11d

My book is out in one week

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Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social · 10d

Big thanks to everyone for the kind words on Beyond The Mark! A lot of reviews mention it feels like D&D, definitely not what I set out for, but it's awesome to see people having fun with it in ways I didn't expect.

Guess that's just how all creative work goes!

#dnd #fantasy #rpg

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

5 star #bookreview repost
Half the World by @joeabercrombie.bsky.social
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"Abercrombie really does have a magic touch in providing characters that do not fit into the usual rough and tough warrior mould" #fantasy #ya

Phil Leader's review of Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)

5/5: Father Yarvi has a problem. He is minister for Gettland but the High King is determined to engineer a war to remove Gettland from the map. Yarvi needs allies but with half the world swearing alle...

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

5 star #bookreview repost
The Loch Ness Legacy by @boydmorrisonwriter.bsky.social
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"The plot cracks along as Locke and his team uncover the secrets one at a time" #thriller

Phil Leader's review of The Loch Ness Legacy (Tyler Locke, #4)

5/5: When Tyler Locke foils an attack on a summit of Middle Eastern leaders at the Eiffel Tower he suspects there is more going on than meets the eye. He is soon proved correct as delegates at the sum...

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

4 star #bookreview repost
The Hole Opportunity by James Minter
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"This book is a good and well thought out farce in the mould of Tom Sharpe" #humour #humor

Phil Leader's review of The Hole Opportunity - Bronze Winner for Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2013

4/5: Colin Griggs is a farmer who tires of all the red tape and paperwork involved with traditional farming and decides to embark on a new venture - hole farming. Colin's lack of practicality is more ...

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

I've been slower than I should have been reading this but you can't beat the Merriman Chronicles for historical high seas action

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The Merriman Chronicles @merriman1792.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you #Canada

#bestseller #newrelease

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

5 star #bookreview repost
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
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"This was written to entertain and thrill and it does that with ease" #thriller

Phil Leader's review of The Great Zoo of China

5/5: The Chinese government have been working for years to create the ultimate tourist attraction, a very special zoo stocking with only one kind of animal - dragons. Long considered a myth the Chines...

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

5 star #bookreview repost
Jim Fosse's Expense Claim by @johndolanauthor.bsky.social
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"Once I'd read this book I had to let others at work read it. Terrific." #humour #humor #shortstory

Phil Leader's review of Jim Fosse's Expense Claim

5/5: I had no concept of what to expect from this (very) short story but that made it all the more fun. Told in a series of email exchanges, a letter and a newspaper report, things start innocuously e...

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 10d

4 star #bookreview repost
Find My Brother by David Chilcott
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"The story moves at a good pace - Chilcott writes like an author on a mission with spare and clean writing that still conveys everything it needs to" #thriller

Phil Leader's review of Find My Brother (John McBride #3)

4/5: This is the third novel Chilcott has written featuring SAS soldier turned watercolour artist John McBride. In this he sees a woman looking distressed in a pub when he is out painting. She tells h...

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 12d

This is going to be a big week for Bluemoose.

I'm going to use the 'J' word.

What a journey in the last 20 years.

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

From Dublin via Hebden Bridge, Hollywood to your BBC screens!

Magic.

@booksaremybag.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11d

This collects almost every short I ever wrote except:
- Shorts set in the SotA universe (collected in the Tales of the Apt books)
- Most of the 2013 Feast and Famine collection (2 reprinted here)
- Recent shorts in the Tyrant Philosophers universe.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 11d

Coming soonish from Subterranean Press - the first collection of my short fiction in about a decade - here's the cover (by @alisonsampson.bsky.social ) and table of contents for your delectation.

Book cover showing the glass bubble of a space helmet with a woman's face and hand reflected in it, and ants crawling over it.

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 11d

5 star #bookreview repost
Fledgling by Katrina Cope
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"They don't fight evil with a kind word and good deeds, these angels are trained in martial arts and are very much not afraid to use it." #ya #thriller

Phil Leader's review of Fledgling (Afterlife, #1)

5/5: With the increasing population and growing evils of the world, the guardian angels are struggling to keep up and have started to recruit human souls to be angels. Those that meet the criteria are...

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Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social · 12d

New free and discounted books today including Shane and the Hitwoman; scifi, romance, historical fiction, audio & more #freebooks #amreading #sciencefiction #BookBuzzr #ebooks #RomanceReaders #romancebooks #HistoricalFiction #thrillerbooks www.bobmayer.com/free-books-u...

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Charlot King @charlotking.bsky.social · 13d

Check out The Cambridge Murder Mysteries at charlotking.com (all photos my own)

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Phil Leader @philleader.bsky.social · 12d

4 star #bookreview repost
Universe: Awakening by D Ellis Overttun
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"The characters and the world they inhabit are something the author is clearly proud of - and he is right to be" #scifi #politicalthriller #socialcommentary

Phil Leader's review of Universe (Terra Nova Book 1)

4/5: In the far future an advanced society of post-humans launch an audacious exploration project - DEUS - to probe the edges of the universe. The mission is a success but one of the two pilots involv...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 15d

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Nghi Vo’s latest novel, The City in Glass, is a story about deeply understanding and loving a place, and about the difficult, necessary, meaningful work required to rebuild when one’s world is irrevocably broken.

A copy of The City in Glass by Nghi Vo sits on a black shelf next to a small vase holding four brightly colored flowers. One of them is an orange very close to the orange of the flames on the book cover, which depicts an archway with two statues, behind which a city is in flames.

“She had been given nothing. She had taken it, and it was hers to neglect and destroy if she so chose. Her family had learned that much from watching the humans that swarmed the world, that love could be a destructive thing. The angels understood love as destruction. She had chosen a different way to love Azril, and this destruction had nothing to do with her.” from The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15d

Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years.

Not bad for an Indy publisher!

@thebookseller.com
@independentpublishersguild.com
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@thebookerprizes.com

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 15d

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From 'My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems' (1996)
—Chaia Heller

#poetry #poem #poems

AFTER LANGUAGE

When all the drowsy metaphors
about women and fruit
have been peeled
and devoured;

there's just you, me
a bowl full of summer peaches,
two parentheses
with nothing in between
(just space)
for the tongue's imagination

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