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Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · 2d

More places to pre-order this title coming soon. Meanwhile check out this #BookQW extract by @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social

The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 2d

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is STRONG. #BookQW #BookSky
Hiding Under the Leaves is launching at World Fantasycon on Friday 31st October. Release date 3rd November. Pre-order now Amazon/Barnes and Noble: ISBN 9781738426867

“What the fuck, man, what are you doing in my house?”
Mateo roared, his voice scratchy and raw.
He sprang out of the bed straight at Jimmie, fast as a
coiled snake. Mateo caught Jimmie at the waist, his strong
arms holding him in a bear hug. Jimmie beat him with the
dead rabbit, pummelling so hard with it for a moment he
thought it, too, had come back to life.
The two men crashed to the floor. Mateo was bigger and
stronger, but Jimmie was meaner. And Mateo’s legs were
tangled up in bed sheets. Jimmie rolled away from Mateo,
got to his knees and swung the rabbit at Mateo again and
again. He’d forgotten what he held in his hand, only feeling
that it was a weapon. He lost his grip on the rabbit, and it
smacked against the wall. Mateo reached up with his hands
for Jimmie’s throat. He was on his back, Jimmie with a knee
on either side of him. Jimmie dropped down onto Mateo’s
stomach. Mateo grunted, the air driven from his lungs and
his grip on Jimmie weakened.

Epiphany Ferrell - Muddy Water - Hiding Under the Leaves.
Forthcoming from theslab.press 3rd November 2025

Book details: Black cover with red leaves and white badger skeleton

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 2d

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is STRONG. #BookQW #BookSky
Hiding Under the Leaves is launching at World Fantasycon on Friday 31st October. Release date 3rd November. Pre-order now Amazon/Barnes and Noble: ISBN 9781738426867

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 4d

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton.
Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · 22d

The latest blog post has just gone out to subscribers, and I've been tatting about with the shop for the rest of the afternoon. I hope you like it! theslab.press/store/

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Our books are available from all good bookshops, but you can also buy direct from The Slab Press here. Vivid Worlds UK £12.99 + P&P Scott, Donna and Sun, Ana and Cristofari, Cécile Buy Now…

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Scifi Geek @sfgeek.bsky.social · 28d

A worthy thread and I'll add a few. Make sure to support the small publishers!!!

@theslabpress.bsky.social
@neonhemlock.bsky.social
@patrickswenson.bsky.social
Tiny Fox Press: tinyfoxpress.com

#BookSky 💙📚🪐 #books #sciencefiction #sf #smallpublishers

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hello fellow publisher interested in the environment! I love your ethos!

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hello, I am @wishusdonna.bsky.social and my publishing project is The Slab Press. We have a Kindle promo on this weekend for our solar punk anthology, Vivid Worlds, and are gearing up for the launch of folk horror antho Hiding Under the Leaves at World Fantasycon. theslab.press/about-2/

Green book cover Vivid Worlds edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun, Cécile Cristofari, David Cleden, Liam Hogan, Holly Schofield, and many more... promo this weekend Amazon UK/US on Kindle.

Black book cover featuring white badger skeleton and red leaves. Hiding Under the Leaves edited by Donna Scott with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · Aug 21

Almost bank holiday weekend and I'm even older. To celebrate, a Kindle Deal! Prices start today at £0.99/$0.99 and will be lower over the whole weekend - but the sooner you buy, the cheaper it will be!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F4S1BRX2
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4S1BRX2

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The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social · Aug 20

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'turn' #BookQW
Excerpt taken from "Oil and Water" by Holly Schofield, featured in Vivid Worlds from The Slab Press.
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I re-read Tanisa's message of a moment ago:
. … even see the petition, no, probably not since you'd rather have your head inside a piece of wood, than responsibly govern a community that needs you…
There was more, several hundred words more. I picked up the tiny carving of an owl I'd made a while back and fiddled with it. That part of the message was right; I would rather be creating furniture or other useful items in my carpentry shop than dealing with people. The craft of melding nature's designs with my ideas on shaping wood had obsessed me since childhood. But I'd forced myself to help the community, doing my duty, taking my turn as head coordinator. Tanisa was wrong there—I didn't "govern". We all worked together now, different than Grandma's era, deciding minor things and putting major things to a referendum.
Oh. I set the carving down.
A referendum.
Of course. We'd all been too incensed to think of it.
It took a long tedious meeting with my team that evening but we got it hastily set up for the next day. We mass-messaged everyone who'd consented to be informed, three-quarters of the community. Signage appeared on the notice boards, flashing at a frequency rate of twice an hour, higher than most referendums. I wasn't expecting much—most referendums dealt with the type of fence the communal farm fields should have, or whether we should plant beets or carrots this year beside the reclaimed shopping mall, so a 20% turnout was typical.
The online advance poll and chat room wavered back and forth, opinions flying. Throughout the evening and into the night it stayed about even—half in favour of keeping the Folly, half against.
With Oil Day looming, I wandered the market stalls at daybreak, listening and watching, the crowds making me uneasy in my skin as usual. People chatted and waved their hands. Some buzz about the sighting of a cougar by the river, and a lot of chat about the literary festival happening later in the summer—it seemed like everyone wanted…

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