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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · Jul 4
Congratulations to Juliet E McKenna whose The Green Man's War is a finalist in the British Fantasy Awards for Best Novel (the Robert Holdstock Award)

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The cover of The Green Man's War, showing a very aggressive wyrm. Green and black colours. Art by Ben Baldwin.
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"I will read anything Chaz Brenchley writes. His prose is melted butter with tarragon, and his characters and worldbuilding equally delicious. Open this book to any page, and you will find something to delight you." - Ellen Kushner on Of the Emperor's Kindness
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Cover of Of The Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of a young woman in a long pale dress stood outside the gates of a large, wooden mansion. The word ‘Verantha’ is written on the gates. White birds fly above her.
January 16, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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"A legend shall be forged" because legends are forgeries.
The Sea-Stone Sword explores the meanings of heroism - dramatic speeches, epic battles, and daring escapes. But then the darkness behind them. Are the deeds alone enough to call someone a hero?
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January 16, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Coming this April, a fantastic new novel from Peadar Ó Guilín. Never trust the dead, you have no idea what they might be planning. "magnificent and original” — Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The cover of The Sword Garden by Peadar Ó Guilín. In the background is an ancient city with a huge monolith and warriors armed with spears. In the foreground is a suspicious looking person wearing furs and a hood, and with yellow eyes. A large black sun glowers down on the scene.
January 15, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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Love novellas? In Wiz Duo #3, Ruthanna Emrys saves a young girl from an angry mountain, and Andrew Knighton investigates the death of an old friend. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of Wiz Duo book 3 with stories by Ruthanna Emrys and Andrew Knighton. The images are an old, wooden house seen against a mountainous background for Ruthanna's story; and a hiker walking towards the sunset in Andrew's.
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'room' #BookQW
After the Tales of Einarinn, I wanted to explore other places in the world I had sketched in. First, the Aldabreshin Archipelago, where magic is banned on pain of death - which is a problem when magic attacks.
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Cover art by Ben Baldwin. A trireme with a green and white striped sail is on fire in a tropical island sea. An astrolabe dominates the background, like a rising sun. Book extract reads: Kheda walked rapidly down the dim, familiar stairs, winding down around the tower’s central core of successive rooms packed with records and interpretations and all the materials necessary to work the different divinations that he used to serve his people. Lamplight showed beneath the closed door of the lowest chamber. ‘Sirket?’ Kheda entered and smiled affectionate reproof at his elder son. ‘Telouet’s gut’s growling louder than a jungle cat, so it must be time for us to eat. Join us.’ Seated at a reading slope, the youth looked up from the weighty book he’d been studying, eyes still distant in thought. There was no doubting he was the warlord’s son; both had eyes as green as the newest leaves of the rainy season, unusual in these southernmost isles of the sprawling Aldabreshin Archipelago. They had other features in common: high foreheads, faces more oval than round with more sharply defined cheekbones and noses than Telouet. Telouet’s nose would have been broad and flat even before the fight that had left it squashed crooked on his cheerful face. But Sirket’s mother had brought him fuller lips and darker skin than his father, as well as tightly curled black hair that he kept cropped short. Kheda’s hair and beard were a coarse and wiry brown, tamed only by close clipping. ‘My mother Janne said we might be visiting the Ulla domain before the rains arrive.’ Sirket scratched at whiskers shadowing his jaw. Not yet full grown, he was already easily the height of his father. ‘I don’t want to be shown up like Ritsem Zorat was last time.’ ‘That won’t happen. I won’t permit it.’ Kheda crossed the room and closed the heavy tome.
January 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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The Aldebreshin Compass is one of my favourite series; in fact I think the world crafted in these four series is under-recognised as a stand out achievement, feeling fresh but also seeming grounded in the real concerns of believable people. I highly recommend the series.
julietemckenna.bsky.social Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 5d
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'room' #BookQW
After the Tales of Einarinn, I wanted to explore other places in the world I had sketched in. First, the Aldabreshin Archipelago, where magic is banned on pain of death - which is a problem when magic attacks.
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Cover art by Ben Baldwin. A trireme with a green and white striped sail is on fire in a tropical island sea. An astrolabe dominates the background, like a rising sun. Book extract reads: Kheda walked rapidly down the dim, familiar stairs, winding down around the tower’s central core of successive rooms packed with records and interpretations and all the materials necessary to work the different divinations that he used to serve his people. Lamplight showed beneath the closed door of the lowest chamber. ‘Sirket?’ Kheda entered and smiled affectionate reproof at his elder son. ‘Telouet’s gut’s growling louder than a jungle cat, so it must be time for us to eat. Join us.’ Seated at a reading slope, the youth looked up from the weighty book he’d been studying, eyes still distant in thought. There was no doubting he was the warlord’s son; both had eyes as green as the newest leaves of the rainy season, unusual in these southernmost isles of the sprawling Aldabreshin Archipelago. They had other features in common: high foreheads, faces more oval than round with more sharply defined cheekbones and noses than Telouet. Telouet’s nose would have been broad and flat even before the fight that had left it squashed crooked on his cheerful face. But Sirket’s mother had brought him fuller lips and darker skin than his father, as well as tightly curled black hair that he kept cropped short. Kheda’s hair and beard were a coarse and wiry brown, tamed only by close clipping. ‘My mother Janne said we might be visiting the Ulla domain before the rains arrive.’ Sirket scratched at whiskers shadowing his jaw. Not yet full grown, he was already easily the height of his father. ‘I don’t want to be shown up like Ritsem Zorat was last time.’ ‘That won’t happen. I won’t permit it.’ Kheda crossed the room and closed the heavy tome.
January 14, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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For #BookQW here's a fragment of a nightmare from Eilert's perspective, as he remembers old fears.

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The truth had given me nightmares. I dreamt of the floor falling away from me, slipping sideways, as the walls cracked and parted. The faces of my friends, as panicked as I was, all of us helpless to arrest our fall. Horrible sounds as entire rooms collapsed inwards. Screams. I grabbed at a banister, for all the good it did. I turned my head upwards, hoping that some miracle could save us, but there was no time for anyone to conjure up a Song. A strange moment of relief when I saw my room-mate on the cistern level, safe, abruptly shattered when a chunk of masonry slammed into him from above. When we had no more breath to scream, the sound of the wind in our ears made us deaf, anyway. We dropped into the mist, the fractured pieces of tower clearing a way before us. Further we plunged, sinking a well into the orange clouds. We fell for so long that the mist rolled back over the top of the clear area, taking away the sun.
January 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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I very much enjoyed writing my short story in this - a very different take on my current series The Making of This World Ruined.
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With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 has been a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much:
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Cover of Fight Like A Girl #2. Art by Oisin McGann. Image is of a brown-skinned girl in light armour wielding a Very Big Sword. She is surrounded by images of other things she might use to fight, not all of them obviously weapons.
January 13, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'room'. In 'The Sheltering Flame' by Ruthanna Emrys from Wiz Duo #3, Leah and her friends have an unexpected visitor. And if you think what young Chloe says sounds like a magical incantation, you'd be dead right. #BookQW
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The kid clinging to the knocker isn’t selling religion. Girl scout cookies, maybe—she looks like a younger-every-year freshman at best, the kind taking a deep breath before begging for a much-needed extension, the kind that wait until semester’s end before admitting to poorly-treated depression, or sick kids, or whatever they’ve always been told is a terrible excuse for skin-of-the-teeth work. This one—white, lapis-haired, decked in jeans and an ill-fitting leather jacket—stares wide-eyed and takes that breath, then blurts out: “I’m Chloe Davis and I beg the protection of the house!” This is not an entirely unfamiliar situation. It’s weirder here than in an office with a big rainbow Safe Space sign on the door, but we’ve been taking in strays since the injured flying squirrel we rehabbed in my sophomore dorm room. even during plague years, when guests were forbidden, we all volunteered for hotlines or comforted students remotely or hosted one who couldn’t safely go home.
January 14, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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With stories by Danie Ware, Juliet McKenna, Anna Smith Spark and many others, Fight Like A Girl #2 has been a feature on award short lists this year. Find out why people love it so much:
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Cover of Fight Like A Girl #2. Art by Oisin McGann. Image is of a brown-skinned girl in light armour wielding a Very Big Sword. She is surrounded by images of other things she might use to fight, not all of them obviously weapons.
January 13, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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My first novel is back in print thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social
Grab a copy if you like pirates, penguins, and pterosaurs!
joelcornah.bsky.social Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · Nov 8
"Stories change people."
"Only the stories you believe."
#bookquotes #author #queerbooks #fantasybooks
Get The Sea-Stone Sword today from @wtpress.bsky.social
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January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks.
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Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.
January 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Recently published, The Jicker Man is a heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog. In this video Ben Mears talks about this inspiration for the canine character: vimeo.com/1113891080...

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Cover of The Jicker Man by Ben Mears. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is a silhouette of a young man in a military greatcoat. Through him we can see a steampunk van surrounded by wolf-like creatures. In the sky behind him there are airships and giant birds.
January 11, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Cover Reveal for The Sword Garden! Available for preorder soon at wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

A million thanks to the brilliant artist, Ben Baldwin, and of course to my editor, @cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Cover for the novel, The Sword Garden by Peadar Ó Guilín. Cover shows mysterious figure with yellow eyes and a hood in the foreground. In the background, are some warriors with spears beside a massive obelisk. Behind the obelisk is a a planet that seems to burn with blue fire.
January 9, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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These lovely people stock some of our books.
January 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Love novellas? How about two in one book? Wiz Duo Book 1 has wonderfully strange worlds created by David Gullen and Ben Wright.
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Cover of Wiz Duo Book 1. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a mantis-like insect, and a ship sailing off the edge of the world.
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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Coming this spring from Wizard's Tower: The Sword Garden by Peadar Ó Guilín. Art by Ben Baldwin.
Cover of The Sword Garden by Peadar Ó Guilín. A city with a large obelisk in the background. Also soldiers with spears. A hooded man with yellow eyes is in the foreground to the left. In the sky a black sun glowers.
January 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Recently published: The Sea-Stone Sword by Joel Cornah. There be pirates, obviously. But also dinosaurs, and a gay main character, and a race of intelligent penguins...
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Cover of The Sea-Stone Sword. Art by Jay Johnstone. Image is a silhouette of a pirate through which can be seen a sunken pirate galleon.
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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2025 highlight, the relaunch of The Sea-Stone Sword with @wtpress.bsky.social
A queer, swashbuckling adventure about the power of stories for both good and evil. Heroes, villains, and the occasional pterosaur.
#queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #fantasybooks #bookrecs

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January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Stay tuned! Our first cover reveal of the year is coming tomorrow...
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is HAPPEN. HMSS Ark Royal is about to take part in humanity's very first space battle. It had to happen ...
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Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'happen' #BookQW #BookSky
Coincidentally, my very first novel was published in January, back in 1999. By chance, this word's in the second paragraph, so here's how it all began...
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Cover art by Geoff Taylor shows a dragon smashing a tall ship to pieces far out to sea. In the foreground a man wrestles with the tiller of a small boat. A woman is trying to save an unconscious man about to fall into the foaming waves. Some opportunities ought to come labeled ‘too good to be true’. Of course, ten years of living by my wits should have taught me how to spot them. You would have thought so anyway; so would I. The night this particular opportunity came to wreak havoc in my life, I was sitting comfortably full of good dinner in front of a roaring fire, and listening to the wind tearing at the snug inn. I was wearing my usual nondescript traveling clothes and, with any luck, the other patrons in the tap-room would have been hard put to decide my age, sex or business. Being unremarkable is a talent I cultivate: middling height, middling build, nothing special— unless I choose differently. Feet up on a stool and hat over my eyes, I may have looked half-asleep, but mentally I was pacing the room and kicking the furniture. Where was Halice? We had been due to meet here four days ago and this unplanned stay was eating into my funds. It was unlike her to be late for a meet. On the few occasions it had happened before, she had always got a message through. What should I do?
January 7, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'happen'. In The Fabulous Zoo by Helen Brady, Rag & Boyd have discovered that small dragon-like pets they are not supposed to have can set things on fire, including the castle furnishings. They are in big trouble. #BookQW
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The following morning, the youngsters got up and dressed quickly and quietly and went downstairs. All was as usual in the breakfast room, but Uncle Wulf was nowhere to be seen. Breakfast for Rag and Boyd was a matter of buttering toast and eating bacon and poached eggs quietly and trying hard not to guess what might happen to them. ‘What do you think he’ll do?’ Rag said when she couldn’t bear the silence any longer. Boyd shrugged; his mouth was full of toast. Rag, rarely at a loss for words, didn’t know what else to say. They carried on eating and waited. Uncle Wulf arrived just as they were finishing, he came into the room, the pukis riding on his shoulder; it now had a little leather collar on. Wulf was carrying a wide basket, which he put on the floor in the corner. He pointed to it and the pukis meekly flew down and curled up inside. Uncle Wulf sat down at the table in silence. The three of them looked at each other. Eventually Wulf spoke first. ‘You will have questions.’
January 7, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Recently publlished, the first of a brand new series by Chaz Brenchley. Read a review by KJ Charles here: www.goodreads.com/re...

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Cover of Of The Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of a young woman in a long pale dress stood outside the gates of a large, wooden mansion. The word ‘Verantha’ is written on the gates. White birds fly above her.
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Recently published, the new Green Man book: wizardstowerpress.co...
Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM