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Book Giveaway for A Future for Ferals: A Charity Anthology by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 16h

Are you a librarian, bookseller, or reviewer? Do you have a Library Thing account? Check out A Future for Ferals, a charity anthology helping to fund organizations that rescue and treat feral cats.
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Book Giveaway for StokerCon 2025 Souvenir Anthology by Danielle Ackley-McPhail

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 17h

Are you a librarian, bookseller, or reviewer? Do you have a Library Thing account? Request the E-Book of the Souvenir Anthology from Stokercon 2025, essays, interviews, and stories, curated and edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail.
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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 18h

Are you a librarian, bookseller, or reviewer? Do you have a Library Thing account? Check out the Souvenir Anthology from Stokercon 2025, essays, interviews, and stories, curated and edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Great reads from great authors!
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OCTOBER LIBRARYTHING LISTINGS

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 19h

Coming October 16, National Feral Cat Day: A Future for Ferals and More Futures for Ferals, two charity anthologies of science fiction and fantasy tales from top authors, raising funds to support treatment and care for feral cats. You can pre-order with the QR code below now!

Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have a @librarything.com account? Here is a blog post about all of the @especbooks.bsky.social listings this month! especbooks.com/2025/10/05/o...

Do you have a LibraryThing account? If so, great! If no, it is free to sign up for, and once you have one, you can request all kinds of books to review, some of them before they’ve even been releas…

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

The complete Corpse Fauna series in one eye-popping omnibus edition! buff.ly/rwhjDeK @dackleymcphail.bsky.social @especbooks.bsky.social @mothman13.bsky.social
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Corpse Fauna Omnibus by James Chambers | eSpec Books

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Devilish & Divine | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

Hell Bound or Heaven Sent? Some of us will never know until it’s too late. Devilish and Divine ~ an anthology of angels and devils from eSpec Books. buff.ly/h7bOrwh
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(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.)Hell Bound or Heaven Sent?Some of us will never know until it’s too…

A Cry of Hounds (Forgotten Lore) edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

We present eleven tales inspired by the master of mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, paying tribute to his genius for deduction and his passion for things beyond the ken of mortal men in A Cry of Hounds buff.ly/W5eyKcd @dackleymcphail.bsky.social #steampunk

(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.)Body and Soul, the Hunt Is On! Hounds, faithful, tenacious, and oft the…

A Cast of Crows (Forgotten Lore) edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

“If you're a lover of Edgar Allan Poe and are into steampunk, please give these stories a go!” @GoodReads Review buff.ly/9ObkKBQ
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(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.)Life and Death and All Points In Between Crows have seen it all, and…

Checkmate by Ty Drago | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

A secret cabal, corrupt politicians, and the mysterious masked hero working to bring them down. Ready for a different kind of superhero? Read the thrilling Checkmate by Ty Drago.
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(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.) Are you ready for a different kind of superhero? Using disguise and…

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

Great fiction is not difficult to find, just follow the big footprints to Yeti Left Home by Aaron Rosenberg @gryphonrose.bsky.social amzn.to/3DtqyT2 @especbooks.bsky.social @dackleymcphail.bsky.social #cryptids #bigfoot

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

Abby can’t name her mysterious rescuer—no matter how hard the mob insists—but he returns again and again to save her from trouble until the voodoo witch comes after her and Abby has to face facts. Read Rags by Ty Drago by daylight! amzn.to/3cOnJ5j #SteelPier @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 23d

Without the help of his loving sister, Knox Adair would have wasted away long ago, his cap shriveled to dust. Find out this Redcap’s story in Setting His Cap by Aaron Rosenberg @gryphonrose amzn.to/47cODfx #TwinCityCryptids @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

The Order of Duval by Ef Deal | eSpec Books

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 22d

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Bluegrass Dreams Aren't For Free - Gerri Leen
An Assembly of Monsters - Danielle Ackley-McPhail
The House at Black Tooth Pond -Stephen Mark Rainey
The Nightmare People – JG Faherty
Haunted Ecologies - Corey Farrenkopf
Rootfingers – S. Alessandro Martinez
The Secret House- Gregory Frost
Have You Heard Her Call – Josh White
Bringing in the Creeps - Ray Van Horn, Jr.
Legend Has It – DJ Slater
The Farm House – Chelsea Conradt
Maryneal 1962 - Abigail F. Taylor
Formulation - Daniel Lorn
They Come When You Sleep – Jack Finn
Little Bunny Foo Foo – EV Dean
Feral and Hysterical - Sadie Hartmann

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 22d

Jacqueline Duval must battle darkness when a private celebration for her twin sister’s marriage turns fraught with assassins and vampires. Intrigued? Get Aéros & Héroes by Ef Deal. amzn.to/3Mtq0Bp #steampunk #supernatural #vampires @dackleymcphail.bsky.social @efdeal.bsky.social.

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 22d

The cost of industrialization in 1843 is life itself as Jacqueline is lost to the aether and Angélique must lead the Order of Duval in a battle against a cannibalistic madman to find her in The Order of Duval by Ef Deal.
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(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.) A Family, Bound by Blood, Though Not Born of Blood Lost souls abound at…

An Assembly of Monsters (Forgotten Lore) edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail | eSpec Books

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Danielle Ackley-McPhail @dackleymcphail.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the boost! Assembly of Monsters is the best one in the Forgotten Lore series yet, and that is saying a LOT! especbooks.square.site/product/an-a...

(If you are placing a digital-only order, please email us before placing your orderfor a discount code to remove the shipping.)Monstrous Is a Matter of Perspective… Classic tales throughout time pit h...

Book Giveaway for So It Begins by Mike McPhail, Charles E. Gannon, and John C. Wright

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 14d

Do you love military science fiction? Do you have a Library Thing account? Request So It Begins, military science fiction tales from Jack Campbell, Charles E. Gannon, Jonathan Maberry, and more.
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Book Giveaway for Aleyara's Descent by Christopher L. Bennett

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eSpec Books, LLC @especbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Do you have a Library Thing account? Check out Aleyara’s Descent by Christopher L. Bennett, eleven tales portraying the search for understanding, connection, and hope that unites all seekers.
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Book Giveaway for So It Begins by Mike McPhail, Charles E. Gannon, and John C. Wright

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eSpec Books, LLC @especbooks.bsky.social · 14d

Do you have a LibraryThing account? Check out So It Begins, military science fiction tales from Jack Campbell, Charles E. Gannon, Jonathan Maberry, and more.
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Dead Bear Witness by James Chambers | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

Inside prison walls, Cornell should’ve been protected. But his fellow inmates turn out to be worse than the horrors outside those walls. Read The Dead Bear Witness by James Chambers, book 1 of the Corpse Fauna series! @mothman13.bsky.social buff.ly/rmkbEkQ @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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Tears of Blood by James Chambers | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

When the stranger came, with the power to thrust them all into a whirlwind of madness and violence in the name of faith, Vale must fight to stay alive. Read Tears of Blood, book 2 of the Corpse Fauna series by James Chambers. buff.ly/IKesfPP @mothman13.bsky.social @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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Dead in Their Masses by James Chambers | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

As the dead gather in their masses, the mysterious Red Man arrives. Survivors face a horrifying new chapter in this bleak new world. Read The Dead in Their Masses by James Chambers, book 3 in the Corpse Fauna series. buff.ly/vi7iUwP @mothman13.bsky.social @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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Eyes of the Dead by James Chambers | eSpec Books

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NeoParadoxa @neoparadoxa.bsky.social · 9d

How can the destined saviors hope to live surrounded by the walking corpses of a world overwhelmed by death and madness and the angry souls responsible for it? Read The Eyes of the Dead, the conclusion to James Chambers’ Corpse Fauna series. buff.ly/6biAZR9 #zombies @dackleymcphail.bsky.social

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