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Kalyn Josephson @kalynjosephson.bsky.social · 5d

🌟COVER REVEAL🌟

Howl’s Moving Castle meets Six of Crows in THE LIBRARY OF AMORLIN, releasing 3/3/26 from Kensington Books. Art by Simon Prades.

Preorder: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-librar...

Add on GR: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 8d

Enter to win an ARC of PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE in this @goodreads giveaway that's open 09/30/2025-10/14/2025!

75 winners will be chosen, so sign up and share widely! @TorDotComPub

www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

#giveaway #ARC #goodreads #booksky #Blackbooksky

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 8d

STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

We Will Rise Again

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 8d

How can two people raised the same way turn out so different? And what does it mean when they separate? @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of Saltcrop and The Deep Sky, highlights five books about searching for a lost sibling:

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Five SFF Books About Searching for a Missing Sibling - Reactor

Yume Kitasei recommends five SFF books about sibling quests

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 24d

Sharing details here for my SALTCROP tour!!! Writing is painful but meeting people is fun! Please come / tell your friends! ALSO to celebrate my new book, I slipped and accidentally planned a whole "Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival" - 8 cities, 8 nights, 8 con-style panels.

Graphic with text announcing: Join Yume Kitasei on Tour for Saltcrop *All times are local.
FLATIRON BOOKS

Tuesday, September 30, 7:00pm, The Strand with Steph Pilavin, New York, NY
Thursday, October 2, 7:00pm, Riverstone Books with M.C. Benner Dixon, Pittsburgh, PA
Friday, October 3, 6:30pm, Joy & Matt's Books with Emily Jane, Cincinnati, OH
Monday, October 6, 7:00pm, Elliot Bay Books with Wendy Wagner, Seattle, WA
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30pm, First Light Books with Nicky Drayden, Austin, TX
Thursday, October, 9, 11:00am, New York Comic Con, New York, NY
October 13 - October 24, Traveling SFF Festival, Nationwide
Making stops in NYC, Baltimore, DC, Philly, New Haven, Northampton, Norwich, Boston
Sunday, November 2, 1:00pm, Princeton Public Library Princeton, NJ
with Daria Lavelle

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 11

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz.

www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

Digital poster promotion. The poster, featuring the four main characters of The King Must Die, was drawn by the incredible Eepz! They're on Twitter/X and Tumblr.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 13d

I’m reading from my PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE tomorrow and donated exclusives to the fundraiser supporting @thepixelproject.bsky.social's mission to stop violence against women & girls.

Join me! 9/26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.

thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf...

#booksky #Blackbooksky

Stack of my 1st edition hardcover middle-grade novels ROOT MAGIC, CONJURE ISLAND, THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE that are up for purchase as a set for The Pixel Project's fundraiser.
Friday, September 26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.
Three colorful pens are in the pic but not part of the fundraiser.

ARC of my upcoming adult novella PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE as well as the letter paper and envelopes I will use if you buy the handwritten letter from the main character as part of the fundraiser for The Pixel Project. Friday, September 26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK.

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 24d

Susan Barker (The Incarnations), James Frankie Thomas (Idlewild), Gabrielle Zevin (Tomorrow x3), Shakespeare (for better or worse), and since I'm a sf person, some fantasy people: N.K. Jemisin (I know she writes sf too, but TBE trilogy had a huge influence), Shelley Parker-Chan, Zen Cho

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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pantomime is out again THIS WEEK! This is the third and fourth time it'll be out, but this time I've rewritten them, so they're more than a little different. I'll be sharing both new and old posts and interviews to hopefully entice you to entering R.H. Ragona's Circus of Magic.

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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 29d

BIG BIG DAY! Pantomime is out TODAY in the US! 🎉
Don't worry UK readers, it will be coming to shelves near you on Thursday💜
Let's fly, me lovelies🎪

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29d

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!

Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.

Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

A cover illustrated by James Fenner. A woman with long red hair and padded clothing sits on the ground, petting the head of a smiling serpentine dragon. But the dragon has more than one head! On the left, a second giant dragon head emerges, frowning, looking at her while wearing a monocle. On the right, a third giant dragon head emerges, jaws wide, screaming in anger. The text is teal, contrasting sharply against the red and maroon of the creatures. The text on the cover reads "THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS. JOHN WISWELL, author of the Nebula and Locus Award-winning SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN."

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'll try that!

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Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

Book giveaway!!! I just got my author copies of SALTCROP and I’m giving two away! Sign up for my newsletter before Friday 9/5/25, 11AM EST for a chance to win! More details 🧵

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Sep 3

BEING ARO is a multi-genre collection of short fiction that shines a light on aromantic relationships and experiences, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it!

Also, you can get it 25% off if you pre-order through Barnes & Noble during the next 3 days! 💚

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/being-aro-...

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Sep 3

THE KING MUST DIE comes out in just two months!

And if you have a B&N Rewards or B&N Premium Membership, you can save 25% on preorders during the next 3 days! (The Rewards membership is free. 😉)

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-king-m...

The King Must Die|Paperback

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Splinter in the Sky comes a pulse-pounding science fiction adventure following the daughter of rebel instigators and the heir of a power-drunk ruler who te...

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Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s midnight! That means Witch You Would is OUT NOW AHHH!

Sorry I’m going to be insufferable for a minute. Also, please come to the party!

Photo of Witch You Would flanked by a wooden spoon, a rolling pin, and a slate on a swirly greenish background, purple background for the rest of the image. Text: September 2, 2025 9pm - 11pm ET. launch Party. It’s Party Time. Come celebrate the release of WITCH YOU WOULD with us! twitch.tv/thekidsareasleep

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tomorrow! Atlanta!

Please help me spread the word, it's gonna be an incredible time...

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 31

Atlanta! I'm going to be at Charis Books on Tuesday, reading from Lessons in Magic and Disaster alongside the incredible Jess Lewis.

It's going to be a wonderful queer event and I would really love it if you could help spread the word.

charisbooksandmore.com/event/2025-0...

Meet Me There: Featuring Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

Charis Books & More is the South's oldest independent feminist bookstore, celebrating radical and queer voices since 1974!

charisbooksandmore.com

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 28

GAILEEEEYYYY

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 28

For a week, the first thing I did after coming home from work was pick up this book.

Listen, I’ve read a lot of science fiction. I’ve read a lot of horror. I had never read anything like this.

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · Aug 27

SPREAD ME comes out September 23.

You definitely want this book -- but not as much as it wants you.

You can preorder your copy today wherever you get books.

Spread Me

Check out Spread Me - Spread Me is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Just Like Home. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly w...

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 27

My next novel, THE KING MUST DIE, comes out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social this November. And now it has its first review!

www.publishersweekly.com/9781668061015

You can preorder it here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ki...

Image showing Fen, the main character from the novel, with a few lines from the starred Publishers Weekly review: "Ashing-Giwa wows in this brilliantly immersive novel set 500 years after humanity left Earth to begin again on Newearth, an exodus enabled by the help of mysterious aliens known as the Makers. Despite the new lease on life offered by this opportunity, impatient settlers recklessly sped up the terraforming process, leading to dire environmental consequences felt in the present day... Ashing-Giwa’s dystopian
sci-fi worldbuilding is staggering, and her heroine proves easy to root for. Readers will be enthralled.”

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Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social · Aug 27

1 day left to go on my 2x We the People auction items: www.32auctions.com/organization...

What does a $75 '60-Minute Virtual Psychologist Consultation' get you? 🤔

Let's discuss mental health coaching and consultation!

www.32auctions.com

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 16

I loved The Stars Are Legion! It was such an incredible space opera!

Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you! I hope you like the book!

Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you!

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