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January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
CNN: How did we get to a place where we had Bovino having Border Patrol agents stopping citizens in interior of the country, asking them ID, creating fear? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of operation to proceed?

HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is JAM. "An Ealing comedy written by Roald Dahl": if you have ever wondered how the car in front can be so wilfully *slow*, this is for you. #bookqw #fluiddynamics www.benjeapes.com/index.php/wr...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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It being award nominating season, here is a graphic with all of the new works we published in 2025. (The Elfstone and The Sea-Stone Sword are reprints so are ineligible for most awards).
Awards Eligibility 2025 Novels Radhika Rages at the Crater School - Chaz Brenchley The Jicker Man - Ben Mears The Green Man's Holiday - Juliet E McKenna Of the Emperor's Kindness - Chaz Brenchley Novellas "The God Road" - David Gullen (Wiz Duo 1) "To Sail the Interstice" - Ben Wright (Wiz Duo 1) "Song, Stone, Scale, Bone" - Juliet Kemp (Wiz Duo 2) "Bring Me Home" - E. M. Faulds (Wiz Duo 2) "The Sheltering Flame" - Ruthanna Emrys (Wiz Duo 3) "Walking a Wounded Land" - Andrew Knighton (Wiz Duo 3)
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Ben Jeapes was a Guest of Honour at BristolCon this year. We are lucky enough to publish a couple of his books. Want to know what happens to the British Royal Family in the far future? Try this: wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of His Majesty's Starship by Ben Jeapes. The image is of a giant spaceship against the background of a gas giant.
November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We will be at the Storyville Books Christmas Book Fair in PontyPridd. We hope to see some of you there.
Advert for the Christmas Book Fair at Storyville Books in Pontypridd. December 13th, 10:00 to 15:00. Image is of a variety of people happily reading books, and a sprig of holly.
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Lots of cool stories in this book, worth it at full price, never mind this bargain...
wtpress.bsky.social Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · Nov 25
UK people, Amazon are currently offering the paperback of Fight Like A Girl #2 for just £4.64. That's less than the book costs to print, and less than the ebook price. It looks like someone is doing a warehouse clearance. There are only 14 copies left, so get yours now.
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'run'. In 'Walking a Wounded Land' by Andrew Knighton in Wiz Duo 3, Paul is looking for a friend. #BookQW
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I follow a twisting, turning route through the streets, trying to follow the thread of her. It’s made more difficult by people walking this way and that, bumping into each other, stopping to stare into shop windows or to wait at crossings for the green man. I switch my pace to match tourists or locals, different memories emerging with different movements. For some this town is the daily grind, swift footsteps carrying them through regular routines. For others, its a place of escape and diversion, of pausing to read a menu or point at a brightly painted boat, then hurrying on to the amusement arcades. Lives lived in a single space but parallel worlds. Through that space run the cars, severing one side of the street from the other, breaking the rhythm of humanity. So close together, we should all be connected, but instead the town is fractured, opaque, like a windscreen in the aftermath of a crash. Star has hidden herself in this.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 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...

And then order: wizardstowerpress.co...
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.
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Couldn't hope to write for it but am dying to read it. Boosting for reach. #booksky
wtpress.bsky.social Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · Dec 3
Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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We will be at the Storyville Books Christmas Book Fair in PontyPridd. We hope to see some of you there.
Advert for the Christmas Book Fair at Storyville Books in Pontypridd. December 13th, 10:00 to 15:00. Image is of a variety of people happily reading books, and a sprig of holly.
December 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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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.
December 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This was in @wtpress.bsky.social's Wiz Duo #3, along with the also v good Walking A Wounded Land by Andrew Knighton. 2 of the better novellas I've read this year in a good year for them.

Both well written, both queer, both (from v different angles) concerned with links between people & place.
December 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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It isn’t too late to buy an ebook, and ours are DRM-free so you can give them as presents.
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'easy'. In Dust Up at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley it is Christmas time on Mars and Charm Buchanan is telling her dorm a famous Martian ghost story. Things are not going to end well. #BookQW
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“This is a serious story, about a serious time. It was Christmas, and the best Christmas present for the crew of the Nellie Martin was that they were leaving Pell and heading back towards civilisation, to where their families waited to welcome them at the docks of New Victoria. They had easy weather for the journey, a steady westerly to fill their sails, and nothing more to worry them than the bosun’s temper, and they were used to that. “Even under steam it’s a long journey from Pell to NV, a journey of weeks; in those days of course it was longer yet, a matter of months if the winds turned against you. Christmas would be come and gone long before they saw their loved ones. But no matter: their hearts were light, and they sang as they hauled on the mainsheet. Journeys are always shorter and quicker when you’re going home.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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benjeapes.bsky.social Ben Jeapes @benjeapes.bsky.social · 22d
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 ...
#bookqw #spaceopera #spacebattle www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
January 29, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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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 ...
#bookqw #spaceopera #spacebattle www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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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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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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For #BookQW here's a fragment of a nightmare from Eilert's perspective, as he remembers old fears.

Wiz Duos 1 is available from the fine people at Wizard's Tower Press: wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

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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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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 · 15d
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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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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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'earth'. In The Jicker Man by Ben Mears, Ebadiah and his allies are being chased by wolves. They seek shelter. #BookQW
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I glance up at the overhanging cliff before following the gawpers and their strange cats into the cavern. The overhanging rockface there looks cracked and dangerously loose. Pausing inside, Deadlock makes a fist in the air. As he brings it down, there comes a rumble and a scatter of gravel falls from the cliff outside. It is as though he is pulling at the very ground above us with an invisible force. Larger rocks follow his draw and a moment later, a huge mass of stone and earth cascades into the entrance behind us. Blocking the way, it fills the air with dust and dark as we hurry deeper in. Beneath the din of the rockfall, wolves bay and yelp, and before long all becomes quiet and still. ‘What now?’ I ask. In the soft glow of the gawpers’ eyes, we wait. Listen. And then the howling begins again—a mournful, haunting, hunting sound—the wolf survivors banding together in fury.
January 21, 2026 at 10:57 AM