Hello, everyone! We are happy to announce that the submissions period for Book Smugglers Publishing is now closed for 2014. Many thanks to all of authors who submitted their stories! The response to this year’s call for submissions has…
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Title: Full Fathom Five Author: Max Gladstone Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: July 15 2014 Hardcover: 368 Pages On the island of Kavekana, Kai builds gods to order, then hands them to others to maintain. Her creations aren’t…
Editors Talk Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (& Giveaway)
Kaleidoscope is an exciting anthology of diverse contemporary YA Science Fiction and Fantasy stories co-edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios and set to be published on August 5: What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater,…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. In this series, we invite writers to talk about their new books, older titles, and their…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! This week, Ana takes a look at four must-have 2014 anthologies. Get the full story here.…
The results for our August Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 79 votes, the book we will be reading is: It began ages past in fabled Atlantis, when a mad, power-hungry queen forged a key to a door…
Joint Review: The Oathbreaker’s Shadow by Amy McCulloch
Title: The Oathbreaker’s Shadow Author: Amy McCulloch Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Random House Children’s Publishers / Flux Publication Date: 2013 / 2015 Hardcover: 416 Pages Fifteen-year-old Raim lives in a world where you tie a knot for every…
SFF in Conversation is a new monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe…
Hello everyone! Happy Sunday to all! Trolling the Hugos! As you may or may not know, we Book Smugglers have made the final ballot for the impending Hugo Awards for Best Fanzine (Here’s our voter pack contribution. Thanks for…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…