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Today we are thrilled to unveil the cover for The Seeker Star, the new upcoming novel from Smuggler fave Susan Jane Bigelow. The Seeker Star is the second book in the Grayline Sisters trilogy, following the excellent The Daughter…
“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…
“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…
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…
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Old School Wednesdays Readalong: The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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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,…
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Old School Wednesdays: The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Engdahl
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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…
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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…
