“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…
Hello everyone! Thea here, reporting live from San Diego Comic Con and taking a quick break from the explosion of geeky awesomeness to look forward at the coming week here on The Book Smugglers. Let’s dive right in, shall…
Today we’re thrilled to host a giveaway for the incomparable Patrick Ness! Ness is the author of the multiple award winning Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as YA science fiction dystopia novel More Than This. Thea adored The Knife…
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.…
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…
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…


















