@runalongwomble.bsky.social
Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
New Review - Appropriately for World Book Day a fantasy story that all ages should have fun with. The 1980s, magic, secrets and did I mention the talking hamster? I strongly recommend Mystery of the Midnight Cartographers by @geeksyndicate.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...
05.03.2026 07:06 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0@fantasybooknerd.bsky.social talks about a "madcap resurrection tale" in his review of Benjamin.
04.03.2026 13:53 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Which member of any Star Trek crew would you most want to be trapped in a turoblift with and why?
04.03.2026 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Hache Pueyo on Cabaret in Flames: Why her Guls aren't undead, how trauma creates labyrinths, and the "inescapable cultural baggage" of being a South American writer. From disability in fantasy to spider-beings in love
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Exclusive cover reveal: WE ARE FOR THE DARK by Gretchen McNeil
Her follow-up to They Fear Not Men in the Woods trades forests for a fog-shrouded Newfoundland island. An FBI-agent-turned-priest vs. ancient folklore
Check out the cover here ⬇️
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@dawbooks.bsky.social
Womble, know thyself is the way of Booktempting
04.03.2026 06:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On the commute and for #TrainReads I’m finishing Jitterbug by Gareth L Powell for adventure in space!
04.03.2026 06:27 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I can finally SCREAAAM about this! New bingo square unlocked for me as an editor at @ruadanbooks.bsky.social !
This novella is so wild and so cool. Imagine an vampire story with the vibe of a European 90s action movie. If that makes sense. (It will.)
Explore @Gabino_Iglesias’ review of DARKER DAYS by Thomas Olde Heuvelt: “showcases Heuvelt’s knack for juggling multiple characters while also interweaving a handful of subplots without stumbling.”
04.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Very cool to see that my @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella DESCENT is now a finalist for the BSFA Awards! Many thanks to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for publishing it, to everyone who read and congratulations to all my fellow finalists whom I'm pleasantly intimidated to be counted among!
#bsfa #awards
How I arrived on Bluesky
04.03.2026 05:13 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 4
Hailey Piper holding up the new edition of her book No Gods for Drowning, cover art by Anna Chiara Stagi
My baby is back in print today 🥰
A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer.
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
Hello Evening Crowd - a great character focused fantasy for you today
03.03.2026 18:19 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Hello Lunchtime Crowd I really enjoyed this very well told tale of gods and magic
03.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.
Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.
High drama and high CAMP!
Spread the word! RT, tell your friends, shout it from the rooftops!
BACK THE BOOK TODAY!
#booksky
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Festival View: Anwar by Fawaz Al-Matrouk
@johnnny.bsky.social has a look at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/fest...
Book Review: China Mountain Zhang
A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.
@dreddieclark.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/03/book...
I’ll allow it! 😇
03.03.2026 08:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The TBR challenge continues to go well! Up for March: a book from one of my favourite authors, (The Strength of the few), and a debut novel (Deryni rising). Cheating a bit, just finished reading one, and I doubt a novel from 1970 was really the idea of the other. But getting thru TBR! 📚🪐💙
03.03.2026 07:58 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New Review - I hugely enjoyed the storytelling in this tale of gods and a soldier deciding who he is - The Gods Must Burn by TR Moore is out now and highly recommended may thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...
03.03.2026 07:22 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 3
Beth couldn't wait to drive straight back into Amélie Wen Zhao's sumptuous realms in this second part of her xianxia romantasy duology THE DRAGON AND THE SUN LOTUS
"An accomplished conclusion to a breathtaking tale of love and sacrifice"
Read more: tinyurl.com/45bb99nv
My review of @augursociety.bsky.social issue 8.2 for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
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This includes Wiz Duos 3 featuring novellas by me & the excellent @r-emrys.bsky.social if you fancy a reading bargain...
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THE AURORA AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN!
02.03.2026 17:28 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A woman posing in front of a nine-pointed star, art by Anna Chiara Stagi, with the following quotes: "Glorious and visceral" - Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents "a confident and compelling tale that is as fun as it is thought-provoking" - Library Journal
This one's for every horror fan hungry for an epic,
For every noir fan who's up for something strange,
And for every fantasy fan who's known some guy who still thinks fantasy is limited to elves and castles rather than anything we can imagine 🖤
NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out tomorrow! 🔪🌊
Up at SH today: @thehubble101.bsky.social on Hana Carolina's The Inescapable March. They find it an "engaging and emotionally intelligent" fantasy which "combines wit, humour, and magic."
Nick also has Thoughts on contemporary fantasy. That the novella sparks them seems another sign of its quality.
Mystery of the Midnight Cartographers by Barry Nugent - cover five teenagers standing together looking up at something large that’s casting a large shadow over them
39 - Mystery of the Midnight Cartographers by Barry Nugent
02.03.2026 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And another delightful review from @runalongwomble.bsky.social! Very cool. (He also recently did a great review of The Unworthy by Augustina Bazterrica which you should also check out.)
www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...
I've got a review of the excellent space horror The Iron Garden Sutra by AD Sui, out now from Erewhon Books. It's a weird little queer book full of unexpected choices.
bookjockeyalex.com/2026/03/02/r...
