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#Booksky Birthday sale ends 1/11!

I'm so excited about this ... Eastercon in Belfast was brilliant, and now I'm going back to the same hotel as a Guest of Honour for the first Norncon in May. Alongside @aptshadow.bsky.social no less!
Memberships are available at www.norncon.org

Two books = twice the excitement!

Mercutio From Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered Book and The Valkyrie comes an opulent 13th century epic retelling of the life of Mercutio before he ever encountered Romeo and Juliet. On the b...

I've got two! The first is Mercutio, from HarperVoyager UK in May. Before he meets Romeo and Juliet, a young man named Mercutio encounters a poet named Dante on a battlefield, and they accidentally open a door to Faerie.

Solaris acquires more vampiric Dumas in The Swordmaster by Kate Heartfield | Rebellion Publishing Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Swordmaster by Kate Heartfield. A new addition to the Vampires of Dumas series, The Swordmaster follows Françoise de Montesquiou d’Artagnan, the ...

The second, The Swordmaster, is part of the Vampires of Dumas series from Solaris, which Emma Newman began with The Vengeance. Mine is a distinct storyline from hers, and is set in the time of Catherine de' Medici. No date yet but probably late 2026. Thanks for the thread!

#NewYearNewBooks

Cannot wait! My daughter and I both love these books so much:

Awesome. Love Gothic Horror!

My novella comes out with @lunapress.bsky.social on Feb 3rd ! Gothic horror set in an alternative Edinburgh, cursed with eternal rain and ghosts that appear in the rain. Also, rituals, occult, creepy house, and weird moths ✨️🏚 linktr.ee/lyndseycroal

Whole thread of fabulous books!

#NewYearNewBooks

okay open call, if you have an SFF romance coming out in 2026, and it's not grindingly heteropatriarchal in outlook and values, please tell me about it! I'm compiling my reading lists!

That would be awesome! Will look out for it.

If all goes well I'll have a small book about excellent highland cows coming out later this year:)

Sounds good. Love a giant wasp.

This Is Where The Future Bleeds, wherein a finder of destinies narrowly avoids her own murder and decides to prevent those responsible from getting to their next target. Come for the sapphic romance, stay for the giant wasps.

(June, Titan)

Love a posh boxed edition!

Well, I'll have a new volume of the work of Lord Dunsany coming out in the Autumn. Posh hardcover signed boxed edition then a trade . Also illustrating Rise From These Dark Waters from @badhandbooks.bsky.social

#NewYearNewBooks

Shoreline of Infinity has for a long time now always given immediate access to the digital editions when you order the print copy - have often thought about jazzing up the print edition a little more.

That's brilliant, thank for letting us know. We should definitely shout about this more!

Buried Deep and Other Stories (preorder) Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Anyone can now preorder our forthcoming editions of @naominovik.bsky.social's brilliant collection, BURIED DEEP. Full details and preorder here: subterraneanpress.com/novik-bdaos/

Sometimes reading helps me sleep, sometimes I stay awake to find out what happens next, but it is better than staring at the ceiling, lol.

Awesome.

Accelerated Growth Environment NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

I have an eco-thriller coming out from @shirakipress.com called Accelerated Growth Environment! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I clearly need to convince publishers to do a bundle deal for their books - beautiful hardback for signing and sitting my shelf & ebook for actually reading...

I am very signed up to the theory that collecting books and reading books are two very different hobbies...

Great!

Scratch Moss by David Barnett | Canelo Paperback and Ebook

SCRATCH MOSS, my third folk horror -- this one in an industrial/post-industrial setting. Out March 5!
www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

Which is when I do the vast majority of my reading...

I would absolutely read that...

My problem is I read books on an e-reader while ignoring the pile of beautiful hardbacks... I love & buy physical books, but they are far less convenient to read.