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We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy. https://theslab.press/

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Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton. Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton. Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷

06.10.2025 11:20 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Store Our books are available from all good bookshops, but you can also buy direct from The Slab Press here. Vivid Worlds UK £12.99 + P&P Scott, Donna and Sun, Ana and Cristofari, Cécile Buy Now…

The latest blog post has just gone out to subscribers, and I've been tatting about with the shop for the rest of the afternoon. I hope you like it! theslab.press/store/

17.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A worthy thread and I'll add a few. Make sure to support the small publishers!!!

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12.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Hello fellow publisher interested in the environment! I love your ethos!

22.08.2025 11:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Green book cover Vivid Worlds edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun, Cécile Cristofari, David Cleden, Liam Hogan, Holly Schofield, and many more... promo this weekend Amazon UK/US on Kindle.

Green book cover Vivid Worlds edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun, Cécile Cristofari, David Cleden, Liam Hogan, Holly Schofield, and many more... promo this weekend Amazon UK/US on Kindle.

Black book cover featuring white badger skeleton and red leaves. Hiding Under the Leaves edited by Donna Scott with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

Black book cover featuring white badger skeleton and red leaves. Hiding Under the Leaves edited by Donna Scott with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...

Hello, I am @wishusdonna.bsky.social and my publishing project is The Slab Press. We have a Kindle promo on this weekend for our solar punk anthology, Vivid Worlds, and are gearing up for the launch of folk horror antho Hiding Under the Leaves at World Fantasycon. theslab.press/about-2/

22.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Almost bank holiday weekend and I'm even older. To celebrate, a Kindle Deal! Prices start today at £0.99/$0.99 and will be lower over the whole weekend - but the sooner you buy, the cheaper it will be!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F4S1BRX2
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4S1BRX2

21.08.2025 09:50 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
I re-read Tanisa's message of a moment ago: . … even see the petition, no, probably not since you'd rather have your head inside a piece of wood, than responsibly govern a community that needs you… There was more, several hundred words more. I picked up the tiny carving of an owl I'd made a while back and fiddled with it. That part of the message was right; I would rather be creating furniture or other useful items in my carpentry shop than dealing with people. The craft of melding nature's designs with my ideas on shaping wood had obsessed me since childhood. But I'd forced myself to help the community, doing my duty, taking my turn as head coordinator. Tanisa was wrong there—I didn't "govern". We all worked together now, different than Grandma's era, deciding minor things and putting major things to a referendum. Oh. I set the carving down. A referendum. Of course. We'd all been too incensed to think of it. It took a long tedious meeting with my team that evening but we got it hastily set up for the next day. We mass-messaged everyone who'd consented to be informed, three-quarters of the community. Signage appeared on the notice boards, flashing at a frequency rate of twice an hour, higher than most referendums. I wasn't expecting much—most referendums dealt with the type of fence the communal farm fields should have, or whether we should plant beets or carrots this year beside the reclaimed shopping mall, so a 20% turnout was typical. The online advance poll and chat room wavered back and forth, opinions flying. Throughout the evening and into the night it stayed about even—half in favour of keeping the Folly, half against. With Oil Day looming, I wandered the market stalls at daybreak, listening and watching, the crowds making me uneasy in my skin as usual. People chatted and waved their hands. Some buzz about the sighting of a cougar by the river, and a lot of chat about the literary festival happening later in the summer—it seemed like everyone wanted…

I re-read Tanisa's message of a moment ago: . … even see the petition, no, probably not since you'd rather have your head inside a piece of wood, than responsibly govern a community that needs you… There was more, several hundred words more. I picked up the tiny carving of an owl I'd made a while back and fiddled with it. That part of the message was right; I would rather be creating furniture or other useful items in my carpentry shop than dealing with people. The craft of melding nature's designs with my ideas on shaping wood had obsessed me since childhood. But I'd forced myself to help the community, doing my duty, taking my turn as head coordinator. Tanisa was wrong there—I didn't "govern". We all worked together now, different than Grandma's era, deciding minor things and putting major things to a referendum. Oh. I set the carving down. A referendum. Of course. We'd all been too incensed to think of it. It took a long tedious meeting with my team that evening but we got it hastily set up for the next day. We mass-messaged everyone who'd consented to be informed, three-quarters of the community. Signage appeared on the notice boards, flashing at a frequency rate of twice an hour, higher than most referendums. I wasn't expecting much—most referendums dealt with the type of fence the communal farm fields should have, or whether we should plant beets or carrots this year beside the reclaimed shopping mall, so a 20% turnout was typical. The online advance poll and chat room wavered back and forth, opinions flying. Throughout the evening and into the night it stayed about even—half in favour of keeping the Folly, half against. With Oil Day looming, I wandered the market stalls at daybreak, listening and watching, the crowds making me uneasy in my skin as usual. People chatted and waved their hands. Some buzz about the sighting of a cougar by the river, and a lot of chat about the literary festival happening later in the summer—it seemed like everyone wanted…

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'turn' #BookQW
Excerpt taken from "Oil and Water" by Holly Schofield, featured in Vivid Worlds from The Slab Press.
theslab.press/store/

20.08.2025 10:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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