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into Lorenzo in a coffee shop. Lorenzo is a centuries old vampire living with with roommates - a 7 ft tall half troll, a Haunted who is host to a poltergeist, and, a unicorn.

Who even knew teen werewolves have proms?

Engaging and entertaining.

💙📚🌶️ Charlie who goes by the pen name Wise Old Crone is a young, failing, agony aunt columnist specializing in human/supernatural relationships and is about to lose his job because of not enough supernatural problems. He goes undercover as a grad student to dig up some dirt and runs

the Beast, she answers to have access to the funds and supplies to find the Beast and to forge the weapons slay him. Terrific world building and full of surprises it will appeal to readers who love T. Kingfisher's and Diana Wynne Jones's fantasy novels.

💙📚 #SFF Tomorrow is going to be a great New Release Tuesday. "Kill the Beast" is an excellent debut fantasy and a page turner. Lyssa a hunter of monsters has vowed to avenge her brother who was killed by the Beast. When Alderick, an immensely wealthy foppish man advertises for someone to kill ⏩

Ace Books is bringing it out on March 10th. Now is a good time to preorder at your favorite independent bookstore. The ISBN is 9798217188420.

💙📚 🔍Truth be told, I live to unite folks with the stories they will love. One of my favorites of last year, a delightful odyssey of a morose pony, comes out in paperback tomorrow. Rick and I listened to the audiobook on a roadtrip and both loved it. If you missed it in hardcover pick it up now.

The world building is interesting along with magical beasts he encounters, and slays. The plot doesn't go anywhere fast but it fits with Wu Ying's character. Glad to have read it so I can recommend it to readers who are looking for new martial arts or Asian themed fantasy.

Wu Ying is a likable character who does what he thinks he must without asking questions or for help. His adventures and fights lead him into new opportunities and challenging missions where he makes due and fights on through. So much fighting!

💙📚 #SSF When Wu Ying, a teenaged peasant farmer is conscripted into the army in this xianxia novel, first in a formerly self-published series, his lifelong nemesis it also taken. Endless martial arts training sessions and real fighting ensue.

💙📚🔍 I love being a reviewer and reading advance copies of forthcoming books but I feel so mean raving about books most people won't get to read for months. Today I finished Blood Relay by Devon Mihesuah, a superb mystery/thriller and re-read Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite. Pub dates in Feb & March.

You’re welcome. My mission in life is connecting people with the books they want or need to read so I’m always happy when reading, to find stories I know people will be thrilled to experience.

This is why and how I survived long enough to become an adult.

This is one of my favorite books of the last couple years. I have become so much more aware of the lagomorphs around me. It is also the book that pops into my mind every time I think of multiverses.

Looking forward to reading it.

💙📚🪐 #SFF I loved seeing this in an email today from BookRiot. @bookriot.bsky.social "🚀 Science Fiction leads the market with the fastest sales increases versus prior year. Growth accelerated in early July..." I didn't find much SF last year that I loved so I hope it means lots of new great SF.

Authors, check and see if your books were used. Five of my books were on the list.

💙📚🪐⏳⚡🎧 Books finished in September 2025. All were enjoyable, some more than others. Some won't be out for a few months but are well worth the wait. Sisters in the Wind and Where Rabbits Gathered were standouts. I loved Nobody's Baby, a SF mystery that won't be out until March.

💙📚🪐 At Out West Books #SFF new books Tuesday.

Have you read The Magician of Tiger Castle? I think it's his first adult fantasy.

The new #SFF books section at Out West Books today. No room for face out on the top shelf because some publishers have started making hardcovers about a 1/4" too tall for the regular shelves.

the stairs. That was where I found and fell in love with Georgette Heyer's regencies. This chaste traditional regency in the classic tradition is a joy to read with great characters and a believable conflict.

💙📚 This thoroughly enjoyable regency romance took me back to when I first fell in love with the genre. When I was in high school I cleaned houses to save for college and one day an old retired librarian (the same age as my grandma!) I cleaned for sent me to the basement to clean some shelves under

SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.

Book jacket features four people standing on book floating on the sea with a lighthouse and British flag on the shore.

she believes she is Sabrina, the character in the novel she has been writing, and is taken in by a kind woman whose son owns the local Italian restaurant.

💙📚 The Accidental Rewrite by Milly Johnson is Totally charming and delightful. When an aspiring novelist, is attacked and robbed after running away from a surprise wedding put on by her cheating boyfriend, she loses her memory as well as her purse. Coming to in a hospital,

💙🪐 #SFF Finished rereading the classic Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre. It's 1 of 8 novels that won both Hugo & Nebula awards in the '70s. Was astounded by how they have held up. In a post-nuclear world, a traveling healer uses snakes in her practice experiencing loss, adventure, and love. Loved it

💙🪐 #SFF Finished rereading the classic Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre. It's 1 of 8 novels that won both Hugo & Nebula awards in the '70s. Was astounded by how they have held up. In a post-nuclear world, a traveling healer uses snakes in her practice experiencing loss, adventure, and love. Loved it

💙🪐🩸 #SFF #Horror Finished ARC of The Veil by Jonathan Janz. Terrific horror/SF. Alien abductions instigate violent anarchy. A dad whose family has been taken is recruited by a group of strangers for a mission to retrieve their missing family members. @blackstonepub.bsky.social

💙📚🪐⚡ Just finished listening to the ARC of Simultaneous by Eric Heisserer courtesy of Libro.fm. Past lives, future lives, parallel lives, and a serial killer bring a DHS agent, a mystic, and a therapist who does past lives regression together for a pulse pounding read. Pub date 10/28. Pre-order!