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YA SFF PICK day on #fallforbooksmugglers is an underappreciated marvel from late 2017. A genre-bending, multiverse story following its main character Jane (who is bi) through different choices she makes, each told through the lenses of a different genre (murder mystery, horror, SF and Fantasy). It is way beyond amazing. #bookstagram #bivisibility #sciencefiction #igreads #igbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/BpUTxpwFoBO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=165k2j5w4es8j
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Laura & Logan <3
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It’s a new year! Ana and Renay welcome January 2017 with optimism and zeal. Topic include: our 2017 reading challenges, media we are EXCITE for, and a new culture segment featuring environmental panic, fanboy rants, & internet boyfriends.
For detailed show notes and more listening options, check out our website.
New episode. I have a great story about meeting a stranger in the middle of a crop circle near Stonehenge and drinking the strange liquid she gave me. Ah, YOUTH
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My first 10 - already! - of 2017. This is an incredible book.
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A flipped subverted version of the original The Little Mermaid - we’ve got 50 copies of this limited edition print run.
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Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap
Five ordinary girls discover magical powers in this new series of interconnected short stories from Isabel Yap
When Alex, Ria, Aiko, Natalie and Selena met at summer camp, they never expected the goddess would ask for their help, enlisting them as soldiers to protect the world from the forces of darkness. Gifting them each with a different object of power–a bracelet, a ring, a watch, earrings, a necklace–the goddess’s grace grants the friends the weapons to fight, the ability to heal, and the magic to strike back against the Grey.
Now, over a decade later, the five best friends are still fighting. But the burden of secrecy, the inevitability of pain, and the magnitude of their responsibility to keep saving the world has left them questioning their goddess.
How much longer can they keep saving the world? Can their friendship survive if one of them leaves their fold? And can they keep it together just long enough to get through Selena’s wedding?
Hurricane Heels will be published officially on December 6, 2016. You’ll be able to read each of the girls’ stories here on The Book Smugglers, serialized each day of the week next week! To get the full collection, you can purchase the DRM-free ebook (EPUB, MOBI) that contains the story as well as an essay from the author available for purchase on all major ebook retail sites and directly from us. We will also have a print paperback available for purchase next week–stay tuned!
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The Convergence of Fairy Tales by Octavia Cade | A new Horror Novella
In which we reveal the cover for The Convergence of Fairy Tales by Octavia Cade! Today we are thrilled to share with you the cover for Book Smugglers Publishing’s annual Halloween horror story–and our very first official novella.
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Over at Kirkus: Dystopian Political Futures for Halloween | The Book Smugglers
It’s Friday and we are over at Kirkus! Today – to celebrate Halloween and possibly prepare for the coming US elections – Thea is looking at recent examples of Dystopian Political Futures: Go over there to check it out.
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Today – to celebrate Halloween and possibly prepare for the coming US elections – Thea is looking at recent examples of Dystopian Political Futures in books.
Two Years of Book Smugglers Publishing
Two years ago this month, we launched Book Smugglers Publishing and published the first short story of many: Hunting Monsters by S. L. Huang.
Now, two years later, we publish the first original (never-before-published) novel in our collection: Extrahumans by Susan Jane Bigelow.
We were fan of this series as readers way before we even thought about becoming publishers. So it’s with immense pride and joy that we acquired this series and helped the wonderful Susan Jane Bigelow getting the closure the series - and this story - deserved.
To celebrate two years of BSP and the ending of Extrahuman Union series, we are giving away all books in the series (Broken, Sky Ranger, The Spark and Extrahumans).
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Guess what?
I have news! Real news. But of course, I’m not telling,
or at least not telling, yet. Please stick around, or maybe
keep your eye on EpicReads.com over the next few days.
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When your favorite author has all the same characteristics as her main character.
SHJIRSZLFD!!!!!
RED ALERT
Like many people of my generation, I grew up on Harry Potter. As an introverted, class-topping little girl, I identified hardcore with Hermione Granger. I had sorted myself into a House (Slytherin, unfortunately) long before there was Pottermore. I had all the spells at the tip of my tongue, just as I knew all the minor characters, subplots and plot holes by heart. My best friend was a Harry Potter fanfic writer for years, and although I never wrote any fanfic myself, the online Harry Potter communities were my first experience of fandom, which was my first experience of LiveJournal, which in turn was my first experience of the international SFF community.
I wrote J.K. Rowling a snail-mail letter, addressed to the Bloomsbury office in London, when she killed off Sirius Black in The Order of the Phoenix, telling her how that was uncool and, frankly, here’s a list of much better things she could’ve done with the story instead. I was one of the kids who felt entitled to tell Rowling off on such matters, because I knew about Harry Potter as much as anyone possibly could; because I had speculated about possible futures of the story more than she herself may have (ha!); because Harry Potter was a core part of my childhood… and how could she just have casually violated that? (Or no, “felt entitled” would be the wrong description, because no one ever feels entitled to do anything. The best part about the entitled is that they feel offended by other people doing their thing, which they refuse to believe can rightfully be those other people’s thing to do.)
I have felt as possessive about the Harry Potter canon as anyone I’ve ever met, so once again, when people are talking about Noma Dumezweni being cast as the adult Hermione, and the possibility that Hermione may not have been white in the first place, I can feel my (non-existent) entitlement begin to tickle. I have always been Hermione among my friends; it’s the rare character in which I saw myself reflected, validated in fiction; the character whose triumphs and losses were my own—surely no one else can have the last word on whether a black Hermione “feels right”? If it doesn’t feel right to me, there’s no way that can be retconned into the canon. That’s violating my childhood. I won’t have it.
Except that I was never a white girl myself. Through all my childhood years of hardcore Pottermania, I was a brown girl growing up in Calcutta, India.
an excerpt from Characters Are Not A Coloring Book Or, Why the Black Hermione is a Poor Apology for the Ingrained Racism of Harry Potter by Mimi Mondal is an essay available with The Book Smugglers’ Quarterly Almanac and you can get a copy and read the rest now.
MIMI MONDAL lives between Calcutta, India and Philadelphia, PA. She has been an editor at Penguin India; a Commonwealth Scholar in Scotland; and an Octavia Butler Scholar at the Clarion West Writing Workshop. Her first collection, Other People, is scheduled to be published in India from Juggernaut Books
The Almanac is available right now as an ebook and paperback. Order the DRM-free ebook now from your retailer of choice–or you can buy it directly from us.
Celebrating Bisexuality in Books - A LIST
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