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Readmill, Anyone?
One of the big advantages that Amazon has over other ebook stores is the simple purchase process. When you buy a book, it is automatically sent to your Kindle account, and is available on every device where you have a … Continue reading
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Fallen Host – Live in the Bookstore
I wouldn’t normally release a book on a Saturday, but time is getting short. This one should have been out on either Thursday or Friday, but circumstances have conspired against me and as I’m leaving for Finland on Monday I … Continue reading
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May Magazines
The May editions of Clarkesworld and Lightspeed are now in the store. I’m in a bit of a rush as I need to get into Bristol to see Patrick Ness so this post will be shorter than usual. Clarkesworld #80 … Continue reading
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Bristol Tomorrow: Steampunk, May Day & Bank Notes
I’ll be in Bristol tomorrow for the kick off meeting for Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion, the new Wizard’s Tower steampunk anthology. From 6:30pm we’ll be at the Shakespeare Tavern in Prince Street where Eugene Byrne will be entertaining us … Continue reading
Welcome Massimo Marino
As part of our mission of bringing you interesting writers from around the world, I’m delighted to welcome Massimo Marino to the Wizard’s Tower bookstore. Massimo is Italian by birth, but has worked at CERN, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories and Apple, … Continue reading
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Ditmar Winners
The Ditmar Award winners were announced at the Australian Natcon yesterday evening. I can’t see an official announcement yet, but based on Twitter reports the winners are as follows: Novel: Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin) Novella or Novelette: … Continue reading
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Award-Winning Horror
I’m delighted to announce that a new publisher has joined the Wizard’s Tower store. Xoum Publishing is a fine Australian small press. They don’t publish a lot of SF&F, but what they do have is very impressive. Top of the … Continue reading
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New Anthology – Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion
Over at the Wizard’s Tower website I have posted a Call for Submissions for Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion, a new anthology that I’m producing in collaboration with the BristolCon Foundation. This is what Colin Harvey would have called an … Continue reading
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New In Store – Elsker
We have a new paranormal romance book from Entranced in the store today. Elsker by ST Bende sounds like it is perfectly timed to cash in on the new Thor movie. So, ladies: Team Thor or Team Loki? Or possibly … Continue reading
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Australian Shadows Awards #WomenInGenre
Via Kirstyn McDermott I have seen the results of this year’s Australian Shadows Awards, which are juried awards for horror fiction. Kirstyn is quite rightly jumping up and down because she has won the Novel category with Perfections. However, I … Continue reading
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A Finnish Fantasy Novel
I’m delighted to be able to offer a novel by a Finnish author in the bookstore. Fargoer by Petteri Hannila is the first in a series of fantasy novels that, “draws its power from the harsh, yet beautiful nature and … Continue reading
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Conservation of Shadows #WomenInGenre
The third in the new books by women that I have for you this week is a very exciting collection. Conservation of Shadows is by the Korean-American writer, Yoon Ha Lee. It includes her two Sturgeon Award finalists: “Ghostweight” (Clarkesworld) … Continue reading
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New In Store: Blood Bound by Sarah Cawkwell #WomenInGenre
Continuing this week’s bookstore releases, today I have a new release from Fox Spirit. Blood Bound by Sarah Cawkwell is apparently a “dark little fantasy story”. And I note that it comes from a woman-owned company, as well as being … Continue reading
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Coming Soon – Fallen Host #WomenInGenre
Last night I finished the bulk of the conversion work on the next Lyda Morehouse book, Fallen Host. It still needs to go through proof-reading, but I’m planning to have it out this month. While you are waiting, you can … Continue reading
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We Get Entranced #WomenInGenre
It is going to be a busy week as far as bookstore posts goes. I’ve just uploaded three new books. If you want to know what they all are, the Wizard’s Tower Twitter feed has details and links, but as … Continue reading
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April Magazines
There is a new Clarkesworld out, and it is HUGE! Gardner Dozois has arrived with a bang, and there are no less than six stories in the issue. Let’s start with the new material. The headline story is “Annex” by … Continue reading
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My Dear Watson
Here’s a treat for all of you slash fans. Lethe Press have sent me a new book about that well-loved couple, Holmes and Watson. In it Mrs. Watson invites the great detective to dinner so that she can confront the … Continue reading
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Best of Australia
The nominees for this year’s Ditmar awards have been released. There’s a full list available here. I’m really impressed with how many women there are on the ballot. Clearly there is some sort of secret feminist cabal at work here. … Continue reading
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Tim Invents Brizzlewood
My friend Tim Maughan has made a short film of the opening scenes of his short story, “Paintwork”. It is a very low budget exercise, so it is all done with stills and animation rather than live action, but it … Continue reading
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New From Prime: Superheroes & Weird Detectives
We have two new books from Prime in the bookstore today. The first is Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations, the latest in Paul Guran’s series of themed anthologies. It includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Bear, CaitlĂn R. Kiernan, Charlaine Harris, … Continue reading
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