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Sienna Eggler
4 April
Sienna Eggler is a Black, queer, neurodivergent author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, sci-fi, and horror.
Sienna is the author of Fluid Bonding and other sapphic novellas, short stories, and …
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Patrick Samphire
1 April
Patrick Samphire is a fantasy author who now lives in Wales with his wife, the awesome writer Stephanie Burgis, their son and daughter, and their cat, Pebbles.
He has lived …
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Goats Flying Press
1 April
Goats Flying Press is an independent comic book publisher located in Brooklyn, NY.
Founder and Publisher Sebastian Girner has worked in comics, both as an editor and writer since 2008, …
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Eve Greenwood
1 April
Eve Greenwood (they/he), a queer Scot who is passionate about languages, real and fake.
They write, draw, edit, letter, promote, and publish comics of all kinds through various projects, including …
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Ashe Armstrong
1 April
Weird Western / Fantasy author Ashe Armstrong grew up on a steady diet of late 80s and early 90s cartoons, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Goosebumps, and the …
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Black Coat Press
1 April
Black Coat Press was founded in 2003 by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier as a logical development in their desire to bring out the best of French popular culture into the …
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Metatron Press
1 April
Metatron Press is a multi-award-winning literary publisher based in Montréal, Quebec that specializes in publishing unique and captivating books of poetry, fiction, and hybrid texts by rising authors as well …
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Devyn Kenndy
1 April
Devyn Kenndy is a nonbinary author and chef.
They write sci-fi, fantasy, and horror that focus on queer characters, community, and how our past haunts and affects us.
Devyn's books …
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Wild Hunt Books
1 April
Wild Hunt Books is an independent publisher founded in South London in 2020.
Wild Hunt focus on books by new and emerging writers, alongside established authors. Their mission is to …
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Tab Creations
1 April
Tab Creations is a developer and publisher of roleplaying and card games.
Their work includes the award-winning Shadows Over Sol, Age of Ambition, Against the Dark Yogi and …
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Saga #1

Recommended by
kevin
Created by writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Fiona Staples, Saga is a beautifully intimate space opera.
It touches on race, religion, conflict, family and love, with a deft hand and imagery that is just sublime.
Proof that Image Comics' creator-owned approach really works. These are the kinds of stories that comics were made for.

The Small Hands of Chokedamp

Recommended by
sohkamyung
My review at [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/fiction/2024/20240822-SmallHandsChokedamp.html ]

25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf

Recommended by
kevin
A brilliantly modern take on the werewolf slayer trope where a growing, changing character discovers that the real predators are usually the men in her life.
There's much more to this book than how Elkie kills werewolves and works out where they're coming from. Her relationships change, she finds out what she's capable of, not just killing 'furred-up' beasts, but farming, rescuing, growing.

Accessible EPUB 3

Recommended by
danielweck
good read, but more up to date info available at the daisy knowledge base.

The World Turned Upside Down

Recommended by
Ree
Classic scifi short stories. Even if you're familiar with the tales, it's worth reading the many forewords and afterwords the editors provide, where they examine their own relationships to these stories. (My personal fave: "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore.)
This book is available on several Baen CDs and downloadable free and legally from various sites.

Perihelion Summer

Recommended by
sohkamyung
An interesting tale of immediate survival in the face of catastrophic climate change. Compared to his previous stories, there isn't as much 'hard science' involved here, but surviving the changes would involve making tough decisions about how they can prepare and save themselves from the oncoming global crises.

Outermen

Recommended by
kevin
Amazingly-written, weird, claustrophobic, space, alternate Earth, horror story from a brilliant author who consistently nails it!
A tale of the Outside, what's beyond and, ultimately, fear of what may or may not be there. If there is something, stay hidden! If there isn't anything but a vast void, then stay home, be nice, don't explore, we're alone...
A story about our culture.

Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 204

Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue with an interesting mathematical based story by Arula Ratnakar and a loving story of a different kind of robotic servant by RJ Taylor.
Full review at my website [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/magazines/Clarkesworld/20230903-Clarkesworld204.html ].

Seeing Double

Recommended by
kevin
You know how you sometimes get too comfortable in familiar genres and need a book to come along and kick you out of your comfort zone? Well, this was mine.
We fall into the world-weary lives of a newly-married ex-pat couple. The author explores sex, pain, abuse, assault, desire, trauma... and the relationships, even love, based on all these things.
An uncomfortable, but rewarding read.

Immortal, Invisible

Recommended by
sohkamyung
My review at [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/fiction/2024/20240822-ImmortalInvisible.html ].

The Outskirter's Secret

Recommended by
kevin
The amazing second book in what is, so far, an outstanding fantasy series.
The Outskirter's Secret expands on the concepts in the first book, but takes us out of the relative safety of the Inner Lands and into the wilderness of the Outskirts.
I can't believe I've only just started reading this series and am already on the third book.
Still a MUST READ.

The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter

Recommended by
kevin
A ripping yarn of disguise, deception and misdirection, propelled along by a brilliantly written period style that firmly places you in the world.
A rollicking ride through alternate-history Britain after the Luddite uprisings. Recognisable locations mixed with carefully applied genre tropes keep this book from becoming yet another steampunk adventure and raise it above its fellows.

Store your Kindle AZW3 ebooks with Libreture
Have you downloaded all your Kindle ebooks and are wondering where and how to keep them safe? Libreture now supports your Kindle AZW3 ebook files!

Update on the new Collections feature
Collections are coming soon! A neat new way to organise all your digital reading and display your library just the way you want.

Amazon is removing your ability to download and keep your ebooks
Say goodbye to sideloading your Kindle ebooks! If you haven't downloaded your Kindle ebooks by the 26th of February, you'll never be able to use them on another device again.

DRM-free Bookshop of the Month from The Digital Reader
Discover Libreture's collection of DRM-free bookshops with the help of Ofori, the Digital Reader.

DC comes to GlobalComix
Huge news for comic fans, as one of the largest comic publishers, DC, bring their titles to the digital comic distribution platform, GlobalComix.

Do we really own our ebooks?
A recent video by author and editor Kristin McTiernan about her experience of switching from a Kindle to a Kobo ereader caught a lot of attention, and highlighted why buying DRM-free ebooks is so important.