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Association for Scottish Literature
8 October
A complete list of free publications available as downloads from the Association for Scottish Literature.
Founded in 1970, the Association for Scottish Literature is an educational charity that aims to …
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CloisterFox
23 September
CloisterFox is a bi-annual zine of British speculative fiction.
You will find the stories that creep uninvited along quiet corridors. Stories unnoticed by shoppers hurrying by. Secrets, miracles, and universes …
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Comix
23 September
Comix is a portfolio management tool, marketplace, crowdfunding and social place on the internet for Indie comic creators.
Founded in Australia in 2017, their mission is to become a thriving …
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Christine Larsen
23 September
A Harvey Award Nominated cartoonist and Illustrator, Christine Larsen has created art for comics, book covers, stories, posters and websites; working with clients such as Dark Horse, Image, IDW, BOOM! Studios, …
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Briardene Books
17 September
Established by Niall Harrison in 2022, Briardene Books is a micro-press specialising in non-fiction about science fiction and fantasy.
Briardene currently stocks two titles, both collections of reviews and essays. …
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Duck Prints Press
4 September
Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher founded in January 2021 and based in New York State, US.
Their founding vision is to work with fancreators to publish their …
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Baldur Bjarnason
4 September
Baldur Bjarnason has been making websites for over twenty-five years.
He works as a web developer (front-end, back-end, or full-stack) for both companies and charities, small and large, in a …
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byelacey
21 August
Lies Within is created by Lacey, a lifelong vampire fan from a small town in Canada best known for a UFO crash in the sixties.
Lies Within is her first …
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Cursed Morsel Press
21 August
Founded by Eric Raglin, Cursed Morsel Press publishes short horror and Weird fiction.
Cursed Morsel is anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer.
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Chace Verity
21 August
Chace Verity (they/them) is publishing queer as heck stories about romance, friendship, and found families.
Chace has published stories in multiple genres including fantasy, paranormal romance, contemporary, and historical fiction, …
Favourite Books
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Inside Evil
Recommended by
kevin
A really fun read, with more depth and suspense than you might expect.
A parallel world, murder, a seemingly-sleepy village hiding deadly secrets.
A surprise hit with me, this is the first on a series that I really want to get back to.
Dymchishyna
Recommended by
gwer232
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Airedale
Recommended by
sakina
Gritty, relentless, uniquely West Yorkshire and above all, realistic. Come for the plot, stay for the intense detail, well-drawn characters and well-thought-out political backdrop.
A Taste of Honey
Recommended by
kevin
The beauty of the prose is only matched by the imagination behind the world-building. This novella, while short, breaks my heart, reforms it, and breaks it once more.
While the writing itself might not be to everyone's tastes, you cannot deny its beauty. Each sentence is carved and crafted, each paragraph moulded into art.
Reading Kai Ashante Wilson's work is an experience not to be missed.
The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A wonderful collection of speculative fiction from around the world. Ranging from Asia to Africa, Europe to the Americas, you will find much to like in many of the stories featured. My favourites include those by Vina Jie-Min Prasad, T.L. Huchu, Taiyo Fujii, Vandana Singh, Bo-young Kim, Chi Hui, Karla Schmidt and Giovanni De Feo.
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.
INTERZONE #287 (MAY-JUN 2020)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average issue with a long, strange, tale of travel to another world that may yet be ours by Tim Lees, Eugenia Triantafyllou and ending with a tale of a timely intervention by Val Nolan that may yet make America great again in a different way.
Night Calls - Sample Chapter
Recommended by
kevin
Well I certainly loved this sample!
Moved along at a nice pace. Plenty of events, but not rushed. Language, descriptions and sense of location & time seem spot-on. It's the first in a series too.
I'm intrigued and excited to read more. Just what a sample should do. And it's from Book View Cafe, so I know 90% my money will go to the author.
Off to buy the full book asap!
Jiwe
Recommended by
kevin
A fantastic and fantastical short tale that provides a much-needed respite from medieval-styled Western fantasy.
Written in a mythological format, Jiwe gives us a world of magic, gods, and the usual evils of man. Curses intended to redress balance and strong women working to save broken lives.
Kiko Enjani's work is sublime, and I can't wait to read her longer stories.
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/Jun 2022
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue, with lots of shorter pieces of fiction and only a few longer ones. The stories that I found more interesting are those by Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Ai Jiang, Julie Le Blanc, Taemumu Richardson, Shreya Ila Anasuya and John Wiswell.
Full review on BookWyrm [ https://bookwyrm.social/user/sohkamyung/review/180959/s/average-issue-of-fsf-with-more-shorter-pieces-of-fiction ]
The Fury of Blacky Jaguar
Recommended by
sakina
Noir-with-a-vengeance, this story drags you round downtown NYC, giving you tonnes of action, gratuitous violence and guns, in return for a 2-hour read. Tightly written, well described, and leaves you breathless.
Becoming Crone (The Crone Wars)
Recommended by
kevin
Fans of urban fantasy looking for a protagonist who is a little more... mature, will love Becoming Crone.
Claire has seen it all, or so she thinks. Her world-weariness, her highly-developed lack of trust, and her not-unexpected ability to expect things to go wrong make her the perfect character to introduce us to a world of witches, gargoyles, werewolves, and witches, plenty of witches.
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.
Your ebooks are now even safer
We moved all your ebooks! They're now stored with a more resilient and maintained cloud storage provider. Sounds really exciting I know, but this is a much better situation.
Comic Review: B-Mecha 2 Ishaani
Jamie Me, Neri Rearte, and Archie Dait return with Mechs, Kaiju, real life, this time in Bradford! Suit up for the latest North-of-England set Kaiju-fighting comic.
No AI at Libreture
Libreture exists to support readers, independent publishers, and authors. There’s no place in that for machine-generated tools, especially those that steal content.
Seven years of ebooks: pricing, plans, and fairness
2017 - 2024, and still going. The story of Libreture so far, looking at changes to pricing and what I consider to be fair.