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Faye Stacey
2 October
Faye Stacey is an Ignatz nominated comic artist and illustrator based in Glasgow.
They've coloured for The Phoenix; drawn pages of comics for Magic Torch Comics; been featured in anthologies …
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Wildstar Press
2 October
Founded in 2019 by Akira Brown, Wildstar Press is an indie publishing company to uplift the voices of diverse creatives.
Their personal goal was and still is to spread stories …
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Otava Heikkilä
2 October
Otava Heikkilä (b. 1990) is a visual artist from Tampere, Finland.
He graduated from Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ Fine Art program in 2014 with a focus on writing and …
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Costa Koutsoutis
2 October
Costa Koutsoutis is a writer of weird stuff from horror to crime to fantasy to sci-fi, & even some of it mashed up together.
Costa is the author of stuff like …
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Southerly Literary Magazine
1 October
Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary journal.
The journal of the English Association, Sydney, it was launched in 1939 with works by authors such as AD Hope and Kylie Tennant. It …
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Peachpit
1 October
Peachpit offers unique learning experiences in the fields of photography, graphic design, Web design and development, digital video, and more.
Since 1986, their award-winning products have featured step-by-step explanations, timesaving …
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Feisty Duck
1 October
Feisty Duck is a small business focused on providing top-notch computer security education. It's run by Jelena and Ivan, a husband and wife team from London, UK.
Fesity Duck was …
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Prismata Press
1 October
Nestled among the volcanoes of New Zealand, Prismata Press is a fiery trans-owned and operated micro-press with a passion for sharing trans voices.
They publish fiction and poetry in ebook, …
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Lost Pages
1 October
Founded by Paolo Greco in 2012, Lost Pages is an occult RPG small press.
While making roleplaying magical, Lost pages have developed "a strong and idiosincratic aesthetic, made in equal measures …
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Godless
1 October
Drew Stepek re-launched godless.com in 2021 as a new distribution resource for underground, self-published, indie horror authors and narrators, small print horror publishers and audio book producers, and people who provide …
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Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2021
Recommended by
sohkamyung
A better than average first issue under the new editor, Sheree Renée Thomas, it features interesting stories by C. L. Polk, Madeleine E. Robins, Molly Tanzer, Robin Furth and a fascinating story by Marie Brennan based on the legend of "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter".
Anoka: A Collection of Indigenous Horror
Recommended by
kevin
A fantastic collection of gut-wrenching tales.
The imagery will stay with you, as will the depth to which Shane Hawk is willing and able to explore his indigenous Cheyenne and Arapaho heritage. Crafting tales that provide a refreshing point-of-view and unique imagery that get into your brain and writhe behind your eyes.
Can't wait to read a longer work by the author. Need more!
Llyfr Glas Nebo
Recommended by
kevin
Y llyfr Cymraeg cyntaf i fi ddarllen am sbel.
Ni'n byw mewn bwthyn lan yng Nghymbria. Y fi a'r wedjen, y ddwy gath a'r ci... a'n merch fach saith mis oed.
Fe ddinistriodd y llyfr 'ma fi.
Nofela tuag 40 mil o eiriau sy'n cynnwys llawer mwy na geiriau, na stori, nag emosiynau, na beth bynnag sy'n creu beth wi newydd orffen ddarllen.
Gobeithio fydd hwn ar silf lyfrau pawb.
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.
Fermi's Wake: For the Trees
Recommended by
kevin
My absolute favourite Fermi book so far!
For the Trees is a stunning, heartbreaking, mind-blowing novella that should be winning awards everywhere.
Chris shows the heights his writing can reach with this story. Peeling back layers as the true nature of both story strands unfold.
Read this today!
INTERZONE #285 (JAN-FEB 2020)
Recommended by
sohkamyung
An average issue, with interesting stories by Gregor Hartmann, Andy Dudak and John Possidente.
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.
The Sea Hates A Coward
Recommended by
kevin
I don't normally like the whole zombie genre.
But what Crowley has done with his undead POV, uprising, mutiny, sea monster, revolutionary, thoughtful treatise on life (then death and then more life) tale is absolutely stunning.
Took a bit of effort to get going, but it's definitely worth sticking with it. A great addition to the New Weird.
Nate Crowley's book put me off scampi for months!
The Year We Lived
Recommended by
kevin
Virginia teases the twist right from the off. But The Year We Lived is so finely written and enchanting that you lose yourself in the world and simply enjoy it, forgetting about this possible twist.
You'll quickly relax and let the sun-dappled fens, the reeds, woods, the description of the Hall and its inhabitants wash over you and pull you like a slow current into its 11th Century setting.
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.
Night Calls
Recommended by
kevin
Bought the full book immediately after enjoying the sample from Book View Cafe!
This magical, period adventure moved along at a quick pace. Plenty of events, but not al all rushed. The language, descriptions and sense of location & time seem spot-on.
It's the first in a series too, so I'm excited to read more.
Books like this are why I love buying and reading indie ebooks!
In the Sweep of the Bay
Recommended by
sakina
Why do we make the choices we do? Social and family pressures, personal beliefs of our place in society and of how our lives are supposed to be. This is a book that lets you look inside the lives of one family, and gives you the sense of understanding that a bitter or reserved exterior can hide losses that no-one else knows about.
Download your Black Library ebooks before 31st of August
In February 2026, Games Workshop announced that The Black Library ebook and audiobook shop would be taking a “...well-earned rest from the 31st of August”.
Amazon's latest anti-reader change
Amazon’s latest change to their older Kindle devices would be perfectly acceptable, if it wasn’t for the fact that it comes after a long chain of anti-consumer and anti-reader practices.
Collections have launched!
The new Collections feature is live on Libreture. Create Collections, move your DRM-free ebooks into them, and get a grip on your digital library.
New DRM-free Bookshops of 2026
Say hello to the latest DRM-free bookshops this year!
Server Maintenance on 17th of October
Libreture's server will be upgraded on the 17th of October, with some downtime.
ShortBox Comics Fair 2025 is open!
ShortBox Comics Fair, the innovative digital comics fair showcasing all-new, original comics from artists around the globe, is hitting its fifth year!