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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you @tobiascarroll.bsky.social at @reactorsff.bsky.social for this deeply thoughtful, very generous review of my debut collection ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES!

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Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🤖 What happens when a robot doppelgänger carries the ghosts of your unborn children? My sci-fi horror story is out now in @augursociety.bsky.social Magazine! It explores the next iteration of surrogacy through the West African abíkú folklore. Read it here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had such a lovely time chatting with these two great hosts (and pillars of the genre community). An absolutely amazing conversation!

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excited to share this wonderful review of my new collection by the endlessly insightful @garykwolfe.bsky.social over at @locusmag.bsky.social!

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So deeply honored I got to read an entry of Le Guin's blog. Baby-writer me with a copy of The Lathe of Heaven would be in disbelief (like I am currently)...

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Excited to share that my upcoming collection ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES has received its second starred review, this time from Kirkus: "Rich and strange, while going straight to the heart." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

An image of the cover for ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES with a star above it. Below the release date (September 1st) and an excerpt of the review: "Rich and strange, while going straight to the heart."

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It is here. ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES in its final form. Massive thank you to the incredible Kathryn English for designing this beauty. And to Blackstone Publishing for letting me put all my stories (and some new entries) in one place. So excited for this to be out in the world. Not too long now.

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So honored to be a part of this writing quintet. And just floored that we won this award together.

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All the Hidden Places is coming out in less than two months. Some reviews are in, like this amazing starred review over at @libraryjournal.bsky.social by @booksnyarn.bsky.social! www.libraryjournal.com/review/all-t...

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is a wonderful review of Transmentation | Transgression. Daniel (@reading1000lives.bsky.social ) really understands what we're trying to do with the book/series!

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Kristi C. @booksnyarn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

July @libraryjournal.bsky.social SFF reviews are up! I reviewed @kateerobert.com's THE TAROT TRIALS, @suyidavies.com's SEASON OF THE SERPENT, @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social's ALL THE HIDDEN PLACES, @nghivo.bsky.social's THE SCARLET BALL, and AS YOU WAKE, BREAK THE SHELL by Becky Chambers.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/07/2026

Also I really really want people to pick up THE BOOK OF THE DEAD because my story in it (entitled SINKING ALL THE WHILE) is absolutely my favourite thing I've written in ages, a Rashomon-style story about a ? maybe ? murder of an asshole wizard whose body is found in a canal.

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The Book of the Dead

We are all going to die. But how? Will it hurt? Where will we go? What will we find there? What will happen to the people we leave behind? Jonathan Strahan,...

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Can we talk about how talented Emma D'Arcy is with just their microexpressions?

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As a life-long pacer (my wife once filmed me taking laps around our entire apartment without me noticing I was doing so): Who knew pacing was preparing me for being a father to twin girls on the cusp of sleep.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

hey friends!! Tell me about your favorite GENRE-BENDING books! I'm looking for sci-fi mysteries, fantasy horrors, science-fantasy, literary specfic, and all that stuff that doesn't fit neatly into one category.

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Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thanks Reactor @reactorsff.bsky.social for this mention of GRIEF EATER! Out now from Emma Osborne. reactormag.com/cant-...

Protagonists don’t always need to be alive. Emma Osborne’s Grief Eater begins with the novel’s protagonist rising from the grave and making her way across Australia on a quest for revenge. The fact that writers like K Tidbeck and Cadwell Turnbull have had glowing things to say makes this particular story even more enticing. (Interstellar Flight Press; June 1, 2026)

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Such a wonderful in-depth review of the book (and series so far)!

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I had a lot of fun writing about this book 😊

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Sascha Reinhold (Studio Umluft) @studioumluft.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Woke up to find out that my pixel version of «The Lesson» by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social has been added to the Little Pixel Library. 😱🥰 Right next to Ursula K. LeGuin. 🩵 Check out the rest of the library: hillhouse.neocities.org/cliques/libr... #pixelart #books #scifi #ScienceFiction #pixel #books

a shelve with five rows of pixel art book covers, containing seven books each row, icluding The Godfather, Verwandlung, Martyr!, Batman, Watership Down and 1984. «The Lesson» by Cadwell Turnbull features and index card next to them that reads: librarian: Sascha Reinhold, Title: The Lesson, Author: Cadweel Turnbull

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hey, listen, Hollywood -- wacky idea, but maybe just maybe the key here is to make cool original stories because they sure seem to do well. If only there was an entire REALM of cool books by very cool authors you could use as the bedrock of those original stories. If only. *stares* *stares harder*

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Darkly Lem @darklylem.com · 17/03/2026

Today is the day! The second book in our series, Transmentation | Transgression, is out now. Alexandra Pierce at Locus said, "This series is doing bold and clever new things with many-worlds narratives and anyone with an interest in such ideas needs to be reading it."

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Transmentation Transgression: Or, a Spark on the Eve of the Five Hundred Year Burn

Or, a Spark on the Eve of the Five Hundred Year Burn

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This series has been so much fun to work on. Happy bookday to all the other darklies!

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

An excellent, deeply thoughtful review. Working on this series with the other members of @darklylem.com has been a wild ride. Can't wait to hear what readers think of this second installment (right as we're wrapping up the third in the trilogy!).

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Dion Graham has done an incredible job on this whole series, He so deserves this Audie nomination for his work on Ruin! So lucky I got to work with him on the entire Convergence Saga. Congratulations to all the other nominees! www.audiopub.org/2026audies

List of Audie Award Finalists in the Fantasy Category, including A Ruin, Great and Free (among books by Harrow, Schwab, and others).

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Jordan Hirsch @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Looking for a book for the times? Might I suggest @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social's No Gods, No Monsters? It's far from light-hearted, but it's heavy on community care, organizing, and portraying policing systems realistically. (Plus it's just straight up fantastic fantasy.)

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I have a story in this as well: "The Vanishing at Neltjeberg." Not my first TOC with the great @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, but certainly going to be one for the ages. This will be a tough one. We lost a radiant VI voice before this could come out. I'm so looking forward to reading her story.

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A wonderful, deeply thoughtful review of Ruin. Thank you @readingreality.bsky.social

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Despite everything, this was a writing year that I am immensely proud of. The first book in a co-written multiversal trilogy. Two short stories conceptually in the making for over a decade. And the last book of the Convergence Saga. Concludes an already big story in a big way.

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about this series.

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The November Locus aka @locusmag.bsky.social includes my interview with Eden Royce!!! aka @edenroyce.bsky.social - My recent Locus interviews include Ken Liu, Cadwell Turnbull, Yume Kitasei, H.E. Edgmon, Akwaeke Emezi, Rita Woods, S.A. Barnes, and more! locusmag.com/2025/11/issu...

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Issue 778 Table of Contents, November 2025

The November 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Joe Hill and Eden Royce. News includes the Ignyte Awards winners, Loyer’s Sturgeon Award win, the planned Baker & Taylor shut…

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 06/11/2025

Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, all coming for you in three weeks! Thank you, @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social, for the kind words! More info ⬇️

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"A gothic family saga about the price of privilege...And beneath this very real, immaculately-rendered drama, a simmering dread: dark secrets threatening to emerge, along with something much worse. The Villa, Once Beloved is a magnificent terror."

- Cadwell Turnbull
Award-winning author of The Lesson and The Convergence Saga

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THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED by Victor Manibo

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Do yourself a favor and read this book!

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Meisterkhan @meisterkhan1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Our interview with author Cadwell Turnbull! www.facebook.com/share/p/1Gh8...

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I had a great time chatting with @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social talking about RUIN and writing practice. Check it out!

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The Creative Writing Life podcast @podcastcwl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Author @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social (A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE) talks about communal engagement of media, knowing your ending, revising until everything is set, and the appeal of K-dramas spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/XHx6f7PzGXb youtu.be/raJUxK9kQ9k

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Cadwell Turnbull by The Creative Writing Life

Author Cadwell Turnbull (A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE) talks about communal engagement of media, knowing your ending, revising until everything is set, and the appeal of K-dramashttp://cadwellturnbull.com

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Paul Zeidman @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Had a great time w/author @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social (A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE) on @podcastcwl.bsky.social discussing communal engagement of media, knowing your ending, revising until everything is set, and the appeal of K-dramas spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/XHx6f7PzGXb youtu.be/raJUxK9kQ9k

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Cadwell Turnbull by The Creative Writing Life

Author Cadwell Turnbull (A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE) talks about communal engagement of media, knowing your ending, revising until everything is set, and the appeal of K-dramashttp://cadwellturnbull.com

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A little late in sharing, but it was so awesome to be featured on @paulsemel.bsky.social's blog where I got to talk about RUIN and some things I've been reading lately. Thanks for a great interview, Paul: paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...

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Interview: "A Ruin, Great And Free" Author Cadwell Turnbull ... .

Exclusive Interview: "A Ruin, Great And Free" Author Cadwell Turnbull \ In which he talks about this contemporary fantasy novel.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Monthly round up! We covered five books on Bar Cart Bookshelf this September: time travel shenanigans, parallel worlds, gods, monsters, & mortals, the raddest & radish of wives, clever foxes, deadly assassins, & stalwart couriers. Have you seen all this month's episodes? Have you tried the drinks?

[image desc: a stack of books in front of several bottles of absinthe (bottom to top): THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, A RUIN, GREAT AND FREE by Cadwell Turnbull, THE DEAD CAT TAIL ASSASSINS by P. Djèlí Clark, STARSTRUCK by Aimee Ogden, AUDITION FOR THE FOX by Martin Cahill.]

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 02/10/2025

Yeah but you don't want ME to start a SFF magazine All my picks would be strictly vibes-based crunchy prose and critics would be like "There's no plot" for every story in every issue and I'd be like "SO WHAT? SO?? SO WHAT, MR. CRITIC MAN???" 😭

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Cadwell Turnbull @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Super honored for my work to be included (twice!) among this list of great books. One of the inclusions is a five-person collab under the pseudonym @darklylem.com that I'm so so proud of. Thank you @mariahaskins.com for shining a light on and showing love to these two multiversal series!

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