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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 8h

A Christmas Carol --> The Female Man How does that work? That's the essay. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com (it's by @effjayem.bsky.social, who knows their stuff)

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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 17h

With a poem from me!

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 12h

In part two of Jacey Bedford's epic space opera you'll find evil megacorporations, full-blown space battle, and, er... dragons? On pre-order: wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of Crossways by Jacey Bedford

The image shows a giant space station being approached by a small spacecraft.

Art by Bryan Ledgard.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 17h

Press Release: Wizard's Tower to Publish Beowulf in Hel by Adam Roberts wizardstowerpress.co...

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 17h

It's my birthday today! And what better present than this gorgeous print of Blodeuwedd by artist Aled Thompson, that arrived in the post this morning! I love how savage and wild the imagery is, tapping into a very different side of the character than the quaint, floral depictions that we often see.

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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 19h

One week to Wiz-4 launching. As well as @samarcand.northsky.social 's tender "Marooned on Ceres" with a world changing queer encounter... in "Top Tips for Loving a Lizard" Harry muses on the absolute unlikelihood of there being aliens secretly hiding on earth... ... while he's shagging one. #booksky

“The universe was so old and so big, Harry quite accepted there might be intelligence out there somewhere but it would take them thousands of years to travel. He was also convinced that the tribal god of a small sandy plot in the Middle East had not created the world, let alone the universe.
So, who knows what aliens would look like, or think, or how they would have sex? Maybe they’d reproduce by cutting pieces off and repotting them, like his Mum’s geraniums.
Normal people had no time for the idea that the aliens would turn up, then hide, so they could manipulate world zinc prices or something. And how long could they stay secret, really?”

You, Dear Reader, know that Aiden is a lizard. Harry is shagging him and doesn’t.

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Gwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 30/09/2026

Who among my UK followers can tell me about Dr Helen Webberley? signal: gwenners.713

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/... What has been achieved by the campaigners who fought to ban scallop dredgers from the waters around the Summer Isles and create a Marine Protected Area is nothing short of miraculous. The world owes them a huge thank you.

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‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Issue #84 of Salon Futura is now online, featuring reviews of books by Garth Nix, Paul Cornell, Tim Pratt and Lloyd Alexander, plus some Star Wars, a Worldcon report and the search for this historical King Arthur:

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Issue 84

This is the September 2026 issue of Salon Futura. Here are the contents.

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Chalk Scribblers @chalkscribblers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Exactly one week from right now, we'll be gathering online to hear Charles Stross @cstross.bsky.social read from his latest novel and to answer questions about... well, about whatever you'd like to ask him. Sign up on Eventbrite to join us for free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2000172679...

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Chalk Scribblers meet the author: Charles Stross

An evening with leading science fiction novelist Charles Stross.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All stories must come to an end, so Rob Sardan must finally face off against the evil pirate king, Mothar. But will he finally find a boy to love along the way? Open for pre-orders: wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of The Storm-Forged Throne by Joel Cornah.

The background image is of a dark-skinned pirate wearing a bicorn hat, ruffled shirt and frock coat.

Superimposed on that is an image of a lone, armed figure, back to us, on a stepped platform looking at a large throne. In front of the platform is a sea of lava.

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 30/09/2026

🧵 The UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, @iesogi.bsky.social, is seeking input for his upcoming report on the human rights situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and other gender-diverse people deprived of liberty.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today is the final day of the eBook sale for The Green Man's Holiday. The book is 99p on Amazon, and a similar price on most eBook platforms. Don't miss out. wizardstowerpress.co...

Cover of The Green Man’s Holiday by Juliet E McKenna. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of an animal-like face with many sharp teeth peering out from a pile of gray rocks. Foliage and white flowers cover the rocks.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'treat'. Your treat for today is an extract from 'Incoming' by JL George, one of the many fine stories in They Are Still Here, on pre-order now: wizardstowerpress.co...

Her people lived beneath the waves. They had done for centuries, since her father left dry land. Rhys Dwfn was his name—Rhys of the deep, the wise, the long-lived. He’d warned them to stay away from the world above. Land-dwellers had never done him any good, and surely they’d treat his daughters no better.
But Rhys had grown set in his ways. The longer he lived, the more adamant he was that the human world would never change.
He was not exactly wrong. They saw the evidence of that every day, washed into the sea—all the land-dwellers’ waste, plastics that never rotted as live things do, nets that caught up the creatures of the sea and throttled the life from them. Oil, sometimes, an acrid, clinging poison. And sewage, choking clouds of effluent that lingered in the water for days, making the sea-dwellers sick, so that they came to dread the rain.

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint... The British government should buy all its civil servants copies of SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES so they can better advise ministers about evil AIs, representations of climate change, conflict in space, and, erm, <flicks through pages> dragons; dragons deserve a COBRA meeting, right?!

To the left, the cover (red and black) of "Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" Vol 1 by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan.

To the right, a list of the topics covered by the book: "Learn about writing… Spaceships, Aliens, Big Dumb Objects, Robots, Military SF, Utopia, Dystopia, Apocalypses, Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Folktales & Fairy Tales, Witches, High Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Grimdark, Historical Fantasy, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Time Travel, Gothic Horror, Supernatural Horror, Vampires, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Zombies, Suburban Horror, Splatterpunk, Techno Horror, and Cosmic Horror!"

To the left, the cover (blue and black) of "Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" Vol 2 by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan.

To the right, a list of the topics covered by the book: "Learn about writing… Space Opera, Astronauts, First-Contact Stories, Climate Fiction, Pandemic Fiction, Uplifted Animals, Submarine Stories, Mysterious Islands, Biopunk, The Multiverse, Mythic Fantasy, Fairies, Goblin Markets, Enchanted Clothing, Dragons, Cryptozoology, Body Swaps, Portal Fantasy, Comedic Fantasy, Carnivalesque, Folk Horror, Ghost Stories, Werewolves, Possessed/Cursed Items, Animals That Attack, Evil Children, Ecohorror, Gendercide, Places People Shouldn’t Go, & Last Person Left Alive Stories!"

To the left, the cover (green and black) of "Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror" Vol 3 by Tiffani Angus and Val Nolan.

To the right, a list of the topics covered by the book: "Learn about writing… Space Academies, Superheroes, Terraforming Tales, Mad Scientists, Space Westerns, SF Procedurals, Meta SF, Spy-Fi, Searches For God In Space, The End Of The Universe, Dinosaur Tales, Archaeologist Stories, Hollow Earth, Elves, Magic Schools and Dark Academia, Wizards & Sorcerers, Magical Realism, Anthropomorphic Fantasy, Fantasy of Manners, Swashbuckling Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Urban Gothic, Shapeshifters, Birthing Monsters, Alien Abductions, Fungal Horror, Bugs!!!, Kaiju, Deals With The Devil, Near-Death Experiences"

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'treat' #BookQW #BookSky If you've been thinking about getting yourself a little morale boost with this ebook bargain, today's the last day to do it. Price-matched on other platforms as well as here on UK Kindle. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those.

Book extract reads: I put down the tin and put the kettle on to boil. Then I washed my hands. The formula tin emphasised the importance of keeping things clean. Taking the bottle out of the packaging, I fitted it together. The packaging said I should sterilise it before using it for the first time, but I didn’t have time if I was going to shut the screaming changeling up with a feed.
I didn’t only want some silence. I knew the changeling wasn’t a real baby, but on the way here, I had decided I’d better treat it like one. When whoever was behind this wanted their creature back, I needed it to be healthy. Especially if I had to trade the thing for Fin, or for whatever I needed to know to get her back from wherever she was stuck. That was my priority now Alice was safe with her parents. I’d just have to hope this little monster was as resistant to germs as I am, generally speaking.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My novel, THE NIGHTWARD, is on sale! The ebook's only $1.99 on Barnes & Noble, Bookshop & Amazon. Sale probably ends soon, so if THE WITCHER + Caribbean mythology + Fury Road sounds good, go get it! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nightw... bookshop.org/p/books/the-... www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSXFBWRN

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The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1)

Amazon.com: The Nightward: An Epic Fantasy Adventure of Magic and Darkness Inspired by Caribbean Mythology (Waters of Lethe Book 1) eBook : Garcia, R.S.A.: Kindle Store

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On pre-order, Sophia McDougall's hilarious Mars Evacuees is back in the UK at last. Your kids will love this. wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of Mars Evacuees by Sophia McDougall.

The image is of four teenagers in space suits set against an image of Mars and a robot goldfish.

Original art by Andy Potts, cover design by Ben Baldwin

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"From Morgan Le Fay to Elaine of Astolat, these Arthurian retellings put female characters from legend center stage." Includes my novel The Cleaving alongside some fascinating-looking reading. (h/t @cherylmorgan.bsky.social) www.jezebel.com/these-female...

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Feminist Retellings of King Arthur You Need for Romantasy Fall

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morning Bluesky.

Comics panel: a man and a woman talk
Man: I'M IN CHARGE! WE'RE THE LEGIONNAIRES OF EARTH!
Woman: YOU’RE IN CHARGE?
A MALE?
Man: OF COURSE!
Woman: YOU MEAN EARTH
STILL HAS A PRIMITIVE.
PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY...
RULED BY MEN?

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology

A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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Ade Couper @bigade1666.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief pr... www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

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End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK

Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

October 15th is the launch date for my company's Murderbot graphic novel. Sign up now to be notified when it launches and get some lovely early bird bargains! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Kindle edition of The Fortunate Fall is on sale now for $2.99. The deal is Amazon-only and seems to be US and Canada-only. It ends at midnight Pacific so don't dither! www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Fa...

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The Fortunate Fall

The Fortunate Fall - Kindle edition by Reed, Cameron, Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Fortunate Fall.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The transphobes leading the Labour Party decided to exclude trans women from the Labour Women’s conference. In doing so they excluded a huge number of cis women also; the venue was only 20% full. Labour needs to learn that transphobia harms everyone, including cis women, & not just trans people.

Lots of empty seats at Labour Women’s conference.

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That was the craziest end to a rugby match I have seen in a long time 🇦🇺🏉🇿🇦

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PREORDERED MINE AND NOW WAITING PATIENTLY BUT PASSIONATELY FOR RELEASE DAY

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Executioner is back, and frankly she's had enough of, well, just about everything. On pre-order: wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover of The Executioner's Blade by Andrew Knighton. Art by Ben Baldwin.

The image shows an older, white-haired woman with a big sword over one shoulder. A dragon's tail is wound around her body. There is a cityscape in the background, and more fantastic beasts in the sky.

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very tight second half. Only one score. Sadly for the other side 24🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏉🇺🇲26

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This lineout led to the third Welsh try

Lineout. The ball is in the air and players from both sides are jumping for it.

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Entertaining first half. Lineout errors cost Wales two early tries, but they are right back in the game now. 24🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏉🇺🇲21

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Owen Blacker @owen.blacker.me.uk · 26/09/2026

Proud to be the 193rd 😎 on BackerKit for @cherylmorgan.bsky.social’s They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd). they-are-still-here-maen-nhwn-yma-o-hyd.backerkit.com/community_sh...

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Proud to be the 193rd 😎 on @BackerKit for They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd).

Check out They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd) on BackerKit!

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.

Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ar y trên i Gaerdydd i weld y rygbi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏉🇺🇲

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing to remember about the TERFs that the Tories and Streeting have put in charge of the NHS is that they believe that all gender transition is, by definition, ‘harm’.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I haven't updated in a while. There's been a lot going on. - My calcium levels are still worrying. - My eye scans aren't good. - I have to get a CT scan soon. I need help to pay for everything to be done privately. Any amount would be helpful. Thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar

Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses

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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looking forward to #Fantasycon in Glasgow. Here's my schedule and come and say hi, Around, Friday 5-6pm reading from “Terror“, Malin Saturday LAUNCH 9.00am (!!!), Orkney Wizards Tower Press Wiz-4 (“the story of my heart”) 11.00 am Death to AI Panel (Panel Room 2) Sunday am, Around #books #SFF

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The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Terror
A striking book cover with the title and author name dominating.
The lettering and detail are pale against a dark and sinister red-brown. The Title is in large Victorian lettering emphasising the word Terror by size of font and red added to letters – not dripping blood! - and framed by gold. Three roundels show icons related to the book; left, a half folded cutthroat razor streaked with red, top right, pearl jewellery with three pearls and a pearl effect locket; bottom right a burning railwayman’s lamp.
The effect is striking and Victorian.

The cover of Wiz-4 a novella anthology from Wizards Tower Press
The book shows the two novellas by dividing the cover into two triangles the line being top left to bottom right corners.
Left is Top Tips for Loving a Lizard. It shows a jolly green Godzilla holding a smaller ginger King Kong, with a big red heart. There’s a definite more than best friends vibe.
Right is Marooned off Ceres which shows a red moon, a space turtle and a female astronaut who is black. It’s not framed to feel like a threat.

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prypiat princess 🏳️‍⚧️ @pripyat-princess.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my friend @bareroot.bsky.social's books got picked up for publication. he deserves it and im stoked for him

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent reading! 😃

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New #Shelfies alert! This week, it's Andrew Liptak on Anderson, Chambers, Chiang and Le Guin! Don't forget you can subscribe for a free, weekly shelfie in your inbox! Or catch us on our ever-growing Instagram!

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Shelfies #107: Andrew Liptak

What book nut hasn't dreamed of having a wall with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf?

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can a gay lizard alien find love? Or a trans woman astronaut? Wiz Duos Book 4 has some very intimate first contact stories by Stephen Cox and Ellen Mellor. On pre-order: wizardstowerpress.co...

The cover for Wiz Duo 4; art by Roz Clarke.

The image for Marooned Off Ceres shows the head of an astronaut in her helmet gazing up at a turtle.

The image for Top Tips for Loving a Lizard shows a Godzilla-like creature cuddling an ape.

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well this sounds fantastic. I'm picking up shades of Robin Jarvis, one of my favorite childhood authors, which definately gave me a taste for dark fiction. I can't wait!

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