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Ed Crocker

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🧛‍♀️🐺🧙‍♂️ Spec fic author. LIGHTFALL (#1 of THE EVERLANDS) out now. MOONFALL June 2026 🖊 Freelance editor. 📚 SFF & horror reviewer for Grimdark Magazine & FanFiAddict. He/him Linktree: linktr.ee/edcrocker

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 9h
Not many people know this but in the Goodreads meeting the original plan was to change it so you could give book ratings up to infinite decimal places but then their coke ran out so they settled on changing it to just two We were so close to having Goodreads Pi
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Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are delighted to be helping reveal the cover of MEMORIES OF FIRE by @llmacrae.bsky.social WANT TO READ IT FIRST? ARC list sign up: forms.gle/3XGbP3tfEjHK... eBook pre-order link: www.llmacrae.com/shop/p/faith... Art: Andrew Maleski Design: @claymorecovers.bsky.social
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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm absolutely delighted to announce that @headlinebooks.bsky.social have acquired my new book A TRAITOR'S CALL in a two-book deal! Jamie Tulloch and the Legends team return in May 2027, tackling a threat much closer to home... cc @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social
David Goodman - A Traitor's Call
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I talk about my day job as a freelance editor, courtesy of the best SFF pod in the land, he says with no bias I was joined by some prestigious trad editors, which wasn’t terrifying at all
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WHAT is a BOOK EDITOR? 📝 Ep. 222 airs tomorrow, with guest editors @dianapho.bsky.social @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social & @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social explaining what book editors do (either at publishing houses or as freelancers). Available Sept. 29: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@fanfiaddict
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW PANEL INCOMING! Ep. 222 airs on Tuesday, with host @adrianmgibson.bsky.social and editors @dianapho.bsky.social @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social delving into a panel on WORKING WITH BOOK EDITORS. Available Sept. 29: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtube.com/@fanfiaddict
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Host @adrianmgibson.bsky.social was joined on the podcast by editors @dianapho.bsky.social @jamesloganauthor.bsky.social and @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social for a masterclass panel on working with book editors. Stay tuned this Sunday for more info on the panel. All episodes available in audio/video.
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC removing sketches from Mitchell & Webb should be opposed by the Left not just the the Right These weren't racist scenes, they were satirizing racism Stuff like this makes the Left look like the unfunny state police & leaves us open to valid criticism from the Right. It's so fucking stupid
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BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer
The corporation said it had included "the ones that still work today and not the ones that don't."
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🩸🥃New Review! 🥃🩸 Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd from @torbooksuk.bsky.social "throw Guy Ritchie, Kingsman and the secretive-but-scuzzy vibe of Slow Horses in a blender then chuck in nasty, dark magic and a secret vampire society and you have one of the most intensely entertaining reads of the year"
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Review: Blood Drunk by Ben Shepherd | FanFiAddict
Dead good Synopsis Freddie Burns just wants ten pints, football violence, and the chance to take over his uncle's fading gangland empire. But when a ro ...
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Escape rooms, alien invasions & apocalyptic firestorms. Abductions, eco-horror & cyberpunk. And we ain't done yet! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM out 10/6. @allisonmick.bsky.social's DIVE out 11/17. Get your New Weird Horror on. 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com
All eight 2026 titles from Tenebrous.
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧛‍♀️🌹🩸 New Review! 🩸🌹🧛‍♀️ Her Bloody Vengeance by N C Scrimgeour "This superb tale of a monster hunter’s pact with a vampire to seek her vengeance swaps hopeful romance for amorality & is all the more memorable for it. I desperately didn’t want it to end; life, like a vampire, is a cruel thing."
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Review: Her Bloody Vengeance by N C Scrimgeour | FanFiAddict
Roses are red, violets are blue, this book is grim and it's good for you Synopsis Alderose Mortimer is no stranger to grief. As she roams from one blea ...
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So AI is one of the villains in my current horror project as my writing is nothing if not anger management (50% hulk, 50% grief) but best case scenario if it sells then it comes out in 2-3 years and either AI has burst or we're all ruled by it and it's a lame obvious enemy HMMMM WHAT TO DO
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
💍💀 New review! 💀💍 Kiss Slay Replay by @rachelharrison.bsky.social from @titanbooks.bsky.social "once again a Rachel Harrison book is one of the horror events of the year... this is like being stuck on a rollercoaster to hell whose controls are jammed..."
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REVIEW: Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison
In Kiss Slay Replay no one is safe from Rachel Harrison, and the result is, once again, one of the horror events of the year.
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers with the defense lawyers whose case hangs on that distinction
Headline: 
Ryanair will dispute passenger's claim he was sucked out of window
CEO Michael O'Leary tells reporters the businessman was sucked 'towards' but not out of the opening
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Filled out two forms in quick succession at a hospital today and I had to ask what the date was twice and then I legitimately forgot if it was 2026 or 2027 I’d say it’s because I’m in the middle of writing a book but I’m always doing that so what are we going for here, early stage dementia?
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🌿 COVER REVEAL 🪐 The SFF Addicts crew is so excited to help reveal the cover for Julia Caro’s debut novel, DEATH STRATA, a sci-fi horror that blends Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation with Andy Weir’s The Martian. Don’t miss this one! Art by Max Moretto + design by @adrianmgibson.bsky.social.
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Those claiming that the UK's decision to sanction the Israeli settlements in the West Bank is antisemitic have a ninety degree uphill battle to explain why sanctioning something ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW can be antisemitic There's much antisemitism on the Left & Right atm but this ain't it
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Having just finished a trilogy where none of the rules for how magic or society works makes any sense if you think about it for five seconds, I’m relieved there are people out there who feel like this. I respect the ‘let’s go back to first principles’ crowd but I couldn’t write like that
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Spotlight Indie @spotlightindie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Big Indie Weekend is coming! 25th to 27th September - three days of online panels, chat, writing advice and book talk. Want to see our lineup of amazing Indie authors and creatives? Feast your eyes ⬇️
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David (W) Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you follow me online, you've probably seen my daynotes (since I post them... uh, near daily) and my monthly newsletter. I love writing them. Indeed, it's probably my favourite thing to do aside from writing books. So - I've got a bit of news! www.davidgoodman.net/announcing-m...
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Announcing my new membership programme
Yes, we've had first newsletter. But what about second newsletter? (or third?)
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Elon Musk has admitted making peace with the AI apocalypse, meanwhile Vance is ready for the literal apocalypse Look, if we’re all getting to choose our own apocalypses can I get the one where it’s just me in an empty city so I can play my inspiring video game fantasy music as loud as I want
Headline: JD Vance says he's doing
'God's work - and if that leads to the end times, OK'
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Keep seeing Gen Z musicians parodying panic at the disco on the clock app but they call it ‘early’ panic at the disco as if they’re discussing some ancient era of music your parents listened to rather than the album i just think of as panic at the disco It’s basically water torture for millenials
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🎉🎉 INDIE BOOK SALE THREAD 🎉🎉 It's the #NarratessIndieSale and there's more bargains than a foreclosed Fort Knox This is my thread of 10 titles I'd save over certain family members Obvs this is a tiny selection of the gems on offer. You can find the full list of titles at indiebook.sale!
indie book sale poster (29-31 august, indiebooksale.com)
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🍎Eleni Argyrò trying her best @eleni-argyro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What can I say, today I felt productive! So, please come along while I share my thoughts on @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's recently released #HomeSick which may or may not have made me side-eye my shadow for a bit there 🐑 With thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social for granting my NetGalley request!
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Review: Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist | FanFiAddict
Home Sick is an interesting time to say the least, with Grist’s ability to render atmosphere doing a lot of the heavy lifting but not only. For, even though ...
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you’re a creator you are, compared to a decade ago, competing with billions of smartphone users Not saying that’s a bad thing - creatives used to look too much like me - but point is, if you’re struggling, remember you’re facing more competition than artists ever have in the history of humanity
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🏠💀 New Review 💀🏠 Home Sick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social from @solarisbooks.bsky.social "A strange, simmering, unsettling mix of psychological, folklore, and haunted house horror that yanks the anxiety dial up to 11 ... hard not to conclude it’s one of the must-read horror novels of the year."
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Review: Home Sick by Rhiannon Grist | FanFiAddict
Home is where the heart attack is Synopsis After a violent incident at work, Tamsin goes looking for a fresh start in a remote cottage far away from her old ...
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Emma L. Adams @emmaladams12.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New review is up on FanFiAddict for Windborn by Alex S. Bradshaw! I thoroughly enjoyed this epic norse fantasy standalone. 😄 fanfiaddict.com/review-windb...
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Anna ZenKen Stephens is on Patreon @annasmithwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dragon owner. Dragon racer. Together, they can triumph. But only if they don't fall in love. ARCs imminent. Sign up at anna-stephens.com/2026/08/11/a... #fantasyromance #dragonbook #hybridauthor #indiebook
Graphic detailing main character Ryota. 
Ogawa Ryota, Ryo to his friends,  had everything ahead of him: as heir to the Scarlet Triple racing stable, he was rich, loved, and influential. 
It was all a facade. 
Constantly ignored and belittled by his father, who refuses to believe he is ready to lead the training programme for their dragons, Ryo smuggles a dragon out of the stable to enter an illegal night race. 
She wins - but Ryo loses everything.Graphic detailing main character Keaton.
Keaton Merriwether grew up in the Stink, the lowest, poorest part of Mantletown. 
Working a dead end job to pay the bills, she lives for jockeying dragons in illegal night races, the only type of race she’s qualified to fly.
A chance encounter with Ryo leads to a breathtaking victory and then a devastating outcome. Keaton is arrested and thrown into prison, a convicted illegal racer. 
From these twin ashes, a new stable will rise.
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A feast for the speculative senses. Read the full review below!
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There’s a TikTok trend of kids filming themselves calling their teacher by their first name to see their reaction and I’m so glad the Tok wasn’t around when I was a teacher as otherwise you would see just how little I cared about anything
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
👻🪙⚔️ New review ⚔️🪙👻 Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by @elizachanwrites.bsky.social "a feast for the speculative senses: Buffy-style monster hunting meets East Asian mythology and thrilling martial arts set pieces, anchored by a genuinely moving tale of a woman trying to match up to her family’s legacy"
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REVIEW: Harbour of Hungry Ghosts by Eliza Chan
Harbour of Hungry Ghosts is a feast for the speculative senses: Buffy-style monster hunting meets East Asian mythology and thrilling marital arts set pieces, anchored by a genuinely moving tale
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🌳🫂New horror review! 🫂🌳 The Other by @annieneugebauer.bsky.social from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social, the second book in the Outsider's Sequence. "... as stressful as walking on a tight rope over a ravine in gale force winds. Neugebauer’s done it again—and this one’s even better."
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REVIEW: The Other by Annie Neugebauer
The Other continues the doppelgänger tension that made The Extra one of last year’s must-read nervy horrors, but switches the live-wire tension up to 11
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
COVER REVEAL TIME: The brilliant Rene Aigner and Shawn T King have teamed up again to bring you the new cover for Richard Swan's hotly anticipated second Vonvalt and Bressinger novella THE ANGUISHED EARTH. Welcome back to the Empire of the Wolf, friends.
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I was about to write some phenomenally boring observation about how I've switched grocery delivery companies and luckily I stopped myself in time but now I've had this sudden realization that this is what you talk about in your late thirties instead of drugs
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
5 YEARS! SFF Addicts is already half a decade old! We can’t believe that time has flown by so freakin’ fast, but it’s been an incredible ride so far. So, from @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social Greta Kelly & FanFiAddict, THANK YOU. To every fan and guest, you mean the world to us ❤️
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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tomorrow! Continuing my bonus series, @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social joins me for a lovely catch-up on all things horror, podcasting, reading, & more! Per usual it's a fabulous time, & I am SO fortunate to be sharing the podcasting space with so many incredible folks. Links drop tomorrow!
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Being an author means you get to read the books of author friends before they go on sub to publishers & sometimes those books never get deals even though they're incomprehensibly fantastic, which means you can't rave about them, which is a torture worse than any invented, probably, I haven't checked
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My favourite pastime at the moment is watching from my balcony as people dressed for summer have to suddenly start running as in Manchester it can switch to heavy rain in 0.5 seconds I’m not taking pleasure in their discomfort I’m just admiring their ability to go from 0-60mph in one second
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🐎🐍 New interview 🐍🐎 I chat to the wittily erudite murder horse maven @omersarae.bsky.social about her new sequel The Harpy Knight, out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social: - Why it's even darker - The new monsters - The slow burn of her poly thruple - Her favorite historical battle And much more!
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INTERVIEW: with author Sara Omer
After chatting with Sara Omer last year upon the publication of her debut dark epic fantasy The Gryphon King, we caught up with her again to discuss its sequel
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Will Swardstrom @wswardstrom.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
There is almost a warm blanket type of comfort in the bizarre flora, fauna, and fungi of Ana and Din's world in A TRADE OF BLOOD. Another absolute banger from @robertjbennett.bsky.social My review: fanfiaddict.com/review-a-tra... #BookSky #FantasyBooks
A TRADE OF BLOOD by Robert Jackson Bennett
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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
💃🏼Tomorrow 💃🏼 Do you like the desert? 🏜️ Do you like kind of but not really vampires? 🩸 Do you like mother/daughter struggles? 👯🏻‍♀️ Well then, first you need to read The Flayed Man by Chloe Lauter! But then, you should also listen to my convo with Chloe which drops tomorrow wherever you get your pods :)
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In an astounding debut release, Deena Helm encompasses the sub-genre of grief-horror within the walls of a home. Do review below:
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
All the big 5 publishers could have come out with a definitive anti-AI statement YEARS AGO & it literally would have stopped all this but then they wouldn’t have been able to flirt with AI for audiobooks & art & translations etc to make more profit And now we have the age of chaos, cheers clowns
Headline: Seven-Figure Book Deal
Cancelled Over AI Suspicions Raises Questions About AI
Guardrails
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word: Fourth Chicken Wing
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Just listened to an Economist interview w. Elon Musk, where he said that although there's a 10-20% chance AI will kill us, we should look on the bright side. Which I get, because I'm currently at the house of a stranger who told me there was a 10-20% chance he'd murder me because, hey, free beer!
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Had a fab time chatting with @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social for @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social, whining about submarines and sharing a SUPER EXCLUSIVE first pitch for book 2... 💀🎵
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Grimdark Magazine @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ed interviews Benedict Anning about his addictively brilliant debut novel, the Cold War horror Atomic Coffin, as well as his experiences as a debut author, why he’s probably had enough of submarines now and why he’s hopping forward in time for his next book.
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INTERVIEW: with author Benedict Anning
We recently caught up with Benedict Anning to discuss his addictively brilliant debut novel, the Cold War horror Atomic Coffin, as well as his experiences as a debut author, why he's probably had enou...
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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s incredible my writing evolution from book 1 of my trilogy, full of stupid over-descriptive prose & info dumping, to book 3 (now done) which is rocket-paced & just me getting my characters to kiss or kill fast as possible Don’t know if it makes me a better writer but holy smokes it’s more fun
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Megan Chee @megancheewrites.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Absolutely delighted to reveal the US cover of my upcoming science-fantasy debut novel The Archaeology of Falling Worlds! The cover illustration is by Shan Jiang, with cover design by Charlotte Strick. Coming 23rd Feb 2027 from Bindery Books (US) and Daphne Press (UK)!
Text: "THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FALLING WORLDS by MEGAN CHEE"
Image: A yellow/gold-toned depiction of a cyberpunk/biopunk city, with giant mushrooms, neon signs and flying manta rays. People and debris fall from the sky. A winged girl stands with her back to us, shielding her face from the falling debris as she looks up at the sky.
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