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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Kitty looked down to the sight of her cream slippers peaking from under the cloaks. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today @summerhanford.bsky.social reviews Sarah Hawley's Servant of Earth! - JI 🐉 "The various peoples, the politics, the physical locations, all rendered beautifully and seamlessly. Servant of Earth is a masterclass in worldbuilding." fantasy-faction.com/2026/servant... #booksky 💙📚🪐🌶️

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a white woman with flowing auburn hair, in a green velvet dress with a red underlining. It is tied at the waist with a golden rope that floats off to the right and left of her. In front of the woman is a highly carved sword with a ruby on its pommel. Around the edge is a gold Art Nouveau frame covered in vines and flowers, and decorated with a carved woman's face at the bottom and six gem stones on the corners and the top. The background of the image is the close up photo of a bush with dark green leaves.

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today Christopher Keene gives new readers a new way into Malazan! - JI 🐉 "I’m tempted to defy all common sense and recommendation rules and suggest a reading order that does not align with its release order. For newer readers...start at book two." fantasy-faction.com/2026/why-mal... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The image shows a bulletin board with the first four books of Malazan Book of the Fallen (Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, and House of Chains) pinned to it with pushpins. Above the last three books are red arrows pointing from each one to the book to its left. Below the books is a larger red arrow pointing from the first book to the last. Below that are three pieces of paper pinned to the board. On the left is a piece of lined paper with a handwritten note that reads: Suggested reading order?? On the right is torn piece of parchment that reads: Why Malazan is So Hard to Recommend, A Fantasy-Faction Article. Between the parchment and the books above it is a torn circular piece of white paper with three question marks written in black marker.

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Kelly Miller, Award-Winning Author, Austenesque Regency Romances @kellymiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#PreOrder now for $2.99, out Oct. 5: “Diversions With Darcy & Elizabeth” combines 2 sweet, standalone #PrideAndPrejudice Regency romance novellas. “The Love Potion,” a harmless prank goes awry! “The Pemberley Ravens,” Darcy & Elizabeth bond with a pair of clever birds! mybook.to/DDwE #JaneAusten

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today we are excited to reveal the cover for @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's new novel! @kitvaria.bsky.social introduces us to A Healer’s Guide to Adventuring, coming soon from @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social! - JI 🐉 Cover art by Jenny Zemanek. fantasy-faction.com/2026/a-heale... #booksky 💙📚🪐

A piece of white paper has been ripped on a slight diagonal to reveal a portion of the book cover beneath it. The cover is mint green with white text and features illustrations of white and yellow daisies, purple lavender, a crescent moon, and a red dragon's tail.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they exited onto the large back terrace, Mr. Darcy guided her to a chase. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mary deemed too much of either an unexpectable exercise in hubris. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

None of the local apothecary’s positions could cure her of the ailment. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Colleen McMillan reviews A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even & Though I Am an Inept Villainess! - JI 🐉 "[They] appeal to the josei and shojo readers who are looking for something similar to isekai that don’t shove female characters to the sidelines." fantasy-faction.com/2026/livid-l... #anime

The two posters sit in the center of the image. The first is for Livid Lady's Guide. It shows a young woman with long silver hair in a white dress suit holding an open book in her right hand while a flat, glowing blue magical circle is balanced in her left. The poster is cut down the middle with everything on the left being sunny and bright and everything on the right being dark and cool. On the left are three women in a library with lilies and marigolds at the bottom. On the right are a woman, a person with short hair, and a little kid with dark purple roses at the bottom. The second poster is for Inept Villainess. It shows two young women, both have long dark hair, and are wearing traditional Chinese robes. The one in the foreground is happy and in the middle of a spin. She is wearing a black and red outfit with a golden comb decorated with red tassels. The woman in the back is looking calmly to the left and is wearing a white and gold outfit with two yellow lotus flowers in her hair. Magical golden butterflies fly across the scene and a shooting star is pictured in the top right corner. The background of the image is an abstract bokeh photo in a gradient of yellow, blue, and red. At the top of the image is "Livid Ladies & Inept Villainesses" and at the bottom "A Fantasy-Faction Anime Review".

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He might be the owner of the intent dark eyes that studied her form inside a carriage. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join us 😀 - us06web.zoom.us/j/8032563963...

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI: @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews Deck Matthews's Dust of the Darkness! - JI 🐉 "Exciting, sharp, and with just enough new magic and mystery to keep me hooked...[a] fast-paced adventure that feels much larger than its word count." fantasy-faction.com/2025/dust-of... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a greenish-gray stone surface cut with crude spiral or moon patterns. In the center of the cover is a spread out pile of black ash or dust. There are two clear spots at the center where you can see through to the stone below. These spots are shaped like eyes and they have wispy plumes of smoke rising from them. The background of the image is a green stone with natural patterning that looks a lot like spirals.

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today Tom Joyce reviews @itsaaronnhall.bsky.social's The Legend of Uh! - JI 🐉 "Hall’s sharp observational humour, clever wordplay, and willingness to lean into the bizarre bring to mind the late Terry Pratchett [and] Douglas Adams." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-leg... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a cartoon illustration of a green field with a forest behind it on the right and snowcapped mountains behind it on the left. Large puffy clouds float in a sky that fades from purple to orange at the horizon. In the clouds a wyvern's silhouette can be seen. Standing in the field, and taking up most of the image, is the word "UH" made to look like it's carved from a rust colored gem. Above it floats a cream colored banner with the words "The Legend Of" written in slate blue. Sitting at the foot of the UH is an open treasure chest filled with gold and a pink bikini top. The background of the image is a sunset sky in the same colors as the sky on the cover.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She required space to still the quacking rattling in every limb. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join me today on New York Times Bestselling Author Lori Foster's Facebook Page to say HI and for 3 chances to win $25 gift cards! First post goes up at 10AM EST and we'll keep the fun going all day! www.facebook.com/lorifoster

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🍄 The To Catch a Poisoner Audiobook is 60% off right now on audiobooks.com! 🍄 www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today our judges review @tbcart.bsky.social's Jester, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

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Austen Variations @austenvariations.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 17 Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: . Feeling a little lost? You can read a summary of what has happened so far in the story here: quick summary. Last post,…

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Create Your Own JAFF Adventure – Post 17

Thanks for joining me on our Create Your Own JAFF Adventure! Just starting? You can catch up on previous posts collected here: . Feeling a little lost? You can read a summary of what has happened so far in the story here: quick summary. Last post, Elizabeth received a letter that her mother was sending Jane and Lydia to London without asking the Gardiners.

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today Stuart Cripps-Schnoor reviews Joel Minty's epic fantasy debut, Purge of Ashes! - JI 🐉 "Grabs you and holds you in its grip, drawing you into knife-edged politics, relentless conflict, and deeply human relationships." fantasy-faction.com/2026/purge-o... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #epicfantasy #indieauthor

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows three people standing on one side of a giant hanging scale made of dark metal. In the front is a Black woman with a shaved head holding a spear. She is bent over and holding onto the edge of the scale scanning the area ahead of her. In the back left is a white woman with long blond hair in a white outfit. She has her right hand out in front of her and is causing small stones to levitate in her palm. In the back left, shoulder to shoulder with her, is a white man with medium length dark hair in silver chainmail and a blue cloak. He is drawing his sword from its scabbard. Around them ash and fiery embers rise up from below, filling the sky above with thick smoke. The background of the image is the blurred photo of burning ash-caked embers.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Elizabeth's statue assisted her in hiding from any who knew her. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🍄 The To Catch a Poisoner Audiobook is 60% off right now on audiobooks.com! 🍄 www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy Book Day to Fall Red Empire, the final book in @kerosero.bsky.social's Burn Red Skies trilogy! 🎉 To celebrate, Kerstin stopped by the blog to give us some advice on finishing a book! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/fall-re... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #epicfantasy #dragons #authorsky

The cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a gold dragon made of sharp spikey shapes surrounded by tendrils of white flame on a dark background spattered with gold pinpricks of stars. The background image is the close-up of a sheet of gold leaf in the same color as the dragon.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Miss Elizabeth has no firsthand knowledge of what took place below stares." #CousinConundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today @summerhanford.bsky.social reviews Morgan Ryan's A Resistance of Witches! - JI 🐉 "An adventure-filled read, full of a great deal of witchcraft, villains we can all get behind hating...strong female leads... and an epic quest." fantasy-faction.com/2026/a-resis... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a watercolor illustration of a shamrock-green spiral flowing through a night sky of golden stars. In and amongst the tiny stars are equally small magic and alchemical runes in the same golden color. Spread around the center of the spiral are various phases of the moon done in white. Some of the full moons have the silhouette of World War II era airplanes flying across them. Two red parachutes are seen from above drifting into the center of the spiral, a large one and a small (farther away) one. The smaller parachute is directly over the center of the spiral and there is a person dressed in a darker red hanging from it and about to descend into the full moon at the spiral's center. The background of the image is a starry sky with nebula's in a matching pale green.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🩷 🦚 💚 💙 🩵 🌸 You know what's pretty and available for pre-order? 🌸 🩵 💙 💚 🦚 🩷

Book Cover - Shows a peacock with magnolia flowers and says, A Pride & Prejudice Variation, Cousin Conundrum, Summer Hanford

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Christopher Keene reviews @abraham.bsky.social's The Dagger and the Coin series! -JI🐉 "[It's in an] exclusive category of media that has gotten me...hyped about a subject I normally wouldn’t have given a passing glance. In this case: economics." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-dag... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The image shows the five book covers from the series. Top row, from left to right: The King's Blood shows a silver battle axe with a flaming red sunset behind it. The Dragon's Path shows an elaborate sword with a dragon hilt, with a field and cloudy blue sky behind it. There is a black gorge burnt through the field with red running through it like a river. On one side of the field are silhouettes of men on horses looking on. The Tyrant's Law shows a golden caldron decorated with dragons with billowing yellow flames rising up from it. The flames end in dragon heads, and the caldron is in what looks like the hall of a prison. Bottom row, from left to right: The Widow's House shows a silver shield decorated with a dragon, with blood splattered across it. Leaning against it is a silver spear, also decorated with a dragon. Behind them is a raging turquoise sea under cloudy skies. The Spider's War shows the sharp steeple of a tall building overlooking a city far below. The steeple is so tall there are clouds below it partially obscuring the city. The dark shape of a dragon flies through the clouds and in the far distance are mountains. The whole cover has a green tone to it. The background of the is a darkening cloudy sky. "The Dagger and the Coin" is written above the books and "A Fantasy-Faction Series Review" is written below them.

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pushing Mr. Darcy firmly from her Ming, she asked, “You checked on me?” #CousinConundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today Angela Boord asks the question: Is trope marketing ruining literature? - JI 🐉 "[This] is really a gripe about how books are being written to compete in a crowded marketplace...In other words, trope is sliding from “shared motif” to “cliché”." fantasy-faction.com/2026/is-trop... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The image is a photo of the aisle in a bookstore. On the right half of the image is a shelf of books seen from the side. On the left half is the back end of the aisle. The image is done in browns, creams, and greens. Over the image are the words, "Is Trope Marketing Ruining Literature?" and "A Fantasy-Faction Article".

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🤍🩷💜 New today on Audiobook! 💜🩷🤍

An image of a young woman in a bonnet and gown, before an English village, with some flowers near the upper left. Text says, After Anne, A Pride and Prejudice Variation read by Benjamin Fife, RB Media, Tantor Media.

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today our judges review Benjamin Barreth's No More Levels, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews #LitRPG (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hurst’s earlier involvement in the Peacock cake ended in disgrace. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Mr. Bingley cannot be made to marry a woman who trapped him so deliciously.” #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Might he possess the stern village that filled her dreams? #CousinConundrum #myproofreadingerrors

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