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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 52m

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 · 3h

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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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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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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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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🌌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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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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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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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 24/09/2026

Great news for a client! I can (and indeed do, as you’ll see from the press release) heartily recommend this novel. As Cheryl notes, I did my book doctoring job on this, but it was basically a light edit on a book already at an eminently publishable standard.

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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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Dienw Neb @bareroot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've done a thing and other people are, kindly, validating it.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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 · 24/09/2026

Press Release: Wizard's Tower Acquires None of Name Trilogy from Dienw Neb wizardstowerpress.co...

Greyscale image showing many vole skulls. One white skull is superimposed on the background in the centre.

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s exciting. It’s bitter sweet. It’s fun. It’s tragic. It’s got a sabre tooth kitten! #booksky #bookrecs #fantasybooks #authorsofbluesky

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'knew' #BookQW #BookSky Dan Mackmain has no idea what made the noise he's just heard. He'd never have guessed the challenges he'll face, way beyond his skills and experience. Did you know The Green Man's Holiday ebook is a Kindle 99p offer now, price-matched elsewhere?

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: As well as a folder of information about the cottage for visitors, I saw a shallow wicker basket filled with leaflets. Fin started sorting through them.
‘There’s a lot of ancient stuff around here. A couple of hillforts. A Roman villa. This one has a couple of circular walks we could do, if we fancied looking at standing stones.’
She tossed leaflets for Wookey Hole and the Cheddar caves back in the basket. She knew I wouldn’t be interested in those. I’m too tall to be comfortable in dark, cramped spaces underground.
‘Right.’ I closed my eyes and wondered why it’s so hard to find furniture with a back tall enough for someone like me. I shifted sideways and slid down the cushions until I could rest my head properly. That made drinking my tea awkward, but I felt my headache easing.
I listened to the soft rustle of paper and Fin making faint noises of surprise and approval as she found something interesting. Then I heard something else. I opened my eyes.
Fin was staring at me, concerned. ‘Was that a cat?’

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'knew' #BookQW #BookSky Dan Mackmain knows the value of doing his homework. But how much reading will be enough to avoid the trap of thinking he knows more than he does? For a wide range of UK and international purchase options - wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Debt by Juliet E McKenna. A grey wolf with pale eyes stands in the shadows of a derelict building with a black and white tiled floor. The wolf is looking straight at you. Its snarl reveals blood on its teeth and jaw.
Book extract reads: Blithehurst House has a fine collection of books on folklore. They range from seventeenth-century antiquarians’ speculations to thick volumes written by earnest Victorians and Edwardians who had enough money and time to search for supposedly lost ancient wisdom hidden in fairy tales. I concentrated on those, rather than reading anything later which started with the assumption that none of the stories could be true. We knew better.
I ignored the frankly bonkers chapters where those books tried to trace every tale and mythical figure back to some grand unified theory of forgotten gods from Mesopotamia whose rites had spread through prehistoric Europe. I was interested in local myths and superstitions which might help me deal with whatever we met in Ireland. Thankfully, the folklorists had written down pretty much everything they were told by ordinary people at their firesides or over a pint of beer in a tavern. Even when I was certain the locals in the countryside had been taking the piss out of the posh and patronising townies.

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Juliet Kemp @julietk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "knew". War is on the horizon... #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-S...

Quote: It was a while since I’d been to Perren. I knew tensions had been increasing, though not why. I hadn’t realised it was that bad. I’d grown up near the border. Creeping dread coiled up my spine at the idea of war, spilling into the farms and valleys of my childhood.
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The OED has just added ‘bwbach’ to its list of Welsh loan words in English, but what does it mean? And how should you treat one if you meet one? This book will tell you.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'knew'. This week we have for you the opening paragraph of Sophia McDougall's hilarious middle grade novel, Mars Evacuees (our edition is UK only, the rest of the world already has it). wizardstowerpress.co...

When the polar ice advanced as far as Nottingham, my school was closed and I was evacuated to Mars. Miss Clatworthy called me into her office to tell me about it. I’d had in the back of my mind that she might be going to say the aliens had finally shot down my mother’s spacefighter, so on the whole I took the actual news fairly well. And that’s even though I knew Mars wasn’t really ready for normal people to live on yet. They’d been terraforming it for years and years, but even after everything they’d squirted or sprayed or puffed at it, and all the money they’d spent on toasting it gently like a gigantic scone, you could still only sort of breathe the air and sort of not get sunburned to death. So you can see that the fact someone had decided I would be safer there than say, Surrey, was not a sign that the war with the aliens was going fantastically well.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sounds too good to miss because 1) Welsh 2) resistance 3) great editors 4) great writers

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is a wonderful review of Chaz Brenchley's Of the Emperor's Kindness at Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/...

Cover of Of The Emperor’s Kindness by Chaz Brenchley. Art by Ben Baldwin.

Image is of a young woman in a long pale dress stood outside the gates of a large, wooden mansion. The word ‘Verantha’ is written on the gates. White birds fly above her.

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Joel Cornah @joelcornah.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Support small press! Buy direct from @wtpress.bsky.social wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

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The Sea-Stone Sword – Wizard's Tower Press

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We'd like to remind you that ebook of The Green Man's Holiday by Juliet E McKenna is on sale on most platforms all thi smonth: wizardstowerpress.co...

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#BookSky 💙📚 I'm excited for this!

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TheStainlessSteelRat @llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes you can't wait for release day. For those days there are pre-orders...

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm reading this at the moment and it is excellent.

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lena's back, & she is done with everbody's bullshit. If this doesn't capture the spirit of the character, I don't know what could.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To round off the week, here is a sneak peek at Ben Baldwin's art for the re-release of The Executioner's Blade by Andrew Knighton. We love the fact that Lena is very clearly an older woman, just as she is in the story. Pre-orders will open next week, and you can get this one at FantasyCon.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In our Kickstarted anthology, edited by Roz Clarke & Jo Hall, Welsh communities fight back against oppression with a little help from their supernatural friends. On pre-order: wizardstowerpress.co...

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Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's me, with not one but two Executioner books coming out this autumn! And one of them is free if you buy the other direct from the publisher.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Press Release: Wizard’s Tower To Publish Short Story Collection by Andrew Knighton wizardstowerpress.co...

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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...

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Ellen Mellor 🏳️‍⚧️ Preorder Wiz Duos #4! @samarcand.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Curious to see what's happening here? Intrigued to know who Mother is and what this talk of hyperspace highways is all about? Preorder Wiz Duos #4 (coming Oct 8th) and find out! And Get another fantastic story by @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social into the bargain! wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/nove...

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Wiz Duos – Book 4 – Wizard's Tower Press

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Tej Turner @tejturner.com · 16/09/2026

Pre-orders for paperbacks and hardbacks of this anthology are now available on the @wtpress.bsky.social website, and if you order through there you can request a free ebook too. Bargain! 🙂📕

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'tree' #BookQW #BookSky The Hunter's antlers may remind Dan Mackmain of branches, but nothing else about this dream is remotely familiar. Visit Wizard's Tower Press for a wide range of national and international purchase options. wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'tree' #BookQW #BookSky Dan Mackmain's just twigged it's time to use his greenwood blood to learn more about what's going on around here. Visit Wizard's Tower Press for a wide range of national and international purchase options. wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

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Ben Jeapes @benjeapes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is TREE. Conman Cegario and his reluctant sidekick Shan are working their way from village to village, until fate catches up with them. #bookqw #swordandsorcery #fantasy www.benjeapes.com/index.php/wr... Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.

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Juliet Kemp @julietk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's Book Quote Wednesday & this week's word is "tree". (I like a cherry tree.) #bqw books2read.com/Song-Stone-S...

Quote: Perhaps stopping dead—not the best choice of words—in the middle of the courtyard and shouting at nothing was somewhat unusual behaviour. I gave them a reassuring nod, and diverted over to the left, where there were a couple of cherry trees, boughs laden with flowers, and I could lose my mind in peace.
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Ben Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This collection is fire and I'm not saying that just because I've got a story in it. Welsh myth and folklore is often the neglected sibling, compared to Irish, Scottish and English tales. Why not treat yourself to this treasure?

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Diwrnod Owain Glyndŵr hapus! Today Wales celebrates one of the country's greatest heroes. Is he in this book? Well no, but there are lots of fairies, giants, coblynau, mermaids, and maybe even a dragon... wizardstowerpress.co...

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'tree'. This extract is from Ellen Mellor's story, 'Marooned off Ceres', which is in the forthcoming Wiz Duo #4 wizardstowerpress.co...

‘I do not have a spaceship,’ Mother said.
‘But you’re not native to Ceres? How did you get here? How do you plan on leaving?’
‘Allow me to show you. Please, think of somewhere on Earth. Somewhere that you would like to be now. Somewhere special to you. Picture it in as much detail as you can and try to give that picture to me.’
I closed my eyes. It seemed like forever before I was able to calm myself enough to focus on a single place. I could feel my excitement rising as the stories from my pulp SF novels rose in my mind—teleportation? Hyperspace highways? It even briefly crossed my mind that she was just using this as an excuse to disappear and when I opened my eyes she would be gone, leaving me stranded here. Slowly, I pieced together an image of the old horse chestnut tree that sat in the corner of the garden at home.

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back in the UK at last, Sophia McDougall's hilarious Mars Evacuees. Suitable for kids of all ages from 8 upwards. Pre-orders open: wizardstowerpress.co...

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