Hey ARB readers! A quick announcement: December is going to be a quieter publishing month for us, but only because we're working on some big changes for next year. More details here:

For those who, like me, love speculative and alien evolution, there's a remarkable new book out, "Wildlife on the Planet Furaha" by Gert van Dijk. www.crowood.com/book/wildlif...

I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...

More Eugen Bacon and in the Sauútiverse no less 🙏

My 2025 outstanding reads list is live! 🥁 Read it here and get adding to your shelves: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/b... @cmgleeson.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social @orionbooks.bsky.social 📚💙

"For the one… Who thought Belle’s prince was sexier as a beast" 😂 Love that

This is a great deal for a great book!

Baffling will open for submissions on December 1st! More info here: www.bafflingmag.com/submissions

Amidst the whole TikTok refugee thing and other polemics, it was heartening to be able to help connect the world through culture and literature, by writing about the current state of Chinese #SFF in the Anglosphere for Reactor. 3/ reactormag.com/beyond-liu-c...

Reading The Silverblood Promise, The Blackfire Blade and The Lost War one after the other to get my "good-hearted man instinctively adopts random kid" trope fix

🪦 COVER REVEAL 🪦 We’re so excited to show off the cover of @thefoolstale.bsky.social upcoming novella, Tomb of Tomes! This is a companion to the Shadowbinders trilogy, following a scholar as she uncovers the dark secrets of a lost library. RELEASE: Jan. 30, 2026 COVER ART: @chrisnazgul.bsky.social

Here’s where the stories start: a brand new #BlackFriday #itchio bundle – 41 books by 27 authors for $56. Includes ‘Why Odin Drinks’! itch.io/b/3378/black...

What can you find inside @artofelaineho.bsky.social 's CRY, VOIDBRINGER? Dive into this dark political fantasy for fans of THE FINAL STRIFE and THE UNBROKEN, where a former child soldier finds herself responsible for a girl with dangerous powers... Buy now: https://geni.us/cryvoi

the paperback spread for A PALACE NEAR THE WIND forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social 👀🤍🍃🌬️🏰

finishing The Silverblood Promise and The Blackfire Blade in quick succession and realizing there's no next book yet

Help a dog out? A friend of mine had a dog hit by a car :( www.gofundme.com/f/surgery-an...

Feast your eyes upon our upcoming books for anticipated lists for next year! As we’re winding down from 2025, take a peek at our 2026 books to look forward to 📚💓

Today’s #ALUGiftNext haul bends time, space, and genre for your favourite speculative fiction reader. Shop our spec fiction recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...

📚 🐛🔫New review! 🔫🐛📚 The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social "...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century." Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...

What can you expect from JITTERBUG? A shattered solar system. A reluctant bounty hunter. A pirate queen. An unlikely attraction. All against the background of a political conspiracy to hide something vast and terrifying. Preorder now from @titanbooks.bsky.social and all good booksellers.

The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #SPFBO Champions' League table is filling up! #SPFBOCL

love everything about that description!

My sister has started a Patreon and I'd be delighted if people shared/check it out! She's a fantastic self-taught artist with a really creative vein! #artshare #artist #bskyart patreon.com/Empadadecaca

My sister has started a Patreon and I'd be delighted if people shared/check it out! She's a fantastic self-taught artist with a really creative vein! #artshare #artist #bskyart patreon.com/Empadadecaca

Pledges have slowed now, but I'd really love to hit the next stretch goal of more art! Back if you like reading queer MM stories! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Read half of them! I need to get to the other half

I........ Am in love

Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com! Cover Art: Jack Hillside Cover Design: Silent Q Design

#Booksky We would love to get some more eyeballs on our latest title, M.Christian’s gay vampires with a twist novel, RUNNING DRY. Are you a book reviewer (any platform) who enjoys queer horror? Let us help! We have eARCs!

Already got my ticket

✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨ if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️

Would anyone like to take part in a neat cover reveal on December 3rd? (Preferably US but will take UK people too)

Rode a burst of productivity yesterday to tidy up my bookshelf. Found out: 1) Shelves are just deep enough to triple stack the good old uk paperback. 2) I now need a few raisers to actually see the books in the back. 3) I'm able to not obsess about having a system and have instead a semi-system.

Been buying the GoT illustrated editions because they're beautiful and affordable special editions to only now see that Feast for Crows is an AI art shitshow 🫠

Reading for GdM today is The Silverblood Promise by James Logan and I'm enjoying the beginning very much

When you think you're about to have a crap day but then Veronica Roth has a new book

This post was prompted by Brian Lee Durfee being the funniest booktuber and such a delight to watch!!

If you're a fan of eldritch horror, there's a scene in When They Burned the Butterfly I can't get out of my head and I have fallen asleep thinking about it every day since finishing the book!!

Ohhhhhh 👀

Top 3 best matketing tools for an author that will get me 100% buying their books: 1. Be nice to people 2. Be cool on youtube 3. Own a cool sword

Gorgeous cover and cool premise. What else do you need?

And I am required to love it

When you're so used to the tiny yet mighty mass market you forgot how big paperback can actually get

🌈🩷 Cover reveal! I’m so excited to share the cover for my queer romantic murder mystery, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART. Published by Penguin RH August 2026 in the US/UK/Canada/Australia. Next summer, LOVE SUCKS! #coverreveal #lgbtauthor #lgbtbooks

Could not agree more 🙂

Now that's how you market a book

When you preorder a cool book AND you get cool art for it ❤️

Hyped!!

The *vast* majority of sales come through Amazon. And when readers boycott Amazon, they don't in general shift to buying indie books elsewhere. They simply stop buying indie books. I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there. 2/2

🎃UK GIVEAWAY!🎃 It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com#seasonofthewitch! Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter. Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25