Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'change' #BookQW If you'd asked Livak a couple of years ago, if she would ever work with wizards, she'd have said no chance. Now? She'll it for a chance to start a new life on her own terms. Find out more here www.julietemckenna.com/books/the-ta...

Many artists illustrated Aragorn's coronation (seen here by Jay Johnstone, Denis Gordeev, and Inger Edelfeldt). Hardly anyone has drawn his farewell to Gandalf and the hobbits, which I think is an incredibly moving image.

🔍 Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don’t want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it: www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/peop...

I was already a huge INTERZONE fan, and the chance to read a new story from @boriscrito.bsky.social was enough to get me to renew my subscription!

BCS #462 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories by @christinehanolsy.com and @sallysultzman.bsky.social , behind cover art by Tyler Edlin: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

Interzone 305 is out now! The July issue is crammed with stories, columns and reviews (so, so many film reviews from Nick Lowe!), and yours in DRM-free epub, mobi, and PDF formats.

It's #PortfolioDay!? 👀 Here's some of my work! I'm best known for creating colourful, detailed digital art incorporating patternwork and symbolism, as well as designs to represent and power other neurodivergent and disabled people. Portfolio at www.abistevens.com Email [email protected]

OOOOH! 💜 Includes a handy 'SKRAWL Digital Bundle' tier to catch-up on the series.

Kids should be reading Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO instead. The writing is much better!

Some thoughts on this. There's an old saying that springs to mind: the future is already here, but it's unevenly distributed. * awareness of AI tells in fiction. How widespread was this knowledge two years ago? It's still not as widespread as it needs to be within slushpiles

Nice! 💜

A reminder that applications to SBCF 2027 close at the end of this month. SBCF is an online, digital comics fair: you can apply from anywhere in the world -and there's no upfront tabling/exhibiting fee involved. All details at the link. www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/apply

The Cyberpunk 2077 & The Witcher Comic Collection bundle is out now from @fanatical.com! 31 DRM-free comics and ebooks from @darkhorse.com all for under £20. 💜

Have you downloaded all your DRM-free ebooks & audiobooks from The Black Library yet? You have ⏲️ 48 DAYS to grab them before they're gone!

We are about halfway towards our goal of picking up enough new subscriptions to give our staff, authors, translators, and artists a raise when we publish our 20th anniversary issue in October. Thanks to all who have signed up and/or boosted the signal. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Today's spotlight for the Scottish Comics itch Bundle is KILLTOPIA VOLUME #1, written by @davecook.bsky.social! 10 years ago Neo Tokyo was suddenly infested by killer mecha. Today, the machines are hunted by high-tech bounty hunters. 🩵 Get 30 Scottish indie comics for $20 at itch.io/b/3727/scott...

So. Many. Digital. Rewards!!!! Love the Catch-up option. 💜

Sink Your Teeth In #2 Preview

Did you know, I use @plausible.io analytics on Libreture (and @scarletferret.com). Plausible is incorporated in Estonia 🇪🇪, built by an EU 🇪🇺 team and hosted on infrastructure owned by European 🇪🇺 companies. Visitor data is processed and stored in the EU 🇪🇺, and not transferred anywhere else.

The Dying Earth Map Collection is available now from @pelgranepress.bsky.social Get it here: tinyurl.com/3actzbb4 A fine selection of three Dying Earth maps for game enhancement, all by the magnificent Sarah Wroot. #ttrpgartist #ttrpg

LAWSUIT alleging Google illegally copied books and stole books from behind paywalls. “The result is an AI system that competes directly with Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s works in the market,” the lawsuit claims. #AI #booksky 1/

Oh, sweetie, no. A Linktree is not a substitute for an actual, shoppable website for your bookstore. At least get yourself a Bookshop.org affiliate page, if not a basic Square site. No one wants to scroll through an endless Linktree looking for a book. NO ONE.

Queer horror, crime and dark fic at a low, low price? We've got it... Featuring titles from me, @anna-orridge.bsky.social, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, @shaunamceleney.bsky.social and more... payhip.com/NefariousBat...

Black Library customers have until 31st of August 2026 to download their purchases from the website before they lose access to all their *DRM-free* ebooks and audiobooks for good.

Just a reminder that the you might be looking to read Night's Master by Tanith Lee and not even realize it.

I love any opportunity to talk about Star Wars, but it’s even better when I get to talk about Star Wars and fairy tales. Many thanks to Reactor for helping me bring this essay into being! 💛🗡️🐋

What you need to do, to keep your Black Library collection in DRM-free formats! 1. Log-in to your Black Library account (you can no longer register or buy ebooks on the website) 2. Download your existing digital books 3. Keep them safe – try a free Libreture library! 💜

Sadly marked The Black library bookshop as 'closed'.

Simultaneously shocking yet not in anyway surprising pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

“I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.” ― Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood New book just dropped: standardebooks.org/ebooks/charl...

Seen my "stroke of genius" marketing there, folks? 😎

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Unbound also fraudulently understated our sales to the point that THE SCOTTISH BOY has more Goodreads reviews/ratings than copies sold—and we have proof, because we got sales figures direct from Ingram and compared them to our royalty statements. But the administrators chose not to investigate

"Pitch-black humor," "a stunning, thrilling, and eerie collection," and "a haunting debut." Critics are raving about THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES by Haralambi Markov, a breathtaking collection where Slavic mythology, queer identity, and body horror intertwine. mythicdelirium.com/t...

I’m so embarrassed that I started this book like, “UGH a canon text, let’s see what’s the fuss,” and now I’m quietly weeping with joy to myself and filled with goodwill and optimism toward humanity and its capacity to love. How dare you, Jane Austen!!!

Very worried about new Warhammer book app. Afaik the current site is the only source of epub books, so you can buy it to use on iPhone, kindle etc. Now you’ll be forced into closed ecosystems (app only etc) so have to trust the website will always work. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

So Black Library, we're just...dispensing with the nice, handy site where people can find our books, in favour of an app that I won't be able to properly link to? Great. Big help. Thank you for that. Much appreciated. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

games workshop seems to be ending drm-free sales of epubs of warhammer novels on march 18th (2am pst)

Why in the unholy fuck would you replace a perfectly usable website with fucking app, what the fuck is wrong with you

Is Games Workshop creating another walled garden? Or am I reading this wrong? They are replacing the Blick Library website with an App you have to use to read your purchases and you can't read those books on any other e-reader? Wow. Time to dust off the […] [Original post on rollenspiel.social]

Same! eInk readers are great, but not my phone. I want a break from screen light when I'm reading. Pretty disappointed by the direction this is going

i find the BL online shop to be the worst i have used, so much work to find books and the see which in a series you already own. but if the app only allows use in the app itself, that is a hard no. i despise when you get locked into one thing

I'm honestly just not a reading books on my phone kinda person. Especially if I buy them there, then can't access them any other way. Pants is Puzzled. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Oh FFS. 🤮 https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/wugetgtg/a-new-black-library-app-is-on-the-way-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ 📌 https://chrismcleod.dev/notes/202602181620/

Kinda related point. Games Workshop should have this whole Black Library Phone App shoved right up their back passage. After years of DRM free ebooks they decided to put everything in their walled garden and frankly thats kinda gross https://starpunk.thesatelliteoflove.com/note/20260513033731

Yeah they made an app a while ago and don't sell files anymore. The app is. . . Functional. I guess. There's some warcoms on the whole thing. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Black Library customers have until 31st of August 2026 to download their purchases from the website before they lose access to all their DRM-free ebooks and audiobooks for good.

Sell your book in 5 words: Mecha pilot cannibal toxic lesbians (on sale for $2!)

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: How to keep bees by Anna Botsford Comstock https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79076

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