GHOULISH BOOKS CO-FOUNDER @interrobangbus.bsky.social IS MOVING TO MINNESOTA. WE HAVE LISTED MANY USED (AND RARE!) BOOKS FROM MAX’S PERSONAL COLLECTION IN OUR WEBSTORE. ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARD MOVING & LIVING COSTS. BOOKS: ghoulish.rip/product-cate... MOVIES: www.ebay.com/usr/maboot-6...

The 2026 Humor #StoryBundle is here! Get some hilarious reads and support #MightyWriters and #GirlsWriteNow! This bundle includes THE RUNES OF ENGAGEMENT by @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social @daveklecha.bsky.social, IF WISHES WERE RETAIL by @aahabershaw.bsky.social and many more buff.ly/qzI51a4

I had a great chat with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social about his long walks through Portland, the stuff he finds along the way, and how he writes on foot.

So very flattered by this blurb from @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social about my fantasy office comedy STARTUP HELL. Toxic workplaces! Cute hellhounds! Inconveniently attractive demons! Available now!

It’s wonderful to see this book getting a review

Read Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)’s review of BROMATASY by Máire Roche: “Readers who want to read about two lovely young men traipsing around in the woods with a precocious dragon child in tow will likely have a great time with this book”

Very happy to share that after all these years, Assassin's Apprentice is going back for a 13th printing of 49,000 copies!! Now Ship of Magic is only on its 8th printing but still happy to see another 10,000 copies headed to bookstores.

I enjoyed Vol.2 last year and it had some very strong stories. I’d expect Vol. 1 to be exactly the same.

Possibly the best queer novel ever, Geoff Ryman's Was is part of this year's Pride Storybundle. www.storybundle.com/...

I tried to acquire The Needfire for Angry Robot but was priced out. It's a really great book. But watch out for the deer... The deer...

Independent publisher Moonflower has acquired Dead Gods, the second novel in James Alistair Henry’s Pagans series 👇

I am technically reading two audiobooks, but I’ve not got a physical or an ebook on the go. I am also suffering from decision freeze on choosing what else to read. The audiobooks are The Correspondent and Dungeon Crawler Carl, so I need to read something that isn’t them.

No genre SF novel has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award this decade. 2020 - Serpell (Hogarth) 2021 - McKay (Scribe) 2022 - Giles (Picador) 2023 - Beauman (Sceptre) 2024 - MacInnes (Atlantic) 2025 - Greer (Borough)

The Bone Door is a fantasy filled with monsters and mysteries, but achieves so much in its exploration of scars we bear and the courage required to face them. https://gnofhorror.com/the-bone-door-review-trauma-fantasy/

A woman, haunted by the disappearance of her sister and best friend, uncovers the terrifying legend behind the last film they watched together... THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social is available to pre-order now! 🩸🎞️

I’ve just finished The Tinder Box by M.R. Carey - I liked it - I liked what it was trying to do. I’m not sure others will (or do, from the early reviews). Should I worry about my taste, or is it just that my needle has shifted? I worry less about logic and enjoy the character journey.

Hello Evening Crowd - today I look at one of the six Best Science Fiction books published in the UK nominated for an award …and I have questions

TRADWIFE, an indie small-press book that's been out nearly 2 years, has inexplicably sold hundreds of copies already this month, with no advertising and minimal marketing at my end Pretty sure you lot have something to do with that So, thank you, and also: yep, word of mouth works...

We can confirm that both PLAGUE BIRDS covers are human-created, as is all the cover art you see on every book and magazine issue we publish. Using AI would be a complete disrespect to our authors, artists, and Apex's own core values. Apex has a zero-tolerance AI policy, and that will never change.

Yep. To combat this, the government is announcing an unprecedented investment in children’s physical and social spaces— social and sports clubs, anti-bullying campaigns, support for LGBT and minority youth, giving them all support and a third space. Right?

I am not clicking on this as I want to finish the book first - I'm only a few chapters in - but from the Bluesky commentary, I feel that Womble will not be reviewing the next one 😬

Next in the books that could be crossovers… that might fit a @niallharrison.bsky.social niche - but this is out by a genre publisher - @torbooksuk.bsky.social ‘At precisely 7:52 am each morning, Scott jumps forward in time in ever-doubling intervals.’

It’s the annual Strange Horizons fund drive! Donate to keep an important mag going and to unlock our special issue. Reviews-wise, *already* unlocked is @akankshya.bsky.social on Bora Chung. Still to come: @notquitehydepark.bsky.social on @adamroberts.bsky.social and March-Russell on Spufford …

Stephen King's IT turns 40. Still Floating, edited by Tom Deady, brings 30 contributors together to examine why Pennywise won't stop haunting us. New retrospective at Ginger Nuts of Horror. #StephenKing #Horror https://gnofhorror.com/still-floating-pennywise-at-40-stephen-king-it/

It's a wild book, and possibly not a Paul book (in terms of what people expect me to like). It knocked me on my arse. It frustrated me, but it's exceedingly well written, and it's good to try stuff far from my Cores, eh?

Congratulations to @amalelmohtar.com and @edenroyce.bsky.social! 🎉 The River Has Roots and Psychopomp & Circumstance are finalists for the Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella! 🤩

A novella in R B Lemberg's Birdverse, available as part of this year's Pride Storybundle: www.storybundle.com/...

If you don't hear from me later I have died of excitement from this lineup @orbitbooks.bsky.social this eve*... And this is just the *first page* of four double spreads. *(or quite possibly from too much coffee)

Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.

" a debut that understands female rage not as empowerment but as wreckage, and builds a claustrophobic folkloric dread from nothing more than a thin shared wall and an unstable narrator who cannot outrun herself." gnofhorror.com/home-sick-by...

I read this book this year and it is a hell of a ride. Delightfully and unmitigatedly furious.

I'm hugely grateful to the folks at Reactor for letting me write about the early stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane.

Sarah Langan's PAM KOWOLSKI IS A MONSTER! is 119 pages of bitter, funny, genuinely frightening horror about the stories we tell ourselves to explain our failures. https://gnofhorror.com/pam-kowolski-is-a-monster-by-sarah-langan-review/

Fucking hell. Awestruck by this review that has an absolute pinpoint finger on the pulse of what makes Home Sick so riveting while also examining the ways in which the novel is in conversation with both Rhiannon's other stories and the horror body of work that it's building from.

ICYMI yesterday, me and some truly incredible writers and artists are taking on a new HELLRAISER run - plus my Pinhead series 😈

The Sourdough stories are a constant delight and it's wonderful to have them all in a single volume!

The award season for the SF/F community is in full swing, and the @theignyteawards.bsky.social, the @clarkeaward.bsky.social, the Shirley Jackson Awards, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have all announced their finalists. Here's the roundup: www.andrewliptak.com/sci-fi-fanta...

Thrilled to share the final cover of my cursed film novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, now sporting a quote by the incredible "wins two major awards for the same book in one night" author, Stephen Graham Jones 🤩 opening September 15 from Titan! 📽️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...

Dive into T. R. Moore's debut novel THE GODS MUST BURN! A dark, Asian-inspired, eco-fantasy for fans of GODKILLER. A disgraced and traumatised soldier is transformed into the Wolf God, protector of the Forest God, & must earn her trust, or they'll burn together.... Buy now: https://geni.us/godsmb

It's my pleasure to help reveal the cover of Fortune's Wake, a new standalone novella written by @clclark.bsky.social, published by @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social. Art by Rene Aigner and design by @adrianmgibson.bsky.social. Full info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

Have you seen Backrooms yet? Check out our top horror picks if you’re a fan of the film! Read the blog: https://loom.ly/C6Jf6r0 COUP DE GRÂCE by Sofia Ajram BASILISK by Matt Wixey BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin THE FLESH KING by Richard Kadrey

Ode to the Half-Broken by @zanzjan.bsky.social is an engaging read that could be described as being like Unforgiven by way of Clifford D. Simak. It's a very fine addition to the growing sub-genre of post-apocalyptic robot books, and one we recommend highly. hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/06/half...

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Brief Encounters from Vintage Classics - a series of 52 short books by (modern) classic authors, out next month. Flapped B-format paperbacks, £9.99 each. Here are five of them.

This book is ON SALE through the end of June! Paperback: 20% off w/ code ACSFPB20 Hardcover: 30% off w/ ACSFHC30 Ebook: 40% off w/ ACSFEBOOK40 With a stellar introduction by R.T. Samuel and stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, V Chandrasekhar Rao, Gouri, & many more www.blaft.com/products/the...

Which is why I am always reluctant to recommend things I’ve not recently read or watched.

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Happy book birthday - I am excited as it’s on my desk, it’s chunky, and contains stories that I thought I’d never get hold of.

Excellent thread 👇🏽 Years ago, the very first negative reviews I got of my debut book were 'ugh there was NO REASON for this character being trans'. Which taught me early & hard that I do not have to please all readers. Because fuck those guys

Exciting news!!