@ldcolter.com 's PERILOUS GODS have taken us on two fantastical standalone adventures. Now, the stakes are higher than ever as two brothers bring the Mayan destroyer of worlds back to life... Only £2.99 in eBook! geni.us/whilegodssl geni.us/whenthewindss geni.us/whshadowsdw

Current reading speed? 10 pages a day, mostly as I don’t want to loose my @thestorygraph.com daily reading streak.

I want to defend old SFF, but I have nothing to defend it with. That’s not to say it’s without value in reading them - they are the foundation of the current genre after all - and there are some great works out there. But if they don’t click or or you think meh - that’s fine. They’ve had their time.

This dark and creepy tale explores growing up in smart ways Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

1/4 Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight territories have been shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in three categories. Full details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/ Sponsored by One Caribbean Media Limited #bocas2026 .../2

Also out in paperback is this fanatic fantasy debut which was so good and one of my favourite reads last year A Song of Legends Lost by M H Ayinde www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/...

Out now in paperback in this fantastic horror tale The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/8/...

Subtweet, because I can't be bothered with any discussion. I've just seen something that triggered a 'Tell me you're not a safe space for non-white straight male authors without actually saying you're NOT a safe space' response.

February was not my most productive reading month. According to @thestorygraph.com stats, compared to January, the number of books read decreased by 75%, and the number of pages read decreased by 78%. However, I did play over 100 hours of Persona Five Royal 😬

I am so looking forward to this!

Faints - soo many exciting books here

There is nothing inherently clever about reading a literary or a classic book.

I've no idea why, but the big river store is flogging Natural Causes on eBook for the meagre sum of 99p right now. If you've not yet read the Inspector McLean series, you've really no excuse now. www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Caus...

Shipwrecks, knights and something deadly. Then a gay priest and something ancient and demonic both coming out in 2027 from @jamesbennett.bsky.social?! Yes please! Hugely exciting.

I really enjoyed this novella doing something different with digital reality Jonbar Points by Allen Stroud www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

On the blog this week I have a new favourite witch for you to meet in the excellent A Forest, Darkly by AG Slatter www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

Welcome @tadethompson.bsky.social and the superb Antara, an historical fiction novel, on the pre-Islamic warrior poet of renown 😍 Big thanks to Alexander Cochran at @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social! Antara will be out in 2027. Cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social. @publishingscotland.bsky.social

Always interesting to see reader choices here is Fantasy Faction’s top 50 of 2025 fantasy-faction.com/2026/fantasy...

As is right and just. Tremendous work, EU! 🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Current me has put more faith in future me by picking up these two newish releases. One was recommended by @nmjcoveney.bsky.social, and the other sounded like my kind of thing. Have you read them?

This is the most vividly realized vision of a rewilding future I’ve read—intensely real and wondrously magical at the same time, and an emotionally engaging story of people not far from us, finding hope in the planetary elegy. Highly recommended:

Ok. This is driving me crazy and I am falling down a rabbit hole!!! Help. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh is translated as 'beloved' 'brother' 'friend' 'partner' and 'companion' depending on the translator. 1/

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 643: It may be tempting to include song lyrics in your work. (And why not? Stephen King does it all the time.) But beware; the rights to even a line of a song can run into the thousands of pounds- and the publisher will expect YOU to pay for them…

horror/dystopia lovers, for one day only my horrible baby is available on kindle for £0.99/$0.99! for less than a buck/quid you can buy something that took me 7 years to write & the New York Times called ‘an impressive debut worth losing sleep over’. what’re you waiting for?!

I totally forgot to write and then post a Sunday Summary last weekend. Maybe that's a sign to stop?

There's a book about a dinosaur rodeo coming out this month. What else do you need to know?? (But just in case, here's all the fantasy books releasing in February 2026)

From starting ballet at four to starting writing this in 2021, it’s been a long and winding road but… The Apple and The Pearl is out TODAY from @titanbooks.bsky.social !!!

Meet our UK Special Edition, Limited-Run, signed hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO, Katherine Addison/ @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's new novella within the wider world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR & THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO series! Preorder now, available from all good booksellers https://geni.us/orbcairado

That's the spirit - also it looks like you have space to double the books per shelf by having front books and back books.

Also on the BSFAs, really good to see @thehubble101.bsky.social recommend Adam’s history of fantasy for the BSFA awards (also happily, my essay on the book is also nominated). Gotta say, I find the lack of attention for the book really odd - it’s a super useful text. An SH review is in the works.

I feel like I know dozens of queer authors with 2020 novels who should see this.

From queer murder mystery novels to modern gay horror and coming-of-age graphic novels, here’s what’s new at Proud Geek this February: See something you like? Grab a copy from proud-geek.co.uk (A list of book titles and authors can be found in the alt text.) #booksky

We are delighted to reveal the gorgeous cover for NEWBOURNE PARK by @juniperjennyt.bsky.social🩸 “Saltburn with werewolves”, this is a darkly hilarious novel about dysfunctional families, class, and other things that howl at the moon… Coming September 2026! 🌝

The paperback of Pagans is published at the end of the month, brilliant world building that has mirrors in the politics and culture of our own world Excellent killer thriller #BookSky

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

Well, this was January, according to what I logged in @thestorygraph.com - I need to up my daily pages read. I read mostly 20-30 pages a day.

Mission achieved.

To hit my self-imposed goals, it’s now the ‘can I finish two books before midnight’ challenge.

I can’t recommend this book enough!!

There's quite a lot going on, so it feels weird to be like HEY HEY LOOK AT ME, but maybe you like books, and like books by me, and want to see the cover to my next one, coming in August:

🚨COVER REVEAL & ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨 We'll be bringing @edashtonwriting.bsky.social 's next standalone SciFi - AFTER THE FALL - to the UK in with a cover from Amazing 15! Head over to @scifinow.bsky.social to learn more https://bit.ly/4t6gBUG June 2026. Preorder: https://geni.us/AfterTF

We're DELIGHTED that @lavanya.bsky.social 's INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF (Flavour Hacker #1) has won the Pen n Paper Award for Best Fiction! It's the perfect time to dive into the duology before book 2 -INTERGALACTIC FEAST- hits the shelves in March! https://geni.us/Megachef https://geni.us/intergfeast

Happy publication day to @cstross.bsky.social for The Regicide Report, out now from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Really, this has everything I could have wished for to complete/ pause this series. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/01/revi... #BookSky 💙📚

Psst! All our copies of The Second Death of Locke are signed! Not many left though 👀 the-portal-bookshop.square.site/product/the-...

So excited to read this!!

Dispelling Fantasies made the BSFA longlist!!! I'm honored. Academics don't publish books to make lots of money, so being recognized by my fellow SFF lovers and having people tell me the book has been useful to them is the thing that keeps me going in my research!

Stock take of the shop continues, 875 items made accurate to the shelves! Hand-crafted artisanal stock check, manually inputted by local, free range queers the-portal-bookshop.square.site Would love some more orders tbh, it's been dire this week in the miserable rain. I saw 5 people on Tuesday 🫠

Delirious is exactly how it often felt to be translating it - in the best possible way.

I love Chris’s book choices - if you’re on Instagram go give him a follow

If anyone has read this, there was an ‘Oh my god’ moment in it that makes me think @cstross.bsky.social is playing with us like you would cats with a bit of string. I don’t think I’m going to last until the paperback of The Regicide Report.