First world problems panic this morning. Signing into Goodreads for the first time in simply ages and I couldn't remember either the email address I used or the password. About 10 minutes of frantic Phil before I managed to get in

5 star #bookreview repost Wanna Get Lucky? by Deborah Coonts www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "A sassy, sharp and sexy story set in the seedy and seamy world of the Strip" #lasvegas

5 star #bookreview repost The Taking by Katrina R Cope www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "These are not serene angels... these are kick-ass super heroes" #angels #demons #ya #thriller

5 star #bookreview repost The Midas Code by @boydmorrisonwriter.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Morrison doesn't let up for one second and he relishes pushing his heroes to the limit" #thriller

“Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.” | Tahereh Mafi #DaddyBlackbird #BookSky #Hope 💛

I’m on the radio! In Spain! have a listen on my website to a recent ‘Book Show’ interview where I shamelessly name drop Richard Osman and Stephen King. Just click below! brianmrice.my.canva.site/news-and-oth...

4 star #bookreview repost Each To Their Own by Diana J Febry www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "There are a number of twists to the plot, some quite sudden and shocking others more a realisation that things are not quite as they have seemed" #crimefiction #thriller

5 star #bookreview repost The Ark by @boydmorrisonwriter.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Positioned firmly in the adventure thriller mould this book is both a terrific example of the type and also refreshingly different" #thriller

4 star #bookreview repost Half a War by Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "It is never clear who is going live and who is going to die, and who is going to win and who is going to lose." #ya #fantasy #grimdark

#Starvinity #scifi #SciFiAdventure #scififantasy #spaceopera

Good news! The Green Man's War is a Kindle ebook deal for October. You can get fully caught up with Dan Mackmain's adventures before The Green Man's Holiday is published on 30th October. www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-W...

"The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" -Stephen Graham Jones. Truly creepy, well-done vampire tale that interweaves Indians, historical events, massacre, revenge, bent clergy, gluttony, and a cat lady. It works well and is easily on of the best books I've read this year. #Booksky #194

I have to show off this again because Denis Kornev has done such a good job, but here are two of my favourite pieces of art going into the next Emaneska hardcover. Which is yours, angry dragons or giant wolves?

The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...

4 star #bookreview repost A Poison Tree by @johndolanauthor.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Despite the dark tone of the story Dolan's light touch keeps things moving along"

My book is out in one week

Big thanks to everyone for the kind words on Beyond The Mark! A lot of reviews mention it feels like D&D, definitely not what I set out for, but it's awesome to see people having fun with it in ways I didn't expect. Guess that's just how all creative work goes! #dnd #fantasy #rpg

5 star #bookreview repost Half the World by @joeabercrombie.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Abercrombie really does have a magic touch in providing characters that do not fit into the usual rough and tough warrior mould" #fantasy #ya

5 star #bookreview repost The Loch Ness Legacy by @boydmorrisonwriter.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "The plot cracks along as Locke and his team uncover the secrets one at a time" #thriller

4 star #bookreview repost The Hole Opportunity by James Minter www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "This book is a good and well thought out farce in the mould of Tom Sharpe" #humour #humor

Thank you #Canada #bestseller #newrelease

5 star #bookreview repost The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "This was written to entertain and thrill and it does that with ease" #thriller

5 star #bookreview repost Jim Fosse's Expense Claim by @johndolanauthor.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Once I'd read this book I had to let others at work read it. Terrific." #humour #humor #shortstory

4 star #bookreview repost Find My Brother by David Chilcott www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "The story moves at a good pace - Chilcott writes like an author on a mission with spare and clean writing that still conveys everything it needs to" #thriller

This is going to be a big week for Bluemoose. I'm going to use the 'J' word. What a journey in the last 20 years. Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social From Dublin via Hebden Bridge, Hollywood to your BBC screens! Magic. @booksaremybag.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social

This collects almost every short I ever wrote except: - Shorts set in the SotA universe (collected in the Tales of the Apt books) - Most of the 2013 Feast and Famine collection (2 reprinted here) - Recent shorts in the Tyrant Philosophers universe.

5 star #bookreview repost Fledgling by Katrina Cope www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "They don't fight evil with a kind word and good deeds, these angels are trained in martial arts and are very much not afraid to use it." #ya #thriller

New free and discounted books today including Shane and the Hitwoman; scifi, romance, historical fiction, audio & more #freebooks #amreading #sciencefiction #BookBuzzr #ebooks #RomanceReaders #romancebooks #HistoricalFiction #thrillerbooks www.bobmayer.com/free-books-u...

Check out The Cambridge Murder Mysteries at charlotking.com (all photos my own)

4 star #bookreview repost Universe: Awakening by D Ellis Overttun www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "The characters and the world they inhabit are something the author is clearly proud of - and he is right to be" #scifi #politicalthriller #socialcommentary

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Nghi Vo’s latest novel, The City in Glass, is a story about deeply understanding and loving a place, and about the difficult, necessary, meaningful work required to rebuild when one’s world is irrevocably broken.

Two Bluemoose Books adapted for BBC Drama Series in the last 2 years. Not bad for an Indy publisher! @thebookseller.com @independentpublishersguild.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @thebookerprizes.com

. From 'My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems' (1996) —Chaia Heller #poetry #poem #poems

5 star #bookreview repost God's Rough Drafts by Rob Scott philleader.blogspot.com/2019/05/book... "The vision of the future that is painted is all too real and possible" #scifi #socialcommentary #mustread #recommended

4 star #bookreview repost The Wrath of Siren by Kurt Chambers www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Chambers has set out to produce a modern day introduction to fantasy for young adult eyes and he has achieved this and in spades" #ya #fantasy

5 star #bookreview repost The Skull Throne by @pvbrett.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "The momentum builds throughout to a final few chapters that are simply jaw dropping in terms of storyline, pace and scope" #fantasy

5 star #bookreview repost The Kingdom Beyond the Waves by Stephen Hunt www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "The inventiveness Hunt showed in The Court of the Air is very much still evident with a fiendish plot and fantastic ideas zinging off the page together with very clever dialog"

“STILL of the Day, STILL of the Day” (sing it like the Alessis!) 🚫👻 Ghostbusters 2 (1989) #Ghostbusters

KJ Charles is one of my most favorite authors, so when I was given this opportunity to read her new book, I pounced on it!

5 star #bookreview repost The Nightlife: New York by Travis Luedke www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "If you want your vampires sexy and powerful and your stories thrilling and full of action this is the story for you" #paranormal #vampire

DOOOOOMSPIRAL www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

If you missed it, the illustrated hardcover for Dead Stars: Part Two is coming soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ema...

So, me, @sarareads.bsky.social and @dianthaa.bsky.social will be doing a thing over at r/fantasy. Please come join us! I AM VERY EXCITED AND VERY NERVOUS. #booksky

This is an excerpt from my novella Witching News. #booksky #readersky

5 star #bookreview repost Truth Teller by Kurt Chambers www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "My immediate reaction to this book was that it is flawless, in idea and execution" #ya #fantasy

4 star #bookreview repost Beyond the Red Mountains by Gregory A Johnson www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "A fantasy novel that is of epic proportions but avoids all the tropes and cliches of 'epic' fantasy" #ya #fantasy

5 star #bookreview repost Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "A tight story with plenty of action interspersed with serious considerations about society, justice and religion and how they interplay" #scifi

SURPRISE! The Thunder Kraken (Kraken Rider Z #2) Audiobook has been released! David Estes and I had expected it in November - but here it is! The adventures of Zee and Jessup now continue for your ears, once again voiced by the fabulous Tim Gerard Reynolds. Link in reply! @wraithmarked.bsky.social

I'm spending more time on Bluesky and looking for artists, writers, and photographers. If that's you, please drop me a line. www.flakphoto.news/p/are-you-on...

5 star #bookreview repost Dead Girl Walking by Christopher Brookmyre www.goodreads.com/review/show/... "Easy to read with short snappy chapters making it hard to put down without wanting to read just another one" #thriller #parlabane