TNBBC on Instagram: "#bookishexpectations I thought it would be fun to look back over the first few months of the reading year and see which books exceeded, met, and did not meet my expectations (an... 33 likes, 8 comments - lorihettler.tnbbc on April 19, 2026: "#bookishexpectations I thought it would be fun to look back over the first few months of the reading year and see which books exceeded, m...

If you'll excuse my horribly embarrassing typo, I welcome you to check out some of the books I've read so far this year that have exceed, met, or did not meet my expectations:

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What I read in March and how many stars I threw at'em

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Another one. This is so tiresome and also... I really hope anyone they are reaching out to are listening to their gut and not providing payment to these scammers. They are persistent and ballsy.

Please help me spread the word, and tell this fake-ass where to shove it!

World Edition's Forthcoming "Read The World A to Z" series I am thrilled to share that I've joined the World Editions launch team, helping to celebrate this timely and much needed translation serie...

Been wanting to get better at reading around the world? World Editions has you covered! This fall, they will be launching their Read the World A to Z series, and I'm here for every second of it!

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beware, more scammer activity is floating around out there. Please know TNBBC is not represented by any one other than me. I do not take on assistants or have community stewards, and I would never ask for money for any sort of feature.

Help spread the word so others are aware! Do not fall for this

TNBBC on Instagram: "I've seen so many of you posting what's on your netgalley shelf and I figured, ok, sure, why not, I'll show mine too! Good lord people. I didn't realize how many I actually st... 22 likes, 10 comments - lorihettler.tnbbc on March 18, 2026: "I've seen so many of you posting what's on your netgalley shelf and I figured, ok, sure, why not, I'll show mine too! Good lord people....

All the books waiting to be reviewed on my netgalley shelf 0_o

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TNBBC on Instagram: "#shouldhavednfd I don't like to bash books. Especially when they are review copies and super especially when they are from small presses bc I love love love small press. But I f... 47 likes, 26 comments - lorihettler.tnbbc on March 15, 2026: "#shouldhavednfd I don't like to bash books. Especially when they are review copies and super especially when they are from small presses...

books i suffered through so you dont have to. You know me, I love love love small press. And I hate that some small press books made it onto this list but if I can save some readers a little money and time, well...

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What I Read in February February is a short month and yet I was able to squeeze in more books than I have in a long while. I read a total of 14 books - 4 on audio,...

I read 14 books in February and there were so many good ones!!

Come check out what they were:

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The Page 69 Test: The Walls Are Closing in on Us D isclaimer:  The Page 69 Test  is not mine. It has been around since 2007, asking authors to compare page 69 against the meat of the actual...

Had the pleasure of putting “The Walls Are Closing In On Us” to the Page 69 Test with @tnbbc.bsky.social. Already a fun day for the book today!

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This is just getting out of hand.

Another impersonator trying to take advantage of small press authors by pretending to be me.

Feel free to tell this asshat loriebravo5@gmail where to shove it so they stop this nonesense.

February 12th, zoom into MoCo Underground and hear @leeupton.bsky.social read from her forthcoming novel The Withers!

Lee Upton Discusses Her New Book, “The Withers”: Interview — North Meridian Press In winter 2026, author Lee Upton answered questions about her new book “The Withers” with managing editor Wesley R. Bishop via email. Below is that conversation that explores Upton’s new novel, her wr...

A wonderful interview with @leeupton.bsky.social in North Meridian, regarding her forthcoming novel The Withers.

"We might want to escape our time, but inevitably our culture imprints itself on us even if we try to resist."

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TNBBC on Instagram: "#reviewcopies You guys. What a proud publicist I am! Look at this gorgeous review copy of @leeupton45's forthcoming novel The Withers. It drops this June and you are not going t... 0 likes, 0 comments - lorihettler.tnbbc on January 13, 2026: "#reviewcopies You guys. What a proud publicist I am! Look at this gorgeous review copy of @leeupton45's forthcoming novel The Withers. I...

Review copies w/ your name on it! DM me if interested.

Post epidemic near-future world where survivors are marked w/ creeping vinelike scars that leave them vulnerable to daily scrunity and organ traffickers.

This summer's hot-as-hell must-have novel: The Withers

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The books I am most excited to review this year:

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New year, New TNBBC Reading Challenge, where I pick a musician or band and turn their entire discography into reading tasks to be completed throughout the year.

This year's challenge features songs by Garbage!

Check out and feel free to join us!
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Books I Read in December Closing out 2025 with a strong December! I read a total of 13 books - some were hot as fuck, others were cool as a cucumber. Why not just ju...

Closed the year out with a total of 139 books read!
13 of those were in December. Come check out which ones of those were hot as hell and which were cool as a cucumber:
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A wonderful book about strange deaths taking place in a small seaside town. Memorable, quirky, and only 2 bucks for the ebook on @undertow.bsky.social's page:

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Haunted by ghosts of the past and local legend... prickling with deciet and deception at every turn!

Review: When Midwestern Gothic Meets the American Ideal, Only One Survives in Darrin Doyle’s “The Dark Will End the Dark” by Taylor Thornberg The collection’s opening salvo asserts this tension in a whiplash, maximalist mad dash. Stories steer their readership past one visceral image after another: burnt oil engines, boiled feet, metalli…

Another Chicago Review digs Darrin Doyle's The Dark Will End the Dark, calling it a "loving gesture to the darkened and deformed hoi polloi who have always lived under the ostentatious veneer of the stories people tell each other—and themselves".

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ICYMI, Molly Gaudry answers some questions in advance of her experimental new fiction memoir Fit Into Me:

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Thanks to The Next Best Book Club for these kind words about Kathe Koja's #DarkMatter out today!

full blog tour schedule & #giveaway: https://smpl.is/af4q0

#BunnyGraves #DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #ImmersiveAF #KatheKoja @Kathe Koja @TNBBC

Kathe Koja does the Page 69 Test for #DarkMatter (out today!) at The Next Best Book Club!

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#BunnyGraves #DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #DarkTimes #DarkDreams #ImmersiveAF #KatheKoja @Kathe Koja @TNBBC

What I Read In November A decent month of reading, clocking in with 12 books (well, two of them were a DNF but I made it a good chunk of the way through so I'm cou...

November wrapped up with a total of 12 books - 2 DNFs and almost all review copies. Come see which ones were good, bad, and beautiful..

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In the need of something speculative and medically disturbing to read?

I've got review copies of Lee Upton's forthcoming novel The Withers (June 2026, Regal House). Hit me up if you want to help spread the word!

"a haunting exploration of obsession set in a near-future world"

What I Read In October Wow, this month flew by and I barely read a thing. Nine books total, which is defintely lower than I've been averaging. But, we'd had a lot...

What I read in October. It wasn't much and there was definitely some slogging through books when a DNF might have been the better route...

So let's see which books were knock outs and which ones I should have chucked out the door, shall we?

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Darrin Doyle's latest book gets "If My Book"ed:

'If The Dark Will End the Dark were a meat, it would be a hot dog. Made of bits and pieces of god-knows-what but strangely delicious when cooked over an open flame'.

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10th Anniversary release: The Dark Will End the Dark by Darrin Doyle + read the new story here! 10th Anniversary release: The Dark Will End the Dark by Darrin Doyle + read the new story here!

I Smell Sheep helped us spotlight the 10th anniversary release of Darrin Doyle's The Dark Will End the Dark!

Check out one of the stories found in the collection here:

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Move over, mermaid fans! Make room for Selkie fiction. K. Stephens's By the Dark 'O the Moon is a deliciously slow-burning tale of maternal fury, folklore, and the saltwater price of stolen things. This isn’t a love story. It’s a reckoning.

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Beastly Bodies While presenting stories that may initially seem to explore aspects and struggles of the familiar, relatively common, or trials of everyday life, the fifteen short stories in The Dark Will End The …

Some love for Darrin Doyle's collection, which drops tomorrow!!

"...stories that depict, to different degrees, the dark, grotesque, strange, and/or weird aspects of a human, or supernatural, body in a way that delivers a punchy, shocking effect..."

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What I Read in September As the end of the year creeps closer, the time seems to just fly by, doesn't it? I didn't read as many books as last month, but I am clocki...

Nothing like kicking off the month with a banger and ending it with one too! Come check out what I read in September:

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Cool interview w/ Lisa Hasleton & Darrin Doyle about the 10th anniversary edition of his collection The Dark Will End the Dark

"While the short story itself has a tighter boundary than a novel, within a series of short stories the range is much wider."

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