Happy #bookbirthday to RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, the evocative debut collection by @samtasticbooks.com! 🎉🐇
"[B]rilliant...Even the shortest of these tales packs a powerful punch."
— @publisherswkly.bsky.social, ⭐️starred review!⭐️
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"Rabbit Test and Other Stories is one of the strongest debut collections I had the pleasure of reading. It’s bold, intentional, varied and warm. If you came for the title story, stay for everything else. Whatever it is that you search, you’ll find it."
Out tomorrow!
"In a world devoid of logic, in which humanity feels like it’s devolving ... where physical ability and venality are considered the only useful skills to have, the cozy trope says to fans: There is another way."
My @crimereads.bsky.social article is up! Check it out!
RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES is a standout anthology from @samtasticbooks.com with stories both playful and powerful. The title story won me over slowly, and “Strange Waters” uses time travel as it should be: beautifully bittersweet. kara.reviews/rabbit-test/
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Cover of RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES by Nebula Award-Winner Samantha Mills, author of The Wings Upon Her Back. The text "Rabbit Test" is enlarged to take up most of the cover. "Rabbit" is white with a black rabbit sitting in the bottom center of "A," and "Test" is bright dark pink. The background is black.
Two days left to enter to win one of 2 copies of RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES by Samantha Mills! Print for US, ebook for everywhere else.
Plus, you can read her essay "Epic Worldbuilding in Short Fiction."
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#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐
Graphic Audio Weekly Update 🔊 NEW RELEASES: Fey Spy Academy 3: Lady of the Lake by C.N. Crawford and Alex Rivers. COMING SOON: Megalodon In Paradise by Hunter Shea and Jason Trapp 9: Dust Storm by Jack Slater. Learn More: https://loom.ly/UMg6_go
So, I’ve got a new book coming out from Saga Press soon 😁
Oh oh I had so much fun writing about 8 of my favorite short story collections for Publisher's Weekly!
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Germany! 🇩🇪 The King of the Demons goes on sale 11 November 2026! #demoncycle #Dämonensaga #petervbrett
Judge Dee (a vampire) faces his long-lost love (also a vampire) on the London docks, at night, with bats in the skies and three ghostly coffins in the background.
Speaking of vampires, this is out in June! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-t...
Now I'm not saying RUSH but, if you'd like to pre-order a paperback, I can promise they are really neat!
Try a sample scene from the NEW Fey Spy Academy 3: Lady of the Lake by C.N. Crawford and Alex Rivers! https://loom.ly/UvqmTC8 Nia finds herself entangled in a world of lies and betrayal, where the truth is as elusive as the Dream Stalker himself.
I don't often give short story collections five-star reviews but this collection from @samtasticbooks.com published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social is brilliant, for me some could develop into series/worlds rather than single stories - looking at you Kiki
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SAM'S APRIL/MAY CALENDAR Wednesday April 22, 10:30am Pacific: a virtual event with the Cushing Memorial Library's Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection Curator, Jeremy Brett! signups at tamu.libcal.com/event/16519400 Sunday April 26, 3-5pm Pacific: I'll be reading with Justin Feinstein at the free SF in SF reading series at the San Francisco Public Library's main branch, 100 Larkin Street Saturday May 2, 2pm Pacific: I'll be in conversation with Justin Feinstein at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego! This is the best way to order signed books. They'll ship to you if you can't make it in person. Friday May 22 - Monday May 25: I'll be Guest of Honor again at Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland! I'm handing off the Compton Crook Award to this year's recipient (to be announced)
Book birthday is nearly upon me!! 😱 Here is where to find me for book release month
Forgot to mention that the trade paperback of DIRECT DESCENDANT dropped on April 14th. Which was yesterday. My bad.
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Paperback of Direct Descendant in front of an eye statue.
The paperback of Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff is out today! If you haven't read this already, pick up this cozy horror set in Toronto that has phenomenal characters, fantastic writing, and a queer romance—the perfect balance of dark and delightful
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Nice review of SONGS OF THE DEAD by @brandonsanderson.com & Peter Orullian...
"This well-realized magic system, which feels like classic Sanderson, will draw readers in... fast-paced plot... the authors stick the landing. It’s an entertaining start."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781668068144
including RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES by @samtasticbooks.com, forthcoming 4/21/26! 🐇
"[B]rilliant...Even the shortest of these tales packs a powerful punch."
— Publishers Weekly, starred review!
Screenshot from BookCon website, with logo and text that reads: “Victor Manibo's Schedule Queer Horror: Then and Now Sun, Apr 19, 2026 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Room 402 Queer Horror - Post-Panel Book Signing Sun Apr 19, 2026 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Author Autographing Table 2 (Hall 1A-B)”
I’ll be at BookCon this weekend (both days) and on Sunday I have a signing and a queer horror panel with @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @ninocipri.bsky.social, @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social, Jade Song, and @laurarsamotin.bsky.social. Come by and say hi!
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🦟 eBook Discount! ESPERANCE by Adam Oyebanji is only $2.99 on Kindle Daily Deals. A whip-smart thriller of a seemingly impossible crime rooted in racism, intergenerational trauma, and an inhuman concept of justice
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Oh what a wonderful review!
"Seeing all these great stories together really reinforces what an excellent and versatile author Mills already is, and increases my excitement over her potential for future amazing stories and books." 😍
The first printing of DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel) is almost here.
The hit phenomenon enters print for the first time, bringing Carl and Princess Donut to the shelf in collectible form.
🦶 Lock yours in.
https://pages.vaultcomics.com/dcc-comic-vol1/
Peter V. Brett's THE DEMON KING, UK hardcover edition: an image of the book, complete with spooky demon approaching through purple-hued smoke/fog.
The wait is finally over: THE DEMON KING by @pvbrett.bsky.social is out now in the UK!
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Published by Harper Voyager, it’s the 2”3rd novel in the #NightfallSaga.
#demoncycle @awfulagent.bsky.social
Cover for new book, SAVED BY THE SPELL, out November 2026, up on Instagram.
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Hardcover of Slayers of Old with a greenery background
Even though it may be spring time, we sometimes like to think back on the spooky season, and what better way to reminisce than with Slayers of Old by Jim C. Hines?
This fun, cozy, and magical book will have you wishing the breeze and autumn leaves were right outside your window!
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Funny, irreverent, and absolutely charming, this cozy fantasy is a gleeful romp through fantasy school tropes—from the other side of the desk. The new semester begins this November. Preorder SAVED BY THE SPELL today.
Cover design by Faceout Studio; Art direction by Jenna Stempel-Lobell
Happy #bookbirthday to IMBUE THE SKY, the final book in the Bourshkanya trilogy by Corry L. Lee! 🎉
"Lee offers up wonderful worldbuilding...that cleverly instills an atmosphere and underlying threat"
—British Fantasy Society
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Against a background of a sunny garden with a blue sky, a paperback of IMBUE THE SKY by Corry L. Lee is held up by one hand.
🎂🎉 Happy Book Birthday to @corryllee.bsky.social 's IMBUE THE SKY, the long-awaited concluding volume of the BOURSHKANYA trilogy!
A fantasy epic of storm-magic, secret identities, and revolution.
Buy now:
1 https://geni.us/weavetl
2 https://geni.us/stormb
3 https://geni.us/ImbueTS
Cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, featuring the title in bold white and pink font, inset by silhouettes of a rabbit and a pregnancy test
For a signed/personalized copy, preorder from Mysterious Galaxy by May 2nd: mystgalaxy.com/5226FeinsteinMills
Other buy links:
Tachyon: bit.ly/3QcZmSx
Bookshop: bit.ly/4tvfAET
B&N: bit.ly/41TJBCu
Amazon: bit.ly/4ccbhqX
We are 2 weeks away from the release of Rabbit Test and Other Stories!! To celebrate, I have concocted a fun, worldwide giveaway item. If you've preordered or library-requested the book, fill out this form and I will send you a postcard containing a unique, fun fact.
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