The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

NPR

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In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

SFX

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Words have mystical power in Jay Posey’s space opera EVERY SKY A GRAVE (out now, Harper Voyager). Set in a future where mankind has mastered the Deep Language of the universe, it centres on an adept sent to a world that’s become corrupted. The world

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

NEXT

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If I had a page of text for every time I’ve heard something along the lines of, “I would totally write a romance novel, if only I had a spare weekend,” I’d have a workable draft by now. It’s not that easy, of course. But like the genre itself, the li

Writer's Digest

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David Burns says the reason why fantasy is such an old but thriving literary genre is that fantasy stories speak to emotional truths. “A good fantasy story is going to make you feel something and resonate about subjects such as love, family and the n

Woman & Home

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This is the best handbook for ordinary life in the 19th century and one of the greatest Victorian reads. Aside from giving us an insight into the human struggle for pleasure, it explores all of life, from art to science, politics and romance. A 20th

SFX

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▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Anna Kashina ▶ Publisher Angry Robot As a romance, Shadowbladeisn’t particularly romantic, and as a fantasy it isn’t fantastic either. The setting, all deserts and schools of scholars

NPR

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As the weather turns cooler and we start to emerge from summer's torpor, it's time for some faster-paced romances with plenty of exciting twists and turns on the way to the happily-ever-after.

SFX

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MEET THE COMPLIANCE MANAGER BEHIND YA FANTASY NOVEL KINGDOM OF SOULS Tell us about your protagonist. Arrah hails from a powerful family of witchdoctors, but doesn’t have magic of her own. When the Demon King threatens her kingdom, she must trade year

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The mum-of-two lives in Whangaparaoa, near Auckland. She’s a Weekly senior sub-editor who also writes romantic thrillers under the name Brynn Kelly. This novel was inspired by… “A hankering to set a story on a tropical island, to get that trouble-in-

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Susan Choi PAGES 257 GENRE Fiction IT FEELS STRANGE TO SAY THAT SUSAN CHOI—FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize, lauded novelist for decades—is at last having her moment. But then, she’s never produced a book like Trust Exercise before: a gonzo l

SFX

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RELEASED 6 FEBRUARY 352 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Luke Arnold Publisher Orbit Fans of Black Sails will likely find the name Luke Arnold familiar. He played John Silver in the pirate series, as well as being a mainstay on numerous other

ImagineFX

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Author Dian Hanson Publisher Taschen Price £150 Web www.taschen.com Available Now Taschen’s Masterpieces of Fantasy Art showcases imaginative art primarily from the 20th century, in a mammoth, highly produced hardback. Yet this mouth-watering prospec

Popshot Magazine

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ISSUE 25 — FANTASY AUTUMN 2019 There are no limits on fantasy. Yet, in literature it is so heavily steeped in genre it’s impossible not to think of warring kingdoms, dragons, unicorns, witches and other supernatural tropes. Fantasy with a capital F i

Writing Magazine

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Golden Fleece Press publishes ‘exemplary, amazing stories across all genres and subjects, about all kinds of people’. They ‘love the quirky, and the fantastic, and the weird… We love subtle stories, and stories about everyday people who do extraordin

SFX

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Pick of the paperbacks this time: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s CAGE OF SOULS ( , out now, Head Of Zeus). Set when the sun is dying and less than 100,000 humans survive in the last city, it centres on a rebel confined on an island prison in a predator-filled

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She is an Aucklander who has had international success with her paranormal romances, including the Psy-Changeling series. This is her first crime novel. I wanted to write a murder mystery because… “I was inspired by the West Coast and its stark, stun

Writer's Digest

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In publishing, “The End” is just a lie. Once those words appear on the page there is celebrating to be done, for sure, but also an acknowledgment that new work is just beginning. Writers are, generally, not salespeople (although you may be surprised

Writing Magazine

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Every genre has its tropes, and fantasy is no different. We’ve explored archetypes in these pages before, which refer much more to recurring characters and character types. Tropes are more general themes and motifs that occur within an area of fictio

Total Film

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How would you describe Tristan? Eccentric? You’re correct! It’s a very eccentric and solitary character and in a children’s film, villainy and antagonism are interesting forces to play with. I’ve been thinking that as a genre, children’s literature a

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.

Literary Hub

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It’s a rule of publishing that you don’t complain about your blurbs. If a fellow author is going to take the time and effort to read your book and offer a quote, you accept their words gratefully and graciously. So, I kept my mouth shut when I got a

NPR

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Bruce Handy's new book takes an emotional, intuitive look at the world of children's books, from Goodnight Moon to Charlotte's Web, which he calls "a mastery novel of ideas" about life and death.

Writing Magazine

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Champagne Books is a Canadian indie publishing electronic and trade paperback books specialising chiefly in romance and its sub genres, as well as SF, fantasy, NA and YA. The editorial team want entertaining exciting stories ‘to transport readers to

Writer's Digest

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You’ve written the first draft of your book or book proposal. You’ve let it sit in the proverbial drawer and gotten countless trusted beta readers to review your work. They all say it’s ready. So what does the future hold for you? We’ve consulted 20

SFX

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RELEASED 2 APRIL 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Claire McKenna Publisher Harper Voyager Not into romance in your fantasy novels? Fear not. Despite the title, this is very much a tale of Gothic passion, more akin to Rebecca or Jane Eyre i

Literary Hub

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I met Supergroup for the first time in the fall of 2008. Or rather, I met the members of Supergroup that fall, in a class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis called “Working on Your Novel.” We wouldn’t officially begin to call ourselves Superg

Cricket Magazine

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“ROGER, AGED SEVEN, AND NO LONGER THE YOUNGEST OF THE FAMILY, RAN IN WIDE ZIGZAGS, TO AND FRO, ACROSS THE STEEP FIELD THAT SLOPED UP FROM THE LAKE TO HOLLY HOWE, THE FARM WHERE THEY WERE STAYING FOR PART OF THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS.” SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS