Book Smugglers Publishing Announces: 2016 – The Year of the Superhero
We have a couple of big announcements to make so brace yourselves: this is going to be super awesome. BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PROUDLY PRESENTS 2016 – The Year of the Superhero First there were...
View ArticleDecoding the Newbery: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Decoding the Newbery is a monthly column in which Newbery Medal winners are examined and deconstructed by regular contributor and author Catherine Faris King. This month, Catherine examines the first...
View ArticleOld School Wednesdays Dark Tower Reread: The Waste Lands by Stephen King
Old School Wednesdays presents Thea’s epic reread of The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. May we be well-met, fellow traveler. THIS MONTH ON THE DARK TOWER: The Waste Lands has long been Thea’s...
View ArticleOver at Kirkus: Wayward (Vol. 1) by Jim Zub & Steven Cummings
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus for our regular weekly column! Today it’s Thea’s turn to review, and she takes a look at a new graphic novel from Image Comics. Wayward: String Theory...
View ArticleOn the Smugglers’ Radar
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon...
View ArticleSmugglers’ Stash & News
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! We’re still trying to wrap our heads around Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max, but in the meantime let’s get down to business. Around the Interwebs: It’s BEA Time! Well,...
View ArticleReading Comics: A Look At Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine...
Only four issues into this new comics and my love for it knows no bounds. Bitch Planet is a pulpy dystopian series written by Kelly Sue DeConnick (Of the excellent Pretty Deadly and Captain Marvel) and...
View ArticleBook Review: Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
History, self-awareness, negotiated boundaries and family secrets are at the heart of Gone Crazy in Alabama, the third – and final – book in Rita Williams Garcia’s excellent Gaither Sisters series....
View ArticleReading Comics: Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
Ana’s adventures in Reading Comics continue with Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Title: Nimona Author: Noelle Stevenson Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date:...
View ArticleJoint Review: An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
The hype is strong with this one. At one point, An Ember in the Ashes was everywhere we looked. From newsletters from big websites and emails from the publisher to (positive) reviews everywhere...
View ArticleOver at Kirkus: Our Most Coveted SFF Books at BEA
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus for our regular weekly column! Today it’s Thea’s turn, as she gets ready to head into the biggest trade show of the year: BookExpo America! Check out the...
View ArticleOn the Smugglers’ Radar
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon...
View ArticleSmugglers’ Stash and News
Hello everyone and a Happy Sunday to all! I am thoroughly gutted that I don’t get to go to BEA with Thea this week. *grump* If you are off to BEA though (Wednesday May 27 through Friday May 29), don’t...
View ArticleApplication for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B:...
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their Inspirations and Influences. In this feature, we invite writers to talk about...
View ArticleApplication for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B by...
A short story – in questionnaire format – from Kathrin Köhler Application for the Delegation of First Contact: Questionnaire, Part B by Kathrin Köhler Published 5/26/2015 A questionnaire, developed by...
View ArticleOld School Wednesdays June Poll
As you probably know by now, Old School Wednesdays is a new weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when we were feeling exhausted from the never-ending...
View ArticleSFF in Conversation: “On Diversity” Round Table with M Sereno, Aliette de...
SFF in Conversation is a new monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is...
View ArticleOver at Kirkus: Revision by Andrea Phillips
It’s Friday! Which means we are over at Kirkus… Today, Ana takes a look at the SciFi novel Revision by Andrea Phillips Go over there to hear more.
View ArticleOn the Smugglers’ Radar
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon...
View ArticleSmugglers Stash & News
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! For those of you who went to BEA and/or BookCon, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU MADE IT! (Thea is still recovering from Javits overload, meanwhile Ana is returning from a lovely...
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