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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 18m

For the evening people, for the people on the other side of the rift.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4h

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Super thrilled to have acquired The Riven Kingdom by
@julietemckenna.bsky.social

A high fantasy blending politics, religion and a battle for a dead king’s throne.

Click to go to The British Fantasy Society for more details:

britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 2h

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4h

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Super thrilled to have acquired The Riven Kingdom by
@julietemckenna.bsky.social

A high fantasy blending politics, religion and a battle for a dead king’s throne.

Click to go to The British Fantasy Society for more details:

britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 10h

“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others.”

Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 23h

This! Oh, this.

K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 1d

If your writing helps even one person, it's worth doing
Especially if that one person is you

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing Our Gifted Hearts by Jennifer Kennedy the very happiest of Book Birthdays.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!

25% preorder sale at Waterstones!

(Don't tell anyone we told you.)

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

On 13 November, join me, @justmarvewrites.bsky.social , @stewarthotston.com and @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social at Waterstones Covent Garden for a discussion of religion in epic fantasy! Tickets now on sale! www.waterstones.com/events/kill-...

A promotional graphic for the event with author photos, book thumbnails etc. The only info here that isn't in the main post is the event start time, which is six PM.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

What Gareth said.

NOTHING sells books better than the enthusiasm of a friend or someone whose opinion you trust who has read it.

(Which is not to say that publishers should rely on it.)

Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · 1d

We're taking part in Angry Robot's blog tour for OUR GIFTED HEARTS, out today! Author Jennifer Kennedy joins us and tells us why she loves the Gothic genre so much:

"It pulls you into another world where our shadow selves have a voice"

Read more: tinyurl.com/3hxjz55j

@angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.”
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder that E. Nesbit wrote the greatest opening to a ghost story ever.

THIS is not an artistically rounded off ghost story and nothing is explained in it; and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told. You must have noticed that all the real ghost stories you ever come close to are like this in these respects: no explanation, no logical coherence. Here is the story.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

Octavia Butler

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 4d

Terms of Service, by @cielpierlot.bsky.social (pub by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent blend of science fantasy that touches a theme that each day is more relevant, and a complex and nuanced main character.

Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/term...

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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite

In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"TERRIFYING TALES OF CLAWED CREATURES WITH MURDEROUS INTENT" is the sort of admirably honest and non-pretentious tagline that we could do with much more of.

The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 4d

OK, come on. How can you resist a book called 'Things With Claws'? 1961 Ballantine paperback anthology with a cover by the incomparable Richard Powers.
#BookWormSat #vintagepaperback #vintagepaperback

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · Jun 11

Baba Jaga, Ala, and Niko that I painted for the lovely @veronicaroth.bsky.social - all characters from her new novella 'When Among Crows' (that I also did the cover illustration of!) ✨

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 4d

Have you got your ticket yet?

British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 20d

Tickets are now available for our next workshop! Bring the Fight with Stewart Hotston @stewarthotston.com

In this workshop we’ll explore what’s important to us about fight scenes, why conflict makes for interesting stories and how we identify what works for us.

A graphic with a white zig-zag down the the middle, dark red on one side and orange on the other. Text reads: Bring the Fight: a workshop on writing convincing battle scenes with Stew Hotston. Sunday 12th October, 2pm, via zoom. Tickets £5 for members, £10 for non-members www.britishfantasysociety.org

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet."

Patricia McKillip

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 4d

The first bits of swag have arrived for the launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social - stickers of Prab, one of the characters from the book and of the cover itself. @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Two srickers. The one on the left an image of Prab from Project Hanuman - a brown woman with long black curly hair holding a leather satchel and dressed in a blue pants suit.

The second sticker a cover of the book itself

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d

For the evening people.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Last but not least in our cover reveal catch-up week is Hunt The Ever Wild coming 23rd June 2026 from the excellent S.E. Kiser.

Forest-core, dark-gaslamp fantasy plus slow-burn rivals-to-lovers. All the hyphens! Plus curses, magical creatures, witches and a competition where everything is at stake.

A cover reveal panel featuring the cover of a book called Hunt the Ever Wold by S.E. Kiser. The cover features a rich forest border with, amongst others an exotic moth and a phoenix.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d

a woman is wearing a black shirt and a necklace with a disney logo on it .

ALT: a woman is wearing a black shirt and a necklace with a disney logo on it .

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 5d

SCENTED INK PROMOTION ANNOUNCEMENT.

In an exciting new marketing development we are delighted to confirm that our books are printed with ink that has been delicately infused with carbon black, resin, humectants, defoamers, wetting amine, biocides and bacteriostats.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats' which is out now in the UK, USA, Canada, France and Germany. Order from your local bookshops or online: www.tomgauld.com/

Two beetles on a stick.
One beetle says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out to reveal that they are in a glass case with two scientists studying them.
One scientist says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
Zoom out into space. Abouard a spaceship, two aliens watch the scientists on a screen.
One alien says to the other "Do you ever get the feeling we are being observed by another lifeform"
The aliens turn to look out at the reader.

Text below the cartoon reads:
From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld. Preorder it at www.tomgauld.

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5d

A Flemish folktale says people never went near the dunes at night because it was haunted. A man decided to risk it anyway and was knocked over by a ghost who appeared as a headless horse. It stomped on him so badly that he was lucky to live to tell the tale.

🎨Jaroslav Panuska
#PhantomsFriday

Artwork of a white headless horse running in the night. Grass, dark cloudy background.

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 5d

It's just 28 days to WFC. PR3 has gone out and with it the news about our new MC. We are very sorry to lose Sarah Pinborough but delighted to welcome Joanne Harris.
Joanne Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written over 20 novels, published in over 50 countries.

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