Eeee, it’s Nov 3! Happy book birthday to me! 📖🍰

? Not sure how to interpret this, but assuming it's not meant to be hostile.

Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks,
4 stars,
I recommend it to Banks fans and to patient readers.

In my experience, with a Nook or Kobo, you can do all vendors except Amazon. For Amazon, you need a Kindle. But we love our e-readers. Great battery life, good storage, and waterproof for the bath, too!

Just a reminder to those who publish #ebooks only on Amazon that you're cutting off a substantial audience, now that it's impossible (I think) to get Amazon ebooks onto non-Kindle e-readers.

I've been frustrated that several books I'd like to buy are only on Amazon and not available in libraries.

Got back from a West Coast trip to see family and found this waiting for me. My contributor copies of this very cool space horror anthology!

Le Guin Prize winner Rebecca Campbell's debut collection is out this week!

Three-time World Fantasy Award Winner Andy Duncan says THE OTHER SHORE is “A landmark first collection from an extraordinary writer. Like an autoharpist from the hills, Campbell makes a high lonesome sound all her own.”

Want to check out my Weird/dark eco-fantasy/horror novelette, the Final Sight?

It’s kind of like Princess Mononoke meets True Grit in a desert post apocalyptic landscape.

Fun stuff :)

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.

Check it out at Interstellar Flight Press & while you're there you can sign up for the online launch on November 3!

Vanessa Fogg's first story collection comes out next month. It is excellent. Highly recommended.

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PSA to those who live in the US, no matter how disillusioned you may be, vote in local elections and encourage your friends and family to do so. One of the big problems for liberals is low turnout for lower level elections, which puts in people who approve of gerrymandering tactics for the big ones.

There is, as it happens, a brand new issue of Kaleidotrope.

When Mothers Dream – Brenda Cooper

A moving and beautiful collection.

The Face in the Abyss - A. Merritt,
3.5 stars,
An effective escapist adventure.

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

"Mycelium" is out at Podcastle.

The narration is wonderful and gives such a voice to the story. I'm so grateful to narrator Tatiana Grey and the whole @podcastle.org team for the amazing work they did on this story.

podcastle.org/2025/09/30/p...

Submissions are now closed for TRUNK.
For the curious:
- Average # of rejections was 27.
- Average story length was 4,500.
- No real difference between held and declined.

HELD for consideration: 14%
That will be trimmed down quite a bit over the next week or so, and more slowly thereafter.

I've said many times that if I only read books by people whose politics I agreed with, I'd read very few books. There just aren't that many vegan, animal rights-supporting leftists writing SFF.
I do try to avoid work by writers I think are just bad people personally, regardless of their politics.

This Inevitable Ruin - Matt Dinniman,
4 stars,
I'm still on board for more.

Wakers - Orson Scott Card,
3 stars,
Okay for YA readers.

Just about one week left to submit to TRUNK.

PS It's not a big deal, but to those of you who provide the info we ask for and format your titles the way we like, I see you and thank you for saving me time and trouble.

An exciting summation of upcoming Democratic powers or a depressing list of broken laws and norms? You decide!
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