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Tyche Books 🇨🇦
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A Canadian small-press specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and related non-fiction. www.tychebooks.com Calgary, AB She/Her
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For the holiday weekend, Adria Laycraft's book, Jumpship Dissonance is on sale on Kobo! You'll want to get caught up with this series, since the concluding volume, Jumpship Freedom, is coming your way in 2026.

Find it on Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
Book promo post. Blue green background of gradient shades, scored with dark purple distress marks. A book cover is on the left-hand side. It is Jumpship Dissonance by Adria Laycraft and shows a woman with red hair pulled into a ponytail and wearing a flight suit with metal wings hovering over the surface of the planet Mars. The planet is coloured in shades of red, orange, and pink with rough and rocky terrain. In the sky are visible the moons Phoebos and Damos and a space station with rings. Additional text is a blurb from Jennifer Rahn, author of Dark Corridor. "Thoughtful and provocative..." This is a book published by Tyche Books.
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Fabulous launch last night for Starship Librarians! Great readings, great turnout, and great conversation afterwards. If you missed the event & would like a copy of the book, Owl's Nest has some copies in stock now. #yyc
A candid photo of a row of authors signing copies of Starship Librarians. Authors R. Overwater, Trisha Jenn Loehr, Jennifer Rahn, editor Shannon Allen, author Lesley Moody, and editor JR Campbell standing in a line holding copies of Starship Librarians. They are smiling. Editors Shannon Allen and JR Campbell introducing their book, the anthology Starship Librarians to a room of people at a bookstore.
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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For some reason, I am thinking of this excellent cartoon by Kate Beaton on Hark! A Vagrant. (Read the complete Wuthering Heights pt 5 sequence: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
A comic strip entitled Dream Lover. A blond well-dressed man from the Victorian age says, "You think you're such a romantic hero don't you". Another man, dark and brooding (he is Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights) replies, "No I don't". In the second panel, the dark brooding man scowls and says, "Where in the book does it say that". He is holding a book in his hand. In the third panel, close-up of the book. The first man says, "Right here" and points to the book. On the book cover are the words: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. A woman. The first man's pointer finger rests by the word "woman".
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Barb is getting the hang of her new magical ability, but she's discovering that when magic is involved, nothing is easy. Not work, not neighbours, & definitely not family.

Pick up a copy of No Love Lost --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

www.amazon.com/dp/B0...
Book promo post. Lilac coloured background with the words "Now Available". A 3D mock-up of a book sits opposite the text. The cover shows a home office, with built-in bookshelves full of books, plants, pictures, gift-wrapping supplies, and other knickknacks. On a small circular table sits a desk lamp with the light directed at an ornate, open jewelry box with its contents spilling out. A pearl necklace has broken and pearls have spilled over the table and onto the floor. On the floor, a black and white tuxedo cat wearing a hideous studded collar plays with ribbon and wrapping paper. Next to the cat is a stack of books and albums, on top of which is a gold, heart-shaped locket, which is broken in two. It matches a picture on the bookshelves, which is a pink broken heart. The colour tones of the cover are in soft pinks and lavendars. The title is No Love Lost in gradiated yellow, and the author is Jane Glatt. No Love Lost is part of the Wrap-It-Up Magic series.
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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💥5 days!💥 Join us for an out-of-this-world book launch at Owl's Nest Books on November 17th! There will be 2 editors and 4 authors: shenanigans are practically guaranteed.
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Book Launch November 17 7 PM Owl's Nest Books
November 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Lest We Forget.

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below."
-In Flanders Field, John McCrae

A ghostly butterfly alights on a red poppy blossom, just opening up.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I'll add more as I think of them! Or hit me up with questions.

In the meantime, please enjoy the full setup from August 2025.
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Two 6-foot long tables full with books. The far ends have shelving units. The middle has crates and stacks of books everywhere.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Tip 5: Signs! Have signs identifying who you are. Have signs for special books. Have signs for your schedule at the event. Have pricing signs. (But monitor your crowd: we've discovered Calgary doesn't like "last copy" signs, while Edmonton loves them) They don't have to be fancy.
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Display for Carpe Noctem, which includes two signs. One sign lists the events for the book that weekend, including a panel and autograph sessions. The other sign is a blurb quote from Lilith Saintcrow. Multiple stacks of three books. There is a square hand-written sign that says "new this weekend".
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Tip 4: get vertical! Don't lay your books flat on a table. Don't display them all at one level. Differing heights is easier for people to see as they walk past & also gives you more room. Compare photos: one has books in a row at the same height. The other has books elevated & staggered.
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Publisher dressed in a steampunk dress. On the table in front of her is a straight line of books all at the same height. The display is functional & not eye-catching. Several books displayed around two crates. Some are on top of the crates, some in front, some within the crates. It's a dynamic display.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Tip 3: let your creativity shine in the display. Have fun with bookstands, shelving & signage. One friend has colour-coordinated shelves & tablecloths--her display is stunning. Here I've arranged three titles in different heights to catch the eye. I have book stands & a white crate liven it up.
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Three different titles arranged in different stack heights. Some are displayed on top of a white crate.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Tip 2: you don't need bling. It's tempting to get a lot of decorations to fill out your table, especially if you don't have many books, but they can be a distraction. We had some pretty cool steampunk decorations one year & that's all people wanted to buy--not our books. Which leads me to 👇
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Table corner with cool bottles filled with oddly-coloured liquids and two book displays.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Tip 1: get a tablecloth. It doesn't have to be fancy. The ones I use the most now I bought on clearance at a store. I didn't have a covering for a couple of years! Book boxes don't look good under your table display. & a good table covering gives you a nice pop of colour to show off your books.
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Two publishers at a book table. While the convention has provided a skirt around the table, the tabletop is a stark white because the publishers haven't brought their own tablecloth. The white table doesn't provide a good contrast to the handful of titles they are selling. Two women sit at a table. While they clearly are still setting up their display, there is no tablecloth. Underneath the table you can see their legs and many book boxes.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Saw a thread on table displays the other day, & while I did reply to that directly, I thought it would be fun to do a thread on it, too. Learn from my mistakes!

(photo is from WWC 2025, photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People)
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Publisher with long brown hair standing behind the book table, laughing. She is surrounded by books at different heights on various types of shelving. Photo credit: David Kotsibie / Persuasion Photo and Janis Isaman / Photos of People
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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The Librarian struggles against an authoritarian government in Mackensie Baker's "What They Don't Tell You."

Get inspired! Find a copy--> www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Opening Lines. "There was a patron at the door." Mackensie Baker from "What They Don't Tell You"
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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🎉Happy book birthday to @janeglatt.bsky.social Jane Glatt! No Love Lost, the second book in the Wrap-It-Up Magic series, is out today! 🎉

Amazon: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
Book promo post. Lilac coloured background with the words "Now Available". A 3D mock-up of a book sits opposite the text. The cover shows a home office, with built-in bookshelves full of books, plants, pictures, gift-wrapping supplies, and other knickknacks. On a small circular table sits a desk lamp with the light directed at an ornate, open jewelry box with its contents spilling out. A pearl necklace has broken and pearls have spilled over the table and onto the floor. On the floor, a black and white tuxedo cat wearing a hideous studded collar plays with ribbon and wrapping paper. Next to the cat is a stack of books and albums, on top of which is a gold, heart-shaped locket, which is broken in two. It matches a picture on the bookshelves, which is a pink broken heart. The colour tones of the cover are in soft pinks and lavendars. The title is No Love Lost in gradiated yellow, and the author is Jane Glatt. No Love Lost is part of the Wrap-It-Up Magic series.
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃

🎶With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop
He's out looking for a head to swap🎶
Animated Headless Horseman from Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Horseman, wearing black clothing and a red cape, sits astride a rearing, black horse. He is holding a lit jack o'lantern in one hand which he throws at the viewer. The flaming jack o'lantern flies through a old-fashioned, red, wooden covered bridge.
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The Librarians and library in Kayla Whittle's story "The Thriving Green" are nigh-mythical, living deep within the ship. Seek them out, if you dare.

Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Opening Lines. "They said if you had a question no one could answer, you had to go into the walls."Kayla Whittle from "The Thriving Green"
October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Younger readers can get chills & thrills in Flashback by Simon Rose.

Max's new ghostly friend reveals twenty-year-old secrets. Secrets that someone will go to deadly lengths to keep concealed.

Scare the kids --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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Book promo post. Background image is a dark, stormy gray, with silhouettes of bare-branched trees and gravestones and swirls of white mist. 3D mock-up of Flashback by Simon Rose, which shows a boy and a ghostly boy standing by a gravestone. Instead of words, the gravestone displays a creepy image of a boy strapped to a medical gurney. Creepy trees and additional headstones surround the boys. Additional text says, "an action-packed adventure perfect for middle-grade readers" from Can-Lit for Little Canadians.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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What do you do when you realize you've been the villain all along?

Find out in Helix: Sedition by Pat Flewwelling.

www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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Book promo graphic. Text says: I'm amazed by the way Flewwelling keeps multiple balls in the air, effortlessly juggling shapeshifters, politics, science gone wrong, mysteries, and characters you can't help but like even if you suspect you shouldn't. Tanya Huff, author of the Henry Fitzroy Blood books & the Confederation of Valour series. Additional text says Sedition, Now Available. Opposite the text is a 3D mock up of the cover for Sedition by Pat Flewwelling. It features a dark, cloaked figure with glowing red eyes. Tentacles wave around the figure.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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The Marie Jenner Mysteries boxset 2 is also on sale! Get books 4-6 with one easy click.

Looks like Marie's life is going to get interesting. Again.

Get haunted here --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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3-D mock-up of a boxset. The omnibus is the Marie Jenner Mysteries, volumes 4 through 6. The boxset slipcase features a young woman with dark hair wearing an aqua coloured dress. Mist swirls around her and between her fingers. The spines of the individual books are visible on the open end of the boxset. The book titles are Dying on Second, Hearing Voices, and Haunting the Haunted.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Meet Marie Jenner: Her job sucks. Her apartment — the one with the unbreakable lease — has a ghost. And worst of all, her mother won’t let up about her joining the “family business.”

Get started: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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Book promo post. Blue-toned background image of the Edmonton skyline. The book cover is for Seeing the Light. It is also a sapphire blue toned image, with a dark haired woman in a black dress stares out at us. Tendrils of smoke curl around her. Behind her is the skyline of the city of Edmonton. Additional promo text says All Marie wants is a normal life. She isn't going to get it.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Helix: Plague of Ghouls by Pat Flewwelling is also on sale for Halloween!

X-Files in small-town Ontario, complete with government conspiracies, disturbing deaths (murders??), & implausible supernatural theories.

Try it --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
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Book promo. Background is dark brown with distressed scratches of a lighter brown marring the colour. The book cover features a group of people in a rough vee formation: a short stocky woman with short hair, a man with short dark hair; another man at the point of the vee, with a silhouette of a panther shadowing his torso; a tall woman; and a long-haired man. They stand in front of an SUV, which is parked in front of a gas station slash convenience store. Additional promo text reads: Ishmael's new Pack investigates a series of strange deaths in small-town Ontario. Disaster waits for them.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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All Hallow's Eve rapidly approaches! There are some great Halloween deals on Kobo.

Hearing Voices by E.C. Bell - Marie is enlisted to find out who on the hospital staff is killing patients. Her clients? The ghosts.

Find it --> www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

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Book promo post. Background is a creepy hospital hallway in shades of purple. On the left is a 3-D mock-up of Hearing Voices by E.C. Bell, which features a dark haired young woman wearing a tank top and staring intently at the viewer. Behind her stretches the creepy hospital hallway that is used for the background image. Additional text says Now Available.
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Rick Overwater's protagonist in "Fifth Book from the Sun" is an ex-solider who teams up with the Librarians, freedom fighters leading a movement against an oppressive government.

Get a copy of Starship Librarians! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4ZKNHX
Book promo post. A textured orange-hued background with a book cover overlaid it. The book cover is for Starship Librarians and features a humanoid librarian in a retro-coloured spacesuit of oranges, creams, and teal, shelves books. They are framed by a window looking out onto space. Behind them is a bookcart with thrusters instead of wheels. Additional text says Opening Lines. "I figured recruitment would be difficult this far into the desert." Rick Overwater from "Fifth Book from the Sun"
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🎃One WEEK until Halloween! 🎃Have you stocked up on your ghostly & haunted reads yet?

Check out Kobo's spooky story sale!

Marie Jenner Mysteries: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

Sedition: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...

Flashback: www.kobo.com/ca/en/e...
Book promo post. Grey watercolour background, with cobwebs across the top and in the lower left corner. Text says Rakuten Kobo Haunted Stories Sale. October 1 through 31. In the centre are three book covers: Marie Jenner Mysteries 4 through 6, which features a brunette woman in a teal dress, surrounded by mist; Flashback by Simon Rose, which shows a boy and a ghostly boy standing by a gravestone, with creepy trees on the edges; and Helix: Sedition, by Pat Flewwelling, which shows a shrouded figure with glowing eyes, holding their arms up in a powerful gesture, and tentacles waving across the cover.
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM