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Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe
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Kristen (she/her) writes about SFF books at Fantasy Cafe, host of Women in SF&F Month in April. Vermont/Upper Valley. Likes: Myths, wordsmithery, complex characters, dark stories, Baldur's Gate 3, cats, birds.

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Fantasy Cafe, aka Fantasy Book Cafe @fantasycafe.bsky.social · Apr 30
Thank you so much to all of this year's Women in SF&F Month guests!

You can find all of their essays at the link below, or you can find them in this thread.

www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/04/wome...

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐
Women in SF&F Month 2025: Thank You and Links | Fantasy Cafe
A wrap-up post for Women in SF&F Month 2025 that includes a link to browse guest posts and a brief summary of each guest post with its link.
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“THE MERCY MAKERS is well-constructed, with compelling characters, interesting worldbuilding, and a strong voice.” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from @tessagratton.bsky.social
The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton: Review by Liz Bourke
The Mercy Makers, Tessa Gratton (Orbit 978-0-31657-879-0, $19.99, 560pp, tp) June 2025. Tessa Gratton’s The Mercy Makers is a peculiar, meditative fantasy novel. It’s concerned, as many recent fant…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Review of THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, which was a solid book with some great worldbuilding and a protagonist in her thirties with some life experience but also had a lot of journeying and slow pacing.

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SpecFic 📚🪐

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Review of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott | Fantasy Cafe
Review of epic fantasy novel THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, the first book in a duology that concludes with THE NAMELESS LAND.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Out now over on Lady Business, my (non-spoilery for the second book, not for the first) review of The Nameless Land by Kate Elliott. The Witch Roads duology is complete!

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Screencap of a slice of The Nameless Land cover by Kate Eliott. A woman and a man stand side by side on a dirt road, backs to the viewer, looking into the distance where there's a riverland plain covered by fog. Text selections read: The Witch Roads Book II and "An absolute gem of a story."
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
fantasycafe.bsky.social
Review of THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, which was a solid book with some great worldbuilding and a protagonist in her thirties with some life experience but also had a lot of journeying and slow pacing.

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SpecFic 📚🪐

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Review of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott | Fantasy Cafe
Review of epic fantasy novel THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott, the first book in a duology that concludes with THE NAMELESS LAND.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I'm thrilled and grateful that Cory Doctorow (!!!) read and reviewed my short story collection "Letters from an Imaginary Country." And very glad he liked it. :)

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Theodora Goss’s ‘Letters From an Imaginary Country’
Short stories so expertly spun you’ll hardly know you’ve been ensnared.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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In addition to the giveaway, you can read "Writing as Witchcraft," an essay by Theodora Goss!

"It does not seem a coincidence that the word “spell” means both an enchantment and how to write a word—if you can spell the right words in the right way, you can cast an enchantment over your reader."
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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PUB TOMORROW!

LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY by World Fantasy Award winner @theodoragoss.bsky.social

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introduction by @bluejo.bsky.social

3 #giveways

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#goodreads buff.ly/055IqCm

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Cover to Letters from an Imaginary Country Art by Catrin Welz-Stein Design by Elizabeth Story
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Dear lovely folks, this is a quick reminder that Fantasy Book Cafe has very kindly published a guest post of mine, called "Writing as Witchcraft," and it's also sponsoring a book giveaway for my collection Letters from an Imaginary Country. Here is the link: www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/11/theo...
Theodora Goss Guest Post and Book Giveaway | Fantasy Cafe
Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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renay.bsky.social
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! 🥳
Intergalactic Mixtape #27
Hey! This week there’s World Fantasy Award news, the regular deluge of new book lists for the month, and a diverse collection of reviews! And speaking of...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Psst! Illumicrate currently have a sale on! If you wanted to grab a copy of the special edition of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST, it’s currently available at 25% off!

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A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde book only (Illumicrate 'Ancient
A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde book only (Illumicrate 'Ancient Artefacts' Exclusive) is an adult fantasy and the first in a duology. The Illumicrate Exclusive edition features: an exclusive re...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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renay.bsky.social
While reorganizing my bookshelves, I somehow found the strength to not open books and start reading them, but I compromised by making a list of the ones I wish I could read again for the first time!

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November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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"What I want to argue, through examining these metaphors, is that writing is essentially witchcraft."

Read "Writing as Witchcraft" by @theodoragoss.bsky.social & enter to win LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY!

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐

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Theodora Goss Guest Post and Book Giveaway | Fantasy Cafe
Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).

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THE NAMELESS LAND by Kate Elliott (book two of The Witch Roads duology). So, yes, it completes the story. Cover by Raja Nandepu depicts two individuals standing side by side on a road, backs to the viewer, lookinginto a misty distance where a castle. The man is wearing a fancy knee length coat with embroidery. If you look closely at the woman's right arm, you might see a viper.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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"What I want to argue, through examining these metaphors, is that writing is essentially witchcraft."

Read "Writing as Witchcraft" by @theodoragoss.bsky.social & enter to win LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY!

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐

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Theodora Goss Guest Post and Book Giveaway | Fantasy Cafe
Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I wrote a thing. :) It's called "Writing as Witchcraft," and it's up on Fantasy Book Cafe. Here's a pull quote:

"What I want to argue, through examining these metaphors, is that writing is essentially witchcraft."

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Theodora Goss Guest Post and Book Giveaway | Fantasy Cafe
Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
fantasycafe.bsky.social
New guest post and book giveaway! "Writing as Witchcraft" by @theodoragoss.bsky.social with a chance to win a copy of her short story collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY, coming out next week!

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SciFi #SpecFic 📚🪐

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Theodora Goss Guest Post and Book Giveaway | Fantasy Cafe
Guest post on writing as witchcraft by speculative fiction author Thedora Goss with a book giveaway of her collection LETTERS FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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On a planet damaged by rushed terraforming, a bodyguard-turned-reluctant rebel joins the last dregs of her parents’ failed uprising...

THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
Cover for THE KING MUST DIE, illustrated by the amazing Eleonor Piteira.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I only just became aware that Katherine Arden has a new novel coming out next year: THE UNICORN HUNTERS. Excited for a new historical fantasy by her since I loved the Winternight trilogy!

#Books #BookSky 📚💙 #Fantasy #SpecFic 📚🪐
Cover of THE UNICORN HUNTERS: A NOVEL by Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE. It shows the side of a woman in a long dress standing amidst some pillars facing some plants and a unicorn leaping toward her on the right side of the cover.
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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“Tasha Suri has always had talent and verve, but with THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA reached a new level of accomplishment. A master at work: completely and exuberantly in control of her craft.” @hawkwing_lb reviews @tashasuri.bsky.social
The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri: Review by Liz Bourke
The Isle in the Silver Sea, Tasha Suri (Orbit US 978-0-316-59508-7, $29.99, 496pp, hc) October 2025. The last time I was this excited – this thrilled, this transported – reading a novel for the fir…
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October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Tomorrow is the last day to enter to win a copy of THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, a new short story collection that also includes a couple of nonfiction pieces and an introduction by Ellen Kushner. (This is a US only giveaway.)

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Giveaway: The Essential Patricia A. McKillip | Fantasy Cafe
Giveaway of fantasy/speculative fiction collection THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, which also contains 2 nonfiction pieces and an introduction by SWORDSPOINT author Ellen Kushner.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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I LIKE BIG BIRDS AND I CANNOT LIE
mattfnwallace.bsky.social Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 13d
Manticore-hunting Ester and Zahra, her mythic creature partner in crime, are a fantastic character study of grief and obsession and the bonds of trauma and ultimately hope. They’re also just hard af. They make Fonda Lee’s Untethered Sky one of my favorite works of monster hunter fiction.
The cover of untethered Sky by Fonda Lee featuring a young woman at the bow of a ship with a giant birdlike creature spreading its wings behind her
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Tomorrow is the last day to enter to win a copy of THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, a new short story collection that also includes a couple of nonfiction pieces and an introduction by Ellen Kushner. (This is a US only giveaway.)

www.fantasybookcafe.com/2025/10/give...
Giveaway: The Essential Patricia A. McKillip | Fantasy Cafe
Giveaway of fantasy/speculative fiction collection THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP, which also contains 2 nonfiction pieces and an introduction by SWORDSPOINT author Ellen Kushner.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC!

The window will close after 500 submissions are received.

More information:
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If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.
Fiction Submissions Opening Indigenous Authors November 3rd at 9 am UTC
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Day 3 of Black Spec Fic month recs!

1. BLOODCHILD by Octavia E. Butler
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bloodchild...

2. THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS by Karen Lord
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3. Free bonus from me: FIRE IN HIS EYES, BLOOD ON HIS TEETH
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Enjoy!
Bloodchild and Other Stories|Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner ...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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For anyone in Boston, this is a quick reminder that there will be a book launch for Letters from an Imaginary Country at Trident Bookstore on November 11! The event is free, but there is a link where you can reserve a free ticket: theodora-goss-event-jjbhy.tripleseattickets.com/registration...
Book launch graphic for Letters from an Imaginary Country: Theodora Goss in conversation with Auston Habershaw, November 11, 6:00 pm at Trident Booksellers and Cafe in Boston, Massachusetts.
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM