Arina
@readingrogue.bsky.social
SFF book reviewer at https://queensbookasylum.com and https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com. SPFBO judge. Gobbler of space murder mysteries, morally-gray rogues and snarky AI. 🏴🇵🇹
Pls read review policy before requesting: https://linktr.ee/thereadingrogue
Pls read review policy before requesting: https://linktr.ee/thereadingrogue
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Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
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#Booksky We would love to get some more eyeballs on our latest title, M.Christian’s gay vampires with a twist novel, RUNNING DRY. Are you a book reviewer (any platform) who enjoys queer horror? Let us help! We have eARCs!
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#Booksky We would love to get some more eyeballs on our latest title, M.Christian’s gay vampires with a twist novel, RUNNING DRY. Are you a book reviewer (any platform) who enjoys queer horror? Let us help! We have eARCs!
Already got my ticket
Hey, folks. We hope you're all recovered from WFC & had the best time.
If you're already suffering con withdrawals, be comforted that Glasgow 2026 is now the official seated Fantasycon. Only 11 months to go!
And here's a little something to whet your appetite!
youtu.be/J8Q8uB0brq4
If you're already suffering con withdrawals, be comforted that Glasgow 2026 is now the official seated Fantasycon. Only 11 months to go!
And here's a little something to whet your appetite!
youtu.be/J8Q8uB0brq4
Toss A Groat To Your Redcloak
YouTube video by British Fantasy Society
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Already got my ticket
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️
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Would anyone like to take part in a neat cover reveal on December 3rd? (Preferably US but will take UK people too)
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Would anyone like to take part in a neat cover reveal on December 3rd? (Preferably US but will take UK people too)
Rode a burst of productivity yesterday to tidy up my bookshelf. Found out:
1) Shelves are just deep enough to triple stack the good old uk paperback.
2) I now need a few raisers to actually see the books in the back.
3) I'm able to not obsess about having a system and have instead a semi-system.
1) Shelves are just deep enough to triple stack the good old uk paperback.
2) I now need a few raisers to actually see the books in the back.
3) I'm able to not obsess about having a system and have instead a semi-system.
November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Rode a burst of productivity yesterday to tidy up my bookshelf. Found out:
1) Shelves are just deep enough to triple stack the good old uk paperback.
2) I now need a few raisers to actually see the books in the back.
3) I'm able to not obsess about having a system and have instead a semi-system.
1) Shelves are just deep enough to triple stack the good old uk paperback.
2) I now need a few raisers to actually see the books in the back.
3) I'm able to not obsess about having a system and have instead a semi-system.
Been buying the GoT illustrated editions because they're beautiful and affordable special editions to only now see that Feast for Crows is an AI art shitshow 🫠
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Been buying the GoT illustrated editions because they're beautiful and affordable special editions to only now see that Feast for Crows is an AI art shitshow 🫠
Reading for GdM today is The Silverblood Promise by James Logan and I'm enjoying the beginning very much
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reading for GdM today is The Silverblood Promise by James Logan and I'm enjoying the beginning very much
When you think you're about to have a crap day but then Veronica Roth has a new book
👀
👀
here's the (gorgeous) cover for my next book, Seek the Traitor's Son!
Quick pitch:
It's about the daughter of a bounty hunter
the Knight sworn to protect her
...and the prophecy that ruins both of their lives.
5/12/26!
Art: @pablohurtado.bsky.social
Cover design: @katieklim.bsky.social
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here's the (gorgeous) cover for my next book, Seek the Traitor's Son!
Quick pitch:
It's about the daughter of a bounty hunter
the Knight sworn to protect her
...and the prophecy that ruins both of their lives.
5/12/26!
Art: @pablohurtado.bsky.social
Cover design: @katieklim.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When you think you're about to have a crap day but then Veronica Roth has a new book
This post was prompted by Brian Lee Durfee being the funniest booktuber and such a delight to watch!!
Top 3 best matketing tools for an author that will get me 100% buying their books:
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This post was prompted by Brian Lee Durfee being the funniest booktuber and such a delight to watch!!
If you're a fan of eldritch horror, there's a scene in When They Burned the Butterfly I can't get out of my head and I have fallen asleep thinking about it every day since finishing the book!!
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you're a fan of eldritch horror, there's a scene in When They Burned the Butterfly I can't get out of my head and I have fallen asleep thinking about it every day since finishing the book!!
Ohhhhhh 👀
Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—it’s got ghosts and witches and creepy crawlies and demons, all coming for you in three weeks!
Thank you,
@cadwellturnbull.bsky.social, for the kind words!
More info ⬇️
Thank you,
@cadwellturnbull.bsky.social, for the kind words!
More info ⬇️
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ohhhhhh 👀
Top 3 best matketing tools for an author that will get me 100% buying their books:
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Top 3 best matketing tools for an author that will get me 100% buying their books:
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
1. Be nice to people
2. Be cool on youtube
3. Own a cool sword
Gorgeous cover and cool premise. What else do you need?
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.
THE KING MUST DIE is out today! If you love stories about found families, revolutions, and second chances, this book’s for you.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Gorgeous cover and cool premise. What else do you need?
And I am required to love it
I am required to show off this spectacular cover (artist: Juan Bernabeu) for my near future political novelette coming on @reactorsff.bsky.social on Nov 5.
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
And I am required to love it
When you're so used to the tiny yet mighty mass market you forgot how big paperback can actually get
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
When you're so used to the tiny yet mighty mass market you forgot how big paperback can actually get
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🌈🩷 Cover reveal! I’m so excited to share the cover for my queer romantic murder mystery, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART. Published by Penguin RH August 2026 in the US/UK/Canada/Australia. Next summer, LOVE SUCKS! #coverreveal #lgbtauthor #lgbtbooks
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
🌈🩷 Cover reveal! I’m so excited to share the cover for my queer romantic murder mystery, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART. Published by Penguin RH August 2026 in the US/UK/Canada/Australia. Next summer, LOVE SUCKS! #coverreveal #lgbtauthor #lgbtbooks
Could not agree more 🙂
Good morning, and happy Sunday!
Today, we share our first Guest Post of A Month of Rain and Reads. In it @zzclaybourne.bsky.social talks about reading as a connection rather than as an escape.
How have your favourite books change you?
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w...
#AMoRaR #BooksSky
Today, we share our first Guest Post of A Month of Rain and Reads. In it @zzclaybourne.bsky.social talks about reading as a connection rather than as an escape.
How have your favourite books change you?
www.readindiefantasy.com/guest-post-w...
#AMoRaR #BooksSky
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Could not agree more 🙂
Now that's how you market a book
Ahead of its release next week, why not take a sneak peek at an excerpt of @rainewilson.bsky.social 's THE SALT ORACLE? A locked boat murder mystery in a giant floating college plagued by digital ghosts!
Read @scifinow.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4kwsu1j
Preorder: https://geni.us/saltorac
Read @scifinow.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4kwsu1j
Preorder: https://geni.us/saltorac
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Now that's how you market a book
When you preorder a cool book AND you get cool art for it ❤️
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When you preorder a cool book AND you get cool art for it ❤️
Hyped!!
Cover reveal: The Curse of Dragon Tail Island
(Jan 2026)
Dragonlance meets Pirates of the Caribbean in this swashbuckling pirate fantasy - a revenge fueled tale of clashing cutlasses, monsters and magic, second-chance romance, and salty sea adventure! 🦜
More info: www.jonathannevair.com/press-kit
(Jan 2026)
Dragonlance meets Pirates of the Caribbean in this swashbuckling pirate fantasy - a revenge fueled tale of clashing cutlasses, monsters and magic, second-chance romance, and salty sea adventure! 🦜
More info: www.jonathannevair.com/press-kit
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hyped!!
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The *vast* majority of sales come through Amazon. And when readers boycott Amazon, they don't in general shift to buying indie books elsewhere. They simply stop buying indie books.
I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
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I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
2/2
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The *vast* majority of sales come through Amazon. And when readers boycott Amazon, they don't in general shift to buying indie books elsewhere. They simply stop buying indie books.
I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
2/2
I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.
2/2
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🎃UK GIVEAWAY!🎃
It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com !
Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter.
Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25
It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com !
Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter.
Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🎃UK GIVEAWAY!🎃
It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com !
Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter.
Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25
It's #seasonofthewitch & you can win these books from @alexgrecian.bsky.social @natania.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com !
Like, follow, repost & drop a pumpkin in the comments to enter.
Closes 23:59 GMT 1/11/25
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SNEAK PEEK at my COVER/TITLE REVEAL.
Drops tomorrow me hearties!
🦜🏴☠️🏝️⚓
Drops tomorrow me hearties!
🦜🏴☠️🏝️⚓
October 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
SNEAK PEEK at my COVER/TITLE REVEAL.
Drops tomorrow me hearties!
🦜🏴☠️🏝️⚓
Drops tomorrow me hearties!
🦜🏴☠️🏝️⚓
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I’m in awe of the support we’ve received today for THE BOOK OF SPORES. This community came together like a colony of mushrooms to spread the word (and spores) about this anthology 🍄❤️
THE BOOK OF SPORES launches soon on Kickstarter! Check out the pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
THE BOOK OF SPORES launches soon on Kickstarter! Check out the pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I’m in awe of the support we’ve received today for THE BOOK OF SPORES. This community came together like a colony of mushrooms to spread the word (and spores) about this anthology 🍄❤️
THE BOOK OF SPORES launches soon on Kickstarter! Check out the pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...
THE BOOK OF SPORES launches soon on Kickstarter! Check out the pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...