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Just released!
A bright red book cover showing a pentagon surrounded by question marks, with a trench-coated silhouette in the center: BlankAnon, by Justin Robinson. It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat my first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Quick reminder - BlankAnon is out tomorrow!
A bright red book cover showing a pentagon surrounded by question marks, with a trench-coated silhouette in the center: BlankAnon, by Justin Robinson. It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat my first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Coming Monday! www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi... and all the usual suspects.
A bright red book cover showing a pentagon surrounded by question marks, with a trench-coated silhouette in the center: BlankAnon, by Justin Robinson. It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat my first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Ten days to the release of @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social 's new Blank novel, BlankAnon! (Preorders are up in all the usual places, too. www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi... and more.)
A bright red book cover showing a pentagon surrounded by question marks, with a trench-coated silhouette in the center: BlankAnon, by Justin Robinson. It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat my first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Reccing a couple more older titles, this time because I'm reading the draft of book three. (It's good...) Kelly Jennings's fascinating space opera series mixes science and politics in all-too-relevant ways. (Link is Amazon, but available at the usual suspects.)
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5KS67HP
Two book covers: Fault Lines shows two short-haired women in futuristic work clothes against an indistinct industrial landscape. In the Deep shows two woman in hooded coats against an indistinct cityscape. The text reads: Starship captain Velocity Wrachant escaped the powerful Combines years ago, but now she's broke enough to risk taking a job escorting a child of the Combine Ikeda House into Republic space to help her retrieve several bonded-labor children. And that's only the beginning of her troubles. "Strongly reminiscent of C. J. Cherryh at her best." — Gwyneth Jones
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Preorders are up now for @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social's BlankAnon! (Link is to Amazon, but it's available on all the usual suspects.) www.amazon.com/BlankAnon-Fi...
Scarlet book cover with a white pentagon surrounded by question marks, and the silhouette of a trenchcoat-wearing man in the center. Title: BlankAnon, author Justin Robinson. Text to the side: It was a simple job: invent a conspiracy. I made up QAnon and broke the world. Nobody from my old life is still speaking to me except for the ones who have nothing left to lose. I've got an alcoholic professional killer in recovery, a witch who wants me dead, and a doomsday cultist I can't trust. We have to execute a heist that just might save the world or at least settle my conscience. And that's if my own spirit guide doesn't eat me first. It's not just another day at the office. It's the last one.
October 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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BlankAnon, the 3rd book in the Fill In the Blank series from @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social, comes out next month! Preorders will be up shortly on all the usual suspects.
Two scarlet book covers with the silhouette of a mysterious man, one for Mr Blank and one for Get Blank. Text reads: Meet Mr Blank. "Every conspiracy needs a guy like me. Every conspiracy has one — me." He's done the scut work for every conspiracy in the Information Underground, dealing with underground conspiracies, aliens, cryptids, Satanists, and pretty much anything that goes bump in the night. And when he wants to retire, well, someone frames his girlfriend for murder and tries to kill him. Again. "I really need a better career plan."
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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More backlist, this time the scorching satire of @weirdnoirmaster.bsky.social - Mr Blank and Get Blank.
Book 3 is coming in November!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4SLR7P...
Meet Mr Blank. "Every conspiracy needs a guy like me. Every conspiracy has one — me." He's done the scut work for every conspiracy in the Information Underground, dealing with underground conspiracies, aliens, cryptids, Satanist, and pretty much anything that goes bump in the night. And when he wants to retire, well, someone frames his girlfriend for murder and tried to kill him. Again. "I really need a better career plan." Two book covers, one for Mr Blank and one for Get Blank, both by Justin Robinson. Both are scarlet with a black silhouette of a man, one superimposed on the dot of a question mark, the other on the center of a target.
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Foregrounding some of our excellent backlist - today, @amtuomala.bsky.social 's The Map and the Territory.
www.amazon.com/Map-Territor...
A tall black man with flowing dreads stands back to back with a shorter brown woman. The text reads: The Map and the Territory. In A.M. Tuomala's extraordinary post-apocalyptic fantasy, cartographer Rukha is trapped when an earthquake shatters her city. Then the wizard Eshu stumbles out of a mirror with hungry ghosts on his heels. Somehow, together, they must survive the end of their world. "Gripping, vivid, and magical" - Publishers Weekly
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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If you like space opera, we have it! Two series starters, Jo Graham's mythic Sounding Dark, and the intense politics of Kelly Jennings' Fault Lines: high adventure in two far flung futures.
Cover art for Sounding Dark by Jo Graham. Two people stand with their backs to the viewer, looking up at a golden spaceship hanging against a starscape with a nebula behind it. Cover art for Fault Lines by Kelly Jennings. Two people, one with short dark hair, the other with slightly longer red hair, stand looking warily to the side, silhouetted against a futuristic skyline.
August 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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And because the link to the cover reveal blog didn't show the image, here's the cover for Jo Graham's The Blood of the Bull (third in the Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl).
A half-length portrait of a young and beautiful woman in sober Renaissance riding dress. She holds a golden goblet in one hand, a few drops of red liquid spilling from it as she stares in challenge at the viewer. Behind her, a luminous green lunette bears disks with multiple symbols: a rearing bull, crossed keys, crossed swords, a cross, and a pomegranate. Above is the author's name (Jo Graham) and the title - The Blood of the Bull.
May 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Since papal politics are in the news, we have a fantasy take on the conclave of 1492, narrated by Giulia Farnese, mistress of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia. Things were... different... then.
A young pregnant woman in an Italian Renaissance gown is seen in 3/4 portrait, holding a book and a mask of the moon. The book title is The Borgia Dove, by Jo Graham.
May 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM