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The Slab Press
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We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
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Stories that need to be read. Featuring @singingtotigers.bsky.social @liamjhogan.bsky.social @davidcleden.bsky.social @coreyjwhite.com @rickandwrite.bsky.social @rosemaxwell.bsky.social and many more. payhip.com/b/LNWd2
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November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Following on from our amazing launch it's our book birthday for Hiding Under the Leaves!
Support your local independent bookstore by ordering ISBN: 9781738426867
Or buy from us direct! We can ship paperbacks from stock in the UK, and from the publisher on demand in UK & US.
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is STRONG. #BookQW #BookSky
Hiding Under the Leaves is launching at World Fantasycon on Friday 31st October. Release date 3rd November. Pre-order now Amazon/Barnes and Noble: ISBN 9781738426867
“What the fuck, man, what are you doing in my house?” Mateo roared, his voice scratchy and raw. He sprang out of the bed straight at Jimmie, fast as a coiled snake. Mateo caught Jimmie at the waist, his strong arms holding him in a bear hug. Jimmie beat him with the dead rabbit, pummelling so hard with it for a moment he thought it, too, had come back to life. The two men crashed to the floor. Mateo was bigger and stronger, but Jimmie was meaner. And Mateo’s legs were tangled up in bed sheets. Jimmie rolled away from Mateo, got to his knees and swung the rabbit at Mateo again and again. He’d forgotten what he held in his hand, only feeling that it was a weapon. He lost his grip on the rabbit, and it smacked against the wall. Mateo reached up with his hands for Jimmie’s throat. He was on his back, Jimmie with a knee on either side of him. Jimmie dropped down onto Mateo’s stomach. Mateo grunted, the air driven from his lungs and his grip on Jimmie weakened. Epiphany Ferrell - Muddy Water - Hiding Under the Leaves. Forthcoming from theslab.press 3rd November 2025 Book details: Black cover with red leaves and white badger skeleton
October 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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📖🚀🦡🦴🦴🍂 - Book rocket badger bones leaves... What could it mean?

What if I said it's at World Fantasycon on Friday at noon in the Balmoral panel room?
Why, it is only the launch of Hiding Under the Leaves!
Quite a few of the authors will be there. Readings, books, drinkies, nibbles. Come! 🍷
Book cover of Hiding Under the Leaves. Black Background, red leaves, and a white badger skeleton. Reads: Hiding Under the Leaves, edited by Donna Scott, with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...
October 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Hello, I am @wishusdonna.bsky.social and my publishing project is The Slab Press. We have a Kindle promo on this weekend for our solar punk anthology, Vivid Worlds, and are gearing up for the launch of folk horror antho Hiding Under the Leaves at World Fantasycon. theslab.press/about-2/
Green book cover Vivid Worlds edited by Donna Scott with stories by Ana Sun, Cécile Cristofari, David Cleden, Liam Hogan, Holly Schofield, and many more... promo this weekend Amazon UK/US on Kindle. Black book cover featuring white badger skeleton and red leaves. Hiding Under the Leaves edited by Donna Scott with stories by Tim Major, Emma Coleman, LJ McMenemy, Liam Hogan, Gary Couzens, Frazer Lee, Emma Levin and many more...
August 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Almost bank holiday weekend and I'm even older. To celebrate, a Kindle Deal! Prices start today at £0.99/$0.99 and will be lower over the whole weekend - but the sooner you buy, the cheaper it will be!
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August 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'turn' #BookQW
Excerpt taken from "Oil and Water" by Holly Schofield, featured in Vivid Worlds from The Slab Press.
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I re-read Tanisa's message of a moment ago: . … even see the petition, no, probably not since you'd rather have your head inside a piece of wood, than responsibly govern a community that needs you… There was more, several hundred words more. I picked up the tiny carving of an owl I'd made a while back and fiddled with it. That part of the message was right; I would rather be creating furniture or other useful items in my carpentry shop than dealing with people. The craft of melding nature's designs with my ideas on shaping wood had obsessed me since childhood. But I'd forced myself to help the community, doing my duty, taking my turn as head coordinator. Tanisa was wrong there—I didn't "govern". We all worked together now, different than Grandma's era, deciding minor things and putting major things to a referendum. Oh. I set the carving down. A referendum. Of course. We'd all been too incensed to think of it. It took a long tedious meeting with my team that evening but we got it hastily set up for the next day. We mass-messaged everyone who'd consented to be informed, three-quarters of the community. Signage appeared on the notice boards, flashing at a frequency rate of twice an hour, higher than most referendums. I wasn't expecting much—most referendums dealt with the type of fence the communal farm fields should have, or whether we should plant beets or carrots this year beside the reclaimed shopping mall, so a 20% turnout was typical. The online advance poll and chat room wavered back and forth, opinions flying. Throughout the evening and into the night it stayed about even—half in favour of keeping the Folly, half against. With Oil Day looming, I wandered the market stalls at daybreak, listening and watching, the crowds making me uneasy in my skin as usual. People chatted and waved their hands. Some buzz about the sighting of a cougar by the river, and a lot of chat about the literary festival happening later in the summer—it seemed like everyone wanted…
August 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM