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in AwardsLocus Magazine: Analog AnLab & Asimov’s Readers’ Awards
Winners for the 2024 Analog Analytical Laboratory (AnLab) Award and the 2024 Asimov’s Readers’ Awards have been announced. …
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in PlaylistSong Playlist for Undrowned by G. M. DiDesidero
At its heart, Undrowned is an enemies-to-friends story about two teens. Jasper, impulsive screwup, accidentally releases a shapeshifter (oops) and Harissa, professional manipulator, lies against him in court to protect her mother. Jasper winds up with a divine deadline: interview for a position in the Underworld in a month or get dragged there permanently. Both […] More
Tertulia: Best Independent Press Books of 2025
Independent publishers are already making their mark on 2025. Here are the small press books pushing boundaries in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Playlist for Dark Matter by Kathe Koja
By Kathe Koja I love, love, love book playlists. Playlists are vibe, they’re ambience, they give us a way into the book’s heart before we even start reading. The music, the hum, the sounds of Dark Matter—it pulses and spools, throbs like a heart or a bassline in the club, makes ultimatums and offers forgiveness, […] More
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LitHub: 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
Independent Book Review: Forthcoming and New Release Books You Won’t Want to Miss
12 forthcoming and new release books of the final quarter of 2025 are shared in this creepy, thoughtful list presented by IBR’s Eric Mayrhofer.
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Q&A with Bunny Graves from Kathe Koja’s Dark Matter
Bunny Graves is the combustible engine of Dark Matter: a woman trying to outrun her own history and out-fight pain, while she kicks and spins the teetering world to pieces—and when she meets star producer Ari Regon, she knows she’s found the one person who can help her do it, recognizing in Ari the same […] More
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in PlaylistJ.D. Mathes’s Playlist for Of Time and Punishment
Music is the beating of an internal life, one of feeling, the groove that links the mind, body, memory, into the unknown, the unconscious, the muse, the Holy Ghost being prompted to reveal solutions to wild problems and give form to the formless. Patty Smith, the writer and performer, says she listens to Bach when […] More
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The Art of Being Wrong: On Writing a Literary Mystery
by Lee Upton Sometimes I feel dread before opening my laptop and diving into an early draft. I dread how my own mind may want to boil itself alive for my failures on the page. I dread seeing how mistakes flare, how my hoped-for excitement from the day before may dissipate. There’s not much of […] More
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Interview with Eugen Bacon, Author of Novic
Get ready to meet the mind behind the myth. We sat down with the brilliantly witty and award-winning author Eugen Bacon to discuss her upcoming novelette, NOVIC—a standalone sequel to Claiming T-Mo that delves into the fascinating “before the story” of an immortal priest. I’m bi demi and have always had the hots for Denzel Washington, but he […] More
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