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Finally! Through snow & sleet, through broken water heaters & computer issues, we have prevailed! Our Top 50 SFF Books of 2025 is live! Come see what our followers have chosen as the cream of the crop! And let us know if we missed your favorite! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/fantasy... #booksky

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Today @alyalyoops.bsky.social gives us a look at some short reads for spooky season: @tkingfisher.com's Sworn Soldier series! -JI🐉 "Classic literature, ancient myth, and Lovecraftian horror is a winning combination & highly effective." fantasy-faction.com/2026/sworn-s... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #horrorbooks

It’s book loading time!!! So many incredible books on sale here. ( yes one of mine too!)

For the morning crew! -JI🐉

Today we are excited to reveal the cover for the last book in @lizdelton.bsky.social's Legends of Gold and Silver trilogy, Gods of Obsidian! Cover art by @jeffbrowngraphics.bsky.social! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/gods-of... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #fantasybooks #epicfantasy #coverart #indieauthor

Competition is quite fierce this year and this one is equally my personal top-scoring book ..... so far #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @hollytinsl3y.bsky.social

Had a lot of fun with this story – definitely an author I'll be following closely #SPFBO #SPFBOReviews @tbcart.bsky.social

Today @jameslatimer.bsky.social reviews Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion! - JI 🐉 "[It] opened up new worlds of fantasy to me (albeit slowly): new authors, new types of stories, magic systems, characters, and heroes." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-cur... #boosky 💙📚🪐 #fantasybooks

1) I'm on the board of the Ray Bradbury Center 2) I am co-editing a new anthology (with Carrie Cooper, Assistant Director of the Ray Bradbury Center and public humanities scholar).

To anyone who considers themselves an expert in a certain topic, are there any beginner's books/intro books you would recommend to a "lay" person? I've got several science degrees in bio, ecology, and ethology. Although im not a PhD, its been a lifelong hyperfixation. Id recommend Entangled Life

Look it! Daughter of Ruin has a cover. www.marklawrence.buzz/2026/10/daug...

Today our judges review Molly Dowd Sullivan's (@rageofthenerd.bsky.social) A Light From the Nether, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! -JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews #urbanfantasy #darkfantasy (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Today @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews @stephanieburgis.bsky.social's A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience! - JI 🐉 "A prickly, tender little romance full of sharp banter, slow sweetness, and a vampire who learns that tea is not optional." fantasy-faction.com/2026/a-marri... #booksky 💙📚🪐

Today we discuss Monstrous Humans & Humane Monsters from the #ResidentEvil movie & the Monster #anime! - JI 🐉 "Choosing to become a monster versus choosing to embrace humanity brings these properties together. Both Tenma and Bryan choose empathy over and over." fantasy-faction.com/2026/monstro...

Today Christopher Keene reviews @jv-jones.bsky.social's The Book of Words series! - JI 🐉 "Jones spices her prose in a way that sucks you into the narrative...a trilogy timeless enough to deserve far more attention than it receives." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-boo... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #epicfantasy

Today @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews Courtney Smyth's The Undetectables! - JI 🐉 "Be gay, solve crime, take naps." "The real heart of the book is Mallory and her #fibromyalgia. This is not token representation. It is woven into everything." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-und... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #LGBTQ+

ICYMI: @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social's Limited Wish! - JI 🐉 "A perfect mix of brain and heart, it will make you think, grin, and turn the pages far too quickly." fantasy-faction.com/2025/limited... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #timetravel #YA

The New York Public Library is making a selection of 25 new horror books available to borrow with no wait through October 31st!! How many have you read?

In which the British Fantasy Society reveals that Cheryl is a necromancer. (Hopefully in the mode of Saint Bueno rather than of Sauron.) Thanks Andrew, you are a dream to work with. britishfantasysociet...

We're still looking for players and donators!

Today @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews L. G. Estrella's Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf! - JI 🐉 "Man eating plants, giant golems, zombie titans, a bumbling bureaucrat, and a murderous elf all pile into the chaos." fantasy-faction.com/2026/two-nec... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #halloween

Not often I'm lost for words (as many will attest) but this review has definitely hit me in the feels. Now if you'll excuse me, there's something in my eye...😭

Today our judges review @hollytinsl3y.bsky.social's The Hallows, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews #noir #urbanfantasy #gaslamp (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.

New author alert! Well old author alert. Possibly new to you author alert? What I'm saying is going follow Saladin Ahmed. - JI 🐉 XD

UK readers! The Dragon Has Some Complaints is just 99p on Bookshop this weekend! The story of a curmudgeonly dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon riding academy. Maybe he'll get a little revenge! But he's in for some surprises...

Next week, @travisbaldree.bsky.social will be having an event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social! townhallseattle.org/event/travis... Wednesday, October 7th @ 7:30pm PDT A ticketed event, but it includes a copy of the LEGENDS & LATTES Graphic Novel adaptation!

🔥 COVER REVEAL 🔥 The SFF Addicts crew is super excited to help reveal the stunning final cover for @llmacrae.bsky.social’s upcoming novel, FAITHLESS GODS, the first book in a new epic fantasy series, Memories of Fire! Coming Q4 2026. Art by Andrew Makeski. Design by @claymorecovers.bsky.social.

Today @summerhanford.bsky.social reviews Sarah Hawley's Servant of Earth! - JI 🐉 "The various peoples, the politics, the physical locations, all rendered beautifully and seamlessly. Servant of Earth is a masterclass in worldbuilding." fantasy-faction.com/2026/servant... #booksky 💙📚🪐🌶️

Remember before GenAI when we would fall for photoshopped images or art would look weirdly proportioned cause the artist was still working on their craft? Those things still happen. Wonky art does not = GenAI. And to be clear photoshop and amateur art still greater than GenAI. GenAI art sucks. -JI🐉

Today Christopher Keene gives new readers a new way into Malazan! - JI 🐉 "I’m tempted to defy all common sense and recommendation rules and suggest a reading order that does not align with its release order. For newer readers...start at book two." fantasy-faction.com/2026/why-mal... #booksky 💙📚🪐

GOAT OR BIRD????

Worldcons strive to be inclusive and accessible. Accessibility is shaped by the venues we use, the ways we use them and the things our members tell us they need. Our host city, Brisbane, is implementing A City for Everyone: Inclusive Brisbane Plan, 2019-2029 It's a downloadable pdf. #Aussiecon5

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Friday at 7pm central, live on Twitch, we talk to Shane Hawk! Join us! twitch.tv/alphabetst...

Why indie/self-pub authors need copyeditors or proofreaders, nth in a series: "beleaguer the fact"

We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just 10 days until we meet in Glasgow! Tickets are still available for both individual days & the whole weekend. Full programme (including the British Fantasy Awards!) & ticket details are on our website: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

You can now buy my final Lychford book, Last One Out in Lychford, direct from the publisher, @bluefoxbooks.bsky.social ! bluefoxbookstore.com/product/last...

Today we are excited to reveal the cover for @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's new novel! @kitvaria.bsky.social introduces us to A Healer’s Guide to Adventuring, coming soon from @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social! - JI 🐉 Cover art by Jenny Zemanek. fantasy-faction.com/2026/a-heale... #booksky 💙📚🪐

Some of the best comic art ever! - JI🐉

It's #podcast time, y'all! Marshmallows, hungry beds, and 80s families, oh my! @shaunduke.net @princejvstin.com + @bethcato.bsky.social join forces to talk about 1985’s The Stuff! skiffyandfanty.com/p... Thanks for listening!

If you're in the UK (or some parts of continental Europe!), you can snap up the ebook of Wooing the Witch Queen on sale for 99p - but only for 4 more days! Grab it now: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... #romancelandia

Colleen McMillan reviews A Livid Lady’s Guide to Getting Even & Though I Am an Inept Villainess! - JI 🐉 "[They] appeal to the josei and shojo readers who are looking for something similar to isekai that don’t shove female characters to the sidelines." fantasy-faction.com/2026/livid-l... #anime

I figured out a work around. These are the steps to make sure they can't use your likeness (as far as I have figured out). Meta Accounts Center > Ad Preferences > Manage info > Other settings > Social interactions Make sure each account is set to Only Me. Thread with pics incoming:

Attention Science Lovers!! #Drexel University is planning on closing the oldest natural history museum in the Americas as of Sept 30th, which is next Wednesday! Please sign this petition to let them know the Academy of Natural Sciences of #Philadelphia needs to stay open!! - JI 🐉 💙📚🪐 #science

ICYMI: @kitvaria.bsky.social reviews Deck Matthews's Dust of the Darkness! - JI 🐉 "Exciting, sharp, and with just enough new magic and mystery to keep me hooked...[a] fast-paced adventure that feels much larger than its word count." fantasy-faction.com/2025/dust-of... #booksky 💙📚🪐

One week today! If you're thinking of coming, please get your ticket early. Bookshops have minimum numbers, so we really need your early support. Thanks. tinyurl.com/fpbfswhisp