Jamedi is Spooky

Hi, I'm Jamedi, blogger and reviewer, mainly on SpecFic, mainly SFF, Horror, a bit on the rest! For links: Linktree: linktr.ee/jamedi Request form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Website: jamreads.com Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/jamedi

Just got my first email angry that the ship in BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK is called the Thunberg. They're going to be really cross when they get to the concept of "petrozoic ecocide."

New review - sapphic cli-fi mystery, finding a solution, scarily accurate to our times.

perfect, no notes

Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends, by A.D. Sui (pub by @ecwpress.bsky.social), is an extremely brilliant piece of fiction, a prescient story that invites the reader to think about its themes while following Cass' self-destructive journey in the search of answers. jamreads.com/reviews/our-... 💙📚

Super happy to see this is happening!

What a great essay from @ergative-abs.bsky.social & @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social on the linguistic complexities of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. Rise up, language (and anti-language) nerds! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/10/essa...

Blanca is a round cat

Plenty of interesting books to review next week!

As always the Womble will have more for you soon

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

One of my favourite books of the past few years, & this review does a good job explaining why it's so great.

It’s Saturday hopefully you’re dry so you deserve a new Wombling Along where those booktempters do their stuff www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

COVER REVEAL!!! "AND LOKI IN HIS PRISON" book 1 of "HANGED GOD'S GAME" With incredible artwork by Jon Sideriadis. I love the intricate storybook feel, perfect 4 a book aiming to give adult readers the sense of wonder we felt as kids opening a myth book Pre-orders open USA & UK: buff.ly/leGWuZA

Welp, another one that goes straight into 2027 TBR!

Coming next August from Tor, my new novel about a roadtrip across many worlds: Sunlit Uplands. Available for preorder now, and this is the beautiful cover

Some year soon I'll make it to Bristolcon, but this is not that year. Fortunately, though, my books will be there for me, so if you're up for a fantasy murder mystery with a side serving of action & politics then check out The Executioner's Blade at the @wtpress.bsky.social stall.

New review - Renfield meets Dracula, Appalachian vampires, media vs memory.

Nightjars, by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social (pub by @stmartinspress.bsky.social), is a remarkable sophomore novel, a different approach to vampire while still examining the fallibility of memory versus media. Add it to your spooky month lists! Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/nigh... 💙📚

This review of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK absolutely slayed me. Just sat here giggling. Well played Amazon reviewer. TBF, pretty much nailed my process. I feel seen.

Hello UK fans. My next big book EXHUMATION is released TODAY (in the UK). Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal gave it starred rave reviews and Kirkus called it "a triumph". It's definitely my most ambitious one yet. harpercollins.co.uk/products/exh...

New Review - Anne Boleyn back from the dead and out for revenge should be a fine hook for a book but I found The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann didn’t really deliver on it www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

Good morning!

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-... My bright and horrible creation, ANGEL COUNTRY, is now out in the world! If you like: -Cosmic horror -Biblically accurate angels -Alternate history -Morally dubious women This is the book for you. Please consider giving it a read!

How do you react to kids with hands for heads? Kuzhali Manickavel returns with A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, a novel @steppinlazer.bsky.social deems "one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a minute."

I have a cover reveal coming soon. New book, new series… If you want insect based magic, a man who would do anything for power, and a single mum who earns her living as a thief? Keep your eyes peeled

New review - A Korean retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a different POV, an answer to the original

A Plagued Sea, by Kim Bo-Young (trad. Sophie Bowman, pub by @torbooks.bsky.social) is a brilliant re-examination on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, swaping the setting and the POV to deliver a story that could also be considered as an answer to the original. Thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/a-pl... 💙📚

THE TURNING OF SALLY-MAE is out tomorrow! 🖤 From "The Queen of African Horror", Nuzo Onoh, comes a historical African-Wild West horror story of supernatural vengeance and terrifying occultic magic. Get your copy now: https://tinyurl.com/thjmmznp

Looks like the vibes are strong with this one! TATRATEA, my weird-eco-gothic-horror-cosmic-SF-post-apocalyptic fever dream of a book is out today, and readers seem to be getting out of it exactly what I was hoping for and more. Thank you for listening. We're all on this one way trip together🌱

I was thinking that maybe for 2027 I will divide my releases I wait for in two, one for each half

Crawlers locks Matilda Lutz in a quarantined LA apartment block with thousands of hungry spiders. Hope Madden finds a thin story in Ángel Gómez Hernández's creature feature, but scratched all the way through. https://gnofhorror.com/crawlers-review/

New Review - an exquisite supernatural (or perhaps not) mystery to solve awaits in the excellent The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com out now thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...

New review - Return to the Empire of the Wolf, grimdark x horror x mystery, the city is a powder keg.

The Anguished Earth, by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social (pub @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social), marks the latest addition to the Empire of the Wolf series, and it doesn't dissapoint, keeping that blend of mystery and grimdark that is so characteristic. Full thoughts: jamreads.com/reviews/the-... 💙📚

Had to move my next release back six weeks so as not to step on the toes of this AMAZING anthology I'm part of, along with M L Wang, Zack Pike, David Estes, Zamil Akhtar and a whole slew more. Profits go to help LGBTQ+ kids with donations to the Trevor Project. Check it out: mybook.to/DefytheDark

I'm on this pic and I don't like it

Also, if you see this and think "but Rachel, I need to use AI for my story b/c my prose/English/plot/story/character skills aren't good enough yet!" No, you don't. You get better at those skills by writing! Readers hate AI writing anyway, so there's literally no upside here. DO NOT ENGAGE.