Julia Kitvaria Sarene 📚🐉⚔️☠️

Ok, last year I petered out at some point, and the thread got way too long and chaotic, so this year I shall try again, but have one thread for every month! Hopefully I'll be able to add the first book today already 😉

#BristolCon #Bookhaul! @devildauta.bsky.social thanks for the TimTams, not all made it home! @dbrook.bsky.social thank you so much for your book! @tomunro.bsky.social thanks for the candle and keyring! @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social thank you for The Girl Who Cheated the Wind! It was awesome.

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

Available now, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh communities, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...

⚔️ COVER REVEAL ⚔️ We’re thrilled to share the cover of Four Bastards and a Baby, exclusively revealed by People! Out on August 10, 2027 and 10 October 2027 from Tor UK Art by Carson Lowmiller Art Direction by Christine Foltzer

Congratulations to Jacey Bedford, who will be one of the Guests of Honour at BristolCon next year. We will have the whole Psi-Tech trilogy available by then. www.bristolcon.org

Congratulations to Mike Carey who, yesterday, won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and was announced as a Guest of Honour for BristolCon 2027. Here’s my review of the excellent Once Was Willem: www.salonfutura.net/2025/12/once...

Just found another reason why the picture age verification online is just stupid. The self check out at the airport store wouldn't let me buy this contraband without "assistance" because the camera did not think I'm old enough. Dear machine, 16 was a long, long while ago 😅🤦

For just a couple more days then not again this year, Shadow of a Dead God is on sale. Get your dose of a snarky fantasy mystery. books2read.com/ShadowGod #fantasynovel #SPFBO #booksale #fantasy

Time's running out for the latest SPFBO finalist sale! ⏳📚 SPFBO is an annual contest run to select some of the best independently published fantasy books. Find the sale for the finalists by looking up "ML Wang finalist sale." May your TBR toppleth over! #booksale #fantasy #fantasybooks #spfbo

How bookish are you? The kind that brings wrapping paper, tape and scissors to an overseas SFF convention holiday, so you can wrap piles of books to avoid damaging corners... Then stuff your hand luggage full of books, as they only weigh the hold luggage! Bookhaul to come when home! #BristolCon

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

I can't wait to get paper copies!!!

Reread this one after many years - still love it. There’s gorgeous writing, a slow-reveal alien mystery, the corrosive effect of lies, & a heartbreaking depiction of mental illness and one woman’s unraveling. A propulsive build to a fantastic ending. “Planetfall” by Emma Newman. #BookSky 💙📚🪐

Thanks to @pushkinpress.com we have these fantastically striking bookmarks for Diego Muzzio's The Eye Of Goliath to give out! From Edinburgh sanatorium to desolate Argentinian island, it's a delirious, inventive twist on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. FAO #horrorsky! 🪐📚💙

Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜 For this week & beyond we give you Asexuals on Adventures; by sea, land, spaceship, magic portal & more! Some of our aspec main characters are on world-saving quests. Others are exploring life, love, neurodivergence, mysteries or solving problems. 🌈📚 itch.io/b/3946/asexu...

My wise and lovely friend @emmaleadley.bsky.social has started a podcast! The Neuroqueer Agenda is for late-diagnosed autistic/ADHD and LGBTQ/queer people and Emma knows their stuff when it comes to neurodivergence and queerness. Go take a look! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Only 5 weeks until Songs of the Sun Eater by Christopher Ruocchio comes out! Check out your favorite quotes from the third book, Demon in White, while you wait for this highly anticipated upcoming release. Preorder now: buff.ly/EbiEnlm

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)

Blood Over Bright Haven: A Novel by M. L. Wang $2.99 Genres: Dark Gaslamp Fantasy #books #booksky #ad link.amazon/B0fqqnwXQ m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81S...

I am really grateful to everyone who has read and enjoyed the book. (The book will be in the SPFBO finalists sale from 23-26 October this year, so feel free to hold off if you were considering buying!) books2read.com/ShadowGod

🚨Giveaway Alert!🚨 The Last Herald-Mage Deluxe Edition by Mercedes Lackey is a classic romantic epic fantasy that features the genre's first openly gay male protagonist. Enter on Goodreads for a chance to win the advance copy of the first book in the trilogy, Magic's Pawn. Ends 11/17.

Easily, easily one of my favourite books *ever*

The scoreboard for the SPFBO 11 finalists continues to fill!

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 @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+

Happy #bookshopdday in the UK! 🎪☂Calling all UK and Ireland booklovers! It's the perfect time to order your copy of Zoé Duhaime's magical debut novel - THE LOST SPECTACULAR - from independent bookstore @mrbsemporium.bsky.social and be in with a chance to win! Preorder now: geni.us/TLSGAMRBs

“Where the first book opened the door to the Aaní world, this follow-up soars.” Thank you to @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org for this wonderful review of Caskey Russell’s THE EAGLE IN THE MOUNTAIN (sequel to THE DOOR ON THE SEA)! Preorder: buff.ly/811a9eA Read the full review:

Out today (in the UK) with a launch at @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social tonight!

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...

It’s NYCC weekend and TPG is ready for you at booth #3201! 👾🚀⁣ Can’t be there in person? Enter our NYCC 2026 Sweepstakes to win a bundle of must-read upcoming titles!⁣ Visit the link in our bio to enter! https://bit.ly/NYCCSweeps2026

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

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

Phoenix Rises Dragon Soars by @writerlythings.bsky.social is just one of the great indie books available to reviewers on bookmatch.co.uk. Want to check out out our full library? Sign up for free today. #BookSky

RUN, don't walk, over to our friends @scifinow.bsky.social, who have an exclusive excerpt from @derekkunsken.bsky.social 's THE QUANTUM DAWN, the fourth instalment in the QUANTUM EVOLUTION series that began with modern SF Classic THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN! Preorder now: buff.ly/tDCfOF5

Today we're reviewing SCION by James Islington, a cyberpunk thriller that jumps straight into the action and doesn't stop. Thanks to @sagapressbooks.bsky.social for the free copy! fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2026/10/revi...

Just signed this stack of my books at Topping & Co bookshop in Bath 🙂

goblin-core is a spectrum. which one are you? 👀💚