Laurie J. Marks is Writing Again

Anyone who has read the deep and excellent Elemental Logic series will rejoice with me to see that Laurie J. Marks is writing again. In a post today she writes about it, about the grueling years she and her wife Deb have gone through, the unexpected...

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Dec 15, 2023
LeVar Burton Reads The Court Magician

LeVar Burton is variously and widely recognized as a champion of all things literary for books and one of the ways he shares his joy and love of narrative is through his podcast. He recently chose Sarah Pinsker’s story “The Court Magician” — listen h...

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Dec 13, 2023
Never Have I Ever Polish Edition

Good news for Polish readers: we just received the on-signing contract payment from MAG Jacek Rodek for Polish rights to Isabel Yap’s award winning debut collection Never Have I Ever. That’s the first international rights sale for that title. In othe...

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Dec 08, 2023
LibroFM Bundles

Get 10% off audiobook credit bundles at LibroFM for the next couple of days — they only run this sale once a year. I use Libro and like it, easy to use, huge library, etc., etc.   The post LibroFM Bundles first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Dec 06, 2023
Slate: The 10 Best Books of 2023

Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places gets lovely review in Dan Kois’s list of Slate’s 10 Best Books of 2023. How to explain what’s so graceful about this collection of fantasy stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Pinsker? . . .  Every story is surpris...

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Dec 06, 2023
Indiepubs sale

Our distro’s nice, fast Indiepubs site — where you can get books from 100+ indie publishers — has a ton of our books at 50% off for one week. The discount is automagically added in cart as per the screenshots below and shipping is free for orders ove...

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Dec 05, 2023
Holiday shipping 2023

Reposting: This is an early reminder about holiday mailing dates as they’re a day or so earlier than last year. Our office has been closed this year and I’m shipping orders from either Consortium/Ingram’s warehouse or occasionally by me or, more ofte...

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Dec 01, 2023
Celebrating the Visionary Stories of Kelley Eskridge

Delighted to come across Dangerous, Hopeful Futures: Celebrating the Visionary Stories of Kelley Eskridge by Jonathan Thornton on Tor.com this week: Kelley Eskridge is not a prolific author, but she has nevertheless produced a body of work remarkable...

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Nov 29, 2023
Room of One’s Own Holiday Catalog

In previous years we’ve celebrated books being in the NPR Best Books lists and others and I’m still somewhat optimistic that some of the books will appear here or there but with me being less able to reach out to reviewers I suspect some books sent o...

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Nov 28, 2023
Brew & Forge Book Fair

If you have some Small Beer books on your to-read list, see if you can get them at the Brew and Forge Book Fair where multiple copies of four of our books are available. Coincidentally, if you buy 4 books at the fair, you get a free notebook . . . Th...

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Nov 27, 2023