Rambling Readers

Julia S.

CAPTIVATING HISTORICAL FANTASY set in an alternate, magical 1930s US stars a barnstorming pilot (and former bootlegger) tasked with unraveling a deadly web of enchantments. Lots of thrills, wit, fascinating Black heroine, and a touch of romance. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-improvisers-nicole-glover/1144822121?ean=9780063293595

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies

BCS #427 ebook out early today @WeightlessBooks & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring stories of magic and finding family and freedom by R.Z. @rhiannonheld and Nicole L. Soper Gorden.

(Buying BCS ebooks or subscribing gets you new issues a week early and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium for their hard work writing all rejections personalized. Thank you!)

https://weightlessbooks.com/fiction/beneath-ceaseless-skies-issue-427/
https://www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies-Issue-427-ebook/dp/B0DXV1FK9X/
#sff #fantasy #shortstory #ebook

Owen Tyme

All of my Ebooks are $2 or less through February 28th, so why not fall in love with a good book?

For $1.99, you can read Demon for President!
Buy it here: https://books2read.com/DemonForPresident

This is a political satire novel in which a literal demon runs for President of the United States, as both a Republican and a Democrat, using a unique power to be in multiple places at once.

I wrote it during the 2024 election.

#author #indieauthor #fantasy #books #actionadventure #fiction #sale

(Left) The cover of the novel, Demon for President!, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Two politicians shake hands, as if for a photo-op, while a city burns behind them and the flag of the United States waves in the smoke. The flag is obviously quite dirty.

The democrat on the left is in a dark suit and blue tie. He has blond hair and wears brass-framed glasses. His expression is fairly serious. There's a "Tyme to Vote" pin on his lapel.

The republican on the right is also blond, but his expression is a smile. He wears a gray suit, a red tie, brass-framed glasses with circular lenses and a small "Snake Pride" pin on his lapel, which includes a snake eating its own tail around the edge and a star at the center.

The two men are very similar in appearance, because they're brothers.

(Top Right) A red panel with "REPUBLICAN?" and a campaign button with the face of the republican brother, Otto Vogerath, which declares him "BETTER THAN SLICED BREAD!". His head is featured on a background of white stars on blue.

(Bottom Right) A blue panel with "DEMOCRAT?" and a campaign button with the face of the democrat brother, Karl Vogerath, which declares him "A MAN FOR SERIOUS TIMES". His head is featured on a background of red and white stripes.

(Middle Right) When both parties back a
demon, does it matter
which one wins?
Careful, or we might get a
*Demon for President!*

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/DemonForPresident

Nerds of a Feather

Book Review: Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions
Imaginative fiction, Jamaican vibes, and random musings on life create a quirky anthology of speculative fiction
Our review at the NOAF blog is by Ann Michelle Harris
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/02/book-review-jamaica-ginger-and-other.html

#fantasy #review #books #bookreview #bookstodon @bookstodon

Astrobach :breadified:

Folklore read live!

Hear the first three tales of the new best translation of Abjørnsen & Moe!

Hear folklore about that tonight @ 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST: https://youtube.com/live/i6Qrn_U0leA

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #troll #Asbjørnsen #norway #norwegian #scandanavian

A storybook-style drawing man with a bowler hat rows a small rowboat filled with silver ducks in a hurry. Overlaid text: The Troll's Silver Ducks

Mark Kielty 🇮🇪

Dallergut Dream Department Store is a great read for those who enjoy #CozyFantasy.

https://markkieltywriter.com/2025/02/24/book-review-dallergut-dream-department-store-by-mi-ye-lee/

#Fantasy #KoreanFantasy #KoreanFiction #Heartwarming #ReadingCommunity #BookSky #IrishBookBlogger #IrishBookReviewer

Banner stating Dallergut Dream Department Store by Mi-ye Lee.

Runalong Womble

New Review - Happy Publication day to the excellent Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill a brilliant fantasy novel full of myth and a great lead character to get to know! https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/2/25/greenteeth-by-molly-oneill

#Books #Fantasy

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers

Universe #4 (March 1954)

This seems like a classical scene with nymphs (!) bathing in a waterfall, but why it is so brightly lit in red? Maybe it's on Mars. Her hair bothers me.
Lots of these stories are about travelling in space/to remote places/through time and meeting comely young maidens.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Universe_04_1954-03_LennyS-EXciter

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration

A woman wearing only a cloth on her lower body, but with her chest modestly covered by her long hair, stands with arms upraised in a red-lit natural setting with flowers, trees and a waterfall behind her in which other similarly unclothed women are bathing.
Magazine cover from 1954.

Sanne Åberg, författare

Bokrean börjar om några timmar. Och jag testar om det går att posta film på pixelfed. Från appen går det inte, men kanske går det från webbläsaren?

#bokrea #böcker #books #fantasy #pixelbooks #pixelböcker #video

Bokrea: köp mina böcker billigare på adlibris, boku och elsinorien.se

Branwen OShea (she/her)

The humans and star beings thought the biggest problem they faced was each other. They thought wrong.

💫Enemies forced to cooperate
💫A young leader set up for failure
💫Morally grey villain
💫A cute cave digger pup
💫Future ice age shifters
💫Non-violence in a violent world

Available wherever you buy books. Seriously, even your favorite small indie bookstore should find it in their catalogues.😊
#hopepunk #scifi #fantasy #amwriting #books #youngadult

https://books2read.com/FindingHumanityBook2

A paperback of The Chasm by Branwen OShea held in the sunlight over tiny white wildflowers. The cover features a young woman with braided white hair, Arctic clothing, and a walking stick standing in an ice chasm and defiantly looking up at a black helicopter that has its guns trained on her. The sun sets bright orange and yellow behind the helicopter.

Robin Marx

I reviewed Red Sonja: Consumed by Gail Simone for Grimdark Magazine!

While it’s possible to tell that this is a first novel by an established comics writer, Simone’s portrayal of Red Sonja is always fun.

(As always, boosts are appreciated!)

https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-red-sonja-consumed-by-gail-simone/

#BookReview #Books @bookstodon #Comics @comics #RedSonja #SwordAndSorcery @fantasy #Fantasy #Booksky #GdM

Michael Whelan

DAUGHTER OF REGALS (1983)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 31" x 21"

A problem in choosing the image for this cover was that the heroine is consistently portrayed as being drab and uninteresting. Yet uninteresting is the last thing a book cover should be! 1/4

#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #stephenrdonaldson