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Book 4 of Jo Graham's Calpurnian Wars came out this spring, adding another layer to the story! If you're new to the series, start with Sounding Dark (link to us, but available everywhere) and settle in for mythic space adventure. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/soundin...
Historical fantasy you won't soon forget. Romance, magic, and intrigue in the Rome of the Borgias. (Link to us, but available at all the usual sources.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/a-black...
We're at Greensboro Pride today with some other great vendors! Come out and get books, crafts, see the shows, and get some great food! With @heathertracyauthor.bsky.social #fantasy #sciencefiction #greensboro_nc #market #Pride
Three excellent anthologies created by our editor emerita! (And if you're interested in submitting to the press, these give an excellent idea of the kinds of stories that grab us.) www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/to-shap...
Genuinely one of the best, and most magical, and most unique, books I have ever read!
A.M. Tuomala@amtuomala.bsky.social · 4mo agoPeriodic reminder that The Map and the Territory exists, and you can read it! It's a post-apocalyptic picaresque about an ace cartographer and a gay wizard trying to get home in a shattered world haunted by a death goddess. Includes: Airships! Crocodiles! Magic mirrors! Microscopes! Wizard duels!
*cough* or Tolkien *cough* Yes I realise that's blasphemy, I do not care, I would take Water Horse over anything of Tolkien's in a HEARTBEAT
Eddie Clark@dreddieclark.bsky.social · 4w ago10) Water Horse by Melissa Scott (74rt, 17rv) A throwback of the best sort, this feels like the post-Tolkien fantasy of the late 70s and 80s aesthetically with a much more modern sensibility of race, gender, and sexuality. And with much, much better prose that the actual early Tolkien imitators.
We're open for submissions! We're particularly looking for SF this round, but are always interested in fantasy. No AI. Please see our submission page for all the details. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/about/submis...
Submissions
Submission Guidelines Candlemark & Gleam is currently open to submissions. We accept unagented submissions, but we do not accept work created using AI tools. Please see our specific requirements below. Please note! We discovered that Gmail sometimes consigns emails from…
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And she’s on an editing anthologies panel this afternoon at LA Worldcon!
Queen of Swords Press@qospress.bsky.social · last mo.#Booksky Our authors at LA Worldcon! Catherine Lundoff is our publisher & author of 10 books including the Wolves of Wolf’s Point books. She is a two-time Goldie Award winner & a 2025 recipient of the Alice B. Readers Award for lifetime achievement in sapphic fiction. books2read.com/ap/xqMXwx/Ca...
Easily my favorite book series. Cannot recommend it enough.
K.V. Johansen@kvjohansen.bsky.social · 3w agoI miss having Moth and Mikki and Holla-Sayan and Ahjvar and Ghu and Ivah in my head. But you can have them in yours: www.kvj.ca/series-carav... Epic fantasy. In the days of the first kings of the north, there were seven devils ...
I miss having Moth and Mikki and Holla-Sayan and Ahjvar and Ghu and Ivah in my head. But you can have them in yours: www.kvj.ca/series-carav... Epic fantasy. In the days of the first kings of the north, there were seven devils ...
K.V. Johansen | Gods of the Caravan Road
Books in the epic fantasy series Gods of the Caravan Road by K.V. Johansen
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Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com
Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 4w agoDolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Here's what we're doing for the next six months — 3 books, 2 events, and we'll be open for submissions in September. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/08/24/f...
Fall Update
Time for a quick update of Candlemark & Gleam’s plans for the year ahead! In December, we will publish Bogi Takács’s post-climate-apocalypse novel The Word of the Ancients is Law. A diminished populat...
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A reviewer really gets Tales from Rugosa Coven: "That’s what Avery achieves here, this beautifully homey feeling, the perfect blend of the mundane and magical. It’s what I always want Urban Fantasy to be and almost never get."
🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌@raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 4w agoTwo mini-reviews of witchy books I really loved, that should be on your radar! everybookadoorway.com/sunday-soupc...
Lovely review of @sarahavery.bsky.social's Tales From Rugosa Coven, plus another book for my personal to-read pile (and likely yours, too).
🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌@raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 4w agoTwo mini-reviews of witchy books I really loved, that should be on your radar! everybookadoorway.com/sunday-soupc...
Looking for far future science fiction filled with mysterious artifacts and queer characters? Check out Melissa Scott's Finders. (Link to Amazon, but available on all the usual sites.) www.amazon.com/Finders-Firs...
Hi Folks! SFWA has another amazing #storybundle for #fantasy titles, and my book, Physical Magic, is included. It's a semi-finalist for both the 2025 BBNY award and the 2026 SPFBO contest! This is a great time to start your journey through the Shifting Lands, with 18 other books!
StoryBundle@storybundle.bsky.social · last mo.The Wizards, Warlocks and Soothsayers Bundle - Curated by John Helfers and the SFWA: storybundle.com/sfwa We're proud to partner again with the SFWA to curate this bundle of 16 fantasy novels (19 books!) that will take you on amazing journeys. Check it out!
a great story this, definitely worth picking up!
K.V. Johansen@kvjohansen.bsky.social · last mo.Summer feels like it's winding down here; phlox & golden glow blooming, plums ripening. If you're still longing for journeys in summer green & gold, why not pick up Breath and Bone: sword and sorcery, a godling & her warrior partner on a quest to rescue a bespelled youth from a life-devouring witch?
Are you looking for science fiction with complex societies and a deep mythic underlayer? Jo Graham's Calpurnian Wars is all that and more. (Link to Amazon, but at all the usual outlets.) www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKZ6Z2HZ
Breath and Bone is available in trade paperback and ebook all the usual places, from @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social www.kvj.ca/breathbone.h...
K.V. Johansen | Breath and Bone
About Breath and Bone, by K.V. Johansen
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Fantastic blog from @aknighton.bsky.social. This line is fantastic: The tech bros claiming to bring Banks and Stephenson’s visions to life can be seen as the latest variation on the followers of Nostradamus, picking out fragments of other people’s texts to justify their own plans.
Old Books and Bright Futures: The Quo Vadis Catalogue – The British Fantasy Society
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British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · last mo.Andrew Knighton takes a journey through the history of science fiction with a rare books catalogue—a place where connection and authenticity are still valued. britishfantasysociety.org/old-books-an...
In the mood for space opera? Kelly Jennings's excellent series is available at all the usual outlets - and the third book will be out next spring! On our website, or at all the usual suspects. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/fault-l...
One week left to sign up for the giveaway for @sarahavery.bsky.social 's Tales From Rugosa Coven!
@candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you're on @thestorygraph.com, we're doing a giveaway for Sarah Avery's contemporary Wiccan fantasy Tales From Rugosa Coven. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/7f...
We'll be opening for submissions in September! For a preview of the process and what we're looking for, see our submissions page, but right now we're particularly interested in science fiction. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/about/submis...
Submissions
Submission Guidelines Candlemark & Gleam is participating in 2026 #SmallPitch, but is otherwise closed to submissions. When we are open, we accept unagented submissions, but we do not accept work crea...
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The Autarch's Heir by Jo Graham The Age of Blood and Magic by Hannah Mathewson A House Between Sea and Sky by @bethcato.bsky.social Foundling Fathers by @megelison.bsky.social Amusement Park Arcana by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · last mo.Hey guy readers! Quote this with some books by women and nonbinary authors that you recommend. A few from me: Meg Elison's Book of the Unnamed Midwife R.F. Kuang's Poppy War Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful Fonda Lee's Jade City Sarah Gailey's Echo Wife Premee Mohamed's Annual Migration of Clouds
The Map and the Territory by AM Tuomala! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Map and the Territory
Check out The Map and the Territory - <p>When the sky breaks apart and an earthquake shatters the seaside city of Sharis, cartographer Rukha Masreen is far from home. Caught in the city's ruins with o...
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