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Summer Hanford

@summerhanford.bsky.social

Immersive Epic Fantasy, Pride & Prejudice Remixes, Adventured Filled Historicals, Sweet Regency, - Writer, traveler, dog-lover, and cat-wrangler.

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today Stuart Cripps-Schnoor reviews @anthonyryan.bsky.social's Covenant of Steel series! - JI 🐉 "Its grounded, dark, and highly atmospheric world brought the Hundred Years’ War to mind." fantasy-faction.com/2026/covenan... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #grimdark #epicfantasy

Three book covers sit in the center of the image. Center: The Pariah, features a figure in tattered clothing sitting cross-legged on a stone floor. They have a hood on completely obscuring their face and have a sheathed sword in their lap. Left: The Martyr, features a white man in full-plate armor and cape, resting a sword on his shoulder. He is standing on a battlement and some distance behind him is a white woman looking off into the distance. Right: The Traitor, features the same man in full-plate armor, now without a cape. He is walking, sword drawn, through a ravaged battlefield with fires burning everywhere. In the foreground are two knights with swords drawn at the man's approach. Above the covers are the words, "Covenant of Steel by Anthony Ryan," and below them is written, "A Fantasy-Faction Series Review." The background of the image is a dark stone wall.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today Tom Joyce reviews Susanna Clarke's Piranesi by comparing it to the works of C.S. Lewis, Mervyn Peake, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jeff VanderMeer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, & Thomas More! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/piranes... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #magicalrealism #fantasybooks #piranesi

The book cover sits in the center of the image. The entire background of the cover is black. On the white outline of Greek column stands a satyr playing an aulos (double flute). He is illustrated in white and orange. Below him is a sea drawn in an outline of orange. The background of the image is the negative of the sea, blue waves on a white background.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 6d ago

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

Three book covers sit in the center of the image. Center: What Moves the Dead. It features a gray hare warped and mutated with a skinned version of itself and a row of pink mushrooms. It is bleeding from its foot and the whole image is on a black background. Left: What Feasts at Night. It features the front half of a gray horse, whose skeleton is half revealed and skin is pealing like paper. It is crumbling at its edges and is on a blood red background. Right: What Stalks the Deep. It features a black bear whose fur is charred like charcoal and skull is half exposed. It is growing through or around a dead tree branch and is on a white background. Above and below the books are ripped pieces of paper reading: above, "Spooky Short Reads: Sworn Soldier" and below, "A Fantasy-Faction Series Review." The background of the image is a pinkish wall covered in spots of fuzzy red mold.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · last wk.

Today we are excited to reveal the cover for the last book in @lizdelton.bsky.social's Legends of Gold and Silver trilogy, Gods of Obsidian! Cover art by @jeffbrowngraphics.bsky.social! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/gods-of... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #fantasybooks #epicfantasy #coverart #indieauthor

The image shows a close up of the cover through a piece of ripped paper, obscuring everything but a stone street on a moonlit night, with two figures in dark clothing running away from the viewer. The closer figure has hands ablaze with orange fire. The farther figure has hands radiating either purple fire or purple lightning.

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 2w ago

🩷 🦚 💚 💙 🩵 🌸 You know what's pretty and available now? 🌸 🩵 💙 💚 🦚 🩷 Mr. Collins arrives at Longbourn in the company of his five husband-hunting cousins on his mother's side which, for the Bennets, poses quite a conundrum. #CousinConundrum getbook.at/CousinConund...

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today @jameslatimer.bsky.social reviews Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion! - JI 🐉 "[It] opened up new worlds of fantasy to me (albeit slowly): new authors, new types of stories, magic systems, characters, and heroes." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-cur... #boosky 💙📚🪐 #fantasybooks

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a white man with dark hair and beard wearing ragged dark clothes and covered in dirt. He is carrying a staff in his right hand and walking towards the viewer. Directly behind him is a dead tree branch with crows perched in and around it. In the far distance is a stone castle built onto a rocky hillside under a yellow sky darkening with orange clouds. The background of the image is a photo of similar orange and yellow clouds.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 2w ago

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)

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 2w ago

The cover of Cousin Conundrum, which features a peacock and magnolia flowers, with the words, 'Cousin Conundrum, Only one woman is worth more than his honor, October 20th, Darcy & Elizabeth love story'

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 2w ago

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 💙📚🪐

The book cover sits in the center of the image. The cover has a bone white background covered in thin black branches and tiny red flowers, with abstract fillagree in the corners and on the sides. At the top is the black silhouette of a wrought iron manor gate, with red vines climbing up its edges. At the bottom is the silhouette of a black bat with wings outstretched. The background of the image is the photo of a red rose bush partially in shadow.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today we discuss Monstrous Humans & Humane Monsters from the #ResidentEvil movie & the Monster #anime! - JI 🐉 "Choosing to become a monster versus choosing to embrace humanity brings these properties together. Both Tenma and Bryan choose empathy over and over." fantasy-faction.com/2026/monstro...

A person in a gray hoodie stands against a brick wall under a dim light with their face completely in shadow. Splattered blood frames the image. In the center of the image are the posters for Resident Evil and Monster glowing red at their edges. Above the posters is written, "Monstrous Humans & Humane Monsters," and below them, "A Fantasy-Faction Article."

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today Christopher Keene reviews @jv-jones.bsky.social's The Book of Words series! - JI 🐉 "Jones spices her prose in a way that sucks you into the narrative...a trilogy timeless enough to deserve far more attention than it receives." fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-boo... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #epicfantasy

Three book covers sit in the center of the image. Center: The Baker's Boy. It shows a young white man with dirty-blond hair, in brown and green, and a young white woman with long blond hair, in blue, walking through man-made stone caverns. The young man is holding a candlestick as they approach a set of ascending stairs. Left: A Man Betrayed. It shows a blond white man in full plate mail with a red surcoat riding a white horse. Sitting behind him is a young white woman with long red hair in a blue dress. Her chestnut brown horse is being led behind them. They are passing in front of a waterfall in the woods. Right: Master and Fool. It shows a white man in pirate garb with his arms outstretched to either side of him. He is standing on the edge of a sailing ship with gold decoration on the bow. Behind him is a blond white man in full plate mail shielding himself from a wave that is about to crash into them. The sky above them is fiery red and yellow. The background image is wrinkled parchment. Above the covers written in red are the words, "The Book of Words," below the covers, "A Fantasy-Faction Series Review."

Kelly Miller, Award-Winning Author, Austenesque Regency Romances @kellymiller.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Release: “Diversions With Darcy & Elizabeth” is in KU and in paperback, 2 sweet, standalone #PrideAndPrejudice Regency romance novellas. “The Love Potion,” a harmless prank goes awry! “The Pemberley Ravens,” Darcy & Elizabeth bond with a pair of clever birds! mybook.to/DDwE #JaneAusten

Austen in Boston @austeniboston.bsky.social · 3w ago

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 3w ago

:) 70% OFF Mr. Collins' Will: A Pride and Prejudice Variation :) www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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Mr. Collins was a fool, yes, but not a fool who deserved to die. Torn between anger with her cousin and remorse on his behalf, Miss Elizabeth Bennet must navigate the changes Mr. Collins' demi...

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 3w ago

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+

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows the closeup illustration of a fictional newspaper. In the center is an "ad" with a giant pentagram inside a circle drawn in a purple highlighter. Below the pentagram are three silhouettes. The first three are solid human figures of different heights. The fourth is partly erased and has cat ears. The ad below the center reads, "Magical Detectives. Got cursed or bewitched? Lost one of your socks or a friend?" and then is cut off by the edge of the book. To either side of the main ad are smaller ads including one on the right that shows an old-fashioned bottle of poison. Scattered across the cover are five purple beetles with shiny shells. The background image is various watercolor swatches in a multitude of purples of different shades and shininess.

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 3w ago

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

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows the title written in electric purple and bright pink outlined in white on a black background. Radiating out from the title are purple-ish digital outlines cascading outward making a tunnel effect. The background image is wavy electric blue lines with white spots of light, vaguely mimicking an organic circuit board.

Fantasy-Faction@fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Time screws with you, hearts stay real. A math-genius, quantum leaps, friendship and pain tangled through alternate lives. Sticky paradoxes and raw honesty ground even the wildest shifts in time. 💙📚🪐 #FantasyFaction #SFFbookRecommenfation fantasy-faction.com/2025/limited...

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 4w ago

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

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows the illustration of a castle in silhouette on a hilltop in the light of a full moon. Bats fly across the sky and a cemetery sits at the bottom of the hill. The background of the image is a photo of a cloudy sky at night.

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 4w ago

🩷 🤍 💌 New to Audiobook and Available Today! 💌 🤍 🩷

The audiobook cover of Love, Letter & Lies. It's pink with some lace and a few flowers, and says, Love, Letter & Lies, a Pride & Prejudice Variation, Renata McMann & Summer Hanford, read by Benjamin Fife. RB Media, Tantor Media.

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today our judges review @hollytinsl3y.bsky.social's The Hallows, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews #noir #urbanfantasy #gaslamp (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hurst’s voice called without, musted, but loud enough to hear. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kitty looked down to the sight of her cream slippers peaking from under the cloaks. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · last mo.

Today @summerhanford.bsky.social reviews Sarah Hawley's Servant of Earth! - JI 🐉 "The various peoples, the politics, the physical locations, all rendered beautifully and seamlessly. Servant of Earth is a masterclass in worldbuilding." fantasy-faction.com/2026/servant... #booksky 💙📚🪐🌶️

The book cover sits in the center of the image. It shows a white woman with flowing auburn hair, in a green velvet dress with a red underlining. It is tied at the waist with a golden rope that floats off to the right and left of her. In front of the woman is a highly carved sword with a ruby on its pommel. Around the edge is a gold Art Nouveau frame covered in vines and flowers, and decorated with a carved woman's face at the bottom and six gem stones on the corners and the top. The background of the image is the close up photo of a bush with dark green leaves.

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · last mo.

Shows the cover of Mr. Darcy's Bookshop against autumn leaves and nots that the book is on sale for 99p on Amazon UK this October

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · last mo.

His gate was hurried. #cousinconundrum #myproofreadingerrors

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · last mo.

🩷 Coming Soon! (October 6th, to be exact) 🩷 #audiobook #newrelease #austenesque #JAFF #PrideandPrejudice

Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · last mo.

"I need to bring in a college of mine." #CousinConundrum #MyProofReadingErrors

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · last mo.

Today Christopher Keene gives new readers a new way into Malazan! - JI 🐉 "I’m tempted to defy all common sense and recommendation rules and suggest a reading order that does not align with its release order. For newer readers...start at book two." fantasy-faction.com/2026/why-mal... #booksky 💙📚🪐

The image shows a bulletin board with the first four books of Malazan Book of the Fallen (Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, and House of Chains) pinned to it with pushpins. Above the last three books are red arrows pointing from each one to the book to its left. Below the books is a larger red arrow pointing from the first book to the last. Below that are three pieces of paper pinned to the board. On the left is a piece of lined paper with a handwritten note that reads: Suggested reading order?? On the right is torn piece of parchment that reads: Why Malazan is So Hard to Recommend, A Fantasy-Faction Article. Between the parchment and the books above it is a torn circular piece of white paper with three question marks written in black marker.

Kelly Miller, Award-Winning Author, Austenesque Regency Romances @kellymiller.bsky.social · last mo.

#PreOrder now for $2.99, out Oct. 5: “Diversions With Darcy & Elizabeth” combines 2 sweet, standalone #PrideAndPrejudice Regency romance novellas. “The Love Potion,” a harmless prank goes awry! “The Pemberley Ravens,” Darcy & Elizabeth bond with a pair of clever birds! mybook.to/DDwE #JaneAusten

Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · last mo.

Today we are excited to reveal the cover for @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social's new novel! @kitvaria.bsky.social introduces us to A Healer’s Guide to Adventuring, coming soon from @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social! - JI 🐉 Cover art by Jenny Zemanek. fantasy-faction.com/2026/a-heale... #booksky 💙📚🪐

A piece of white paper has been ripped on a slight diagonal to reveal a portion of the book cover beneath it. The cover is mint green with white text and features illustrations of white and yellow daisies, purple lavender, a crescent moon, and a red dragon's tail.