terribleminds:

“And so it is with the Underworld: you may enter its depths and walk into the dark, but something is always taken from you. And it remains ever-uncertain whether your entrance will be mirrored again by your escape.”

The Blue Blazes

Coming May 27th, 2013.

Pre-order:

Amazon

B&N

Indiebound

(text by Chuck Wendig; art artifact by Joey Hi-Fi)

Amazing 3D Book Collages Bring Classic Stories to Life

seizuresandwich:

Alvin Schwartz’s collection of haunting tales Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is an important gateway drug into the world of the supernatural. And as terrifying as the stories about brides locked forever in an attic trunk truly are, it’s the artwork by Stephen Gammell that kept you up at night.

So buy the original printings where you can, while you still can.

So glad I have the 3 books collection.  It’s a shame to see the artwork being redone, for some of the stories that was the absolute BEST part about them.  

ladythorn:

ariedreaming:

“The Loveliest Girl in the World is a stunningly beautiful book. 

In these fantasy-like pictures young women reveal the most hidden and fragile sides of themselves. There are no problem children in foster homes, but fairies.”

I walked into a book store today looking for a graduation present for my cousin, when I ran by chance into Miina Savolainen, the author/photographer of The Loveliest Girl in the World, an art book full of foster home girls photographed as the heroines of their own internal fantasies.

Already familiar with the book and the photos, I knew the photographs are a kind of therapy for the girls. This combined with the fairy tale theme and my short talk with the author ended up with me buying myself a fairly pricey art book for Christmas. She wrote such a wonderful, beautiful and personal dedication to me and gave me a hug, I was quite overwhelmed.

Press photos of the book:

This makes me cry. Well done.

(via Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender | Indiegogo)

You can watch the TEDx Talk, and pledge for the book at that link too.  

lostabhorsen:

REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD READ THE ABHORSEN CHRONICLES:

• BADASS FEMALE PROTAGONISTS: from Sabriel the prefect of an all-girls school to Lirael a shy librarian both of whom turn into duty-bound zombie killing soldier priests who rescue princes and battle necromancers and fight against what is effectively a trapped god, you can keep your Hermione’s and Katniss Everdeen’s thanx (and can we just talk about how the girls in the school TOTALLY JUMP INTO HELP THE SOLDIERS AGAINST KERRIGOR DESPITE KNOWING THEY’RE PROBABLY GOING TO DIE??)
• INCREDIBLE WORLD BUILDING: set in two neighbouring kingdoms - one resembling 1930’s britain the other a medieval fantasy realm that’s fallen into anarchy  plagued by Death NOT TO MENTION the world-weary soldiers manning the wall who are sick of your necromantic bullshit
• TALKING ANIMAL COMPANIONS: not as cheesy as you think, since one is a sarcastic cat spirit who is scary as fuck when his true form is revealed and the other a wizened grandmotherly-like dog who rips out undead throats
• COOL MAGIC: though it’s complicated it isn’t once confusing and you can’t beat dual sword-and-bell wielding, bells that can land you into death modeled after the Egyptian afterlife
• GREAT CHARACTERS AND DEVELOPMENT: all the characters are forced to carry a duty and some succeed whilst others don’t but that’s okay because being born into a society doesn’t necessarily mean you belong there
• GOOD ROMANCE: it’s subtle and forged out of friendship and trust and doesn’t define any of the characters or control any of the events in the story
• NEW BOOKS COMING SOON: including Clariel which is a prequel based on Chlorr of the Mask WHO WAS AN ABHORSEN WHO TURNED EVIL!! like how awesome does that sound give me all the downward spirals for female necromancers AND there’s apparently going to be a sequel to the series too!!
• POSSIBLE FILM IN THE MAKING: which means if you wanna get on that fandom first get on it now
• IT’S JUST REALLY GREAT?? despite it being marketed as a YA book it’s still riveting and mature enough for older audiences (I think I might appreciate it more now that I’m older tbh) just UNF

sarahdiemer:

Twixt, my second novel, a dark fantasy YA with a lesbian heroine, is released today!

You wake upon the cold ground.  As you struggle to rise, as your breath exhales like a ghost, you know only two things:  You can’t remember who you are.  And you’re being hunted.

No one sleeps in Abeo City.  The lost souls gather indoors at night as Snatchers tear through the sky on black-feathered wings, stalking them.  But inside the rotting walls of the Safe Houses comes a quieter, creeping danger.  The people of Abeo City have forgotten their pasts, and they can trade locks of their hair to sinister women known only as the Sixers for an addictive drug.  Nox will give you back a single memory–for a price.

Like the other lost souls, Lottie wakens in this harsh landscape and runs in terror from the Snatchers.  But she soon comes to realize that she is not at all like the people of Abeo City.  When she takes Nox, her memories remain a mystery, and the monsters who fill the sky at night refuse to snatch her.  Trying to understand who she is, and how she ended up in such a hopeless place, Lottie bands together with other outcasts, including a brave and lovely girl named Charlie.  In the darkness, and despite the threat of a monstrous end, love begins to grow.  But as Lottie and Charlie plot their escape from Abeo City, Lottie’s dark secrets begin to surface, along with the disturbing truth about Twixt: a truth that could cost her everything.

Twixt is now available in many formats!

- on Amazon.com (for Kindle)
- on BarnesAndNoble.com (for Nook)
- on Smashwords (for eReaders/reading online)
- Paperback edition here

Signed paperback on Etsy + FREE eReader edition!

More on the blog, plus a giveaway!

(via Tor Books Announces New Dragon Age™ novel with BioWare Senior Writer Patrick Weeks | Tor.com)

Tor Books—the largest publisher of science fiction in the world—and BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts, are excited to announce the fourth novel in the award-winning Dragon Age™ fantasy RPG franchise. Patrick Weekes, senior writer at BioWare, will pen Dragon Age: The Masked Empire for April 2014 publication.

fishingboatproceeds:

screechsnap:

Fake book covers for An Imperial Affliction, designed by Joviana Carrillo

Also, just found that it has a page on goodreads. Even though it doesn’t technically exist. ;)

Wow.