Excerpts

Read an Excerpt From The Severed Thread

Leslie Vedder

Thu Feb 2, 2023 2:00pm

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Fantasy, Young Adult || Book Two of The Bone Spindle: Which threads of fate will hold—and which will break?

Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Shannon Chakraborty

Wed Feb 1, 2023 2:00pm

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Fantasy || Amina al-Sirafi should be content.

Brandon Sanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea Will Release in Bookstores on April 4th

Tor.com

Wed Feb 1, 2023 12:00pm

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Read an Excerpt From Fonda Lee’s Untethered Sky

Fonda Lee

Mon Jan 30, 2023 12:00pm

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Fantasy || Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family.

Read an Excerpt From Rubicon

J. S. Dewes

Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:00pm

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Science Fiction, Space Opera || Sergeant Adriene Valero wants to die.

Read an Excerpt From Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

Mon Jan 23, 2023 2:00pm

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Science Fiction || What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal?

Read an Excerpt From Queen Among the Dead

Lesley Livingston

Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:00pm

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Fantasy, Young Adult || In the kingdom of Eire, banshees chill the air, and water-wights lurk in the rivers. But magic is outlawed by the king, and jealously hoarded by his Druid priests.

Read an Excerpt from TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets

T.J. Klune

Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:00pm

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Fantasy || In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention.

Read an Excerpt From Wild Massive

Scotto Moore

Wed Jan 18, 2023 2:00pm

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Humor, Science Fiction || Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire world.

Read an Exclusive Excerpt From Kelly Barnhill’s The Crane Husband

Kelly Barnhill

Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:00pm

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Fairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy || A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries.

Read an Excerpt From Another Dimension of Us

Mike Albo

Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:00pm

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Science Fiction, Young Adult || In 1986, Tommy Gaye is in love with his best friend, budding teen poet Renaldo Calabasas.

Read an Excerpt From Stephen Graham Jones’ Don’t Fear the Reaper

Stephen Graham Jones

Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:00pm

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Horror || Book 2 of The Indian Lake Trilogy: Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.

Read an Excerpt From Rebel, Brave and Brutal

Shannon Dittemore

Thu Jan 5, 2023 2:00pm

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Epic Fantasy, Young Adult || Book Two of Winter, White and Wicked: Sylvi Quine, the best rig driver on Layce, has braved the dangers of the Shiv Road and learned the truth of her power over Winter.