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Great to see my Appalachian weird horror novella GODFESTATION as one of the new August 2026 horror books on Reactor Magazine! https://reactormag.com/new-horror-books-august-2026/
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Thank you to Read Jump Scares for featuring my new Appalachian weird horror novella, Godfestation! "All the New Horror Books Coming in August 2026"
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https://readjumpscares.com/2026/08/04/all-the-new-horror-books-coming-in-august-2026/
Thank you to The Lineup for featuring Godfestation (Aug. 11) in "4 Terrifying New Releases from Indie and Small Presses in August 2026"!
https://the-line-up.com/indie-and-small-press-horror-august-2026
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The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
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Q: When Does A Tolkien Question Stop Being About Tolkien?
ANSWER: Through the years I receive occasional thoughtful opinions or responses to recent posts on this blog, where long-time readers feel I may have strayed beyond their expectations or – in some cases – comfort zones. Those two areas are not the same (in my eyes). There may be other, unseen boundaries I occasionally cross. Years ago, […]
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/when-does-a-tolkien-question-stop-being-about-tolkien/Wow! someone just started reading the forgotten garden
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Changeling and Darkling are available now!
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I really love reading. I used to read mostly #scifi and #fantasy, so you could often find me with my nose buried in #Discworld, #Tolkien, The #Witcher, or #HarryPotter back in school. These days, I also enjoy classic literature by "great authors".
And yes, I'm now an expert in children's books because I read to my son every night before bed #kidsbooks. Sadly, I don't have much time for other reading these days.
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Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Empire of the East" (1979) by Fred Saberhagen
Age Range: 17 to adult
Genre: Fantasy, Science Fantasy, series
Fred Saberhagen was highly prolific. He created several great series, one of which has had many additional entries written by other authors. "Empire of the East" is effectively a prologue series (written first) to his "Swords" series, which was quite popular. But "Empire of the East" is less well-known than the Swords series.
It's the far future. Earth is...different. VERY different. Facing the prospect of a nuclear war, the US government built an experimental countermeasure: a computer-controlled machine which would temporarily alter the laws of physics enough to make nuclear explosions impossible.
The creators of the machine didn't know that Russia had a similar machine. When war began, •both• machines activated...and their combined effect changed the laws of physics permanently, all over the world. In time it would be called the Change.
The effect was catastrophic. Nuclear detonations became impossible, but so did many other reactions. Technological items changed from mindless, automatic devices into strange, capricious beings who might or might not be malevolent. Some computers became djinn, or efrit, or other kinds of supernatural beings. Active explosions crossed by the effects of the Change became demons. In time the surviving humans discovered that the altered laws of physics allowed effects which could only be called magic.
[The Satrap Ekuman’s difficulties with his aged prisoner had only begun when he got the fellow down into the dungeon under the Castle and tried to begin a serious interrogation. The problem was not, as you might have thought from a first look at the old man, that the prisoner was too fragile and feeble, liable to die at the first good twinge of pain. Not at all. It was almost incredible, but actually the exact opposite was true. The old man was actually too tough, his powers still protected him. All through the long night he not only defended himself, but kept trying to hit back.
Ekuman’s two wizards, Elslood and Zarf, were adepts as able as any that the Satrap had ever encountered west of the Black Mountains, far too strong for any lone prisoner to overcome, especially here on their own ground. Yet the old man fought—in pride and stubbornness, perhaps, and doubtless with the realization that his fighting could cause powers so enormous to be arrayed against him, could create a tension so great, that his inevitable collapse would bring him sudden and relatively painless death.]
It's a remarkable series, and the transformed technology is absolutely fascinating.
"Empire of the East" is a collection of the first three books in the series; a fourth book, the end of the "Swords" series (which I also recommend) also serves as an ending to "Empire of the East". But the first three books provide a very satisfying story and ending on their own.
Sadly "Empire of the East" isn't available to borrow from the Internet Archive, unless you have disabilities. But it's still in print, and it's available as an ebook from the usual sources (please don't use Amazon). You may also be able to find it at your local library, and I've seen it in used book shops sometimes.
It's worth the effort to find.
There's a complete spreadsheet of all the books I've recommended here to date (along with links to each post) here:
Happy reading! 🤓📖
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Hi! I’m Violinknitter, and I joined Mastodon in one of the fall 2022 Twitter exoduses. I found a fairly comfy little niche, and have been chattering happily here ever since.
I play violin, teach violin & viola, have a ridiculously long TBR list, listen to audiobooks & podcasts constantly. I like to chatter about #books, #yarn, #knitting, #HandSpinning, #fantasy, #musicology, #violin, #Pokémon, and #cooking & #baking

Real Tolkien fans don’t change a thing, do they?
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Made by myself, easy to order, reach out to me ~
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Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "The Complete Compleat Enchanter" (1989) by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
Age Range: 15 to adult
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Parallel Worlds
This is one of the classics of the Golden Age of science fiction. The first two novellas–originally published together as "The Incomplete Enchanter" in 1941. This was one of the earliest science fantasy series; syllogistic logic is used to travel to alternate worlds based on myths and classical poetry. It was a bedrock text of the field for a long time. Later it was assembled with more Harold Shea stories and released as "The Complete Compleat Enchanter". Other editions exist.
Harold Shea is a young psychologist at an institute for the study of psychology when an older colleague comes up with a theory for traveling to alternate universes via syllogistic logic. Having a longing for adventure, he assembles some equipment (including a gun) and makes the attempt. He succeeds in transferring himself not to the world he intended, but to the world of Norse mythology: Midgard during the Fimbulwinter: the time of Ragnarök, or nearly so.
[Heimdall’s voice was smooth. “From which of the nine worlds do you come, strangest of strangers, with garments like to none I have seen?”
Shea thought. The question was a little like, “Have you quit beating your wife?” He asked cautiously: “Which nine worlds?”
Heimdall laughed lightly. “Ho—I thought I was to be the questioner here. But there is the abode of the gods that is Asgard, and that is one world; and the homes of the giants, that are Jötunheim, Muspellheim, Niflheim, and Hell, or five worlds in all. There is Alfheim where live the dwarfs; and Svartalfheim and Vanaheim which we do not know well, though it is said the Vanes shall stand with us at the Time. Lastly there is Midgard, which is overrun with such worms as you.”
Shea yawned. The mead and warmth were beginning to pull up on him. “To tell the truth, I don’t come from any of them, but from outside your system of worlds entirely.”
“A strange answer is that, yet not so strange, but it could be true,” said Heimdall, thoughtfully. “For I can see the nine worlds from where I sit and nowhere such a person as yourself. Say nothing of this to the other Æsir, and above all to the Wanderer. He would take it ill to hear there was a world in which he held no power. Now I will ask my second question. What men or gods rule this world of yours?”
Shea found himself yawning again. He was too tired for explanations and flipped off his answer. “Well, some say one class and some say another, but the real rulers are called traffic cops. They pinch you—”
“Are they then some form of crab-fish?”
“No. They pinch you for moving too fast, whereas a crab pinches you for moving too slowly.”]
A long quote, but I couldn't resist. Luckily Harold discovers that syllogistic logic doesn't just allow him to travel to different worlds; it allows him to perform magic, too. Real magic, albeit a bit unpredictable.
The results are funny and fun.
Several sequels were written by other authors, but (as is often the case) they don't really capture the magic and wit of the originals.
I'm not sure if the originals are still in print, but there's a good chance of finding copies in used book stores. Even ebook versions are hard to find, which is a real shame; classics like this deserve better treatment. Luckily you can find "The Complete Compleat Enchanter" on the high seas 🏴☠️, and it's also available to borrow for free from the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/completecompleat0000lspr_u1s3
You can find a complete spreadsheet of all the books I've recommended here to date (along with links to each post) here:
Happy reading! 🤓📖
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Ten days to Godfestation! Grief, love, and monsters await…
Preorder my Appalachian weird horror and dark fantasy novella from your favorite bookstore.
Out August 11. Preorder links: https://jendiagammon.com/godfestation/
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Today is the official release day of Sarah Avery's updated and revised novella collection "Tales from Rugosa Coven"!
Winner of the Mythopoeic Society fantasy award for adult literature, it is a thoughtful, fun, magical look at three significant events in the lives of a group of New Jersey coven mates.
The novellas were printed several years back, publishers folded, it's been out of print and sorely missed - Sarah has managed to get the rights back, clean up some inconsistencies and other issues that she found (and gave us an afterword on what she changed and why), and found a press willing to bring out a book that's not a first release, but is oh, so, so worth the read.
Available from your favorite bookseller, and Amazon. 😋
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We all got one of those cousins 😂
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Illustration from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - Edouard Riou (1871). With colors.
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Q: Why Were Arnor And Gondor Separate After Isildur Died?
ANSWER: I received the following question from a reader in November 2025:
Why were Arnor and Gondor sundered after Isildur’s death, if long-range communications with the Palàntiri was a thing?
Technically, the realm of Elendil persisted until Third Age year 861, when Amlaith and his two (unnamed) brothers divided Arnor into three […]
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-were-arnor-and-gondor-separate-after-isildur-died/What is your favorite work/series/art/etc that starts with the letter "B"?
Also include why you like it!
The rules are lax, you can include or exclude "A" or "The" as you want (e.g. The Predator can go under T or P). You can also remove the franchise name if you want (e.g. Star Trek: Voyager can go under S or V).
Include both the hashtags #FavWorkB and #FavWorkAtoZ so we can sort the answers.
You can also answer the previous #FavWorkA too if you missed it! There's no deadline.
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