Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and I’m coming at you with your last September new releases. Because, indeed, it’s the next to last day of September. Almost time for…October. But not yet. I’m stuffing my plastic skeletons back in the closet for a couple more days, promise. We’re starting to get some leaves changing color around here already — I hope you’ve got some pretty sights coming your way! Stay safe out there, space pirates, and I’ll see you on Tuesday — in October!
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Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s two places to start: Maui Aloha: The People’s Response, which sends support to those affected by the wildfires on Maui, particularly first responders; and Entertainment Community Fund, which supports entertainment workers who are striking for living wages and a future where humans can continue to create art for each other.
Bookish Goods
Green Galaxy Fox Metal Bookmark by ChocolateRaisinUK
Since we’ve got a fox book in the new releases this week, here’s an absolutely gorgeous fox bookmark to go with it! I just love the colors on this! $15
New Releases
Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For edited by Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker
The second in the anthology series that started with Vampires Never Get Old, this is a 14 story collection of YA tales about people with fish tails…so to speak. Authors include Darcie Little Badger, Julie C. Dao, Preeti Chhibber, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, and more!
The Navigating Fox by Christopher Rowe
Quintus Shu’al is a navigating fox, the only in the world, and he’s in complete disgrace after navigating an expedition to its death. After a year of shame and shadows, he has a chance to redeem himself…if he can survive the job: leading a motley crew to the very gates of Hell.
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Riot Recommendations
As we exit September, here’s a couple of small pub releases to round out the month.
The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
In the era of the Spanish Inquisition, Toba Peres is an enigma that must carefully hide her talents, such as her ability to write with both hands at once in two different languages. Naftaly, too, must hide that he dreams truths and sees what isn’t real. When the Queen of Spain demands that every Jew converts, Toba and Naftaly are just two among many who flee their homes. And it is they who discover a pomegranate grove that is an entrance into the mirror realm of Mazik, a place of immortals terrorized by its own Inquisition.
A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
Vade is what’s called a Phantom Dragon, part of an anarchist faction that’s aiming to destroy the empire Althus is a Touchstone, an imperial agent, for. They’re assigned to spy on each other. Neither was supposed to fall for the other.
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.