#preorder Molly's book!

[pasitheapowder]

Surprise! Molly has a book coming out. And Jane has a conundrum. In this bonus episode, you can listen to a sneak peek of Molly’s forthcoming short story collection, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, catch up with Jane, and stick around for an extra treat. It’s a one-off smorgasbord, baby! Get it while it’s hot!

Preorder The Sea Gives Up the Dead from Red Hen, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore!

Transcript here. 🖤

[ethanmaldridge]

Book cover process.

It was a fun challenge to create a design for the cover that looked like a distinctive book while also matching the look of Deephaven, developing the overall series look. Big thanks to the book's designer Molly Fehr for the type and title design!

Scrimshaw will be on shelves this September, and you can support the series by preordering (or picking up the first book) now!

[lgbtqreads]

Gift Guide: Queer Fiction for DnD Lovers

Today’s gift guide is for the DnD lovers out there! It’s a combination of books actually featuring DnD (or similar games, especially if they’re fictional) and books with DnD vibes (a popular rec Ask!), and even a preorder option if you want to bring some future joy to a fan! Middle Grade Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma This is the first in a series; the second is…

[laiqualaurelote]

Press Release: Spooky Action at a Distance Album Reveal

The London Music Register - Local Interest

Spooky Action At A Distance unveils cover art for their much awaited debut album

The Ambassadors meets The Breakfast Club

Perhaps even more difficult than snagging a ticket to one of SAAAD’s sold-out club shows is trying to describe the experience to your less-lucky friends afterwards.

Their sound defies basic mortal conventions such as genre, instead better described by critic buzzwords, namely, transcendent and explosive.

Four band mates of wildly different backgrounds and styles meet to produce something that’s both the ultimate sum of their ancestral influences and entirely, uniquely theirs. Their music unabashedly melds high and low art- what begins as a pop punk song flows seamlessly into an operatic verse, while another number features elements of a baroque dance suite in what can best be defined as a modern club anthem. Their lyrics are equally packed with esoteric references and universal emotions.

It shouldn’t work- but it does. And it’s delicious. In order to tide you over until the album release, we’ve got the first look at its cover art, and as a gift to fans, it’s visually indicative of the band’s layered sound.

Many of you may be familiar with The Ambassadors from school trips to the National Gallery. The painting’s a popular subject of debate for art historians due to its detailed subjects and metaphysical symbolism. It’s reproduced faithfully here, albeit with a few cheeky adjustments.

SAAAD frontwoman Crystal Palace (yes, that Crystal Palace!) takes the place of the leftmost figure, complete with lavish outfit and undeniable rockstar swagger.

Across from her, drummer Charles Rowland stands in a dark coat, sticks clutched in a gloved hand.

Bassist Niko Sasaki lays across the top shelf à la Molly Ringwald, dandelion-crowned head at Palace’s shoulder.

Center frame- the band’s ‘brain’: virtuoso Edwin Payne sits with a lute across his lap and the painting’s infamous distorted skull slashing across his legs. (Memento mori seems to be a prevalent theme in many of SAAAD’s songs, though they often turn it into a lively celebration)

Eagle eyed fans will notice a couple additions to Holbein’s instruments- a bear figurine, a lantern, and a cherry blossom branch among them. Are they references to the band’s lyrics? Hints at future projects?

One thing’s for sure, we cannot wait to see more of this group. *

Spooky Action At A Distance’s album is available for preorder at record stores all across London.

Next live show: Saturday night at the Catabasis (tickets required in advance)

Booking inquires should be sent to Jenny Green.

HELLO I LOVE THIS?! for those unfamiliar with The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, it's a 16th-century painting most famous for the weird distorted shape in the foreground, which looks like an alien object but is an anamorphic skull that comes into view if you approach it from certain angles. It's absolutely perfect for this band AU, I am shrieking. my eternal thanks to you anon

I actually drafted, but did not put in the fic itself, the track listing for the band's debut album AFTERLIVES, complete with writing credits:

SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET (Payne)

ACES DACES (Rowland)

LEFT OVER RITE (Payne)

TANPOPO NO KAMISAMA (Sasaki)

STICKY CRICKET WICKET (Rowland)

GIRLS’ KNIVES OUT (Sasaki, Surname von Hoverkraft)

RESTLESS PIANO SYNDROME (Payne)

PICK UP WHAT YOU’RE PUTTING DOWN (Rowland)

BRACELET ABOUT THE BONE (Payne)

BURY THE EX (Surname von Hoverkraft)

LANTERN IN THE DARK (Payne)

STAIRWAY TO HELL (Payne, Rowland) 

(bonus track)

13. GOT THE HELL OUT OF HELL (WE AIN’T GOING BACK) (Payne, Rowland, Sasaki, Surname von Hoverkraft)

gig officially gigged

[chaos-lioness]

AAAAAAAAA I just listened to the pasithea powder bonus and 1. Yes I am absolutely going to preorder Molly’s book 2. Jane’s monologue is such an interesting and wonderful look into her and Sophie’s future life I’m enamoured BUT can we please talk about the song??? Oh my god????? It’s perfect??????? Like it’s so much fun and it’s so absurd and oh my god Carrie reference but ALSO the singer is displaying the exact same twisted self confidence that Sophie does in the first half of the story???? Therefore perfectly echoing some of the key themes and also implying that in universe Lily Guilder has accidentally hit upon some correct and horribly disturbing ideas about the effects of pasithea while also simultaneously not understanding how it works at all whatsoever (as evidenced by the rest of the song). HELLO????????? Annie Moriondo and the team just casually hitting it right out of the park

[emchovy]

Learned about the release of this book real late, (as in, this February, when I decided that I wanted to show my roommate Epithet for the first time) but thankfully that was just in time to preorder a copy of the hardcover release, which finally came.

Or well, it came yesterday, and I'm finished reading it now. It was AMAZING.

The writing style is pretty different from the stuff I normally read, but once I got in the groove, I felt like I didn't need the audiobook (which I'm definitely gonna get eventually) because I could basically hear all the characters in my head. Also, spoilers for the rest of my review. Pick up a copy. You won't regret it.

I say review. This is disconnected rambling. Also, seriously, spoilers for the whole book delivered in a random out-of-context way.

This book is definitely Molly's story more than anything, and beyond that it's a story between Molly and her sister Lorelei. Two kids with epithets, and opposite personalities. There's a really masterful job here of balancing realistic family drama with the fun, villain vs. hero hijinks.

I love a pathetic loser, and so I was immediately taken by Rick Shades, and his quest for friends, to the point I was getting bummed out when he kept getting rebuffed lololol. However, it was all earned in the end. The scene with him and Molly was <3. Also, I am glad he's gonna get a job. Of some sort.

Naven meeting Molly in the street and just agreeing to give her speech training is an incredibly cute concept.

I liked the Neo Trio a lot, but they're surprisingly not the new faves I expected them to be, though I did laugh pretty much every time at the running joke with Feenie and money.

Actually, my favorite new character was probably Lorelei. We love a girl who's making every wrong decision and also just doesn't leave the house anymore and wonders what's wrong. Also, the Martin + Lorelei relationship was also pretty intriguing. He's more supportive of Lorelei, she's got more of his traits, but Lorelei needs someone who'll help her manage better. Martin's vague support of her 'playing', as Molly puts it, is doing more harm than good. I wasn't exactly sure how to take the fact that Martin constructs Lorelei's ideas in the real world, also. Is he plagiarizing? I wouldn't read it that way, but he's also not collaborating with Lorelei, so they could build something together. A relationship that could go either collaborative or parasitic, depending.

Also, I want Lorelei to get better (and I fully believe she will) but I really liked the end. She needs some time in the real world right now, to grapple with her actions. Neven's gentle support was good. Her and Molly need time apart, so that they can be able to be together again.

Gio and Molly remain duo of all time. Every interaction they have is cute and/or funny. Two characters I could probably enjoy watching/reading about doing basically any boring task you can think of and enjoy. Painting a fence, doing laundry, vacuuming, whatever.

Giovanni's complete blindness to romance was so fuckin' funny in this book. Him and Lorelei and him and Crusher were also distinctly different levels of complete obliviousness.

Also, Crusher and Molly, right at the end <3!! Pulling out the stool for her, her getting reassured by the fact she was nervous. Augh. So sweet. I've reread that scene like 4 times. I do hope we get Molly hanging out with more of The Boys. Crusher's coming across like a pretty gentle sweetie, but I'm very curious about how she'll integrate into the larger group.

All of that to say! Good book!! Would recommend! I'm extremely excited for Sweet Escape.

[books-and-strawberry-tea]

Okay, here’s my plan:

I have a few book preorders. And to be strict on myself about reading, to be able to keep the preorders, I have to read either the previous book or read the digital version on my kindle (some of the books haven’t released here physically so).

Here’s my preorders:

2024:

3 Dec - Scarlet Veil Deluxe Edition (this is an automatic keep cause it’s one of my fav books)

10 December - An Education in Malice (I have to read this digitally. For some reason Australia has no stock of this atm that I can find, but Amazon is getting stock soon)

2025:

21 Jan - Phantom (instantly getting this as I adore the Haunting Adeline series. This is also just a kindle book)

29 Jan - Immortal (to keep this preorder, I have to finish daughter of the moon goddess and heart of the sun warrior)

11 Feb - Scythe & Sparrow (have to finish leather and lark to keep this preorder)

2 April - The Shadow Bride (this is an instant keep. I’ve read The Scarlet Veil, as we know, it’s my favourite book so I have to read the next one instantly.)

8 April - My Funny Demon Valentine (have to read this book on my kindle to keep the preorders)

TBR Plan:

November:

An Education in Malice (have to read in November)❗️❗️❗️

Leather & Lark

Charm (personal goal: finish crave series before e.o.y)

Crescent city #1 (Nov - Dec)

The Thirteenth Child (personal goal: to be up to date with all Erin A Craig books)

December:

Daughter of the Moon Goddess (have to read)❗️❗️❗️

Heart of the Sun Warrior (have to read)❗️❗️❗️

My Funny Demon Valentine (have to read)❗️

Cherish (personal goal: finish crave series before e.o.y)

Audiobook:

A Court of Silver Flame (finish by e.o.y)

To Finish:

Breasts and Eggs

If You Have Spare Time: (please do these my god)

If You Could See The Sun

Belladonna

Starling House

Any Japanese Book

Frankenstein

Hunting Adeline (Where’s Molly - if finished)

Is this incredibly ambitious? Absolutely! But I have to try or I can’t get the books I really want.

Get to it Bek!

[blairwitchapologist]

started reading one book about suicide (molly by blake butler) the same week that i got my preorder of another book about suicide (grief is for people by sloane crosely) and i simply just can’t read them back to back it would kill me but i was looking at my tbr stack on my bookshelf and every book is so depressing! why do i do this to myself! i need some fun lighthearted books to read in between the ones that emotionally destroy me!!!!

[newtonsheffield]

hello molly where did you get those lovely books from?

I ordered them from Illumicrate! You had to preorder them in June so I’m not sure if they have spare sets to sell now to be honest but it might be worth a try

[themollyjay]

Aether:  Hearts of Heroes 3 is coming June 13th.  Catch up on the series before it gets here by getting the Scatter and Transistor eBooks are a new, lower price!

https://www.amazon.com/author/mollyjbragg https://desertpalmpress.com/product-tag/molly-j-bragg/ https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mollyjbragg

If you already own Scatter and Transistor, you can preorder Aether now at:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4G17J2F https://desertpalmpress.com/product/aether-hearts-of-heroes-book-3-by-molly-j-bragg/

[nothwell]

Thanks to Molly for this heartwarming review of Fiorenzo!

~

Sebastian Nothwell has done it again folks, but really, who’s shocked? This had everything: romance, sword-fighting, hurt/comfort, smut. Absolutely perfect.

~

FIORENZO is a queer fantasy-of-manners romance featuring secret identities, hurt/comfort, and a happily-ever-after. Coming out September 30th – preorder today!

Blurb:

Fiore has a plan. Find a wealthy elderly gentleman, delight him until the end of his days, and retire on the resulting inheritance. It’s the best outcome a low-born courtesan in the city of Halcyon can hope for. And it seems a perfect scheme… until a mysterious masked man upends it. Banished from university after a disastrous duel, Enzo wanders the city searching for scraps of the affection he’s lost. His public mask conceals private agonies. A single night in the company of a courtesan, however, balms his wounded heart, and he finds himself returning again and again to Fiore, revealing more of himself than he’s ever dared before. Furthermore, and more astonishing still, Fiore finds he returns Enzo’s affections. But while Fiore wears no mask, he nonetheless has secrets of his own. And when the ghosts of their pasts return to haunt them, only the bond of trust between them will carry them through.

~

Amazon • Apple Books • Barnes & Noble • Kobo • Smashwords

[allthingsdarkanddirty]

He's too smart to need anyone... except for her.

Love a rockstar romance?

Preorder Noah: Smoke and Mirrors by Quinn Marlowe now!  https://geni.us/QMSmoke

Noah I never expected this life to be an easy one. My band needs a new deal, and our next tour is our best and maybe only time to find it. I've got plans, though. Good ones. I just need everything to go right. Molly Rush, my best friend and Girl Friday, was supposed to be on hand to help me with them. But when she gets a new job as a magazine photographer, that goes sideways. When she returns to photograph our tour, she's suddenly mouth-wateringly sexy. Confident. Shining. Irresistible. And I can't keep my hands off her. No matter how much I know I have to. Molly Noah Michael has been my best friend since we were kids, growing up in the same orphanage, and I'd be lying if I said I never loved him. Honestly, I've loved him my whole life, and it's always been a bad idea. Which is why I take a new job, far from him and his bandmates. But when my new employer sends me right back to him, camera in hand, he starts looking at me different. Looking at me like he actually wants me. But I'm too smart to give in to that sort of thing. I know him too well to take the risk. At least my brain does. My heart, on the other hand… Noah: Smoke and Mirrors��is the third installment in the Trouble Next Door series, and promises angst, spice, a damaged rockstar and the girl he secretly loves, and a guaranteed HEA. Tissues not included!

About Quinn:

Quinn Marlowe is the bestselling author of the Rossi and Southern Heroes series and a certified California girl. After studying English and film at UCLA, she decided to pursue storytelling full time. She loves red wine, cheesecake, perfect hash browns, really good punk rock, fast cars, autumn, and cooking, but she is most likely to be found spending time with her horses, snuggling her dogs, or taking orders from her small army of cats. She is a professional eye roller with a penchant for swearing like a sailor, and some of her favorite people (her nephews) are convinced she is a spy. She makes her home in San Diego with her prized collections of books and lipstick, neither of which ever fail to lift her spirits when she's feeling down. 

Follow Quinn Online! Amazon: https://amzn.to/3qoxxq9 BookBub: https://bit.ly/3x9iX9Y Facebook: https://bit.ly/3BpUy2g Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Qvq2s2 Instagram: http://instagram.com/quinn.marlowe.smokeshow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@quinnmarloweauthor Twitter: https://twitter.com/quinnmarlowe Web: https://quinnmarlowe.com 

[jcmarchi]

AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/ai-snake-oil-is-now-available-to-preorder/

AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder

We are happy to share that our book AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder across online booksellers. The publication date is September 24, 2024. If you have enjoyed reading our newsletter and would like to support our work, please preorder the book via Amazon, Bookshop, or your favorite bookseller. 

We get two recurring questions about the book: 

In an area as fast moving as AI, how long can a book stay relevant? 

How similar is the book to the newsletter?

The answer to both questions is the same. We know that book publishing moves at a slower timescale than AI. So the book is about the foundational knowledge needed to separate real advances from hype, rather than commentary on breaking developments. In writing every chapter, and every paragraph, we asked ourselves: will this be relevant in five years? This also means that there’s very little overlap between the newsletter and the book. 

AI Snake Oil book cover

In the book, we explain the crucial differences between types of AI, why people, companies, and governments are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can’t fix social media, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. While generative AI is what drives press, predictive AI used in criminal justice, finance, healthcare, and other domains remains far more consequential in people’s lives. We discuss in depth how predictive AI can go wrong. We also warn of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies. 

The book is not just an explainer. Every chapter includes original scholarship. We plan to release exercises and discussion questions for classroom use; courses on the relationship between tech and society might benefit from the book. 

This is the first time we’ve written a mass-market book. We learned that preordering a book, as opposed to ordering after release, can make a big difference to its success. Preorder sales are used by retailers to decide which books to stock and promote after release. They help books get recognized on best-seller lists. They allow our publishers to anticipate how many copies need to be printed and how the book should be distributed. They are also used by online booksellers to make algorithmic recommendations. In short, pre-ordering early is the best way to support our work. You can preorder the book from your local retailers via Bookshop.org or on Amazon.

We couldn’t have written AI Snake Oil without the support of Hallie Stebbins, our editor at Princeton University Press. The book was peer reviewed by three experts: Melanie Mitchell and two anonymous reviewers. We also received informal peer reviews from Matt Salganik, Molly Crockett, and Chris Bail. All of this feedback helped us improve the book immensely, and we are grateful for the reviewers’ time and thoughtful attention. We are also grateful to Alondra Nelson, Julia Angwin, Kate Crawford, and Melanie Mitchell, who took the time to read the book and write blurbs. 

Thank you to the over 25,000 of you who subscribe to this newsletter. We look forward to continuing to write the newsletter even after the book is published. Analyzing topical and pressing questions about AI using the foundational understanding we develop in the book has been one of the most rewarding parts of our work. We hope the book will be useful to you. Thank you for supporting us.

Preorder links

US: Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble. UK: Waterstones. Canada: Indigo. Germany: Kulturkaufhaus. The book is available to preorder internationally on Amazon.

[bixbiboom]

Coming soon!

The Mighty Nein Origins: Mollymauk Tealeaf

[ID: An image of a comic book cover for the above mentioned comic. It features Mollymauk, a lavender-skinned tiefling with purple hair and solid red eyes wearing his signature coat in a cacophony of colors and patterns, leggings of mixed stripes and diamond patterning, and thigh-high leather boots. He’s wielding a curved and ornate scimitar. In this artwork, he isn’t wearing his usual shirt under his coat, so his heavily scarred chest is prominently featured. There’s a circus tent in the background, and ornate framing almost reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha around the edges of the artwork. /end ID]

What strange events created Mollymauk Tealeaf?

Entertainer, fighter, and performer, “Molly” has a knack for hiding his true self behind the shifting color and shape of a personality he seems to wear like his singular coat. But as with every member of the Mighty Nein, his past will eventually catch up with him…and it’s a strange one indeed.

Join Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins writer Jody Houser, artist extraordinaire Hunter Bonyun, and Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer and Taliesin Jaffe as they reveal Mollymauk’s evolution from empty shell to vibrant individual, and the dark corners of his past that even he is afraid to examine.

Currently slated to hit store shelves on September 13, 2022!

Visit »this page« for a list of places where he’s already available for preorder!

[starrlikesbooks]

I'm so excited to get to help reveal George Jreirje's newest book in the Sah Hadid series! The series is an Arab inspired middlegrade fantasy, and it's lots of fun 😁

You can preorder here

Design: Molly Fehr ; Illustration: Khadijah Khatib

[mollyandmarcia]

Past the goblin grove, beyond the witches' cottage, deep in the heart of the forest there is a house and what lurks inside is darker than you could ever imagine. From the creators of 'Not a Myth,' Molly and Marcia invite you to journey deeper into their woods and discover the secrets of Alchemia Hall. Some things you'll have to see to believe.

Our second book, The Willow’s Silence (the sequel to Not a Myth) is up for preorder now! Coming April 14th on Kindle Unlimited and in paperback! Preorder your copy now! 

https://www.amazon.com/Willows-Silence-Molly-Likovich-ebook/dp/B09QVGZRV7/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1643734653&refinements=p_27%3AMolly+Likovich&s=digital-text&sr=1-1&text=Molly+Likovich