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opens in a new windowTJ Klune’s Green Creek series is filled with heart-melting stories about queer love and werewolves. You know what else melts our hearts? The canine companions in our lives, and also TJ’s latest Green Creek release, opens in a new windowHeartsong!

Check out this series of dogs we love with this lovely book!

Rosie the Chihuahua is notoriously difficult to photograph. Perpetually on the move, she is very puppy.

Bobby the Australian Shepherd is a Very Good Boy and not even the intended subject of this picture. This was supposed to be a snapshot with Marie (pictured below), but he was so excited about TJ Klune’s Heartsong that he had to jump in early.

Marie the Chihuahua is shockingly agile for her age and spends most of her time scaling to the highest point where people are around. Affectionately referred to as a “parrot” because of her penchant for perching on people’s shoulders, here she perches with Heartsong by TJ Klune.

Bobby wanted more pictures and has very pretty eyes.

Dolly the Australian Shepherd also has pretty eyes, and is the fastest thing on four legs. She loves her pack, her home, and hates riding in cars due to bad motion sickness.

Bobby is back and is such a good boy : )

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As the finals hours of 2023 trickle away, we find ourselves fondly remembering the moments we’ve shared. The books we’ve read. The features we’ve published. Take a stroll down recent memory lane with us through some of this year’s highlights!

January

opens in a new windowSnackable SFF To Help You Get A Jump On Your Reading Goals

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We opened the year with lots of articles about what new books we were going to see in it, but we also put together this helpful list! If you’re like us, you’re reading goals are ambitious, and your TBR is atrocious. This list is still good for addressing both of those adjectives.

February

opens in a new windowShare the Love of SFF with Our Special Valentine’s Day Greetings!

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To share some literary love, we put together bookly pun greeting cards that were a class act. “I love you a latte!”

March

opens in a new windowOur Favorite SFF Characters And Their Tragic Flaws

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Beware the Ides of March if you’re any of our favorite characters. *tragedy incoming*

April

opens in a new windowTor’s Drastically Off-Kilter Spring Books Quiz

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We’ve started making chaotic quizzes for each season, meaning that four times a year we get to lose our minds and call it content ❤️

It’s lovely.

May

opens in a new windowTravis Baldree on Legends & Lattes and Writing

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Sometimes our authors visit us at the office and we get to ask them so many questions about writing, their stories, and honestly just whatever’s at the top of our brain’s during the lightning round of Q&A.

June

opens in a new windowTrope Spotlight: 5 Accidental Child Acquisitions

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We’re big fans of tropes here at Tor. If tropes were a materials from which a house is constructed, they’d probably be like the skeleton frame that keeps the whole house together. But don’t just take your perhaps ill-conceived similes from us! Check out these authors for the good descriptive language stuff!

July

opens in a new windowTor Books Presents…Dragon Week 5eva: Aliens Vs. Dragons

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For half a decade now, we’ve celebrated Dragon Week, a week full of dragon-related lists, playlists, author features, quizzes, and assembled miscellany. THIS year we took to the skies and then broke orbit into space for Dragon Week 5eva: Aliens Vs. Dragons!

August

opens in a new window5 Sandy Reads to Peruse at the Beach

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This feature is so good that instead of coming up with something new to say, we’ll just excerpt the intro:

Sometimes you want something a little different for a beach read. If that’s you, may we recommend focusing less on the body of water nearby and more on what’s under your toes? Yes, we’re talking sand. Sometimes at the beach you don’t necessarily want a book about people swimming or going on vacation or eating lobster. Sometimes you just want a good SFF with quality SAND.

We just like sand. It’s summer and we write about what we want.

Let’s dive in the deep end of the literary sandbox.

September

opens in a new windowThe Cat Villains of Tor Publishing Group

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John Scalzi’s Starter Villain is a delightful read with a delightful cover featuring a cat in a suit. Not to be outdone, the real feline colleagues of Tor coworkers took a glamor photoshoot with the book.