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It's still so #hot outside and yet... there is a #chill in the air. Maybe that's because it's officially #October! We're kicking off #fright #fest early with 10 #newbookreleases in this week's #Reader'sForecast!

Happy Frightday, dearest readers! Mwahaha...

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Fail Sings the Fair Banshee | Reader's Forecast | RSS.com
We'll start off the week with a magical library and a women's horror from Latin America, but we'll quickly find out that secondary school is better when…
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October 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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If you ever thought #rock couldn't #save the #universe, you probably never saw @keanurevess.bsky.social in that ONE movie, but LUCKILY, there's a book for you! #Newbookrelease Rock* by Chuck Klosterman.

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Alternative Realities and the Rock that Saved Them! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Feeling caught between a rock and an alternative reality? Don't we all?! As a blustery noreaster barrels down on the east coast, so is a confusing combo of alterantive reality, scifi, historical fic, ...
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October 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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If you think #AI is bringing the #apocalypse or worry about #US #collapse, try this #newbookrelease: Exit Party by #author Emily St John Mandel. This #Canadian #psychological #mystery #thriller packs more #punch than #suspense.

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Fallow By Any Other Proof | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Batten down the hatches as a hurricane is whirling through with this nightmarish and apocalytic collection of literature, featuring 3 debut authors and a collection of horror, alternative reality, end...
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September 27, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Do you think of #spies or etymology when you hear about #Oxford? No? Then you need an #education with The Oxford Guide to Scandals and Lies by Katy Westbury, where #academia turns #spythriller in this #ColdWar era story.

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The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, los...
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September 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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A #newbookrelease for #WW2 buffs based on life of Frank Meier: The Barman at the Ritz by #debutauthir #Phillipe #Collin.

A barman hides his own religion while serving Nazis drinks at the Ritz and secretly working for the resistance.

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The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, los...
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September 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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#Reader'sForecast is back after technical difficulties with this latest episode for the week of 1 Sep 2026, featuring 9 #new #books and 3 #debut #authors.

We backfill episodes 24-36 soon. Thanks for waiting in the meantime. ❤️

We apologize for letting you readers down! 🙏🏼

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The Official Barman's Guide to Body Language | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Pack your umbrellas for a week practically full of rain and storms, ranging from animal dark fantasy and scifi novels reflecting on humans and our humanity to three women's fiction exploring love, los...
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September 7, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Two #new #time #travel #agency #books dropped the same week with a #foodie #satire:
- Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
- Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd
- Cooking in the Wrong Century by Teresa Praauer

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Food Doesn't Time Travel Well | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Time travelers break out through time in showers of time-wimey storms from time traveling agencies that promised safe trips to the past as we explore generational stories of farming through the Great ...
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August 15, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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What if #Rapunzel had #red #hair? What if her hair had #chaos #magic instead #healing? What if she had a #sorcerer #mother? #ATangledMagic by Andrea Eames explore these questions in a new #dark #high #fantasy #novel.

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Tangled Histories, and Where to Fantasize Them! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional land, or elsewhere? Wherever we go, we’r...
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August 6, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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#Curiosity Killed the #Crime #Writer...or did it? In How to Kill a Crime Writer by Sarah Lotz, the #daughter of a deceased crime author sees the apparition of her mom's fem #detective... and suddenly her mother's death is suspect...
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Curiosity Killed the Crime Writer | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Choose: a mystery crime writer who must solve a murder with an imaginary detective, a historical fantasy involving magic and the queens of Henry VIII, or romantic sci fi graphic novel of a teen who fi...
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July 29, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Hello, dearest readers!

I'm happy to announce the #Reader'sForecast #podcast is now available for #listening on ##Substack. We plan to release #bonuscontent in future weeks.

If you like #booktrailers or #bookpreviews, explore #newbooks with our podcast.

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The Reader's Forecast podcast, where every reader finds a new book for their reading pleasure! Weekly new episodes feature new books from a variety of genres and new/indie/established authors. Save ti...
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July 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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#New #thriller #novel #Cloudthief by Nathaniel Rich features the #heist of a #data #cloud in #Tulsa, #OK, by a tired #climate journalist and a #fem #con #artist ... because data > gold now>

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Make Nice, Not Heist! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Cloud heists getting you down in this era of the data empire? What does an astronaut have to do with an authoritarian Romanian regime in 1989? Don’t want to “make nice” with the Cloak and Dagger Club?...
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July 20, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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Apologies for the wait as the #Reader'sForecast host is recovering from illness. We expect to publish the 7/21 #forecast around 7/22-23 prior to getting back on track.

Until then, please enjoy this #new #forecast for 14 July #newbooks:
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Make Nice, Not Heist! | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Cloud heists getting you down in this era of the data empire? What does an astronaut have to do with an authoritarian Romanian regime in 1989? Don’t want to “make nice” with the Cloak and Dagger Club?...
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July 20, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Ever wonder what #Death would be like #living #among #us?

Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt by author #Ben #Reeves examines this scenario. Death finds #love, but will he lose it when #she #dies?

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Apocalyptically Cozy | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Heat domes, thunderstorms, and sunshine — oh gee wiz! What is coming of this world? It’s almost apocalyptically cozy! Travel with the host through apocalyptic African American sci fi topping off a tri...
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July 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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#Chill this summer with these #Apocallytically #Cozy #new #books from 2 #debut #authors, 2 #trilogies, & 6 #bestselling authors. See #Reader'sForecast for #newbookreleases of 7 #July 2026. (Delayed from last week due to summer illness.)
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Apocalyptically Cozy | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Heat domes, thunderstorms, and sunshine — oh gee wiz! What is coming of this world? It’s almost apocalyptically cozy! Travel with the host through apocalyptic African American sci fi topping off a tri...
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July 15, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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What #book blends #time #traveling and #classical #female #protagonists? Answer: #new #novel 4 Janes by Marian Yee, examining what if scenarios involving the classical Jane Eyre. This includes a #Jane #Eyre as a time #traveler looking for her son.

Tune in with #Reader'sForecast for more. 😄
Smart Moss Seeks Timely Eyre | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Ever wonder what happens when a classic literary hero becomes a time traveler? Are you curious what sentient moss would think and do? What would it be like to live forever and watch each of your roman...
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July 7, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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#Smart #moss drives an #alien #spaceship, but this #sentient moss has a #grudge against the alien who abandoned it on a #planet for a #century...

Check out #new #scifi #novel Moss'd in Space by @rebeccathorne.bsky.social with #Reader'sForecast on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/rea...
Smart Moss Seeks Timely Eyre | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Ever wonder what happens when a classic literary hero becomes a time traveler? Are you curious what sentient moss would think and do? What would it be like to live forever and watch each of your roman...
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July 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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Can a #racoon #private #eye solve the #mystery of a #missing #mouse with a #secret in time to save his city?

Learn more about the #new #detective #novel #GreenCityWars by @aptshadow.bsky.social by tuning into #Reader'sForecast ep 17: 6 Summer Drenching Debuts on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/rea...
6 Summer Drenching Debuts | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Pull out your umbrellas for this downpour of debuts — because there are six of them out of a total of nine authors! Reader’s Forecast packs historical, fantasy, sci-fi, detective mysteries, thrillers,...
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June 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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6 Summer Drenching Debuts features 6 #new #authors and 9 #new #books for your #reading #pleasure. An assortment of #genres awaits you in this #latest #episode with #new #releases for the week of 23 June 2026.

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June 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Seeking #space, #exploration, and #adventure in pursuit of #scjence?

#Voyagers by #debut #author Meg Charlton satisfies with an #alien #signal that inspires #humans to #change and #seek out #new #lifeforms.

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Fast and Ficticious | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Slow your summer roll with this cozy collection of history and fast fiction. What if Henry VIII and his queens lived in an epic fantasy world with dragons? What if a mother was secretly working as a p...
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June 23, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Is the summer ready for #multiflavored sciscream? Probably not when it's #newreleases of #scifi #books, including #thrillers full of #screams, #comedy, #food #fantasy, and #magical #houses on #legs.

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Multi-Flavored SciScream | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Ready for an exciting summer? Get ready for a Reader’s Forecast full predominantly of flavors of science fiction, including multiple sci-fi thrillers, mysteries, timebending, and more! There will be t...
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June 12, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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Shouldn't #sparrows be #swearing in #NYC? Yet, it's a #warbler that cusses at a man who suddenly hears animals speak in #debut #novel It's Hard to Be an Animal by Robert Isaacs.

Tune into #Reader'sForecast to hear more in Swearing Warblers Don’t Say, “Aloha” on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/rea...
Swearing Warblers Don’t Say, “Aloha” | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Summer may not be the time of ghostly humans outside October, but it’s perfect for ghostly horses with all that heat outside. Perhaps, New York City brings to mind swearing people, but apparently, war...
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May 27, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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One #newnovel is An #Expanse of #Blue by Kuakanilehua Mahoe Adams, featuring her #beautiful #poetry in action within a #stormy #story with hint of #romance. Tune in to this #Reader'sForecast to find out more!

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Swearing Warblers Don’t Say, “Aloha” | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Summer may not be the time of ghostly humans outside October, but it’s perfect for ghostly horses with all that heat outside. Perhaps, New York City brings to mind swearing people, but apparently, war...
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May 23, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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Whether it's chilling in some #Hawaiian #blues or eyebrow raising at #swearing #warblers, everyone can find some #relaxation or #excitement with one of the many #newreleases in this new episode of #Reader'sForecast!

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Swearing Warblers Don’t Say, “Aloha” | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Summer may not be the time of ghostly humans outside October, but it’s perfect for ghostly horses with all that heat outside. Perhaps, New York City brings to mind swearing people, but apparently, war...
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May 22, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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What happens when #reality #tv and #epic #fantasy with #knights, #dragons, and #wizards meet? You end up with the #new #novel The Franchise by #debut author Thomas Elrod.

Learn if this #book is for you in #Reader'sForecast.

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Two Debut Thunder Catchers | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
High temperature thrills and change crash out early in the week, giving way to the coldness of a space opera, but not to worry, as warmth returns with romantasy and a genre-questioning new fiction nov...
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May 19, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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Datalog: #Reader'sForecast. Stardate: 12 #May 2026.

Dealing sniffles from #newbooks dust, this Forecaster embraces the cold of #space, looking ever for the #RadiantStar by Ann Leckie.

Tune in to #explore this #spaceopera!

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Two Debut Thunder Catchers | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
High temperature thrills and change crash out early in the week, giving way to the coldness of a space opera, but not to worry, as warmth returns with romantasy and a genre-questioning new fiction nov...
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May 18, 2026 at 7:09 AM