Emily Byron

The front cover of A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES, surrounded by hearts. Text above reads “Now available to request on NetGalley in the UK.” An illustration of a cat appears at the bottom, along with the words “No-Cat loves you.”

Oi oi! Spread the word! A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES is now available to request on NetGalley in the UK!

North American reviewers - at the moment ADOBB is labelled as “currently unavailable” but it will hopefully be back up again soon.

Acquisition Announcement: The Dungeon Book by Gareth Hanrahan Orbit is thrilled to announce the acquisition of two new standalone fantasy books from Gareth Hanrahan, author of The Gutter Prayer and The Sword Defiant. Senior Commissioning Editor Emily Byron ac…

I'm truly delighted to share this news of a new publishing deal for @mytholder.bsky.social !

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We were warned but decided to carry on regardless.

A new study shows: “heat domes” and related atmospheric events behind extreme weather around the world almost tripled in strength and duration since the 1950s.

Doubling down on phasing out fossil fuels is now more needed than ever before.

And it is SO GOOD:

Huge congratulations to Emily Tesh on this utterly brilliant book! Happy publication day!

Tesh is an award-winning writer for a reason. Her prose is vivid and elegant. The Incandescent builds its pace and tension with a masterful hand, and it offers its characters, the adults and the teenagers both, a generosity of spirit and great, clear-eyed, searing compassion. They’re all people. Intensely relatable people. (Walden’s combination of intellec­tual snobbery and interpersonal discomfort – both of which she’s aware of and tries to overcome – is painfully recognisable, in fact.) And Tesh’s ability to evoke place is in full swing here: The Incandescent is redolent with old wood polish and new cleaning products, sweaty teenagers and churned grass. This is a brilliant novel, one that marries the energy and verve and peril of the best of the fantasy genre with the understated, literary examination of interior and professional lives. It marries the fantastical to the mundane with great deftness and deep appre­ciation for both. It’s been justly praised by others. All I can add is: It took my breath away.

And here's Liz Bourke in Locus Magazine:

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THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, in US (black) and UK (pink) hardcover editions.

THE INCANDESCENT is a book about money and education and status symbols, about loving your career, about demons, about magic, about fantasy school - but most of all about how 'school' is always a kind of fantasy. Available now!

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Cover for the Incandedcent by Emily Tesh which features a strange bird over a magical sigil

Popped in bookshop - resistance was futile!

The Incandescent Check out The Incandescent - <p><b>Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets <i>Plain Bad Heroines</i> in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily...

and between now and our next episode drop, @emilytesh.net has a frankly brilliant book coming out so you'll have time to read that as well:

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It was an unfortunate truth that in the Venn diagram of ‘qualified to teach magic’ and ‘still alive,’ the overlap consisted almost entirely of people who had always been much too sensible to accidentally get eaten by a demon.

Book Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh A very British, very brutal take on dark academia that takes it back to its more critical roots. Caveat: this review was written in October...

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Book Review: The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
A very British, very brutal take on dark academia that takes it back to its more critical roots.
Hugo Finalist @chloroformtea.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog

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On Wednesdays we receive pink books💕

Thank you soo much to @gambit589.bsky.social & @orbitbooks.bsky.social for this gorgeous finished copy of #TheIncandescent by @emilytesh.net — my Dark Academia Fantasy loving heart is soo happy right now😍❤️

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The Incandescent by Emily Tesh: Review by Liz Bourke The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor 978-1-250-83501-7, $28.99, 432pp, hc.) May 2025. Cover by Jess Kiley. I have never been a teacher. And I have never gone to school in England. But the extent to wh…

“THE INCANDESCENT builds its pace and tension with a masterful hand, and it offers its characters, the adults and the teenagers both, a generosity of spirit and great, clear-eyed, searing compassion.” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from @emilytesh.net locusmag.com/2025/04...

Cover of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST by M. H. Ayinde, showing a figure standing with a large, orange-red figure wielding two swords behind them. Text toward the upper left: "Stunning... Ayinde is a master storyteller." - Andrea Stewart Text toward the upper right: "The exhilarating must-read fantasy debut of the year." - Tasha Suri

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"As a fantasy writer, one of the easiest ways I’ve found to give worldbuilding depth is to demonstrate that other civilisations have come and gone..."

A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST author @mhayinde.bsky.social on lost civilisations in SFF:

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#Books 📚💙 #SpecFic 📚🪐

Interview with M. H. Ayinde (A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST) | Fantasy-Hive Nils interviews M. H. Ayinde on her debut fantasy novel A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST: "my aim was to reflect the very multicultural upbringing and surroundings that I live in and grew up with"

Check out my interview on @thefantasyhive.bsky.social with @mhayinde.bsky.social below where we discuss her fantastic fantasy/scifi debut, A Song of Legends Lost.

Link: tinyurl.com/5eyspzss

Thank you @gambit589.bsky.social for organising!

Modupe, wearing a purple dress with black dragons on it. She is leaning on a massive stack of Goldsboro Books editions of A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST.

A closeup of Modupe and that same stack of Goldsboro Books editions of A SONG IF LEGENDS LOST. She has a stupid grin on her face.

Brain too fried to write much, but I’m here to say that today my lifelong dream came true. My debut novel is out in the UK and you can now buy it in shops.

Here are the 500 Goldsboro Books copies I signed. Ok, g’night.

BOOK REVIEW | A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST | M.H.AYINDE

BOOK REVIEW | A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST | M.H.AYINDE

Morning Folks! I recently read the hugely enjoyable debut by M. H. AYINDE.

I really enjoyed this mix of Fantasy & Sci Fi set in an African Inspired back drop.

#BoomBloggers #BookishMafia
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"A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST is a truly unique science-fantasy story that will engross you as it keeps you guessing."

Thanks to @sagapressbooks.bsky.social for the ARC! #sagasayscrew

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The next BIG epic fantasy sensation! YouTube video by Willow Talks Books

"A Song of Legends Lost" by M.H. Ayinde sounds like a great book(DEBUT! FANTASY!), based on this great review from @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social

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A Song of Legends Lost, by @mhayinde.bsky.social, is an ambitious and epic science fantasy proposal, kickstarting the African inspired series The Invoker Trilogy; and honestly, I absolutely loved it.

Full thoughts:
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A Song of Legends Lost by M H Ayinde — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank Nazia from Orbit for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Orbit Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £5.49 ebook A ...

New Review - I was hugely impressed by the start of this new fantasy series which I strongly recommend - get hold of A Song of Legends Lost by @mhayinde.bsky.social - thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/4/...

A beautiful hardback copy of A Song of Legends Lost by MH Ayinde, with two artwork postcards.

Huge thanks to @mhayinde.bsky.social and @emilycbyron.bsky.social for this beautiful book. It’s a banger - get on it if you like imaginative science fantasy with sociopolitical undertones.

Got some truly awesome bookmail today: a hardcover of @mhayinde.bsky.social's A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST to go with these incredibly unique ARC's (one book split into two) I read last year.

This book is excellent! And that cover (by Rich Anderson, who did my books as well) is 🔥🔥🔥

A (fake) cover of THE ASHFIRE BIRB which features the title with a lantern hanging off the R. A blue, ghostly image of Big Bird is visible in the lantern. The author name, Chelsea Abdullah, is on the bottom in white against a dark blue background.

MY BOOK IS OUT THIS MONTH! 💙

THE ASHFIRE BIRB, the 2nd book in the Sandsea Trilogy, continues the adventures of a merchant, a prince, a thief, & a jinn and is out April 15!

Thank you to @ddalglish.com for this appropriate cover (edit) 😌

Scroll for an alternate cover & more info!

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh Hugo and World Fantasy Award winner Tesh (Some Desperate Glory) puts a fresh spin on dark academia by focusing on school adminis...

★ Emily Tesh puts a fresh spin on dark academia by focusing on school administrators, faculty, and staff. Fans of Naomi Novik’s Scholomance series won’t want to miss this thoughtful exploration of privilege, power, and private school education.

It's amazing. It's magic school from the point of view of teachers and also if the magical creatures were lovecraftian horrors trying to eat your brain.

The Incandescent is so good and it is going to emotionally snipe every briskly competent professional woman I know who reads it. This is an endorsement. Get 360 noscoped by deathless genius Emily Tesh.

Steph's legs sprawled on top of her bedsheets, covered by a large advance reading copy of Emily Tesh's The Incandescent (showing a phoenix-shaped collection of shadows staring down a summoning pentagram), propped against her legs to hold the place midway through, and a cup of tea balancing beside it.

Today the M.E./CFS is demanding its due for my adventures this week...

...but I can't imagine a better book to be stuck in bed with than @emilytesh.net's The Incandescent: so warm, compelling & cozy-with-sharp-teeth. I am LOVING it! Thanks so much to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for my ARC. ❤️

Publishers Weekly gave THE INCANDESCENT a starred review, calling it a ‘thoughtful exploration of privilege, power, and private school education.’ Have you preordered yet?