We’re excited to bring you a roundup of interesting links and October book releases of fantasy by and about women.

As always, we’d love to hear from you. If you’ve sold a fantasy work, read a great recently-released story, discovered a fantastic link that we missed, or if you’ve got a book or story review to share, please get in touch. Send news to (help at sirensconference.org).

ON THE BLOG: OCTOBER 2015

Testimonials: Inspired by Sirens–Edith Hope Bishop

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Interesting Links:

• Resources from B R Sanders’s “How to Build and Break a World” workshop
• “A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Diverse* Fantasy or Science Fiction Novel” by Malinda Lo
• “Why Are Old Women Often the Face of Evil in Fairy Tales And Folklore?”
• Fairy tale fashion
• The 2015 British Fantasy Awards
• Catherine Lundoff’s column on SF Signal
• “Hungarian Fairy Tales,” Theodora Goss
• “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Announces Lead Cast”
• Philip Pullman waxes poetic about Tove Jansson’s Moomins

Book Releases

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October 1:
Darkness on His Bones, Barbara Hambly

October 6:
Against a Brightening Sky, Jaime Lee Moyer
Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
The Chess Queen Enigma, Colleen Gleason
Cinderella’s Shoes, Shonna Slayton
Closer to the Heart, Mercedes Lackey
Dreamstrider, Lindsay Smith
Empire Ascendant, Kameron Hurley
A Frozen Heart, Elizabeth Rudnick
Ghost to the Rescue, Carolyn Hart
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories, Audrey Niffenegger
The House, Christina Lauren
An Inheritance of Ashes, Leah Bobet
It’s a Wonderful Death, Sarah J. Schmitt
Life and Death Twilight Reimagined, Stephenie Meyer
Marked, Sue Tingey
Mythmaker, Marianne De Pierres
She Walks in Shadows, ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles
Silver on the Road, Laura Anne Gilman
Sing Down the Stars, L. J. Hatton
Swords and Scoundrels, Julia Knight
A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic, Lisa Papademetriou
A Thousand Nights, E. K. Johnston
Undead and Unforgiven, MaryJanice Davidson
The White Rose, Amy Ewing
White Trash Zombie Gone Wild, Diana Rowland
Wild Sky, Suzanne Brockmann and Melanie Brockmann

October 8:
Gathering Deep, Lisa Maxwell

October 13:
An Apprentice to Elves, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
Boundary Lines, Melissa F. Olson
Dark Tide, Jennifer Donnelly
The Devil and Winnie Flynn, Micol Ostow ill. David Ostow
Ice Like Fire, Sara Raasch
The Immortal Heights, Sherry Thomas
Of Sorrow and Such, Angela Slatter
SandRider, Angie Sage
Sound, Juliet Madison
Wendy Darling: Stars, Colleen Oakes

October 15:
Dead Girls Don’t, Mags Storey

October 19:
Witch Hunt, Kasi Blake

October 20:
A Sliver of Stardust, Marissa Burt
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, Kim Newman
Wolf by Wolf, Ryan Graudin

October 22:
Supervision, Alison Stine

October 27:
City of Halves, Lucy Inglis
Dark Heart of Magic, Jennifer Estep
The Devious Dr. Jekyll, Viola Carr
Fathomless, Anne M. Pillsworth
The Fairy Swarm, Suzanne Selfors
Gabriel, Nikki Kelly
Little Red Gliding Hood, Tara Lazar ill. Troy Cummings
The Monstrous, ed. Ellen Datlow
Persuasion, Martina Boone
Wake of Vultures, Lila Bowen
Winter Wolf, Rachel M. Raithby

October 28:
Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner and various authors

October 30:
The Key, Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg