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Publication: The Beauty

Hot on the heels of our Déjà Vu, Unsung Stories are proud to announce The Beauty has just been published. That's right, twins! (Non-identical) We've got the advances here in the office and they look really rather fine. She's slim, elegant and punches above her weight.

The Beauty is available in paperback with digital formats following later this week. You can get your paperback direct from our store, www.unsungstories.co.uk/store, or order yours in from your local independent bookshop, Foyles, Waterstones, Blackwells, and all the other wonderful retailers out there.

Pre-orders will be going out imminently and you can now go and don't forget to harass your local bookstore until they are compelled to order up our entire stock.

People are saying some very nice things about the book too, with more in that in coming weeks. In fact, on behalf of Aliya and the Unsung scutters, thank you to all those people. In years to come, remember you said it first. 

As to whoever put the novella on the long list for the 2015 British Fantasy Society Awards? We salute you.

Ross, Hugos, tribalism and bringing the outside in

For those of you who missed it this week, the Hugo awards kind of imploded when it was announced that Jonathan Ross would be host. What followed was one of those increasingly common Twitterstorms where people seem to read 50 words of brief, pick a side then start throwing insults around as if their immortal souls depended on it.