Small Spec Book Awards
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The mission of the SSBA is to recognize and promote independent and small press authors writing exceptional speculative fiction. Tweets by @LNHolmeswriter
Joined October 2024
Congratulations to all of the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards semifinalists! #SSBA #SSBA2025 #bookawards
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From the Belly by Emmett Nahil is a claustrophobic tale set aboard a whaling ship. This isn’t quite the Moby Dick you were expecting. #Horror #BookTwitter #SSBA2025
@emmettnahil @TenebrousPress @SpecAwards
https://t.co/Nh64chs7wo
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SSBA readers, today is the last day to turn in ratings for the final round of the competition! We are so excited for your feedback and thanks for participating this year! ✨
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Tomorrow is the last day to submit your feedback and ratings for SSBA books! We’re so close now! 💙✨
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Just a reminder that we have less than one week before the SSBA second round reading deadline of November 23, 2025. Thanks to everyone who has sent in their ratings and their notes about each book so far. You're all doing amazing.💙✨
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SSBA influencer, @marybsell, has done it again with another fantastic interview. This time she speaks with Em Reed about alien love, alienation, and mental health diagnoses as a “lever of control.” Find the conversation here: https://t.co/HwBz3AJobq
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I’ve been unpopular for close to a decade in my approach towards mental health art-making. Stubbornly, I’ve written about it, written about it during the seasons of spare hope and doubl…
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SSBA readers, you have one week before ratings for the final round of the competition are due. We are so excited for your feedback! ✨
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Sundown in San Ojuela by M.M. Olivas is a creepy tale of Aztec folklore merged with modern day family secrets. Unique and unsettling. #Horror #BookTwitter #SSBA2025
@OlivasTheWriter @LFPbooks @SpecAwards
https://t.co/WxRIk3dfQn
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A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter has a unique take on creepy small towns and what they cultivate. #Horror #BookTwitter #SSBA2025
@CarsonWinter3 @TenebrousPress @SpecAwards
https://t.co/aSP5VRTaBZ
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The Scientist, the Spaceman, and the Stars Between Them by A.L. Davidson is a space horror mashup with a romance core. Definitely put this on your list if you enjoy genre mashups. #Horror #SciFi #Romance #LGBTQIA #BookTwitter #SSBA2025 @SpecAwards
https://t.co/BAGqjBOWfY
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SSBA readers, you have two weeks before ratings for the final round of the competition are due. We are so excited for your feedback! ✨
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Part three of Melody’s series is now up on her blog:
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Part two of Melody McIntyre’s series on the semifinalists is now up at her blog! https://t.co/tMGWcII6tZ
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Get to know our semifinalists a little better with this series by Melody E. McIntyre: https://t.co/Uobiijfp5v
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WORLDS ALIGNED: WORLDS APART 2 (@elsewhenpress) by @Terryjackman7 is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!
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THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by Ben Berman Ghan is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!
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Absolutely love this review of Bear Season as "genre defying" 🐻🩷
Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough is The Book for those who for their stories a bit weird, surreal, and genre defying. Cleverly designed. #Horror #Mystery #SSBA2025 #BookTwitter @GemFairclough @wildhuntbooks @SpecAwards
https://t.co/NNIgMgASea
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THE SEA OF CLOUDS by @jennelikejennay is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!
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Bear Season by Gemma Fairclough is The Book for those who for their stories a bit weird, surreal, and genre defying. Cleverly designed. #Horror #Mystery #SSBA2025 #BookTwitter @GemFairclough @wildhuntbooks @SpecAwards
https://t.co/NNIgMgASea
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THE RIGEL REDEMPTION (Space Wizard Science Fantasy) by Robin C. M. Duncan is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!
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THE MOSQUITO FLEET (Broken Eye Books) by @inkgorilla is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!
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