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Waterstones Wednesday

Just sharing some of the Waterstones Exclusive editions being talked about this week!

The Knave and the Moon - Rachel Gillig

  • Release date: 1st September 2026
  • Price: 25 GBP

Tempest - Victoria Aveyard

  • Release date: 8th September 2026
  • Price: 25 GBP

The Wicked Powers: The Last King of Faerie - Cassandra Clare

  • Release date: 3rd November 2026
  • Price: 20 GBP

The Wolf Queen - Lauren Palphreyman

  • Release date: 17th November 2026
  • Price: 22 GBP

Merciful is the Dark - Sophie Clark

  • Release date: 28th January 2027
  • Price: 16.99 GBP

Which ones are you pre-ordering??

u/BookedAndBloated — 10 hours ago

Dreamerwhale A Fate Inked in Blood and A Curse Carved in Bone now available

Price: 40€ each or 70€ for the set
Sale dates: May 13th 4pm CET until 20th May 23:59pm CET
Shipping: September/October

FEATURING:
• Exclusive dustjacket designs by: @lux_mily
• Exclusive redesigned hardcovers by: @saintjupit3rgr4phic
• Exclusive redesigned edges by: @saintjupit3rgr4phic
• Exclusive endpage illustrations “A Fate Inked in Blood” by: @de_bee._
• Exclusive endpage illustrations “A Curse Carved in Bone” by: @alicecaoillustration

🔥Each book will include an exclusive set of 3 OVERLAYS🔥
** **
EXTRA INFO:
• This special edition is in ENGLISH
• Each copy will be numbered
• We are exploring the possibility of signed bookplates and will provide an update as soon as we can

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u/BookedAndBloated — 18 hours ago

The Everlasting Illumicrate Exclusive Edition

Illumicrate Post

We're thrilled to announce, in collaboration with Alix E. Harrow (@alix.e.harrow) and Pan Macmillan (@panmacmillan), our Illumicrate Exclusive edition of The Everlasting!

Rich and lyrical, The Everlasting follows a historian investigating the legendary tale of a lady-knight. We're massive fans of Alix's works and are delighted to share this edition!

Our Illumicrate Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
• An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @r.a_marsh; design by @chattynora)
• Full colour artwork on the hardback with foil details (art by @svetlana.molodchenko)
• Digitally printed fore-edge (by @r.a_marsh); block-sprayed top & bottom
• Endpaper artwork; different front and back (by @emiscape)
• Bonus content
• Hand signed by the author

Please note, this is a digital mock-up and finished copies may differ slightly.

Pricing:
UK: It is priced at £25 + shipping (and VAT if applicable).
US: It is priced at $35 + shipping (and tax if applicable).

Shipping:
This comes under our 'Book only' shipping category. Our shipping rates can be viewed at: illumicrate.com/pages/ shipping-rates (UK/INT) + us.illumicrate.com/pages/shipping-rates (US/CAN).
It is expected to ship in September/October.

Sale Information:
UK: General Sale begins 2 July at 3pm BST
US: General Sale begins 2 July at 10am ET

We will be holding a presale on 30 June for active Illumicrate fantasy (box/book-only) subscribers, as well as Silver/Gold Illumicrate Reward holders. An email with presale details will be sent out on 24 June.

This edition will be for sale on our UK/INT and US/CAN websites, and will ship internationally from the UK and the US.

u/BookedAndBloated — 1 day ago

Sub Box Sunday - upcoming sub box sales for the next week

Here is a roundup of all the upcoming news/sales from sub box companies over the coming week!

The Broken Binding

  • The Dragon’s Blade Sale Weekend
    • T1 Fantasy subs - May 15th at 12pm BST
    • T2 Fantasy + SFF subs - May 16th at 12pm BST
    • General sale - May 17th at 12pm BST
    • Cost: 120 GBP

Bookish Box

  • Wild Card Sale
    • Previous buyers - May 11th at 1pm EST
    • Subscribers - May 12th at 1pm EST
    • General sale - May 13th at 1pm EST
    • Cost: 35 USD
  • Rose Hill Set
    • Subscribers - May 12th at 1pm EST
    • General sale - May 13th at 1pm EST
    • Cost: 140 USD
  • Moon Touched
    • Subscribers - May 14th at 1pm EST
    • General sale - May 15th at 1pm EST
    • Cost: 35 USD

Dreamerwhale

Fae Crate

  • Crimson Moth Restock
    • May 11th at 5pm EST
    • Fae Crate is restocking The Crimson Moth with signed bookplates
    • Cost: 60$  
    • Shipping: October-November  
    • Notes: this is shipped with a decorative slipcase packaging. Slipcases do not qualify for replacement.
    • 🚨FC will not be restocking once this sells out so this is your last chance to order🚨
  • Vampires of Eden set
    • Subscribers - May 14th at 5pm EST
    • General sale - May 15th at 5pm EST
    • Cost: 105 USD

Fairyloot

  • The Neon Sky Sale
    • UK
      • Previous buyers - May 12th at 10am BST
      • Subscribers - May 12th at 2pm BST
      • General sale - May 13th at 10am BST
      • Cost: 24 GBP
      • Shipping: July/August
    • US
      • Previous buyers - May 12th at 7am EST
      • Subscribers - May 12th at 11am EST
      • General sale - May 13th at 11am EST
      • Cost: 32 USD
      • Shipping: July/August
  • Sorrowsong University Sale
    • UK
      • Subscribers - May 14th at 10am BST
      • General sale - May 15th at 10am BST
      • Cost: 48 GBP
      • Shipping: November/December
    • US
      • Subscribers - May 14th at 11am EST
      • General sale - May 15th at 11am EST
      • Cost: 64 USD
      • Shipping: November/December

Illumicrate

Lit Haven

Owlcrate

  • The Beasts We Raise
    • Previous buyers + YA subs - May 12th at 2pm EST
    • Subscribers, Newsletter subs, Nest App - May 13th at 2pm EST
    • General sale - May 14th at 2pm EST
    • Cost: 34.99 USD

Page & Wick

  • A Queen Crowned in Flames
    • UK
      • Previous buyers - May 14th at 10am BST
      • Subscribers - May 14th at 2pm BST
      • General sale - May 15th at 2pm BST
      • Cost: 33 GBP for subscribers, 38 GBP for non-subscribers
    • US
      • Previous buyers - May 14th at 6am EST
      • Subscribers - May 14th at 10am EST
      • General sale - May 15th at 10am EST
      • Cost: 45 USD for subscribers, 52 USD for non-subscribers

Let us know if we missed any in the comments!

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u/BookedAndBloated — 4 days ago

Tempest Waterstones Exclusive Edition

Waterstones have finally shared their exclusive edition for Tempest by Victoria Aveyard and I’M IN LOVE 😍

What do you all think? Are you ordering it??

Here’s the link if you need it ️ - make sure it says Exclusive Edition when you click as they haven’t put the picture up on the site yet!

u/BookedAndBloated — 6 days ago

TBB SF&F Teaser

Did you see this teaser that The Broken Binding shared for the July Sci-Fi & Fantasy sub?

Let us know what book you think it could be in the comments! (Don’t forget to use spoiler tags!)

u/BookedAndBloated — 6 days ago

Here are some of the Waterstones exclusive editions people are talking about this week! Have you ordered any of these?

Fury Bound - Sable Sorensen

  • New release: 5th May 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones - Lex Croucher

  • Release date: 9th June 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

Songs of the Dead - Brandon Sanderson and Peter Orullian

  • Release date: 16th June 2026
  • Price: 20GBP

Blightfall - Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson

  • Release date: 1st September 2026
  • Price: 25GBP

Taipei Story - R. F. Kuang

  • Release date: 8th September 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

The Sweetest Fiend - Raven Kennedy

  • Release date: 22nd September 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

The Mirror of Infinite Endings - Stephanie Garber

  • Release date: 22nd September 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

The Sixth Faction - Veronica Roth

  • Release date: 8th October 2026
  • Price: 18.99GBP

Alchemised Slip Case Edition - SenLinYu

  • Release date: 13th October 2026
  • Price: 75GBP

With Hearts of Flame - Briar Boleyn

  • Release date: 20th October 2026
  • Price: 22GBP

Also, a little birdie told us that there are some exclusive copies out in the wild, so if you missed your chance to order them on the website, you might still find them in store!

Let us know what else you're preordering from Waterstones this week in the comments!

u/BookedAndBloated — 8 days ago

EDIT: The sale dates have now updated to include a pre-sale for anyone who filled in the interest form. So the dates below are the new correct dates.

Sale Dates:
- Tier 1 Fantasy sub pre-sale - Friday 29th May - 12pm BST
- Tier 2 Fantasy and SF&F sub pre-sale - Saturday 30th May - 12pm BST
- Interest form pre-sale - Sunday 31st May - 12pm BST
- General sale - Monday 1st June - 12pm BST

Cost: 35GBP

Shipping:
- Aim to ship copies out in August 2026

Announcement from The Broken Binding’s Instagram post:
We are so excited to finally announce the full sale details for our edition of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

It has been such an honour to work on this beloved story and we have been blown away by the response to the artwork we've shared!

Specs:
New Cover Art by @jadillustrated
Typography by @claymorecovers
PLC Boards by @kkeeleart
Illustrated Endpapers by @kkeeleart
4 Black & White Interior Illustrations by @kkeeleart
Art Direction by @petrikleo
Introduction by Brian Lee Durfee
Gilded Edges
Sewn Binding
Acid-Free Paper
Head & Tail Bands
Ribbon Bookmark
Royal Hardback

u/BookedAndBloated — 9 days ago

Here is a roundup of upcoming news/sales from sub box companies over the next week!

The Broken Binding

  • TBB have teased that there will be a big announcement coming this week.
    • What do you think it could be? 👀 Let us know in the comments!
  • Lonesome Dove - full sale details coming this week
    • Keep an eye out for a post from us about this!
  • Dragonbone Chair leftover sale 
    • May 6th at 2PM BST
      • Tier 1 sets - 150GBP
      • Tier 2 sets - 120GBP
    • We will be posting the link once it goes live so turn on notifications!

The Locked Library

  • Big Past Box Sale
    • May 6th 12pm - May 10th 11.59pm BST
    • 20% off all past box editions

Fairyloot

  • Kulti General Sale
    • UK/INT - May 8th at 10am BST - 24GBP
    • US/CAN - May 8th at 8am PT - 32USD

Bookish Box

  • When the Moon Hatched
    • Subscribers - May 6th at 10am PT - 35USD
    • General - May 7th at 10am PT 35USD

OwlCrate

  • Enchanting the Fae Queen
    • Previous Buyers + Romantasy/Adult Subscribers - May 5th 11am PT - 34.99USD
    • Subscribers + Newsletter + Nest App Users - May 6th 11am PT - 34.99USD
    • General - May 7th 11am PT - 34.99USD

Fae Crate

  • Men of the Wilds set
    • General - May 4th 2pm PT - 70USD
  • Inevitable Duology
    • Subscribers - May 7th 2pm PT - 70USD
    • General - May 8th 2pm PT - 70USD

Let us know of any news we missed in the comments!

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u/BookedAndBloated — 11 days ago
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It’s Shelfie Saturday!

I recently rearranged my bookshelves and I used to have all these books along one line across all my shelves.

But I decided to contain them on one bookcase and I’ve tried to do a colour gradient thing.

I’ve taken out a lot of books that I’m going to be selling so now I don’t know if it just looks weird because I don’t have so many anymore?

Please share pictures of your bookshelves for me so I can get some ideas! 😩🙏🏼

u/BookedAndBloated — 12 days ago

As we have quite a few members in here now, we’d love to know what content you’d like to see on this subreddit.

Please could you vote in the poll so we can get a good idea and make sure we’re posting things that are actually interesting to you!

Option 1: Announcements and notifications for new releases, preorders and general sales
Option 2: Option 1 and discussion questions to start conversations in threads
Option 3: Option 1, 2 and something else! (Please let us know in the comments of any requests)

Also, we’d love for our members to post in here too so if you have anything special edition related you’d like to share, please always feel free to do so!

View Poll

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u/BookedAndBloated — 13 days ago

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

Price: £72

Shipping: October/November 2026

ICYMI, Fairyloot are operating a new waiting room for preorders so here’s a quick rundown on how that works:

- if you click on the link early, you will be entered into a waiting room

- at 10am, Fairyloot will assign everyone in the waiting room a random number in the queue to enter the shop

- it doesn’t matter if you join the waiting room at 9am or 9.50am, it’s all random

- what does matter is if you click the link AFTER 10am

- at this point you will join the very back of the queue after everyone who was in the waiting room

So, based on this information, the best time to enter the waiting room is around 9.50am.

There’s no point wasting your time and entering before.

I’d also try to avoid joining closer to 10am just in case you’re distracted at the time and accidentally miss the waiting room completely!

Happy shopping!! 🛍️

fairyloot.com
u/BookedAndBloated — 14 days ago

https://www.waterstones.com/book/as-you-wake-break-the-shell/becky-chambers/9781399763905

As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers

Price: £22

Release Date: 22/10/26

From the bestselling author of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet comes a humane and heartfelt slice of sci-fi revolving around a pilot with a dangerous condition and the reclusive botanist whose bio-printed medicine might be able to save her.

"The stars are waiting for you. We hope you will come find us there."

Told in alternating timelines, As You Wake, Break the Shell is heartfelt and hopeful story from the award-winning writer of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, exploring what it means to be human and what it means to come together.

Life on Fortune is hard. The atmosphere is poisonous, the planet hardly fit for life. But for its inhabitants, it's home.

Pilot Cora suffers from a rare and dangerous condition, brought about by her bond with Colibri, the alien animal she pilots to quarry vital water for the colony. If Cora seeks treatment, she risks losing her license - and her connection to Colibri forever.

Then she meets Signy, a brilliant but reclusive botanist, whose bio-printed medicine is the only thing that can save her. But to do so, Signy must break the rules that govern their lives, risking her livelihood and the other colonists who rely on her for survival.

As Cora and Signy navigate their balance of risk and trust, they are forced to confront what they owe to each other and to their community - and begin to question whether survival is enough . . .

u/BookedAndBloated — 14 days ago
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My friend and I started r/special_edition_books a week ago, and considering none of us have really used Reddit before I feel like we’ve got some good traction already with new members. So excited to see what results we will have in another week!

u/BookedAndBloated — 14 days ago
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We are so thrilled to present to you… the ‘This Blade of Ours’ Exclusive Edition, brought to you in collaboration with u/shalini.writes and u/hodderscape!

Sarai thought the worst was behind her, but now she faces scorn from citizens who don’t believe in her victory. Accused of angering the gods, Sarai and Kadra must brace Ur Dinyé’s frozen north and face secrets that could shatter them both.

What makes this Exclusive Edition special?
📜 Exclusive redesigned cover with foil by u/imogen.oh and design by u/amysharpillustration
🏛️ Reversible dust jacket with a colourway variation of the trade cover
🥀 Full colour artwork on the hardcover with foil by u/ophelie_mahl and design by u/amysharpillustration
🖤 Character artwork on the endpapers with foil by u/ophelie_mahl (different front and back)
🗡️ Digitally sprayed edges on all three edges by u/imogen.oh
💫 Signed by the author, Shalini Abeysekara ✒️

This Blade of Ours is the sequel to This Monster of Mine.

This book is categorised as Adult and is suitable for readers aged 18+.

This is NOT part of our normal monthly subscriptions, and if you wish to order a copy, it will be available on our website (we ship to many countries worldwide).

The ‘This Blade of Ours’ Exclusive Edition will be available for £25 GBP / $34 USD + shipping and is expected to ship around August/September.

Early Access will take place as follows on May 21st:
📜 10am BST: UK/INT customers who received our edition of ‘This Monster of Mine’
📜 12pm BST: US/Canada customers who received our edition of ‘This Monster of Mine’
📜 2pm BST: UK/INT active subscribers
📜 4pm BST: US/Canada active subscribers
If we have any copies remaining, these will be available to the public on May 22nd at 10am BST for UK/INT customers and 4pm BST for US/Canada customers from the online shop.

We hope you adore this stunning edition! 🤩

u/Better_Swan8889 — 15 days ago