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Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

One month left!! Submissions Open: Slapshots in Space & Magical Marathons! Sports-themed speculative fiction, submissions open now through Aug 31 Edited by: @lisatimpf.bsky.social , paulajohanson.bsky.social & Colleen Anderson. Submit on Duosoma: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Book promo post. A watercolour space background of purples, blues, orange-reds and black. In the upper righthand corner is a ringed blue planet, and in the centre is a flaming hockey puck. Text says: Slapshots in Space and Magical Marathons. Submissions Open July 1 2026 through August 31 2026. Website is tyche books dot com

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

Visit exotic Edmonton with Marie Jenner! In this fast-paced paranormal mystery, amateur sleuth Marie Jenner tries--one more time with feeling--to pull her life together. The only problem? There's never a ghost around when you want one. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Background is an orange-red tinted skyline of Edmonton, Alberta. A 3D mockup of a paperback book says: Drowning in Amber, by E.C. Bell. A woman with long black hair and wearing a red dress with gold straps stares intently at us. Gold vapor swirls around her and behind her in the distance is a bronze skyline of Edmonton. Additional text says Now Available.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

(it has occurred to me that Waverly Jones is just a mobile, modern version of Nero Wolfe ... lol, omg @skyladawn.ca , geez I like detectives who hate people)

Hardback edition of A Dark and Distant Home, a Waverly Jones mystery by Skyla Dawn Cameron. Waverly, in a red plaid flannel shirt and blue jeans, leans against a fake wood-paneled wall. A child sits at her feet, hidden by a 70s style floral print couch. A door has opened to Waverly's right, the light illuminating Waverly's face, but keeping the child mostly in shadow, and Waverly gazes towards the open door, a smear of blood on her chin. Seriously, read these books.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

--because I love those characters & want to spend time with them, even though I know whodunnit! (and this is why I so love Waverly Jones. She's a character I love & would read about her grocery trips--look, I've been trying to convince Skyla to write Waverly food reviews, lol)

book cover for A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie. A large ship is docked at a beach. A yellow sun blazes in a bright blue sky and palm trees can be glimpsed in the lower corner.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

20. What do I look for in a book? Good characters. A gripping plot is fun, too, but I re-read books that have characters I love. Which is why some mysteries are my comfort reads--Christie & Stout in particular+

Cover for Death of a Doxy by Rex Stout, featuring series detective Nero Wolfe. A blonde woman in a skimpy pink nightgown lies dead in bed, an ashtray beside her. The ashtray has spilled and numerous cigarette butts and ashes are strewn across the red bedspread.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

19. Most disliked popular books. 50 Shades of Gray. Twilight. Outlander. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Here, a picture of a book I *do* like:

Book cover for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, a Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley. A black bird lies on its back, dead, with a one penny stamp impaled on its beak.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

18. Do I like historical books? What time period? Yes. lol Regency, Victorian, Edwardian are my faves. A recent read, The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson, was very enjoyable. (Original title: Countess Below Stairs) Good things happen to good people in this book, & I adored it.

Book cover for The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson. Illustrated cover with a young woman in a long, fur-trimmed coat carrying two suitcases, glances over her should towards the reader. She is walking down a tree-lined path towards a large house. The tagline is "will falling in love uncover her past?"

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

17. Top 5 Children's Books: (picture or chapter??) The Monster at the End of This Book, starring... Grover; The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak; Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-A-Zoo by Mercer Mayer; Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik; The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

Cover for The Monster at the end of this Book, starring lovable, furry old Grover. Grover, a blue muppet monster with a large pink nose stands in front of a brick building, waving. Behind him is a street post that says "Sesame Street". Grover is saying, "Hello, everybodeeee!"

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

+ like X-Files, you have a monster/mystery of the week in each book (don't worry! clues dropped for the series mystery in each volume). Waverly talks to the hallucination of her dead sister & drinks a lot of coffee. You'll love her. The Killing Beach is book 1. We meet the quirky town, our+

Book promo post. Special Hardcover Editions of the Waverly Jones Mysteries. Several hardcover books with Nancy Drew-style covers (yellow spines with a cameo of Waverly; "Nancy Drew" font; vintage-inspired illustrations). Books are: The Killing Beach; A Wild Kind of Darkness; Alone at Night; Silent All These Years; A Dark and Distant Home; Sins of the Mother. Additional text says: New vintage-style cover art; maps of downtown and the county; behind the scenes; bonus short stories and novellas; recipes from Waverly's favourite pub.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 6d

15. Recommend and review a book. Let me spread the good word about Waverly Jones, Private Investigator. She hates everyone. She is smart & competent. She thinks all the snarky things you wished you could say. Over arching series mystery is the serial killer who murdered her sister, but +

Book promo image. A dishwater blonde woman peers through a camera. Text says: Misanthropic. Obsessive. Manipulative. Resting Sociopath Face. Talks to the hallucination of her dead sister. What more can you ask for in a private investigator? Waverly Jones Mysteries

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 7d

14. Do I mark or dog ear books I own? I used to, I do not anymore. I am chaotic good in terms of minding my page. I only wrote in books during university.

bookmark alignment chart. Dog earing a page is "chaotic evil". Chaotic good is scrap paper and receipts.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 7d

12. Did I enjoy any compulsory high school reading? Yes! The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; Macbeth by Shakespeare; Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill; Hamlet by Shakespeare; and numerous short stories.

Cover for the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. A woman leans close to a man, as if she's whispering in his ear. The man is wearing armor and has a crazed look about his eyes.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 7d

8. First book I remember reading myself tbh, I don't know. I was always reading. Another picture book from my childhood, The Elves and the Shoemaker. I had a bunch of Ladybird fairytale books

Cover for the Ladybird Easy-Reading book, The Elves and the Shoemaker. Two elves with pointy hair and ears are making a pair of shoes. The Shoemaker and his wife watch from behind a curtain.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 7d

7. Series or book that got me reading I don't remember a time I wasn't reading, but I do remember this series, Sweet Pickles. I *adored* them.

Cover images for several Sweet Pickles picture books. Books depicted are Fish and Flips; Very Worried Walrus; Elephant Eats the Profits; Stork Spills the Beans; Lion is Down in the Dumps; Yakety Yak Yak Yak; Kiss Me, I'm Vulture; Fixed by Camel; Turtle Throws a Tantrum; and Zip Goes Zebra.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 9d

These??? Omg omg omg

Book cover for the Nancy Drew Files Case 7, Deadly Doubles. Nancy wears a denim skirt and white tee belted with a red leather belt. Some dude in tennis shorts stands slightly behind her, and a guy pointing a hand gun stands in the distance. It’s a Very 80s Cover.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

What do you do when you realize you've been the villain all along? Find out in Helix: Sedition by Pat Flewwelling. On Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo graphic. Text says: I'm amazed by the way Flewwelling keeps multiple balls in the air, effortlessly juggling shapeshifters, politics, science gone wrong, mysteries, and characters you can't help but like even if you suspect you shouldn't. Tanya Huff, author of the Henry Fitzroy Blood books & the Confederation of Valour series. Additional text says Sedition, Now Available. Opposite the text is a 3D mock up of the cover for Sedition by Pat Flewwelling. It features a dark, cloaked figure with glowing red eyes. Tentacles wave around the figure.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

As the saying goes: people aren’t truly afraid of the dark—they fear what could be in the darkness with them. The anthology Carpe Noctem, edited by Megan Fennell and Leslie Van Zwol, is full of bite-sized scares. Find it on Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Background is black with gold filigree in the lower right-hand corner and a smattering of white dots in random places. The book cover is also black with gold filigree in the corners and a golden deaths head moth in the centre. Additional text reads Discover what waits for you in the dark.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

The YA horror suspense book Hollow by Rhonda Parrish is also on sale this month! Morgan's life is falling apart, but when she finds an old Polaroid camera, she believes her luck is changing. And it is: from bad to worse. On kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book Promo post. Background is a road engulfed with fog, bare-branched trees are barely visible on either side of the road. An ereader displays the cover for Hollow by Rhonda Parrish. The cover is marbled white and gray. The shape of a magpie in flight dominates the cover. From the shape peeks a woman wide-eyed in fear with a moth crawling forth from her mouth. Additional text reads: The old camera was supposed to change Morgan's luck--and it did. From bad to worse.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

It's summer. It's hot. There's smoke on the air & death in the streets. Jimmy Finn has one last hope: A long-buried family secret, lost above a mysterious town in the mountains... Furr by Axel Howerton. Find it on Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Background is a blue-toned image of the city of Calgary's skyline at night. The book cover image is that same skyline of Calgary, but the eyes and partial face of a white wolf are super-imposed in the blue sky above the city. Additional text reads: Jimmy Finn is having a read bad day. He's either losing his mind... or becoming a monster.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

Check out Marie's other adventures! In Haunting the Haunted, a fake television psychic wants to discredit Marie: live, on TV. The problem is, the ghosts haunting him want something different. They want to be saved. Find it on Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo. Stormy grey-blue background of the city of Edmonton skyline. A 3D mockup of the book Haunting the Haunted by E.C. Bell is featured on the lefthand side of the image. The cover features a young woman with dark hair wearing an aqua coloured dress. Mist swirls around her and between her fingers. To the right of the book cover are the words Now Available, with logos of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, and Kobo.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· 15d

Get your summer chills 'n' thrills at Kobo! It's July, which means *Summerween*. Meet Marie Jenner: reluctant psychic and almost private-investigator, whose clients are mostly ghosts. What's a little murder among family? On Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo. A full moon shines eerily over an old-fashioned cemetery. The scene is coloured mauve and violet to match the book cover for Stalking the Dead by E. C. Bell. On the book cover a young woman with long black hair stands in front of a cemetery. Additional text says Now Available and lists several ebook retailers like Amazon. Barnes and Noble, iBooks, and Kobo.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jul 9

Submissions Open: Slapshots in Space & Magical Marathons! Sports-themed speculative fiction, submissions open now through Aug 31 Edited by: @lisatimpf.bsky.social , @paulajohanson.bsky.social & Colleen Anderson. Submit on Duosoma: duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 26

Binge a series (or at least *start* one, 😉) with Kobo's 2 boxsets for $20 sale. The Intelligencers series: a sea-faring fantasy series with magic and political intrigue. Plus pirates. Try it out!: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Background is a dark gray stormy sky with flying birds in the lower left corner. In the upper right corner is a 3D mock up of the book cover on a generic ebook reader. The book is The Intelligencer Series, books 1 through 3, by Jane Glatt. The cover is of two people, a blonde woman and a dark skinned man sailing a small ship through turbulent ocean waters. The sails are red, and their colour is echoed in the dramatic sunset. The sky is dark and foreboding, and birds swirl in the sky. In the distance, a spire of spiky rocks jut from the water.

To the left of the book cover is a tagline in white font which says, "Dagrun's magic uncovers secrets--and now her country needs her."

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 25

Binge a series w/ 2 for $20 boxset sale on Kobo! The Helix series by Pat Flewwelling: "...Shapeshifters, politics, science gone wrong... & characters you can't help but like even if you suspect you shouldn't" - Tanya Huff, author of the Henry Fitzroy Blood Books www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Distressed brown background. On the left is a boxset cover, which has three vertical panels featuring portions of the individual books. Left panel is a bare-chested man with a cat super-imposed over his head, with strange shambling humanoids in the foreground. Second panel shows that same man, with a black panther super imposed over his chest standing in a street with some other people with him. Third panel shows the man kneeling on snow-covered ground with the panther appearing as a shadow. Legs of unnatural creatures appear behind him.

To the right of this cover is a tagline: Perfected by nature. Twisted by science. A miracle cure gone very, very wrong.

The title of the boxset is Helix: Three Novels, by Pat Flewwelling.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 24

2 for $20 boxset sale on Kobo! A perfect time to binge a series! The Nearspace Trilogy by Sherry D. Ramsey: Captain Luta Paixon needs to know why she looks like a woman in her 30s–even though she’s actually 84. She isn’t the only one desperate for that information. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. Text in white science-fiction -ish font say: Nearspace by Sherry D. Ramsey. Tagline is "Greedy corporations, nanotechnology, and family: a space opera with heart." Background image is shades of purple space with rings of a planet in the lower lefthand corner. In the upper right is a mock up of a boxset of the Nearspace Trilogy. The cover is split into three horizontal parts, with each part showing a peek of a different book cover from the trilogy. The top portion is a close-up of a woman's face with a ship exiting a wormhole behind her. The middle portion is a wolf-like being standing back to back with a woman in a dark coat. The bottom portion is a man in a blue military officer suit standing next to a dark haired woman in a black coat, with a blue planet behind them.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 24

Not a ghost in my kitchen, but an actual tea Rex. Art by the Gorgonist

Illustration of a T Rex sitting on a blue cushion, holding a cup of tea. A tiered dessert stand full of cupcakes and tea sandwiches. A banner proclaims Tea Rex. Art by The Gorgonist.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 23

🚨One week left!🚨 One week to send in your dinosaur ghost stories! Details on our website.

Book promo post. Title text in white says: Call for Submissions. Black background with fog obscuring the image. Through two "rips" in the image, a large carnivorous dinosaur, probably a Tyrannosaurus Rex, charges at the viewer through the fog. Additional text says: Jurassic Ghosts, edited by Halli Reid. Submissions Open May 1 through June 30 2026. The website is www dot tyche books dot com

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 23

Big ol' boxset sale on Kobo! The perfect time to binge an entire series! Sam Sparrow was a lousy cop. He's a worse private eye. He now has the chance of a lifetime to become a detective worthy of his idol, Sam Spade. On Kobo: www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

Book promo post. A stone wall background is overlaid with a faint image of a classic hard-boiled detective wearing a fedora and trench coat. A beam of light shines on him. He faces a 3-D mock-up of the cover for the Sam Sparrow ebook collection, which shows a detective wearing a fedora and trench coat kneeling on a cobblestone ground next to a dead medieval knight. A black chicken scratches the ground next to him. The books are by Randy McCharles and the titles of the books found in the collection are written on a scroll. They are: A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur's Court; A Connecticut Gumshoe in Sherwood Forest; A Connecticut Gumshoe in the Cavern of the Weird Sisters. Additional text says, "Meet Sam Sparrow: time-travelling PI, solving hard-boiled mysteries in fantastical places.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 23

Alberta, you’ve gone too far. This is a war crime.

Jars of dill pickle salsa on the shelf at a grocery store. It’s from an Albertan company.

Tyche Books 🇨🇦@tychebooks· Jun 20

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