Hi everyone! Ready for our next tour sign ups? ✨
We are thrilled to announce that we are organizing a Bookstagram Tour for The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon! This tour will run from September 1st to September 10th, 2025 with a total of 10 stops.
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A science fiction horror from an award-winning queen of Afro-Irreal genre bending.
When a precocious Guardian in Sector Z in New Inku’lulu—an elite space outpost—misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability.
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer is a genre-bending, cross-cultural novella with beautiful, dark lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope. Out on September 2nd, 2025 from Stars and Sabers Publishing!
Add it to your TBR if you love tales of:
🌙lyrical language
✨magic
🌙spirit moons
✨creatures of unreality
🌙dark and immersive narration
Make sure you read the full synopsis below & to sign up if you are interested. We can’t wait to tour this epic book with you! 📖😍✨
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Tour Details:
– We are looking for 10 bookstagrammers to feature the book in their feeds in a bookstagram setup/photo.
– Hosts will receive a physical copy of The Nga’phandileh Whisperer to read & review for the tour.
– As always, it is open internationally.
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Here’s more about the book:
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon
Published by Stars and Sabers Publishing on September 2nd, 2025
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
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When a precocious Guardian in Sector Z in New Inku’lulu—an elite space outpost—misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability.
Now Chant’L is exiled to Savage Mound, a sound island on planet Wiimb-ó, and grows increasingly vengeful—until she discovers that magic is inborn, never truly lost or taken. She channels energy from two spirit moons and reclaims her sound magic.
Chant’L summons the Nga’phandileh, creatures of unreality. But her magic is more than she bargained for when an uncontained trinity of the hive mind slips from unreality and brings peril to the federation of planets.
Now the Guardians in Sector Z find themselves with a massive catastrophe they must not only keep secret, but resolve.
A science fiction horror from an award-winning queen of Afro-Irreal genre bending.
A glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric and authorly-crafted words complements this genre-bending, cross-cultural novella. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.
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About Eugen Bacon
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author who is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick and Ignyte Awards, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. She is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in the honor list for “‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction.” Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a “sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work.”
Eugen is passionate about motherhood, climate action, social justice, stories of culture, tradition, our past, our future, black people stories… She’s a mother, a woman, a daughter, a sister, a writer, an editor, a scholar, a colleague, a mentor, a friend. The creative space where she tells stories is literary speculative fiction. Eugen is the queen of genre-bending and writes across forms and genres.