Year in Review: Highlights of 2023!

As the finals hours of 2023 trickle away, we find ourselves fondly remembering the moments we’ve shared. The books we’ve read. The features we’ve published. Take a stroll down recent memory lane with us through some of this year’s highlights!

January

Snackable SFF To Help You Get A Jump On Your Reading Goals

We opened the year with lots of articles about what new books we were going to see in it, but we also put together this helpful list! If you’re like us, you’re reading goals are ambitious, and your TBR is atrocious. This list is still good for addressing both of those adjectives.

February

Share the Love of SFF with Our Special Valentine’s Day Greetings!

To share some literary love, we put together bookly pun greeting cards that were a class act. “I love you a latte!”

March

Our Favorite SFF Characters And Their Tragic Flaws

Beware the Ides of March if you’re any of our favorite characters. *tragedy incoming*

April

Tor’s Drastically Off-Kilter Spring Books Quiz

We’ve started making chaotic quizzes for each season, meaning that four times a year we get to lose our minds and call it content ❤️

It’s lovely.

May

Travis Baldree on Legends & Lattes and Writing

Sometimes our authors visit us at the office and we get to ask them so many questions about writing, their stories, and honestly just whatever’s at the top of our brain’s during the lightning round of Q&A.

June

Trope Spotlight: 5 Accidental Child Acquisitions

We’re big fans of tropes here at Tor. If tropes were a materials from which a house is constructed, they’d probably be like the skeleton frame that keeps the whole house together. But don’t just take your perhaps ill-conceived similes from us! Check out these authors for the good descriptive language stuff!

July

Tor Books Presents…Dragon Week 5eva: Aliens Vs. Dragons

For half a decade now, we’ve celebrated Dragon Week, a week full of dragon-related lists, playlists, author features, quizzes, and assembled miscellany. THIS year we took to the skies and then broke orbit into space for Dragon Week 5eva: Aliens Vs. Dragons!

August

5 Sandy Reads to Peruse at the Beach

This feature is so good that instead of coming up with something new to say, we’ll just excerpt the intro:

Sometimes you want something a little different for a beach read. If that’s you, may we recommend focusing less on the body of water nearby and more on what’s under your toes? Yes, we’re talking sand. Sometimes at the beach you don’t necessarily want a book about people swimming or going on vacation or eating lobster. Sometimes you just want a good SFF with quality SAND.

We just like sand. It’s summer and we write about what we want.

Let’s dive in the deep end of the literary sandbox.

September

The Cat Villains of Tor Publishing Group

John Scalzi’s Starter Villain is a delightful read with a delightful cover featuring a cat in a suit. Not to be outdone, the real feline colleagues of Tor coworkers took a glamor photoshoot with the book.