Locus Online's new-release roundup lists its own title among the week
The Nov. 3 list includes Maurice Africh's Cello's Gate, an SF fantasy novel from Simon & Schuster/Saga Press priced at $32.00.
Locus Online published its weekly new book releases roundup for Nov. 3, 2026, covering titles across science fiction, fantasy, and horror from multiple publishers. Among the entries was Maurice Africh's Cello's Gate, described as an SF fantasy novel and the first in the Sky Pirates of Imperia series, published by Simon & Schuster/Saga Press under ISBN 978-1668242834, priced at $32.00 for 592 pages, available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.
The roundup included a line directing readers to the outlet's bookshop.org page to purchase the week's new books, adding "And us!" alongside the Cello's Gate listing. The full list also included titles from HarperCollins/Storytide, Penguin Random House imprints Berkley, Dell, and Del Rey, Macmillan/Flatiron, Orbit US, Bloomsbury USA, Profile/Solaris UK, Astra House/DAW, and Tor, spanning fantasy, horror, and science fiction categories with publication dates of Nov. 3 and Nov. 5, 2026.
A weekly new-releases roundup is exactly what it sounds like — a list, not a scoop — and this one happens to include Locus's own title in the mix. Nothing wrong with that; readers deserve to know what's shipping this week, full stop. The only thing worth flagging for you is a process note, not a scandal: when an outlet lists itself among the releases it covers, read the whole list the same way you'd read any other week's.
From the Coral Wire edition of Thu, Nov 5 2026 · Coral Index 35/100 (Headwinds)
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- Links of Interest: Nov. 4, 2026janefriedman.com
- New Book Releases: Nov 3, 2026Locus