Beth Tabler

Las Vegas

Editor at Grimdark Magazine

Editor at Before We Go Blog

2021 Stabby Nom - Best Fantasy Site. Editor at GdM and BWGB. #SPFBO7, #O8, #O9 #10 @bethtabler.bsky.social

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Review - Gideon's Curse by David Niall Wilson

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | C.T. Phipps |Beth Tabler

Just after the Civil War, a preacher named Gideon Swayne journeyed south from Random, Illinois to minister to the newly freed slaves. In the bitter prejudice of North Carolina, and the magic of the Great Dismal Swamp, he made a home… that home was taken from him in hatred, and in violence. Migrants work the Pope plantation and are mired in the “old ways.” There are older ways than the Pope family, built on slave-labor and mired in their own past can imagine.
KICKSTARTER LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT - DANCE WITH ME by LIVIA J. ELLIOT

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | P.L. Stuart |Beth Tabler

BEFORE WE GO BLOG is pleased to announce that
Review: A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | Esmay Rosalyne |Beth Tabler

You know, it would be the understatement of the year to say that my expectations for A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping were absolutely out of this world, but Sangu Mandanna just proved that it is indeed possible to catch lightning in a bottle twice! Yes, this story is chaotic, yes, it’s batshit crazy, and yes, it’s so sickeningly sweet that your insulin levels will probably rise just from reading it, but I think that is exactly where its magic and irresistible charm lies; this is simply...
Cover Reveal - RESIDUUM - by D.B. ROOK

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | P.L. Stuart |Beth Tabler

BEFORE WE GO BLOG is honoured to help reveal the cover for *A Darkening Dawn Series novella*Release date: ImminentSynopsis: Light dims on humanity’s reign over the galaxy. Charlus Vaughn, a teenage refugee escapes deadly machine justice with her penitent mother. Rescued by data-pirate crew, she falls into the path of ancient arachnid machinations that propel her back towards her mysterious origins and the heart of her unknown heritage.
Film - Thunderbolts (2025) review

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | C.T. Phipps |Beth Tabler

THUNDERBOLTS (2025) is a movie that I was looking forward to a lot more than a lot of other Marvel Cinematic Universe fans. I enjoyed the original Thunderbolts comics with Baron Zemo, Hawkeye, Songbird, Mach IV, Moonstone, and others. I also really enjoyed the Black Widow movie that was an underrated gem of the “original” Avengers era. I also am one of the people who really does love goofy antiheroes doing goofy superhero-adjacenet stuff as anyone who has read my Supervillainy Saga books will know.
Those Who Walk Away from Omelas: Le Guin’s Moral Blueprint in Speculative Fiction

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | Beth Tabler

When I read certain stories, I’m often transported back to the absolute gut punch of moral reckoning that is “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story left a lasting impression on me—an early encounter with the morally gray territory speculative fiction so often inhabits. Stories of people doing the wrong thing for the right reasons (or the right thing for the wrong ones) speak to our deeply flawed humanity.
Cover Reveal - ONLY A GRAVE WILL DO by JAMES LLYOD DULIN

1 week ago | beforewegoblog.com | P.L. Stuart |Beth Tabler

BEFORE WE GO BLOG is honoured to help reveal the cover forONLY A GRAVE WILL DOLinks below to pre-order OR request an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) OR add it on Goodreads:
Review: The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

2 weeks ago | beforewegoblog.com | Esmay Rosalyne |Beth Tabler

“Read Dungeon Crawler Carl”, they said. “It’ll be fun”, they said. Okay but can someone then please explain to me why The Butcher’s Masquerade had me choked up multiple times? Why my anxiety was just running wild the entire time? Why this silly ass book made me FEEL so damn much?!?!?
World of Darkness books re-released by Crossroad Press (May 2025)

2 weeks ago | beforewegoblog.com | C.T. Phipps |Beth Tabler

Crossroad Press has begun re-releasing the original White Wolf fiction produced in the Nineties. They re-released the Dark Age Clan Novels, Clan Novels, and Grail Covenant Trilogy a few of years ago but now have the contract for all of the books. Recently, they’ve started re-releasing the rest! These books were a huge influence on my United States of Monsters series and I thought I’d share what’s now available.
SPFBOX Finalist Review: The Oathsworn Legacy by K.R. Gangi

2 weeks ago | beforewegoblog.com | Beth Tabler

In The Oathsworn Legacy, author K.R. Gangi delivers sword and sorcery fantasy with a Lovecraftian twist. The structure of The Oathsworn Legacy recalls that of the excellent Hanuvar Trilogy by Howard Andrew Jones, where each chapter acts as a standalone short story. The individual stories then come together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts. K.R. Gangi’s worldbuilding embraces standard Tolkienesque elements, including elven and dwarven races, wizards, etc.