#booktopia 2024

[the9mm]

Psssssttttttt... Do you like gay, and robots, and sci-fi books?

Then the book I am publishing as part of Booktopia 2024 may be for you!

Watch my dumb gay robots bumble around as they figure out what they're doing and how to live after they decide to shirk their responsibilities and run away together.

If you like: Asimov's robot series, Cargill's Sea of Rust, Newitz's Autonomous, Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Space Sweepers, Robocop, or any variety of robotic sci-fi in between, you'll love this book. This book is my love-letter to the sci-fi community as a whole with lots of little nods back to various sci-fi works.

This will be my debut words-words-words novella at 46,000 words and I wanna make a physical book so bad. I hope you'll help me get there. You can subscribe now to get an email when the project launches, but don't worry... I'll be screaming a bunch here too leading up to the project in September. It's live now. :)

As part of Booktopia, I'll be cross-collaborating with Space Wizard Science Fantasy, who is publishing Lesbians in Space. Space Wizard Science Fantasy is bringing together some great sapphic writers in this new volume of relationships set in space! You'll also love more sci-fi/fantasy and LGBTQ+ crossover.

LIVE NOW DURING BOOKTOPIA!

[elliottcassel]

Amara lay dying. Her children surround her on her deathbed, but when they pull the plug, she unexpectedly begins to recover... Amara's resurgence forces her children to confront their strained relationships and past grievances, revealing deep-seated emotions and unresolved conflicts. What they don't know is that Amara has a dark secret.

Coming in September with Booktopia is my partner David A. Byrne's project, Amara!

David and I will be partnering together to promote each other's works, and will be offering special backing rewards to those who back both of our projects.

[marcydaydream]

I was browsing Booktopia and found a couple of Adventure Time books releasing this year from Random House! Although they aren't crazy interesting, I haven't heard it otherwise so I thought I'd post about it because it's Adventure Time.

New Colouring Book! - 7th May 2024

https://www.booktopia.com.au/adventure-time-random-house/book/9780593808801.html

Graphic novel adaptation of two undisclosed episodes - 3rd Sept 2024

https://www.booktopia.com.au/journey-to-ooo-adventure-time--random-house/book/9780593808788.html

[pers-books]

Lesbians in Space: The Anthology (Where No Man Has Gone Before)

Booktopia 2024 📚#Fantasy#Indie#Sci-Fi

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You've asked for it, so Space Wizard provides. Here is the long-anticipated Lesbians In Space Anthology!

Space Wizard Science Fantasy!

Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a queer science fiction and fantasy indie publishing company which opened its doors in 2021 to publishing outside authors. - In 2022, the Space Wizard Science Fantasy Year 1 campaign raised nearly $18,000 to pay authors top rates, create amazing book covers, fund an audiobook recording, and publish 12 books between June 2022 and June 2023. - In 2023, Year 2 raised over $18,000 for 12 more books released from June 2023 to June 2024 with more excellent covers, custom illustrations, and pro rates for our anthology writers! This year we added exclusive collector's hardbacks! - In 2024, Year 3 just concluded in July with another $17,250 raised for for 13 books, one omnibus, and 2 TTRPGs!

We're back again this September for one more anthology, this time with a bunch of incredible authors participating in Booktopia. Lesbians in Space has a stellar (ha!) lineup of writers already on board, including (in order of confirmation):

- Seanan McGuire, multiple Hugo Award-winning author of the Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, and the Incryptid series!

- Travis Baldree, author of Legends and Lattes, shortlisted for the Hugo Award for best novel in 2023, as well as exceptional audiobook narrator!

- Emma Newman, Hugo Award-winning podcaster and author of the Planetfall series, which was shortlisted for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2020!

- Mary Robinette Kowal. Hugo Award-winner Mary Robinette Kowal has written: The Spare Man, The Glamourist Histories series, Ghost Talkers, the Lady Astronaut Universe, and many short stories.

Also see our "writers" section below for our current roster, and for how you can submit your story!

Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before

Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n’ roll. History is full of great pairings.

Get ready for the next great one: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. Focusing on lesbian / sapphic protagonists, this anthology will contain works from numerous established, award-winning, and lesfic authors, and a few new faces as well.

We have an amazing cover already created by Serene Chia, and we have a bunch of great addons and gifts for you as well! This anthology is going to be packed with fully-inclusive, sapphic stories about space, space opera, science fiction, exploration, adventure, and of course, romance. The stories will have representation of all sorts, including cis, trans, bi, sapphic, non-binary, ace, aro, and many other types. There's lots of room for Lesbians in Space!

We have our invited group of writers already working on stories for the anthology, but we're opening up to any and all submissions as well! So if you're a writer, polish off your best story about Lesbians in Space, and send it in!

Are you a writer? Do you like Lesbians in Space? We will be holding juried selections for more stories for the Lesbians in Space anthology. To enter, simply polish off your writing skills and craft a story of around 2000-4500 words, but definitely not over 6000.

This anthology will focus on lesbian relationships of all types, including cis, bi/pan, ace, non-binary, intersex, trans, and others that fall under the ‘sapphic’ banner as long as the primary pairing is lesbian. Give us your best story featuring sapphic protagonists at least partially located in space. This could be on a spaceship, with magic, on a planet or asteroid, in another dimension or realm, or any other connected idea. Surprise us!

Stories will be juried and final selections will be made (hopefully) by end of January 2025. Projected publish date is June 2025. Selected authors will be compensated at semi-pro rates or higher. Send your completed story in by midnight EST, December 31st, 2024 using the instructions at https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/submissions We are hoping to publish Lesbians in Space around June 2025.

-- I've just backed this as it looks absolutely fabulous!

[artofliondance]

✨LION DANCERS COVER REVEAL✨ Pre-orders are now OPEN for LION DANCERS, releasing on August 13, 2024!! Not long now everybody, and you'll get to read the world's first American published graphic novel about lion dancing!

To celebrate, Barnes & Noble in the US are having a 25% off pre-order promotion right now for B&N Rewards and Premium members (Premium members get an additional 10% off print books only). Membership is free. Pre-order links are here:

US Publisher Page: LINK Booktopia (AU): LINK Dymocks (AU): LINK

Comment below if you have any questions, or just share how excited you are that this book is coming out this year because I am beside myself!!

[lauravanarendonkbaugh]

The Poet's Eye is coming!

Okay, writeblr friends, it's real: This is a promo and also a request.

BackerKit's first ever Booktopia starts Sept 5, 2024. My new epic fantasy series will be featured! And for Booktopia, there will be additional rewards for backers, bonus rewards for readers who back more than one book project, and more.

If you like epic fantasy that is

intensely character-driven

full of found family and relationships that aren't just romantic

mature and tackling Big Themes

...but without spice or steamy scenes

ace representation

a bit different from the general market, something a little less mainstream or formulaic, something made for a more niche market

then please check out this new series! You can click here to follow it, or I'll tell you about it below. :)

Meet The Characters!

Galen is a farm boy who sacrificed everything to save his family from a threat that turned out to be fake. Now he's trying to stop a magic-wielding queen from saving the world. (Yes, I said save.)

Lisveth was an infamous sorceress highwaywoman, terrorizing the roads with fire and theft. Now she's an itinerant mercenary with her emotional support village idiot.

Kayvin wasn't a good prince, but he was one, and he's lost that. He knows the throne is gone, but the only way to redeem his hostage mother's life is to retrieve a legendary artifact for the usurper. And you're telling him that some random ginger farm boy has it?!

Dielo is professionally gorgeous and a real people-pleaser. But his master isn't interested, and his true master doesn't need his reports, and what's a courtesan-spy to do when no one wants him?

Yovela has finally found a safe place. It's a terrible job description, but her boss treats her better than anyone else has, and that's enough for now. If anyone threatens that, she'll do all in her power, and if she doesn't have enough, she'll recruit help.

I write intensely character-driven fantasy, and this series has more of the same!

The Pitch

Galen was unhappy in his overcrowded farmhouse even before learning his uncles murdered his father for the spoils of a robbery. Now the only way to keep his family from killing each other—again—is to steal the magical amulet they’re fighting over.

By the time he realizes it’s a fake, it’s too late.

Meanwhile, a royal assassination forces two nations together after generations of enmity. With his mother now hostage in an icy prison, Prince Kayvin must collect legendary artifacts to save the lives of thousands. The entrapped prince can trust no one but a beautiful dancer and a young man trained to be the perfect luxurious companion—and perhaps not both of them.

Unlikely allies must work together to defeat an inhuman sorceress bent on saving thousands of lives.

Surely you mean "ending thousands of lives?"

I said what I said.

If you like deeply realized characters, sweeping adventure, and multilayered storytelling, then you’ll love Laura VanArendonk Baugh’s new epic fantasy.

Booktopia

Books which don't match the mainstream book market (like this one!) can do better in crowdfunding than on a more traditional publishing path. BackerKit's new Booktopia is a cross-promotional event that rewards backers with even more swag when they back more than one project, starting with just one additional book.

Read Now: A Midwinter Theft

Want to get to know some of the characters in advance? Pick up the free short story "A Midwinter Theft" (or on retailers here) to meet Lisveth and Galen on one of their hired jobs, going slightly sideways as usual.

(Or, if you picked up a copy of A Trove of Legacies at Origins 2024, you can find another story "A Signet to Save" in that.)

Sound intriguing? Want to help?

Click here to follow the Booktopia project (no commitment). And share this with friends who might like this kind of story.

Thank you!

[edinapublishers]

Coming February 6th, 2024— Outsider is now available to preorder!

Preorder through us / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Rakuten Kobo / Booktopia (AU/NZ)

[elliottcassel]

hey, i want to take a second to promote the project that i'll be a part of in september, booktopia! it's a varied bunch of authors crowdfunding to get their novels self-published. we have fantasy, horror, queer, scifi, nonfiction, poetry, and various combinations thereof!

i know you said you'd like to purchase them now, but maybe you'll have another day like that in september. :)

i want to read more books from people on here, and unfortunately, i struggle a lot with online reading. it’s much better for me to actually have the text on page in front of me.

SO!!!! this is an open call for all my tumblr writer friends to link/promote their published, purchasable books here! let me buy them and put them on my bookshelf please

[karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard]

Another reason to buy direct from author

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2024/04/18/another-reason-to-buy-direct-from-author/

… or anywhere but the ‘River App’.

I just don’t understand Amazon’s pricing. I just found my Blood Ties (Paperback RRP AU$16.99/US$11.99) on Amazon AU for $46.55! Holy sh***! Please note I have absolutely no say in how Amazon prices my books (which they source from Ingram Spark or Draft2Digital.

For comparison, Booktopia is selling it for AU$20.56.

I know bookshops need a markup, but Amazon’s price is over twice the RRP – and I don’t see a cent more!

And the current eBook price (RRP US$1.99) is AU$4.39!

  I’ve heard similar stories from other indie authors, especially for books published this year.

All the books in my website shop have a ‘universal link‘ for online bookstores they are available to purchase. So, please, when you’re buying a book, shop around. And remember, the author doesn’t get paid any more just because the price is jacked up!

[jefelen-presents]

"Chained" (2022)

Friday, March 8th, 2024 (01:23) JEFELEN acknowledges International Women's Day with an incidental callback to March of 2022...

Frankly, I'm surprised to discover now that I evidently neglected to share this at the time, for whatever reason, but the simple fact of the matter is that I previously served as an Executive Producer for Purgatory Pictures™ (in conjunction with CineNorth Studios™) on writer/director Matt Shaw's grueling feature-length horror/thriller, "Chained", which is available to rent or buy through the following digital platforms:

Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8NX1VFV

Prime Video™: http://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GKH2GLC8C3ITKJ7F0GKF26Q3B

Vimeo™: http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/mattshawchained

He is chained to her through his own choice. She is chained to him through no choice of her own. A thick chain links the two of them together by their ankles and is kept in place with heavy-duty locks. She knows why she is there -- he has explained that once, but only once. Each subsequent time she asks, he simply tells her that she knows the reason. What she knows is that there is no way out until he says so. For a time of his choosing, she is his prisoner and that is all there is to it. Yet, for the two of them, things could have been so very different...

The title is also available from Shaw directly in several formats:

DVD: http://www.mattshawpublications.co.uk/product/chained-dvd

Digital download: http://www.mattshawpublications.co.uk/…/chained-feature…

Print edition paperback (with included movie rental): http://www.mattshawpublications.co.uk/…/chained…

The original novel can furthermore be purchased through retailers:

Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471051498

SciFier™: http://www.scifier.com/chained-matt-shaw-9780244455798

ThriftBooks™: http://www.thriftbooks.com/w/chained_matt-shaw/26521687/…

Dymocks™: http://www.dymocks.com.au/…/chained-by-matt-shaw…

Booktopia™: http://www.booktopia.com.au/chain…/book/9781471051494.html

Digital downloads of the movie are similarly available through Etsy™:

http://www.etsy.com/…/digital-download-chained-feature…

"Chained" is based on the best-selling book of the same name, as referenced. The screenplay is significantly different to the novella, however, which primarily takes place in one location. Have a look, and compare the formats for their narrative differences yourself...

#CHAINED #MattShaw #PurgatoryPictures #UntilDeathDoThemPart #ThereAreTwoSidesToEveryStory #BasedOnTheBook #AvailableNOW

[thegirlwiththelantern]

Free Ebook Haul February 2024

I’m celebrating today and thought I would share that with you all. I got these from February Fantasy Freebies, Dreamweavers and Caffeinated Fantasy Tribe. These offers last for the duration of the month. But I stumbled onto the February Fantasy and Sci Fi Giveaway last minute which ends March 15th. The offers on New Year Booktopia, however, end today. Poems for Palestine is a free poetry…

[the9mm]

When a robot built for construction work first sees an angular, sleek prototype military robot slink onto the base he’s working outside of, he immediately falls in love. The problem is, only anomalous bots understand the concept of love, and the lowly laborbot has not deviated from his default programming once. So he thinks, anyway. When the laborbot is scheduled for decommission, the military bot cannot possibly live without him, and the two bots set out on a path to find the fabled anomalous robot utopia Root.

If you like: Asimov's robot series, Cargill's Sea of Rust, Newitz's Autonomous, Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Space Sweepers, Robocop, or any variety of robotic sci-fi in between, you'll love this book.

Launching September 5th, 2024, The Warm Machine will be released as an eBook as well as a paperback book. I hope you'll join me in bringing my debut novella to life! Subscribe today to be notified when this book project launches as part of Booktopia 2024!

Vaporwave theme vhs distorted by Projecteur -- https://freesound.org/s/745925/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

[edinapublishers]

Coming February 6th, 2024— Outsider is now available to preorder!

Preorder through us / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Rakuten Kobo / Booktopia (AU/NZ

[the9mm]

P.s. it's live now! TheWarmMachine.com

Psssssttttttt... Do you like gay, and robots, and sci-fi books?

Then the book I am publishing as part of Booktopia 2024 may be for you!

Watch my dumb gay robots bumble around as they figure out what they're doing and how to live after they decide to shirk their responsibilities and run away together.

If you like: Asimov's robot series, Cargill's Sea of Rust, Newitz's Autonomous, Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Space Sweepers, Robocop, or any variety of robotic sci-fi in between, you'll love this book. This book is my love-letter to the sci-fi community as a whole with lots of little nods back to various sci-fi works.

This will be my debut words-words-words novella at 46,000 words and I wanna make a physical book so bad. I hope you'll help me get there. You can subscribe now to get an email when the project launches, but don't worry... I'll be screaming a bunch here too leading up to the project in September.

As part of Booktopia, I'll be cross-collaborating with Space Wizard Science Fantasy, who is publishing Lesbians in Space. Space Wizard Science Fantasy is bringing together some great sapphic writers in this new volume of relationships set in space! You'll also love more sci-fi/fantasy and LGBTQ+ crossover.

SUBSCRIBE TO BE NOTIFIED OF LAUNCH!

[the9mm]

Hello yes this is happening in less than 5 days and of course I'm halfway panicked about it. I think (hope) you will enjoy my story

Mainly I want to shove my arts and memes on y'all too and have you understand the jokes but that's something else I guess. Is it normal for a creator to make their own fanart and unhinged trash memes to prefill their own fandom with???

Psssssttttttt... Do you like gay, and robots, and sci-fi books?

Then the book I am publishing as part of Booktopia 2024 may be for you!

Watch my dumb gay robots bumble around as they figure out what they're doing and how to live after they decide to shirk their responsibilities and run away together.

If you like: Asimov's robot series, Cargill's Sea of Rust, Newitz's Autonomous, Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Space Sweepers, Robocop, or any variety of robotic sci-fi in between, you'll love this book. This book is my love-letter to the sci-fi community as a whole with lots of little nods back to various sci-fi works.

This will be my debut words-words-words novella at 46,000 words and I wanna make a physical book so bad. I hope you'll help me get there. You can subscribe now to get an email when the project launches, but don't worry... I'll be screaming a bunch here too leading up to the project in September.

As part of Booktopia, I'll be cross-collaborating with Space Wizard Science Fantasy, who is publishing Lesbians in Space. Space Wizard Science Fantasy is bringing together some great sapphic writers in this new volume of relationships set in space! You'll also love more sci-fi/fantasy and LGBTQ+ crossover.

SUBSCRIBE TO BE NOTIFIED OF LAUNCH!