We have, as of this morning, received the money from the pledge manager and begun printing all of the physical rewards for this campaign. Once printed, they will ship to our fulfillment contractor, who will then mail them out to you!
We know it's taken longer than we wanted, and we appreciate the patience everyone has displayed. We can't wait for you all to receive your issues (and your other assorted goodies!) and finally be able to enjoy them.
What's Next?
We have a new project to announce: Seers in a Broken Season, a stone-age sword-and-sorcery (tusk and totems?) novella by the vaunted Jonathan Olfert! A story about the wandering mammoth warrior, Walks-Like-a-Rockslide, and his war against the whalers of a distant, icy shore. It is about 35,000 words long, it is already written and edited, and the cover art will be a full-color painting by Brian LeBlanc (who painted the beautiful cover for John R. Fultz's Worlds Beyond Worlds and Schuyler Hernstrom's The Eye of Sounnu, among others). The teaser page for the campaign is up here
Eat your heart out, L. Sprague
There will be some fun rewards for early backers, so sign up now and be ready when the campaign goes lives at the end of July! If you're unfamiliar with Jonathan's work, check out his previous stories featuring Walks-Like-a-Rockslide in Old Moon Quarterly volume 5, and volume 8. You can also find many of his lovely stories gracing the pages of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed (among other places) as well: here, for example. If you're a fan of Primal and its combination of heartfelt melancholy and extremely metal fight-scenes, or if you want a good tale that asks the question, "should I, a civilized mammoth, continue the cycle of violence? Yes, or no (but also maybe yes)?", or if you simply enjoy anything that looks like it belongs on the side of the coolest van in town back in the '70s, then you'll find a lot to love in Jonathan's work.
That's all for now. We're incredibly excited to have rewards shipping out; we're even more excited to have this novella by Jonathan ready and raring to go. See you all soon!
Just a reminder: our Pledge Manager will lock in 48 hours! That means by 4 PM EST on June 17, 2026, you will no longer be able to access it, and your orders will lock. Shortly thereafter, we will charge cards for shipping. Shortly after that, fulfillment itself will begin.
So, if you still haven't filled out your pledge manager, please do so as soon as possible!
The epub and pdf editions of Old Moon 9 and 10 are available now. Please download and peruse at your leisure! And let us know what you think of them either here, or on our social media!
The other digital downloads for back issues will be live once we lock orders on the pledge manager this weekend, as well.
Thank you again for your support, and we hope you all love these stories as much as we do!
The pledge manager is finally open! Please input your shipping info, purchase any add-ons you want, and so on and so forth. It will stay open until June 14th, at which point it will close, cards will be charged, and printing/shipping will begin.
Thank you, once again, for your patience! We can't wait for everyone to see these issues.
We have, at long last, received the final story for these two issues! That means we're very, very close to just about everything being done.
This also means we will (finally) be opening the pledge manager. We'll be sending out the smoke test tomorrow. If everything goes well, that means the pledge manager will be open by the end of the week. It will be open for a month, at which point it will close, orders will lock in, shipping will be charged, and you will (shortly thereafter) receive your physical rewards!
Digital rewards will go up sooner--as soon as we have everything for the final issue formatted correctly, in fact.
We very much appreciate everyone's patience. We know we're a few months behind schedule. It's never fun to hear "it was out of our control," but unfortunately, that was the case here. Now we're back on track, though, and very eager (and even happier!) to get these issues, and all the other rewards, out to you.
So, all of this is to say: keep an eye on your emails! That pledge manager will be in your inboxes shortly.
Once again: thank you all for your patience, and your support.
It's been a busy few months. We'll begin with the (slightly) bad news: we were planning on a January or February shipdate for our rewards. That was, it seems, a bit too ambitious. Some of our authors hit a few snags of their own, and long story short, their stories are delayed. On the way still, don't worry. But a bit slower than we originally planned.
Now the good news: we've every single piece of art ready, and every story ready except one. This means we have layout for our Arthurian special issue complete, and layout for our normal issue almost complete. The moment we get this last story, everything should progress very swiftly. We'll print all the issues, back issues, and assorted goodies, and send them to our fulfillment professional. Then, the Shippening shall commence.
We'll be printing proof copies of Issues 9 and 10 ASAP as well; once we have those ready, we'll be able to create the shipping tables, and open up the Pledge Manager. Which means you all will be able to get your digital rewards too!
Until all that happens (which should be relatively soon), we ask that you hang on for just a bit.
However, where there is good news, there is (occasionally) better news also! We've a full ToC reveal for you all today. Without further ado, here they are.
Issue 9 (the regular dark fantasy/sword and sorcery issue)
"The Mayfly Knight," by Sara Omer "The Pipe a Roaring Tiger," by J.S. Brewer "The Raven and the River Red," by K.H. Vaughan "The Horse that Pulls the Knacker's Cart" by Amelia Gorman "Obedient Flesh," by R.L. Summerling "How Does One Sow Peace?" by Zachary Olson "Ogre," by Mari Ness "Down and Out in the City of Graveyards," by John R. Fultz "By the Fountainside," by Robert Rhodes "The Barn," by John Langan
Issue 10 (the Arthurian special issue)
"Undying," by James Enge "A Toast to the Knights of the Trowly Wood," by R.K. Duncan "What the Water Gave," by E. Catherine Tobler "And He Swiped Off His Wife's Head," by Bryn Hammond "To Human Sucklings," by Matthew Holder "The Worms of Capua," by Francesco Meriano "Killer of Women," by Russell Hugh McConnell "The Vision of Galahad," by Jesse Graves "The Knight in the Mirror," by Daniel A. Rabuzzi "Lamentations of the Moon Priestess," by Silas Bischoff "Thought and Memory," by Marie Brennan "My Father's Body," by e rathke "Feathered Things that Lead Astray," by Mir Rainbird "Romans of an towart phantcy, sanz incipit et explicit," by Liam Q.D. Hall
And as a sneak peak at what the issues might look like, gaze below!
Once again, thank you all so very much for your support and (we hope!) for your patience. These are, we feel, the best issues of Old Moon yet. We cannot wait for you all to see them.
We have, as of this morning, received the money from the pledge manager and begun printing all of the physical rewards for this campaign. Once printed, they will ship to our fulfillment contractor, who will then mail them out to you!
We know it's taken longer than we wanted, and we appreciate the patience everyone has displayed. We can't wait for you all to receive your issues (and your other assorted goodies!) and finally be able to enjoy them.
What's Next?
We have a new project to announce: Seers in a Broken Season, a stone-age sword-and-sorcery (tusk and totems?) novella by the vaunted Jonathan Olfert! A story about the wandering mammoth warrior, Walks-Like-a-Rockslide, and his war against the whalers of a distant, icy shore. It is about 35,000 words long, it is already written and edited, and the cover art will be a full-color painting by Brian LeBlanc (who painted the beautiful cover for John R. Fultz's Worlds Beyond Worlds and Schuyler Hernstrom's The Eye of Sounnu, among others). The teaser page for the campaign is up here
Eat your heart out, L. Sprague
There will be some fun rewards for early backers, so sign up now and be ready when the campaign goes lives at the end of July! If you're unfamiliar with Jonathan's work, check out his previous stories featuring Walks-Like-a-Rockslide in Old Moon Quarterly volume 5, and volume 8. You can also find many of his lovely stories gracing the pages of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed (among other places) as well: here, for example. If you're a fan of Primal and its combination of heartfelt melancholy and extremely metal fight-scenes, or if you want a good tale that asks the question, "should I, a civilized mammoth, continue the cycle of violence? Yes, or no (but also maybe yes)?", or if you simply enjoy anything that looks like it belongs on the side of the coolest van in town back in the '70s, then you'll find a lot to love in Jonathan's work.
That's all for now. We're incredibly excited to have rewards shipping out; we're even more excited to have this novella by Jonathan ready and raring to go. See you all soon!
The epub and pdf editions of Old Moon 9 and 10 are available now. Please download and peruse at your leisure! And let us know what you think of them either here, or on our social media!
The other digital downloads for back issues will be live once we lock orders on the pledge manager this weekend, as well.
Thank you again for your support, and we hope you all love these stories as much as we do!
Just a reminder: our Pledge Manager will lock in 48 hours! That means by 4 PM EST on June 17, 2026, you will no longer be able to access it, and your orders will lock. Shortly thereafter, we will charge cards for shipping. Shortly after that, fulfillment itself will begin.
So, if you still haven't filled out your pledge manager, please do so as soon as possible!
The pledge manager is finally open! Please input your shipping info, purchase any add-ons you want, and so on and so forth. It will stay open until June 14th, at which point it will close, cards will be charged, and printing/shipping will begin.
Thank you, once again, for your patience! We can't wait for everyone to see these issues.
We have, at long last, received the final story for these two issues! That means we're very, very close to just about everything being done.
This also means we will (finally) be opening the pledge manager. We'll be sending out the smoke test tomorrow. If everything goes well, that means the pledge manager will be open by the end of the week. It will be open for a month, at which point it will close, orders will lock in, shipping will be charged, and you will (shortly thereafter) receive your physical rewards!
Digital rewards will go up sooner--as soon as we have everything for the final issue formatted correctly, in fact.
We very much appreciate everyone's patience. We know we're a few months behind schedule. It's never fun to hear "it was out of our control," but unfortunately, that was the case here. Now we're back on track, though, and very eager (and even happier!) to get these issues, and all the other rewards, out to you.
So, all of this is to say: keep an eye on your emails! That pledge manager will be in your inboxes shortly.
Once again: thank you all for your patience, and your support.
