Hope you're having a happy Pride! if you want to get some queer books and support indie creators during pride month, our Year 5 campaign for 8 new Space Wizard books is running now. This is also the 5th anniversary of Space Wizard, and my 10 year anniversary of publishing. Lots going on this month!
Space Wizard Year 5 is already funded, and we're working hard toward our first stretch goal, which is to get a cover for the upcoming Quirk & Moth omnibus, which will collect the first three books and two short stories, one of which has not yet been published!
We've also recently introduced our Tea With Books, matching unique tea flavors with a Space Wizard book. Our first one is a Lesbians in Space tea!
Lesbians in Space tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, flavored black tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using standard kitchen ingredients to brew a complex, themed tea evoking the orange, white, and pink of the lesbian flag!
Foggy Iramont tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, flavored Earl Grey black tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using some easy-to-find ingredients and frothed milk. Goes with the newly released Tea Tale by Kristina W. Kelly. It's a recipe in the book!
Snowshroom Spice tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, Pu'erh tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using some extra spice and goodies to create a tasty, nutty pairing for an afternoon of reading! Goes with the newly released Tea Tale by Kristina W. Kelly. It's a recipe in the book!
Fruits of the Gods tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, decaf, Rooibos tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with all four godfruit (dried) to create a fruity, complex pairing for an afternoon of reading! Goes with the novel Fruits of the Gods by William C. Tracy!
Kuhifadi Magic tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf herbal tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with an amazing herbal kawakawa tea from New Zealand with a mix of extra spices to make this one really magical! Goes with the anthology The World of Juno, produced by Daniel Eavenson!
Fire tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, decaf, cinnamon-flavored Rooibos tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with instructions on how to prepare both hot and iced versions! Goes with the novel Mothball Magic by Rena Rocford!
Ice tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, apple-flavored green tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with instructions on how to prepare both hot and iced versions! Goes with the novel Mothball Magic by Rena Rocford!
Here's a list of all the books in the campaign:
Lucianus, by C.J. Beshara- An ancient wizard, reincarnated into a new body, learns how the world has changed since his catastrophic death, and why his new traveling companion is interested in him!
Aliens in New Florida, by Carmen Loup, author of the Audacity Omnibus (and in the same universe) - A road trip across post-apocalyptic Florida with prophesy, an attractive reptilian alien, psychedelics, omniscient aliens (and humans), and a quest for the fabled Kingdom!
Gunmaker, by Chris Gerrib, in the same universe as his previous Space Wizard book One of Our Spaceships is Missing - A murder by gunshot on the indentured mining colony of Eros, a place where guns are not allowed, sparks an investigation into the corruption of the colony owners!
Romance and the Gentle Art of Rocket Racing, by Rena Rocford, author of the recently released Mothball Magic - A rocket-racing rogue must help her secret half-brother, the king of his colony, to woo the woman of his dreams, through silk, intrigue, and fast ships!
Pressure Magic - book 3 of William C. Tracy's Shifting Lands fantasy series. Silluka has survived the invasion of Chimor, but she, her brother Ichu, her girlfriend Cosquella, and Lugopo, the eldritch octopus, find themselves stuck on a strange island with a master craftsman!
Promise of Manifest, by Alex Kingsley - Find out what happens in the conclusion of The Bastion Cycle, in a world of post apocalyptic giant crabs and human scavengers! This is the third book, following Empress of Dust (the 2025 Small Spec Book award winner for Science Fiction)and Relic of Haven!
Queen and Obsidian, by J.S. Fields, a duology of science fiction space opera stories. It begins with Queen, where an intersex woman is trapped on a barely hospitable planet of women, only to learn their meager living area is further threatened. This is followed up by Obsidian, which follows the events of the first book!
To top it off, this campaign is running in The Book Bazaar Summer Bonanza, with 11 new projects, brought to you by indie creators. If you back 5 of the campaigns or more, you get a sticker sheet with all the covers!
Our new campaign just launched! If you want to hear Mary Robinette Kowal narrate your favorite stories from (potentially both) anthologies, you can help us make it a reality!
We also have another chance for you to get the Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back fancy hardback, but we've got limited amounts, so get yours quick!
You may have seen this surprise elsewhere already (and may have already seen it if you backed the first campaign), but I'm thrilled to announce Space Wizard is working with Mary Robinette Kowal, who has a story in Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, to narrate the audiobook!
Mary Robinette has recorded dozens of great audiobooks (many of which I've listened to), along with recording fiction for authors such as Seanan McGuire, Cory Doctorow, and John Scalzi.
We were lucky enough that she has time later this year to record the anthology, including her own story, so even if you've read the text version, this will be a narration you won't want to miss!
You'll have a chance to get the audiobook, eBook, or paperback versions, or all three, plus any of our existing Space Wizard catalog! Our base goal is to fund the narration for the first anthology, Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, but depending on how much funding we get, we do have our second anthology ready, Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back!
Today is the official release day for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! I hope you've enjoyed being the first to read it, and if you liked it, there's a very easy way to make sure other people find and enjoy it as well.
I'd be very grateful if you left a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. It doesn't need to be long, and it can just be a rating if you don't have much to say. But that extra proof of readership will help convince others to read these stories as well.
I sent out a lot of packages this week, and they're wending their way toward you, if they haven't already arrived! This has been a whirlwind campaign, but my goal was to finish it up before the end of the year.
I still have a few unanswered surveys and 3 failed credit cards, so I'll keep an eye on those over the next few weeks before I close this campaign out.
For now, if you've read either of these books, please leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads! I think these anthologies are some of the best lesbian fiction around, and I'd love more reviews from readers to really help get the word out!
You can review Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before on Amazon Goodreads or any other reviewer space you'd like!
You can review Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back on Goodreads And I'll be back when it releases on Amazon on December 30th to give you that link too!
I have one more question for you, in the attached poll. What about an audiobook? They take a lot of money to produce, but I'm thinking of running a crowdfunding campaign to turn both anthologies (if possible) into audio format. What do you think of this? This campaign had almost 400 backers, and I calculate we'd need at least 200 of you to fund an audiobook. Fill out the poll below and let me know if that's something you want to see!
I'll be back once the book officially releases with the Amazon review link!
Doyle and Verne say to please leave a review of Lesbians in Space!
