At long last, the audiobook of Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before is ready!
The digital download should be going out today, so watch your inbox! The full audiobook also includes the bonus story "Deep Space California" by Heather Tracy, funded by our first stretch goal!
This is my first time using BackerKit's Digital Download feature, so your link should go straight to a page where you can download a zip file of all the audio. Just unzip and use any media player to enjoy! Let me know if there are any issues with getting your audiobook.
I'll also be busy uploading the audiobook to places like Audible, Chirp, Audiobooks.com, and more. So while you get your copy first, make sure to tell your friends and family to get theirs as well, once it's available!
If you want to make certain you get the next audiobook before anyone else does as well, then you're just in time for our next campaign, where Mary Robinette Kowal will once again step into the recording booth to record Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! It starts September 10, and you can CLICK HERE to make sure you get alerted when it starts!
Thanks for being patient as we work out all the kinks with our first audiobook campaign!
If you want more physical or eBooks, then get ready for our Year 5 Part 2 campaign, starting October 29th! I'll start posting author interviews in early September, so you can get a glimpse at what goes into these books!
I'll be back with more exciting news soon, along with maybe even a new, spicy direction for Space Wizard! Stay tuned!
No, I don't have the full audiobook of Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before yet. This is due to a number of factors, including Mary Robinette's travel schedule in June and July, getting the last pickups recorded, and Mary Robinette having to get emergencysurgery just recently (but thankfully, she seems to be recovering well).
All this means, we are looking for (hopefully) a late August release of the full audiobook.
Now, to tide you all over, what I DO have is some of the completed stories! The amazing audio engineer, Lucien, is working hard to finalize all the files where we don't need to do any last pickups, and I wanted to share a selection of the stories with you directly, so you can experience how great they are!
As an apology for the lateness, I'm making these stories available to all backers, whether you got the audiobook or not: I've set up a DropBox download for you >>> right here <<< Just enter the password "SpaceLesbians26" when prompted and you'll have access to these stories:
I hope you enjoy! And if you do, maybe check out our next campaign, where Mary Robinette Kowal has agreed once again to record Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! It starts September 10, and you can CLICK HERE to make sure you get alerted when it starts!
Thanks for being patient, and I'll send the full audiobooks out as soon as they're complete!
It's about a month past when I thought I'd have the audiobook of Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before to you, and I apologize! Between Mary Robinette's busy travel schedule in June, getting the last pickups done, and post processing the audio, things got delayed a little, but I expect the final literally any day now, and I'll be sending it out to you as soon as I have it!
In the meantime, Mary Robinette Kowal has agreed to record, Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! Our new campaign is part of Printopia this year, starting September 10, and you can CLICK HERE to follow and make sure you get alerted when it starts!
Dead in the Water - book 2 of Athena Giles' Children of Sea and Sky fantasy series, starting with Waves Take Your Bones!
Tide Tale - book 3 of Kristina W. Kelly's Tales of Trelvania. Continue the wildly popular cozy fantasy series, including Tavern Tale and Tea Tale!
Anything But Ordinary - book 2 in Heather Tracy's These Dreams, with a new standalone story (but with some of the same characters) as her first book, Only a Chapter!
The Venus Vendetta, by Robin C.M. Duncan.Come back to the Quirk & Moth near sci-fi detective series, including The Mandroid Murders, The Carborundum Conundrum, and The Rigel Redemption, with Book 4!
Bond of Wildflowers by Connor Lane. Enter a cozy YA fantasy where all is not as it seems between the fae world and ours!
Purgatory Rift - book 3 of the Call of the Void series, by A.Z. Rozkillis, starting with Space Station X and Fractal Termiunus. A group of survivors is stuck in a seemingly endless loop of horrors just on the other side of the rift, and must plot a way to escape. Return to more lesbian comedy horror!
Battle Tested - book 2 of E.J. Isaacs' The Unforgiving Stars series. If you like Star Trek and Babylon 5, you'll love this series! Book 3 will be coming too. Stay tuned!
CLICK HERE to follow the page for author interviews before it starts!
I'll send audiobooks to you as soon as I have them!
Mary Robinette has finished up recording the audio for Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before! There's one final recording session planned on June 11th to finish up the extra short story from Heather Tracy, and soon after we'll be ready to distribute it to all you lovely people. My hope is to have it to you by the end of June.
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!
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!
And if you got some Tea With Books in the audiobook campaign, we've added two more flavors:
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!
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!
I'm getting the digital rewards out today! In fact, you'll probably get an email shortly after this if you got any eBooks from the Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before audiobook campaign.
The next step after this is to mail out the physical rewards! There are a few books, and a lot of keychains, pins, and stickers. Then there's our Tea with Books! I'll be getting most of that packed up hopefully this weekend to mail out to you all. The conventions in April wiped out a lot of my inventory (a good thing!) so I've got an order in for new books. A couple orders will have to wait until I restock, but I have most of what I need.
The next BIG step is that Mary Robinette will start recording next week! The recording process should be done by the end of May, and we should be able to get you the final product mid June.
Heather also finished up her bonus story, and I think you'll really like this one! Mary Robinette is going to record that too, and we're planning to include it in the final audiobook! Everyone gets an eBook copy of that as well, and I'll hopefully send that out this weekend.
