Hi Folks!
It's been a minute since my last update, and even though the world is crazy right now, we're chugging along with getting your books to you!
Heather Tracy's book,...
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William C. Tracy
2 months ago
Shipping update and Year 4 announcement!
Hi Folks!
I just received copies of The Slayer's Magic with its new cover, and brand new copies of The Traveler's Magic, so I'll be shipping out those books this week!
Th...
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William C. Tracy
3 months ago
Shipping update and new covers!
Hi Folks,
We're closing in on the end of Space Wizard Year 3! Only four more books are releasing before we have a new campaign for Year 4, coming in June. There's already an...
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William C. Tracy
4 months ago
Tavern Tale is shipping out, plus anthology news!
Hi Folks,
I just took several packages to the post office to fulfil orders for the release of Kristina W. Kelly's Tavern Tale! If you haven't seen the cover yet, this was dr...
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William C. Tracy
5 months ago
All 2024 shipping is done!
Hello folks!
I realized I haven't put out an update in a while. November was a month!
At any rate, I just took about a billion packages to the post office, so if the books ...
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William C. Tracy
7 months ago
Physical Magic has arrived!
Hi Folks,
I just wanted to share a quick update. I got my advance copies of Physical Magic yesterday and they look fantastic! I was able to work with a local author and artist,...
It's been a minute since my last update, and even though the world is crazy right now, we're chugging along with getting your books to you!
Heather Tracy's book, Only a Chapter, was released on April 22nd, and we've got shipments of books in!
How to Operate Your Body, my nonfiction book, is done with copy edits and I'm just waiting on the final paperback cover to order copies for the May 20th release.
The 6th book in J.S. Fields' Ardulum series, Ardulum: MIrrors of Andal is just about to go to copy edits, and is scheduled to release June 10th!
I'm hoping to get copies of all three of these by the end of May, so I can ship them and any other books out and complete this campaign, just in time for the next one!
The three covers for Only a Chapter, How to Operate Your Body, and Ardulum: Mirrors of Andal
Speaking of, If you want to get a head start on the great books in the Year 4 campaign, sign up right here to get notified as soon as we go live on May 29th! We're doing things a little different this year, and dividing the campaign into two halves, one in June and one in November. That way, all the books from the first campaign will be delivered by the end of 2025, and all the books in the second campaign by June 2026.
Isaac - a woman develops a relationship with her deceased father's care-bot, from Allee Mead. (You can see this cover in the banner below!)
Waves Take Your Bones - The first in a trilogy where a young asexual woman and a gay man get drafted into a medieval naval fleet to fight zombies (and zombie pirates), by Athena Giles
It's You, Isn't It? - A colony world is overrun by indigenous creatures, but maybe there's more to the story? By Antony Paschos
Crying Out For Magic - It's like Heartstopper, but with magic! Two young men find each other through connected universes, one of which is ours and the other has failing magic, by PSC Willis
Intent Magic - The second book in William C. Tracy's new progression fantasy series, featuring martial arts-based magic, and fast moving continents in a world controlled by the gods!
Relic of Haven - Return to a world of post apocalyptic giant crabs and human scavengers with the sequel to Empress of Dust, by Alex Kingsley!
A New Beginning - An intrepid crew strikes out to explore space in Edward Isaacs' debut novel!
The second seven books in the Year 4 NOVEMBER campaign are:
The Dragonscale Comb, sequel to The Rosewood Penny- The much awaited continuation of the romantasy by J.S. Fields!
Corruption - A bisexual young man must discover the secret of magic disappearing, in a land with fiery seas, from Alexander Verbeek!
Divine Tale - Kristina Kelly's next story in the popular cozy fantasy romance with D&D elements!
The Healer's Magic - The conclusion of C.J. Hosack's epic YA adventure, about an adopted young woman who searches for her parents in a world where magic is dictated by bloodline!
Fractal Terminus - Even more lesbian horror/comedy in space? It's getting even weirder in AZ Rozkillis' next scifi tale!
Talio Rossa and the Elixir of Life - More epic fantasy in a city of canals and holy magic, with a M/M relationship, the sequel to last year's Talio's Codex, from J. Alexander Cohen.
Mothball Magic - It's the Golden Girls meets the Dresden Files! Four geriatric people must stop the Queen of Winter from taking over the world, in Rena Rocford's debut novel!
We're going to be filling up our Launch Party with some great stuff starting in the next week or so, like author interviews, fun facts about the campaign, polls, and maybe some pictures of our bees! So don't wait to sign up!
I just received copies of The Slayer's Magic with its new cover, and brand new copies of The Traveler's Magic, so I'll be shipping out those books this week!
The covers for The Slayer's Magic and The Traveler's Magic side by side. Both feature a backdrop of a giant library. The Slayer's Magic features a male and female silhouette sneaking while The Traveler's Magic features a great tree with a sword in a rock beneath it, and several mice gnawing at a branch from the tree.
That means we only have three more books left in the Space Wizard Year 3 roster to release!
First is Heather Tracy's book, Only a Chapter, which I showed off last update. Copy edits are going on now, and it will be released on April 22!
Only a Chapter, by Heather Tracy. The title is at the top, and against a stylized rendition of the bi pride flag, a woman with red hair and green eyes, wearing a breast cancer awareness pin, has her body turned to a faceless male figure in a tux on the right, while her eyes go to a faceless female figure in a tux on the left. The author name is at the bottom.
Second is the new version of How to Operate Your Body, my nonfiction book. I released "The Legs" last year, and after writing on "The Arms" this year, I decided it would be better to roll everything into one full book so there wouldn't be any overlap between them, especially as a lot of the exercises use your whole body. So I'm updating the cover a little to match! This one will be released mid to late May.
The words "How to Operate Your Body" contain stick figures acting out the first letter of each word. The book background is a red color against lines reminiscent of muscle fibers.
The last book released for Space Wizard Year 3 will be the 6th book in J.S. Fields' Ardulum series! This latest one is titled Ardulum: MIrrors of Andal and will be releasing in June during our Year 4 campaign!
Behind the title, a scarlet-colored space ship sits on a planet. The image is divided by a gold stipe of energy. on the left side the planet is lush with plantlife. On the right, it is a barren wasteland. The ship straddles both sides of the planet.
Speaking of our next campaign, I spent most of January and February working on developmental edits, and I'm very much looking forward to this next selection of books. Take a gander at what books are in store below or right here, and if you want to make sure to get all the latest updates (and author interviews as we start them up in April and May) then click the link below to be notified!
That's all for now! I'll have some updates next time about our second campaign coming this year!
We're closing in on the end of Space Wizard Year 3! Only four more books are releasing before we have a new campaign for Year 4, coming in June. There's already an amazing lineup of books for this, and I'm starting to get some cover images already, so stay tuned for that in a later update!
I just shipped out a bunch of books, and the next set will go out around when C.J. Hosack's The Traveler's Magic releases in March. Then there's Heather Tracy's book, Only a Chapter, coming to you in April, my nonfiction, How to Operate Your Body, in May, and we're capping the year off with J.S. Fields' new Ardulum book, now titled Mirrors of Andal!
For now, I've got three covers to show off. The first is Station in the Sky, by Caye March, which just shipped out! This book combines Caye Marsh's first story, Peace in the Sky, along with the all-new Station in the Sky, which follows the events of the first book.
Station in the Sky, by Caye Marsh. Against a purple sunset, a white space station at the top of the cover hovers over the title, which in turn is over a domed city in a wasteland, holding the only trees. Below that is the author's name.
Second, we've actually got a twofer for you. We have a new cover for C.J. Hosack's The Traveler's Magic, and Katie Cordy did such a good job with it, we had her make a new cover for The Slayer's Magic as well to match!
The Slayer's Magic and The Traveler's Magic, both by C.J. Hosack. On the left cover, a male and female silhouette sneak in front of compressing bookshelves inset into an outline of a vast library. On the right cover, the same outline of the library is in the background, but in the foreground is a great tree with a sword in a rock beneath it, and several mice gnawing at a branch from the tree.
Finally, I'm excited to show off Heather's new book, coming out in April! Only a Chapter is a sci-fi-lite romance with parallel realities and a bisexual protagonist!
Only a Chapter, by Heather Tracy. The title is at the top, and against a stylized rendition of the bi pride flag, a woman with red hair and green eyes, wearing a breast cancer awareness pin, has her body turned to a faceless male figure in a tux on the right, while her eyes go to a faceless female figure in a tux on the left. The author name is at the bottom.
If you're read any Space Wizard books and enjoyed them, I'd love it if you left a review on Goodreads, Amazon, or any other storefront. That really helps get the attention of new readers.
Finally, are you going to WorldCon in Seattle this year? If you have a voting membership, then you can suggest books for the Hugo award! Space Wizard has a lot of opportunities by some excellent authors. You can find a list of eligible works right here!
That's it for now, but I'll be back next month with more updates!
I just took several packages to the post office to fulfil orders for the release of Kristina W. Kelly's Tavern Tale! If you haven't seen the cover yet, this was drawn by the amazing Serene Chia, who also did the cover for Physical Magic. The lettering was done by Audrey Logsdon, another local artist I met through vendor markets.
Tavern Tale has been getting some great reception as always, and for this book, and any of the others from Space Wizard, if you've read and enjoyed them, putting a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or any other review site really helps the books get noticed!
Next month we'll see the release of Caye Marsh's Station in the Sky, the follow-up to last year's Peace in the Sky. This new version not only includes the new book, but includes Peace in the Sky as well, for your reading pleasure!
Finally, I have some amazing news connected to the second campaign I ran in 2024, for Lesbians in Space, the anthology.
Our final entrant count for submissions was 54 stories, and a total of almost 234,000 words! To put this in perspective, we raised enough money during the campaign to pay authors for about 20 stories or around 80,000 words...
That means we got enough stories to fill almost three anthologies!
Finally, we made the decision to have not one, but two anthologies! That means Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before will be releasing in June 2025, but we are also preparing a new campaign later in 2025 to raise funds for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back! This is along with Space Wizard's Year 4 campaign, still currently slated for June 2025, so be sure to watch for announcement for both campaigns!
That's it for now. I'll be back with more news next month!
I realized I haven't put out an update in a while. November was a month!
At any rate, I just took about a billion packages to the post office, so if the books you got from the campaign are released with Foxfire in the Snow, Ocean of Fireflies, or the two RPGs, they're coming your way! In addition, if you got the Space Wizard Year 3 subscription, then the first half of the books are shipping out to you. This includes Talio's Codex, Space Station X, Fiery Deeps, Empress of Dust, Physical Magic, Foxfire in the Snow, and Ocean of Fireflies. The second half will be shipping when the last book of the year releases, likely June 2025.
That's a lot of books!
In addition, I've released 4 new books since November 26, so I've been busy! I don't think I've showed the covers for the two RPGs, so here are all four books side by side! I got a chance to run a game of Spells of the Symphony at the BackerKit booth at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia last weekend, which was lots of fun. One of the players bought a copy while we were playing!
Foxfire in the Snow, Ocean of Fireflies, and the two RPGs, Spells of the Symphony, and Creatures of Ruin
I get a week or two to rest, and then the first book of 2025, Tavern Tale, will be coming out. I hope you all have an excellent end of the year and holiday season, and I'll be back next year with more goodies.
If you are around the Raleigh/Durham, NC area this weekend, come out to Oddville at The Fruit in Durham this Saturday the 14th for lots of strange and unique goods, starting at 6pm. I'll have all my books there as well!
