I'm sure some of you have seen that our Year 4, Part 2 campaign is running for more queer science fiction and fantasy books! Well, did you know there are four sequels to books in the Year 3 campaign included?
If you've read and enjoyed any or all of these books, come preorder your copies of the sequels!
First up: Fractal Terminus by A.Z. Rozkillis. If you want to find out what happens (vague spoiler warning) on the other side then come read about Jax and Saunders' multiple possible futures!
Second: Looking for more cozy D&D adventure? Try out Kristina W. Kelly's next adventure, Tea Tale, with Saph and Divine in the wider world of Trelvania! There may be sentient plants and fungi involved...
Third: It's the Finale for C.J. Hosack's Beads of Bone Trilogy! The series wraps up with The Healer's Magic, so come find out what Ryn learns about her magic and ancestry, and whether Zo survives the mysterious ailment from the end of the second book!
Fourth, but by no means least (we just don't have the final cover yet), come get your copy of J. Alexander Cohen's followup to Talio's Codex, in Talio Rossa and the Elixir of Life! There will be more amazing courtroom drama, but also an investigation into a strange growth on Palzi's neck, and the fate of magic, once thought to be completely eradicated!
The copies of Ardulum: Mirrors of Andal have arrived, all ebooks have been sent out, and I've just packed up the last rewards from Year 3! There are two individual backer's rewards that will be combined with the Lesbians in Space Hardcovers coming soon, but this means Year 3 is coming to a close. It's been wild ride, and one of our most complex years, including publishing our new RPGs. Thanks again to everyone who supported us!
Over the next week, I'll begin locking down all the orders and marking them as shipped. If you feel like you're missing anything from the Year 3 campaign, please let me know!
If you want more Space Wizard books, We're keeping busy, especially as we're running three new crowdfunding campaigns this year. Make sure to check out the one running now and until June 26th, for Space Wizard Science Fantasy Year 4, part 1! This is for the next seven books coming from Space Wizard this year, and we're already almost 200% funded! We're changing it up a bit to get you your rewards sooner and make it a little easier to get a subscription for all the books.
Here's the list of books in Part 1:
Isaac - a woman develops a relationship with her deceased father's care-bot, from Allee Mead.
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 - Following Earth's surprising victory over an alien species that has dominated the galaxy, an intrepid crew strikes out to explore alien space in Edward Isaacs' debut novel!
Our next campaign, running in September with BackerKit's Printopia, will be for Lesbians in Space: The Sapphics Strike Back, the sequel to our very popular anthology from last year! You can sign up to get notified for it right here. I'm already working with Serene Chia again on the new cover!
Finally, our Space Wizard Year 2 Part 2 will start in November, for another 7 books releasing between December 2025 and June 2026, and you can sign up for that one right here!
Here's the books coming in Part 2:
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-van den Toren!
Tea 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!
Did you know you can run your own crowdfunding campaign with me? For Year 4 Part 2, I'm with a group book collaboration called The Book Bazaar. We're an indie-run publishing based group collaboration crowdfunding event featuring many Booktopia 2024 participants as well as a slew of debut authors, returning authors, artists, and so much more.
We are currently taking applications for campaigns that want to participate until July of 2025. So, if you have a project you want to include as part of a group crowdfunding event, this is your opportunity to get in on a smaller sized event, make some great indie connections, and help get your publishing project funded! For details and the application form, take a look at The Book Bazaar on BackerKit or The Book Bazaar website.
That's all for now!
- William Tracy
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I just put in the order for the last book of Space Wizard Year 3, Ardulum: Mirrors of Andal! As soon as I get copies, which will hopefully be the first or second week in June, I'll be mailing out the LAST REWARDS from this campaign!
That means I will also be closing the Pledge Manager, so if you are one of the 8 backers who haven't filled out your survey or reconciled a failed credit card, this will lock you out from any further changes.
However, just as one door closes, someone opens a window (or something like that)! In this case, Space Wizard Year 4 is starting TOMORROW May 29th at 1 PM EST! If you want even more queer goodness, please check out the new campaign! We're doing things a little different this year and dividing the campaign into two halves, one in June and one in November. What this means is if you get the Space Wizard subscription, you'll get all your books by the end of 2025, rather than having to wait a full year. Then you can get the next 6 months of books in November!
We've got some great books this year, and as an added bonus, if you back the campaign in the first 48 hours (so before 1 PM on May 31st), you'll also get a free audiobook of one of 9 Space Wizard stories!
Here's the full list, and you can be one of the first backers!
Books coming in year 4 PART 1, June 2025:
Isaac - a woman develops a relationship with her deceased father's care-bot, from Allee Mead.
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 - Following Earth's surprising victory over an alien species that has dominated the galaxy, an intrepid crew strikes out to explore alien space in E.J. Isaacs' debut novel!
So please check out Space Wizard Year 4! You are the people who keep our small press going, and help uplift marginalized and queer voices in science fiction and fantasy literature!
I'll have one last update when I send the final books out!
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!
