Reminder that we 💕love💕 the $1, $2, $3 pledges - you get to check out these Ukrainian stories, and it keeps our project in the algorithms, getting seen! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds?ref=d9ycm3 #Ukraine #EmbroideredWorlds #bookstodon #WritingCommunity #GlobalArt #SciFi #Fantasy #SmallPress

Embroidered Worlds. Now on #Kickstarter. Thank you - *thank you* - for your support. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atthisarts/embroidered-worlds?ref=d9ycm3 #Ukraine #SFF #EmbroideredWorlds #SmallPress #Indie #bookstodon

Tons of books have been added to https://IndieStoryGeek.com recently-- there are over 5,000 indie books listed now, which makes it easily the largest collection of indie-only books I've ever heard about.

But if your favorite small press, self-published, or web serial story isn't there, it's easy to add them! And if you're looking for an indie book to fit your mood, we have a novel review system designed to help with exactly that.

#IndieBooks #IndieAuthors #SmallPress #SelfPublishing

ANOTHER LIFE has been out for three months!

Here’s the blog post that ran on @maryrobinette ‘s “My Favorite Bit” on release day.

#solarpunk #SmallPress #BookRelease #novella #ScienceFiction #SciFiBooks

https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-sarena-ulibarri-talks-about-another-life/

New blog post. Fun With Other Writers - The Shared World Experience. A few thoughts on this particular aspect of creative writing, plus news of an interesting project to come.
https://www.julietemckenna.com/?p=3558

#writing #WritingLife #WritingCommunity
#books #Bookstodon #SmallPress #SFF #Fantasy

Very excited to have an @atthisarts media page finally online! Get info and tips about our releases here! (And let your journalist contacts know...?) https://www.atthisarts.com/media/ #SmallPress #Indie #XPFic #SFF

#Smallpress #writingcareer Add to that list, the amorphous quality of “hustle.” Opportunities come and go, often very quickly. They may be doors that open because of hard work you have done, those that a mentor helps you open, those that an editor or publisher either opens for you or assists with, combinations thereof. Sometimes you’re just in exactly the right spot at the right time. The savvier you are about why that door opened and what you can do to get through it, the better.

#smallpress #writingcareer Added to that are more nebulous things like “being good to work with.” It is a small field, at least for sfnal work, so word does get around. I used to do contract archeology on construction sites and the way you found out about new opportunities was entirely by word of mouth. Piss enough people off and people were less inclined to be helpful until you gradually got shut out of gigs.

#smallpress #writingcareer Can you make the jump without all of this? Possibly. But that gets into “luck” and “good fortune,” which you have little control over. Again: this is about working your way upward so all of this is about the visibility and viability of your existing and previous work. Things that look like you’re stalled, such as long periods between books, no other publications over an extended period, etc. make it that much less likely that you will be “lucky.” Just saying.

Couple of quick thoughts on building your #writingcareer via the #smallpress, assuming the goal is use that as a stepping stone to the medium-sized/Big 4.5 presses - do you have the following: a consistent publication record that shows that you are leveling up? Award track record (this does have to be bigger and better known awards, alas)? Frequency of reviews/fannish attention that suggests a growing fan base? Reach (growing network and visibility)? At least one completed novel?

Been working hard inputting more titles to IndieStoryGeek.com and I'm about halfway through the current batch of #SPFBO books! By the time I'm done, Indie Story Geek will have nearly 5000 #SelfPublished #SmallPress and #WebSerial stories listed across a wide range of fiction genres, which is incredible.

I also recently realized that paperbacksandfrybread.com has a whole Indie section, so I've been adding those to Indie Story Geek too, linking back to their site for the buy link.

#IndieBooks

Proof copies of Deep Sky Anchor Press’s next three releases came! Truggster dutifully checks them for errors.

Proof-checker otter!

#books #book #publishing #indie #SmallPress #fiction #SciFi #fantasy #SpaceOpera #anthology #furry #FurryFiction

Today's #BooksAndCoffee is brought to you by a little day trip to Shrewsbury. I'm drinking an oat latte at #IronAndFireCoffee and reading Moon of the Crusted Snow, a slow-paced First Nations apocalyptic tale by #WaubgeshigRice.

What are you drinking and reading?
#booksbooksbooks #Bookstodon #apocalypticfiction #postapocalyptic #firstnations #firstnationspeople #smallpress #shrewsbury #shropshire

Double Announcement: a new fantasy novella & partnership between Deep Sky Anchor Press & Zooscape!

Learn more about my upcoming releases — “Queen Hazel and Beloved Beverly” and Zooscape, Volume One:

http://deepskyanchor.com/hazel-and-zoocape/

#book #publishing #SmallPress #indie #fantasy #FantasyBook #ShortStories

@bookstodon Fellow SFF readers, do you know Candlemark and Gleam? It’s a small publisher whose taste I have developed great respect for. Everything I’ve bought from them has been textured and interesting and characterful and just quality - above and beyond the mainstream bestseller fix. candlemarkandgleam.com #sf #fantasy #SFF #SmallPress

Fellow SFF readers, do you know Candlemark and Gleam? It’s a small publisher whose taste I have developed great respect for. Everything I’ve bought from them has been textured and interesting and characterful and just quality - above and beyond the mainstream bestseller fix. http://candlemarkandgleam.com #sf #fantasy #SFF #SmallPress #SmallBusiness

Made the best-feeling decision I've made in a while:

NO Amazon for me. NO "drm". NO ridiculous traditional contracts, and NO losing my creative control. I've done the numbers, gone back and forth, and frankly: the only benefit the "big guys" offer is the ability to do more of the shit I don't want to do, and to "reach" readers who aren't my people anyway, all while trying to corrupt my art for maximum cash. Deals with this devil are not worth it, for me anyway

#indie #smallpress #writing #ftw

Indie press Influx have a 50% off summer sale til 21st July: https://www.influxpress.com/sale

#bookstodon #smallpress

My chapbook arrived home today! I am so honored to have this book published through a small press and living in this world where a bumble bee has already visited it in the garden. 🙏🏻

https://bottlecap.press/products/leaking

#SmallPress #BookBirthday #poetry #chapbook

If you're in the DC area...

https://www.smallpressexpo.com/

(went once, I highly recommend)

#DMV #VA #MD #SPX #Comics #SmallPress #GraphicNovels