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April 5th – If you’re in the Denver area, be sure and go hear Alex Acks read from Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures at the Colorado Book Award Finalist reading at BookBar, starting at 7PM.

April 11-15th – ClexaCon in Las Vegas, Nevada. We’ll have a table in the Dealer’s Room and in addition to our books, we’ll have some titles from Blind Eye Books and some of Rachel Gold‘s titles. Rachel and our fab marketing person, author Theresa Tyree will be helping publisher Catherine Lundoff out with our table.

April 25th-28th – UntitledTown Book and Author Festival in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Catherine will be giving a reading and a short talk at the U. of Wisconsin Green Bay Pride Center at noon on Friday, will be on an author panel on Saturday morning and and will be doing a presentation on small press publishing on Saturday afternoon. She’ll also have a table with some Queen of Swords Press titles at Book Fair. Stop by and say hi if you’re in the area!

And be sure and sign up for our newsletter this month! We’ll do a quarterly prize drawing for a free ebook as well as doing some special announcements.

Congratulations to author Alex Acks whose book Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures is a 2019 Colorado Book Awards Finalist! Watch this site for news or sign up for our newsletter.

Murder‘s sequel, Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures, is up for preorder now and will be out in a couple of weeks! Print preorder will be available soon too.

We’re working on Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks right now and are planning on an midApril release date. Stay tuned for the cover reveal and preorder links!

Selected titles are on sale at Smashwords from 3/3-3/10, including Silver Moon and Out of This World by Catherine Lundoff and Medusa’s Touch, Knife’s Edge and Desire by Emily L. Byrne.

Our publisher, Catherine Lundoff, will be doing a talk on keeping a small press going at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 3/21 from 6:30-7:45. This is a continuation from her previous talk about getting started and there’ll be time for Q&A as well as books for sale.

Look for us at ClexaCon (Las Vegas) and UntitledTown Bookfest (Green Bay) in April and Wordplay (Minneapolis) and WisCon (Madison) in May!

And we’re having a party at Bingley’s Tea Salon in Minneapolis on Saturday , 1/19, from 2-4PM with books and tea and munchies. There will also be a prize drawing for newsletter subscribers. You can sign up here at the website or at the tea (current subscribers are automatically entered), and prizes will include free books, a Queen of Swords Press mug, some tea from Bingley’s, a literary candle from Frostbeard Studios and other fun stuff. The drawing will happen on 1/20 so we can announce it when we send the newsletter out. Hope to see some of you there!

Have you checked out the Queen of Swords Press YouTube channel yet? We just posted a new video! The latest one features the book release party for Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) at DreamHaven Books, with readings and Q&A by Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam. Our videographer got stuck in traffic so it starts a few minutes into the event, FYI.

Be sure to also check out Alex Acks’s video recording of a reading from Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures and our playlist, which includes a talk by Catherine about starting a small press and a reading by Catherine from Out of This World at Wordbrew 6.

We will once again be participating in the Smashwords Holiday Sale from 12/25-1/1/18 so be sure and check out page for deals on many of our books. Desire by Emily L. Byrne will also be on additional markdowns from 12/26-12/30 for the I Heart Lesfic Mega Sale.

And we turn 2 years old in January! There’ll be an online celebration as well as a local one. Bingley’s Tea Studio in Minneapolis will be hosting our local gathering on 1/19/19 from 2-4PM. Check out the event link for more info and hope to see some of you there!

Publishers Weekly says that Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) is: “This anthology is a delightful cross-section of pirate tales, representing a diverse array of sexualities and nationalities, and shining a spotlight on tales that don’t fit common preconceived notions of pirate lore. It will appeal to fans of daring speculative fiction.” Along with other nice things!

Desire by Emily L. Byrne made Erotica for the Big Brain’s Best of 2018 list!

Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks got a nice shoutout on The Illustrated Page (which also praised Alex’s Angry Robot series).

Award nominations:

• Murder on the Titania is a nominee for the Colorado Book Awards, the Bisexual Book Awards and the IPPY Awards.
• Medusa’s Touch is nominee for the Rainbow Awards, the Goldie Awards and the IPPY Awards.
• Several stories from Scourge of the Seas and “The Flying Turk” from Murder on the Titania are all on the SFWA Recommended Reading List for Nebula, Hugo and other award consideration. Here’s hoping!

Several Queen of Swords Press titles will be on sale for the annual Smashwords end of year sale (12/25-/12/31). Stay tuned!

Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) will be out on 12/1 – check out the Scourge page for details, formats and new reviews!

December events, we have them! Or more specifically, we’ll be selling books at the following:

• 12/1: Books and Beer Pop-up Store at AZ Gallery, St. Paul, 1-6PM.  Books and art and gifts and other fun things!
• 12.5: DreamHaven Books and Comics, Minneapolis, 6:30-7:45PM. Book release reading for Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space), featuring author Michael Merriam and editor Catherine Lundoff.
• 12/8: MN Women’s Art Festival, Minneapolis, 9:30-4:30PM. We’ll be sharing a table with book artist, Jana Pullman.
• 12/13: Eat My Words Bookstore, Minneapolis, 7-8PM. Reading from Scourge by Michael Merriam and Catherine Lundoff.
• 12/15: The L Spot Queer Author Holiday Book Sale and Fundraiser, Minneapolis, 4-9PM. We’ll have a table at this fun fundraiser for Reclaim and Avenues for Youth.
• Throughout December: Women & Words Hootenanny, online. Giveaways, blog posts, all the fun!

Check out videos of Alex Acks reading from Murder on the Titania and Other Stories, Catherine Lundoff reading from Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories at Wordbrew 6 in Minneapolis and Catherine’s talk at DreamHaven Books about starting a small press. Please like and subscribe if you enjoy them!

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Alex also has bonus content on their blog! Check out “Sniff, Sniff Adventure!,” a companion story to Alex’s “The Curious Case of Miss Clementine Nimowitz and Her Exceedingly Tiny Dog” from Murder on the Titania.

Scourge of the Seas of time (and Space), our forthcoming fantastical pirate stories anthology, is up for preorder. Right now, it’s just preorder for the ebook editions, but print is coming soon! Scourge will be releasing on 12/1/18 and we’ll be having a release party at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 12/5. Scourge will be available at our other December events as well – stay tuned!

We’re looking at adding a YouTube channel soon so you can watch short videos of our authors readings and other related content. More on this soon (and sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss a thing).

Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks is a Bisexual Book Awards nominee! It’s also an IPPY (independent publisher’s award) nominee, along with Medusa’s Touch by Emily L. Byrne (different categories). Medusa’s Touch is also a Goldie Awards nominee. Here’s hoping for good award news this year!