It’s Pride StoryBundle time again! Or at least it will be on Monday, June 3rd. The Bundle will be on sale though the 24th. We’ll be raising money for Rainbow Railroad again this year (donate part of your purchase price at the $20 level and get bonus books too!) and the line-up of authors and books is pretty amazing.

Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) edited by Catherine Lundoff

Sea, Swallow Me by Craig Laurance Gidney

Underdogs by Geonn Cannon

Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction edited by Bogi Takács

In the bonus bundle:

The Eagle’s Heir by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold

Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks

Skin Deep Magic by Craig Laurance Gidney

Beware of Wolf: An Underdogs Novel by Geonn Cannon

Glittership Year 2 edited by Keffy Kehrli

Spectred Isle by KJ Charles

 

Other upcoming events:

4th Street Fantasy (possibly on programming, but mostly hanging out and having fun)

Outwrite 2019 – Catherine will be doing a reading and appearing on the panel “Hidden Histories.” More updates coming soon!

WisCon is coming up later on this week and we’ll be there, with proverbial bells on!

WisCon schedule, all Sunday events:
10-11:15AM – “So You Want to be a Publisher” – Conference Room 3. Presentation by Catherine Lundoff
4-5:15PM – “Book Marketing for Authors” Capitol A. Panel with Cecilia Isaac and Catherine Lundoff
8:00-1AM Queen of Swords Press Party, Room 627. Meet Alex Acks and Catherine Lundoff and other fun folks, drink tea, eat munchies, book drawing, games, all that fun stuff!

We’ll have a couple of books in the I Heart Lesfic Megasale, coming up on 5/27-5/31. Stay tuned!

And Wireless and Scourge of the Seas will be included in the Pride StoryBundle, available June 3rd and on sale though the 24th. We’ll be raising money for Rainbow Railroad again this year and the line-up of authors and books is pretty amazing.

Finally, last but certainly not least, we’re going to be releasing a collection of Cinrak stories by A.J. Fitzwater in 2020! Cinrak is the dapper lesbian capybara pirate featured in A.J.’s story “The Search for the Heart of the Ocean” in Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space).

We’ll also open to queries on June 1 so be sure and check our Submissions page.

 

And we’re doing a giveaway on Queer Sci-Fi! Comment to be entered to win!

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!