Kickstarter project and a Fae book bundle

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a new Kickstarter: Barkson’s Journey. It’s the newest book in her Fay series.

In Barkson’s Journey, Lucinda Barkson sets out on a trip to save an entire family. She travels across a continent and encounters unrest and magic, evildoers and people with surprising skills.

It’s almost a standalone novel. Rusch explains:

[Y]ou will enjoy it if you read it first, but better to read The Kirilli Matter (which you can get in this Kickstarter). You don’t have to read the entire first Fey saga at all…unless you want to.

12 days left. It’s already funded and reached the first stretch goal so backers will get an additional ebook Flower Fairies. The rewards include two workshops: How to Create and Use Fantasy Maps and How to Create Great Fantasy Main Characters.

Storybundle has a wonderful new bundle: The Fantastic Fae Bundle: Curated by Anthea Sharp: Top fantasy authors bring you a dozen books, each one filled with otherwordly magic. Which portal will you open first? They all lead to adventure, but beware the bargains of the fae…

The bestselling authors in this StoryBundle are known for their deft use of traditional faerie lore. Don’t expect twinkles and sweetness here! Instead, you’ll encounter the treacherous and lovely denizens of the Realm of Faerie, in all their guises. Whether it’s a mortal stolen into the Faerie courts, or a half-blood changeling struggling to live in the human world, fae magic imbues each of these books with perilous magic.

21 days left.

Humblebundle has Shogun the Asian saga bundle.

Lose yourself in the stirring fiction of James Clavell with this audiobook bundle, sure to whisk you away to lands of conflict, power, and transformation. Shogun, the masterpiece of historical fiction from which the hit FX TV drama was adapted, transports you to feudal Japan, where intrigue, strategy, and a clash of cultures unfold through the eyes of an English navigator. King Rat, set in a WWII POW camp, reveals the resilience of the human spirit amidst despair and deprivation. Pay what you want for this collection of rousing audiobooks—8 titles in all—and help support First Book with your purchase.

5 days left.

 

SF novellas at Kickstarter

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a new Kickstarter project: Six Science Fiction Novellas.

The novellas are: The End of the World, G-Men, September at Wall and Broad, Recovering Apollo 8, The Tower, and The Gallery of His Dreams.

“When I write, I tell myself stories. I never know how long the story will run. I only know that the story will tell me its length, just like it’ll tell me what to focus on. I slip into the story, just like a reader does, and come out only when the story ends.

Some stories run long and become novels or novel series. Some stories are so short they only take a few pages. Then there are the novellas. Not a novel, not a short story, but in between.

Long enough to let the reader settle in and experience the world, short enough to read in one sitting if the reader so chooses.

These six books are novellas, but mostly, they’re set in a world that is not ours. It might seem like ours at first glance, but it’s not. It’s different, and the difference is, in my opinion, what makes the story fun.“

I’ve read three of the novellas and enjoyed them a lot. The project has rewards where you can get Rusch’s SF series and also two very interesting workshops for writers: How to market science fiction novellas and Power up you storytelling to keep readers reading (all through your novella).

Seven days to go. It’s already funded and reached two stretch goals so backers will get two SF novellettes for free.

 

ZNB Kickstarter

Zombies Need Brains has a new Kickstarter project for ZNB Presents Year Three.

It’s for funding the third year of the ZNB magazine. Unfortunately, it seems that the project is going to fail so the magazine must be shut down.

Seven days to go and only a third of the goal has been reached. The rewards include entire fantasy trilogies so please check it out and support, if you can.

 

Twilight Zone meets Twin Peaks short story collections at Kickstarter

Dean Wesley Smith has a new Kickstarter project for his Bryant Street short story collections.

“Bryant Street is where The Twilight Zone lives 

Bryant Street, a standard subdivision street outside of any city. Well-kept lawns, paint and roofs up to HOA standards, two- or three-car garages. Everything looks to any casual observer perfect and normal. 

But inside those perfect-looking homes, the residents seem just a little off. A little twisted or confused or a half-turn out of reality. 

Normal exists on other subdivision streets, but never on Bryant Street.“

Seven days to go. It’s already funded and reached two stretch goals, so backers will get Smith’s short story collection Alien Vibrations and the first issue of Smith’s monthly. For writers, the pledges have two very interesting workshops: How to Put Twists in Your Stories and How to Write Dark, Real-World Fantasy.

 

Zombies Need Brains Year Three Kickstarter

Zombies Need Brains has a new Kickstarter project for ZNB Presents Year Three:

This project will help fund the third year of science fiction and fantasy short stories for an online magazine called ZNB PRESENTS. The online magazine is currently being run at the Zombies Need Brains Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zombiesneedbrains) and includes two all-original (no reprint) short stories each month published on the 1st and 15th, each with its own accompanying illustration. Patreon patrons get to read the short stories as they are released. Backers of this Kickstarter will receive an ebook or trade paperback of the compilation anthology containing all 24 stories along with all 24 illustrations at the end of the full run of the third year, July 1st, 2025. Authors include: Gini Koch & Bebe Bayliss, Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin, and Harry Turtledove.

25 days to go.

 

A superhero comic at Kickstarter

Like Father Like Daughter, a superhero origin story by Kat Camalia

A father with superpowers, leaves his wife and daughter to become “Invulnerable” – the world’s only superhero. Ten years later, his daughter discovers that she has inherited the very superpowers that made her father leave their family. 

Invulnerable isn’t the only person keeping secrets! Casey’s mom has been a villain this whole entire time as a lifelong KGB agent. But is being a villain or hero as black and white as we paint them out to be? 

This sounds like a lot of fun.

16 days to go. It’s already funded.

 

Romance short story collections at Kickstarter

Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch have a new Kickstarter: Hearts Collide: 100 Strange Romance Short Stories.

Now, for the first time, Kris and Dean are collecting 100 of their strange romance short stories together into a five-volume set called HEARTS COLLIDE. Twenty stories per volume. 

And when Kris and Dean call these “Strange Romances,” they mean just that. When they commit romance, it tends to be in just about any genre and on any topic, but always with that underlying feel of a romance.

It’s already funded and reached the first stretch goal. The rewards include previous Collide anthologies, Kristine Grayson’s romance books, and two writing workshops: How to write with emotion in all genres, and A deep look at romance team structure and how to use it in any genre.

7 days to go.

 

A mystery book Kickstarter

Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a new Kickstarter project: Never Before Seen. It’s a book of six of her mysteries which haven’t been published before.

5 days to go. It’s already funded and the first stretch goal is another ebook Secrets&Lies that is a collection with ten Rusch mystery stories. The pledge rewards have more mystery and thriller books from Rusch. The stretch goals have more Rusch books and lectures for writing mystery stories.

 

WMG Holiday Spectacular 2023!

Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have a Kickstarter project for WMG Holiday Spectacular 2023.

“Starting on American Thanksgiving, November 23rd, and running through New Year’s Day, January 1st, you get a holiday story in your inbox.”

This is a wonderful way to celebrate the holidays and I’ve enjoyed the stories for the last five years. The project has three new workshops for writers.

14 days to go. It’s already funded and reached the first stretch goal.

 

Rusch’s new Kickstarter and Trilogies on Storybundle

Storybundle has a huge SF&F bundle: The Trilogies Bundle, curated by Lavie Tidhar.

The basic bundle has five first books in a trilogy: Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard, the Elifin ship by James P. Blaylock, Rupert Wong, the Cannibal Chef bu Cassandra Khaw, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, and the Bookman by Lavie Tidhar.

But the whole bundle has 27 books! Not just the of the five trilogies but also the Complete Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurly, The Complete Machine Dynasty by Madeline Ashby, the Axiom trilogy by Tim Pratt, and the Tao Trilogy by Wesley Chu.

17 days to go.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is doing a Kickstarter project for her new Diving Universe novel Ivory Trees.

It’s already funded and reached the first stretch goal, so everyone who supported with $5 more, will get a bonus book, Rocket Girls.

It has two very interesting workshops for us writers: one is Technobabble and communications in Science Fiction and the other is Murders, robberies and other crimes in Science Fiction. The rewards have wonderful Diving merchandise but only for US.

The further stretch goals also have fun writing classes.

Ten days to go.