Category: Publishing News

Publication Announcement + Cover Reveal: “Utopian Scholastic”, Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope

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Here’s some exciting news about a project I’ve been at work on the past year! About a year ago, Archer Kay Leah, a fellow former-Less Than Three Press author, reached out to me to ask about contributing to a charity anthology for LGBTQ+ causes in the face of how BAD everything is right now for everyone. I thought that sounded like a lovely idea and lent not only a story but some developmental edits for my fellow contributors.

Today, I’m happy to share the cover and title for that anthology: Can’t Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope.

Cover art for Can't Hold Us Down: Tales of Defiance & Hope. White text depicting the title and the words "A Charity Anthology of LGBTQA+ LOVE & COURAGE" is displayed over a dark geometric background with spots of brighter color. At the bottom of the cover is a row of small character portraits.
Designed by Ashborne Stardust Editing and Design

 

My story contribution, “Utopian Scholastic”, is a sapphic post-post-apocalyptic slice-of-life about a socialist commune trying to build on the ruins of a fallen United States while weighing the value of 90s Kid nostalgia in that project.

The anthology is scheduled to release October 30, 2026, however, I unfortunately don’t have landing or pre-order pages available at the moment. It is planned for wide distribution and both print and ebook publication. I’m expecting to have more specifics on all that very, very soon. You can check back here on my front page or the story’s page on my site for updates.

I will also soon have more details on the specific charities that will benefit from the sales of the anthology. The decision was made to avoid committing to any particulars early on due to queer charities coming under increased scrutiny basically everywhere, and uncertainty around which ones would still be active to receive donations by the time of the anthology’s publication. I expect to get word on which beneficiaries have been finalized soon.

Sorry for the sparseness of details so close to publication! I did want to hold off on announcing my role in the project until it at least had a cover (and because I was so busy editing that I forgot anyway -_-), but I should have plenty more to say about it in the next week! Keep an eye here!

Purchase Now: Lesbians in Space! Featuring “Astral Lace”

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The cover art for Lesbian in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before. Two astronauts in space suits hold each other in front of a pink and purple cosmic backdrop.I’m a few days behind on posting this (whoops!), but before Pride Month wraps up I want to let you all know that Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before is now available for purchase, and it features my short story “Astral Lace” among a bounty of other sapphic shorts! It looks like the physical print is already out of stock for the time being, but you can still grab the ebook for digital reading!

Happy Pride, here on Earth and among the stars!

Coming Soon: Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, “Astral Lace”

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I have some very exciting publication news! My short story “Astral Lace” will be included in the sci-fi anthology Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before, published by Space Wizard Science Fantasy. The anthology will release on June 24, 2025, and both the ebook and paperback versions are currently available for preorder. I’ve created a landing page for “Astral Lace” here on my site with all the relevant links, but to save you the clicks:

Ebook preorder || Paperbook preorder

The cover art for Lesbian in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before. Two astronauts in space suits hold each other in front of a pink and purple cosmic backdrop.

And here’s a short summary of “Astral Lace”:

Midge is a scavenger who plunders asteroid fields for astral lace, the byproduct of celestial dragons, looking for a big bounty that can get her out of the scrapping game and into a more stable planet-side life. But after landing on the haul of a lifetime, she discovers that she isn’t the only one scraping to get by in the cold, uncaring reaches of space.

To the surprise of no one, I took a science fiction assignment and made it about dragons. All the same, this story was a great opportunity for me to stretch my creative wings in a genre direction I don’t normally explore, and I’m so excited to have had this opportunity to work with the Space Wizard crew and to sit alongside these other amazing contributors in this anthology. And I’m excited most of all to be making and publishing loud and proud queer fiction in these far too interesting times.

 

An update on my Less Than Three Press titles

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Sad publication news here today: as some of you may have heard already, Less Than Three Press is closing its doors after ten years of publishing queer romance. It’s tragic to see this treasure trove of great queer romances go away, and, of course, this will also have an impact on my stories that were published through them.

The rights to For All the Gold in the Vault and A Study of Fiber and Demons have been reverted to me effective July 13, 2019, but Less Than Three Press will still be working to de-list books through July 31, so you may have a chance to grab them off vendors like Amazon or Kobo before the end of the month (no guarantees, though). However, once my novellas are removed from the LT3 site and third party vendors, they will be out of print, at least temporarily.

I would like to keep these works in print, of course. They don’t bring in much revenue for me, but they were both a lot of fun to write and I’m especially proud of A Study of Fiber and Demons, which is not yet even 2 years in print. LT3 was generous enough to grant me continued use of the covers and the master files for both these novellas, but in order to put these back in print, I will still need to consider the matter of distribution. I’m checking in with my agent now to get some feedback from her about how to move forward with that, but I’m not opposed to self-publishing them if that’s the best option available. I’m hoping that I will have a plan put together for how to ensure these novellas remain available sometime before I leave for WorldCon. I’ll update again here once I have a more solid plan in place, but if you are worried about not having a chance to grab these titles any time soon, they are still up for purchase on the LT3 site as of this posting.

In the meantime, thank you to Less Than Three Press for all the great work you’ve done over the past 10 years. Your contributions to queer romance will be greatly missed.