Space Wizard Science Fantasy Books: 12 books and 2 RPGs coming in Year 3!

Hi folks!
We're officially at $14,000, which means all the authors for the Fiery Deeps anthology this year get full pro rates for their writing!

We have one more day to get to our second stretch goal at 15,000, which is to add 5 new illustrations to the anthology, just like in the previous three anthologies. We've got 29 hours left, so please let anyone know who might be interested!

The goal after that is at $18,000. I'd love to make that one too, but that's going to be a big effort. But this goal is hugely important to our small press, as it's helping to pay our new copy editor, Courtney Brooks, and taking the financial stress so we can focus on publishing more great books! I'd love to hit this one if we can!

To celebrate hitting our first stretch goal, here are the full covers for J.S. Fields' new duology, Foxfire in the Snow and Oceans of Fireflies. They are about a nonbinary person in a society just changing over from magic to alchemy and science. It's a great read and J.S. Fields is a fantastic writer. I'd encourage you to back both books!

Let's push this over the top in the last day!

Wow! There's been quite a flurry of activity today, and thanks so much to all our backers for helping to make Space Wizard Year 3 a reality! We are fully funded!

We've got a week of the campaign left, and I'm confident we can hit at least a couple of the stretch goals in that time...

But for now, here's a fun video to celebrate both the $10,000 milestone and for the campaign funding as a whole!

I'm joined by Courtney Brooks, our new copy editor, and my fellow teacher and karateka. We'll give you a taste of what we do in karate class, as well as how some of this influenced my writing How To Operate Your Body. Remember, you can pick up the first and the second book in this series in this campaign!




I'll have some new covers to show off next time, so keep sharing and let others know we have some cool stretch goals coming!

William Tracy

We had a lot of great movement over the weekend, and blasted through the $10,000 milestone! I'll have the martial arts video to you hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning (my fellow practitioners had a beach trip already planned over the weekend).

In the meantime, here's the link to the stretching routine from the first How To Operate Your Body book. It's a great way to destress after a long workday (or a monthlong crowdfunding campaign...)





One more exciting piece of news! We have the preliminary cover for Space Station X! There was a lot of goings-on the background to make sure this cover hit right, and we originally wanted to have it a couple weeks ago, but I think this version really captures the feel of the book! This isn't the final, and there will be a few more small changes, but it's almost complete!



Next update, I'll have even more covers for you: the final versions of Foxfire in the Snow, and Oceans of Fireflies, and I hope to also show off the cover for my new book, Physical Magic, before the end of the campaign!

Lots going on in these last days, so please keep sharing with friends and family, and let's take this over the finish line!

William Tracy

Hi Folks!

Thanks so much everyone for the past few days, and hello to the new backers! We're getting so close to the finding goal, so please keep sharing with everyone you know who wants more queer books!

We've also got another funding goal coming up: At $10,000, I'm going to show off some martial arts skills with our new copy editor, Courtney Brooks! Both of us are black belts in Wado-Ryu Karate. We're going to film some different things: maybe a few katas, some sparring, and I'll also share the stretching routing I put together for my nonfiction book last year, How To Operate Your Body. The next one is included in this campaign, focusing on the arms, so if you get tight shoulders from working on the computer too much like I do, pick up a copy!

I've also got another recommendation for you. If you live with an artist or creator, or you are one yourself, Check out Sandra Tayler's campaign for Structuring Life to Support Creativity. I've attended her workshops before, and I'm very much looking forward to the book (I backed it the first day)! See the campaign here!


That's it for now! I'll see you at $10,000!

William

Hi folks!

We're over $7500 tonight, and that means backers get an extra video of how I process honey from my beehives. You have to be a backer to see it!

We're also part of BackerKit's Pride 2024 drive! There are some amazing projects (including mine) so let's get as many funded as possible!

The poll for the Lesbians in Space! t-shirt is pretty definite on the navy blue color, so that's the one we'll go with! If you've been waiting on the results, now's a great time to go in and choose the t-shirt as an addon!



Last (but not least!) I also have another book project for you to check out! Paula Sheridan, who does a lot of great marketing support for indie authors, is running her first campaign for a book based on the true story of an African man who lived most of his life without an official identity in apartheid Africa. He happened to live with Paula for many years, so this is a story near and dear to her heart. Check it out here!




And now, to see the honey harvesting video, you'll need to click through below (where it says "Reply to this Update" or "Follow this Project") to see it!
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