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Stelliform Press

Readers are loving Lynn Hutchinson Lee's ORIGINS OF DESIRE IN ORCHID FENS, a lyrical feminist revenge eco-horror novella. Check out this amazing review from Nerdhorror.com and if you'd like to review the book, it's still available on Netgalley for a few more days, and for a bit longer on Book Sirens.

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Nerd HorrorWetlands, Witch Girls, and Whispered Revenge: Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens Is a Haunting Folk-Horror Masterpiece — Nerd HorrorIf you’ve ever walked into a swamp and felt like something was watching you—really watching you—Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens will reach into your chest and squeeze. Published by the reliably radical Stelliform Press, this novella is a gut-punch of atmospheric folk horror, d
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Stelliform Press

ICYMI, Dragonfly.eco posted a wonderful interview with R.A. Busby about her horror novella YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD. It's striking how right from the start (pictured in the graphic) Mary Woodbury refers to this novella as "beautiful" and focuses on the positive and even tender aspects of a novella that is actually body horror. I love the complexity of this book.

Find the interview here: dragonfly.eco/r-a-busby-spotli

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Stelliform Press

Where we are, a cold and rainy fall is settling in finally: the perfect time for more spooky books!

If you are a fan of body horror, or want horror that disgusts and disturbs while maintaining strange tenderness, check out this unique read! R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD came out Oct 10 and is available everywhere books are sold.

Big thanks to Kelsea Yu for her kind words!

On a backdrop of a dark forest with mushrooms growing, the cover of R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD alongside a blurb from Kelsea Yu: “Visceral, emotional, and horrifying in its realism, You Will Speak for the Dead is the kind of creepy that makes you want to peel off your own skin. Between Busby’s captivating voice, smart prose, and skill in weaving grief with body horror, this is a novella you won’t want to miss!” — Kelsea Yu, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet
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Stelliform Press

Happy Book Birthday to R.A. Busby, who wrote this utterly unique beautiful and gross thing that we are very proud to publish. Pick up your copy just in time for spooky season!

Because of our new distribution situation, the print version of this book isn't available in Canada for a couple more months, unless you order directly from us. It is available digitally, though, and in print outside of Canada. Complicated, yeah.

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Stelliform Press

A new eco-horror novella from body horror master R.A. Busby is out soon! We are infinitely grateful Joe Koch has these words to say about it: "With its surprisingly happy ending, I'm a little worried that the book is a hoarder's fantasy and that I've been unwittingly converted. Excuse me while I grab the disinfectant."

Busby’s grotesque & beautiful novella is coming soon! Order for: that delicious dirty feeling, surprising tenderness, ballsack tentacles. #ecohorror #horror #books #bookstodon

"R.A. Busby's You Will Speak For The Dead transcends spore horror and body horror, though both abound, torturing the reader with infectious dread. Protagonist Paul moves through the worst of both to confront the question of how much we're willing to give up of ourselves to experience connection, if the outermost parameters of grief are this very yearning for loss of self, and if anything is ever truly lost. With its surprisingly happy ending, I'm a little worried that the book is a hoarder's fantasy and that I've been unwittingly converted. Excuse me while I grab the disinfectant."Joe Koch, author of THE WINGSPAN OF SEVERED HANDS and INVAGINIES. R.A. Busby’s grotesque and beautiful novella is coming soon! Order for: that delicious dirty feeling, surprising tenderness, ballsack tentacles
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Ariel Kroon

The finalized schedule for Can*Con is out & I'm VERY excited! Sat am, I'll be a panelist for "Oceans and Coastlines of the Near Future" with Cathy Hird & Mark Robinson & modded by Clare Wall, then I'll mod the Sat pm panel "Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Post-Apocalypse" with Tiffany Morris, Suzan Palumbo, & Waubgeshig
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Hope to see you there!

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Solarpunk Presents Podcast

6.2: Publishing Eco Horror & Solarpunk with Selena Middleton of Stelliform Press

This week on Solarpunk Presents Podcast, Ariel chats with Selena Middleton, Publisher and Editor of Stelliform Press, all about publishing eco-fiction. What is eco-horror, and how does it relate to solarpunk fiction? What are the hallmarks of a good solarpunk story, according to Selena? How does history fit into visions of the future, and what does character have to do with it? Join us as we discuss all this and more.

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PS: Check the video description for links to the books we talk about. I haven't been including links in these toots because they tend to take the place of the link that I want to highlight, but clicking through will easily get you there. Enjoy the episode!

#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk #Ecofiction #Ecohorror #publishing #genre #SF #ScienceFiction @StelliformPress #StelliformPress #CanadianSF #AmReading #AmWriting #SolarpunkStorytelling #SolarpunkStories #SolarpunkFiction

YouTube6.2: Publishing Eco Horror & Solarpunk with Selena Middleton of Stelliform PressBy Solarpunk Presents
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Shantell Powell

Want to attend the virtual launch party for Bitter Become the Fields? It's an anthology of floral and fungal horror, and my love story about a ghost and a tree is one of the stories.

Here's the link to register for the virtual launch party on August 18th at 1pm CT: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

#LaunchParty #Anthology #AuthorsOfMastodon @indigenousauthors #EcoHorror #EcoFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Horror

Illustrated book cover with colorful mushrooms and intertwined arms. Text: “‘Bitter Become the Fields’ Virtual Launch Party!” August 18th, 1-2 PM CT on Zoom.
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Shantell Powell

Bitter Become the Fields, a horror anthology I have been published in, has had its official release. Copies are available here. hornsandrattlespress.com/produ #horror #GhostStories #EcoFiction #EcoHorror #SpeculativeFiction #IndigenousCreatives @indigenousauthors #anthology #bookstodon

HORNS & RATTLES PRESSBitter Become the Fields: A Horror Anthology (Release Date 07/27/2024) | HORNS & RATTLES PRESSThe editors who brought you Fish Gather to Listen present an all-new collection of short horror stories with the common themes of flora and fungi.They grow and tangle.They bloom and decay.They pierce and poison.With a variety of flash, micro, and short fiction, this collection ranges from witches’ brews to choking molds. From acorns to moss to sunflowers to spores.What lies dormant below the grass? In the unplowed fields? Deep in the woods?
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Stelliform Press

It's another Acquisition Announcement Monday! As a small press editor there is nothing like the thrill of discovering a brand new author in the slush, especially when the book blows you away with its style and originality. I read so much of this manuscript with my mouth hanging open or with a grin of surprise and delight. Can't wait to share this weird fantasy/horror novella with you in 2026!

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report for Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE. Caleb Sierra's THE WETWORKS MIRACLE, a weird horror novella in which a grisly accident makes a young boy an unwitting speaker for a vast sentient lifeform and the planet's only resource, to Selena Middleton at Stelliform Press, in a nice deal, for publication in fall 2026 (world English).
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Stelliform Press

IT'S COVER REVEAL TIME! Many of you submitted fun guesses, but no one guessed the animal on the cover of this book. The closest guess, taxinomically, was @wreggitt's "rat."

R.A. Busby's forthcoming novella YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD features an itty bitty baby hedgehog. His name is Jack Sharpnails and he looks at all of us with some scepticism.

YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD is now available for preorder on our website: stelliform.press/index.php/pro

Cover Reveal for R.A. Busby's YOU WILL SPEAK FOR THE DEAD. The cover is a pink filligreed teacup with a hedgehog on it, set on a dark and mouldy background. There is steam wafting up from the cup over the title text.
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