Hello, gentles all. We’re welcoming in 2025 at Quills and Cosmos Press, and we’d like to welcome you as well. Lots of exciting things on the horizon this year!
We have our first release, The Ice Moves for No One, by Arlo Z. Graves, coming out May 20, 2025. This book is so amazing, and can be sold entirely by saying:
“lesbian selkie warrior wants to be a sky viking.”
Isn’t that brilliant? As the editor, I’ve read this book upwards of 8 times at this point, and I still love it. And Zven is working on Book 2 as we speak, and I’m itching to get my hands on it. Fun fantasy, action, coming of age story that manages to get under your skin in all the best ways.
And we’ll be sending out ARCs for this in the coming months, so if you’re interested in reading and giving us an honest review, leave us a comment! And ebook preorders are LIVE!
In other news, at the very very end of 2024, we signed our second author! Molly Haniszewski has joined the Quills and Cosmos universe, with an amazing fairy tale retelling of Grimm’s Snow-white, Rose-red. (Not to be confused with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.) This beautiful story with the working title Of Oak, Of Holly is a mashup of myths and legends, plus a heaping help of LGBTQ+ characters! Following the story of Rowan as she tries to save her sister from the Oak King’s forest, this gorgeous book is definitely something to look forward to, and will be published in Fall 2025.
With all that loveliness, are we really greedy enough to ask for more?
Yes, yes we are.
Our submissions will open back up on January 13, 2025, and we can’t wait to read all the wonderful stories that you have waiting for us.
In the spirit of Manuscript Wish List, here’s somethings we’d love to see:
· Sci-fi! We’ve gotten very few sci-fi stories, and would love to see more. Fantasy is still requested, but we’d like to round out our list with a couple SF stories too! Send us your space operas, your dystopian worlds, or your first encounters; we want it all!
· Still no horror.
· Still no YA at this time.
· A reminder: we publish novels by women, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other minorities in the sci-fi and fantasy spaces.
Read here for our full submission guidelines! Since we’re running about 9 months from contract signing to production, you could still have your book published THIS YEAR! We aim to give first responses within two months, but usually closer to one. Send us your darlings; we love to read them.
And last thing to note: We’ve updated our newsletter system! Now you can sign up for the General subscriber list (purely about our books and authors), our Booksellers/Librarians list (those who’d like to stock Q&C books), and our Writers list (for those who are interested in submission windows and the like.) So if you’ve signed up before, you can update your subscriptions, and if you’re new here, sign up for as many as you’re interested in!
That’s all from us for now. We hope your new year goes better than you expect, and you receive all the good things you deserve.
Cheers!
Meagan
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