Hello!

Thank you for your patience. Getting married in late September then honeymooning for most of October was wonderful, if VERY DISTRACTING from the business of books.

Normally I would have liked to have sent out this update sooner but a combination of matrimony and waiting for book-related details from multiple parties made that impossible.

So yes, BLUE FIRE has been delayed but only by a few weeks. Due to a mishap of some sort, the printer originally only produced about 85% of our order and so naturally we asked that they take the time to print the rest of it. Thus we should get the books in to our warehouse for approximately November 24th and fulfillment will begin as soon after that as possible. When we have a more precise schedule, we'll do another update to share it with you.

Meanwhile the combined BLUE FIRE / NESS 2026 survey is being set-up, a little slowed down by some key Backerkit staff being on vacation, and by the fact that combined surveys are a kind of custom job that Backerkit does for us, bless their cotton socks.  It'll be worth the wait, however, for what it saves people on shipping.

My hope is that the survey will go out later next week, and we'll be quite loud about it when that happens!

Meanwhile, Brackenbury Books is proud to be crowdfunding reprints of a different classic character - the collected stories of Charles R. Saunders' DOSSOUYE!  

Charles was the first African-American author of Sword & Sorcery, writing a version of it rooted in African cultures, history, and myths - which he called SWORD & SOUL.

He died in 2020 and his works swiftly went out of print, at risk of being lost forever!

But, working with his estate, we are trying to reprint all of the stories starring his queer warrior woman character DOSSOUYE in two books: one collecting all the short stories, the other a novel.

You can learn more on the crowdfund page at the link below. Please consider backing this and telling a friend about it!

Keep your sword sharp and your sorcery numinous,