Common Bonds 3 will not be made. There is no back up plan. If we cannot gather the funds to cover for expenses, then we will release our authors from their contract and put this project on ice. Backers won’t be charged, rewards won’t be delivered.

The anthology contains 18 short stories and poems of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. All of them have an aromantic MC and centre platonic bonds. The anthology comes up at a total of 80,000 words, which will be around 390 pages (this is ~80 more than our previous Common Bonds anthologies).

No, not this one. Common Bonds 3 already has a full lineup built from our submission pile from Common Bonds 2.

No, being aromantic wasn’t a requirement to submit. We have encouraged people to let us know, however, and we’ve ensured that a significant portion of our stories would be from aromantic writers. Our entire editorial team is also aromantic (and so is our cover artist!).

Yes. :] We absolutely want to make a Common Bonds 4, but that is a Future Project with an undetermined date.

We need help to cover the costs of publishing the anthology and believe in the strength of our community. Crowdfunding is a unique way to build together.

Every Common Bonds anthology has crowdfunded with a goal to pay authors US$ 0.06 per word (and we have so far always made it to the first stretch goal of US$ 0.08 per word). We firmly believe in paying our authors well for their work, and this is especially true with an anthology like Common Bonds, dedicated to a marginalized community. This is what it costs to build the anthology, from author compensation, interior and cover art, printing the crowdfunding’s copy, as well as an array of administrative costs (BackerKit fees, payment fees, etc.).

When we crowdfunded Common Bonds 2, we had a Chronicles of Nerezia bundle containing novellas book 1 through 5. This means we expect a lot of returning backers to already own part of the novellas, and we wanted them to be able to pick the rest of the series! Hence two bundles, 1-5 and 6-9.

Common Bonds has always been a community project. We would not be here without aromantic readers and authors, and it made sense to us to reach out to others in our network with books we knew would please our aromantic anthology’s audience. Every author participating receives a $1 cut of the bundle sale because we want to give back to them, too, and with more than exposure. Sometimes it's good to make the rising tide that lifts all very concrete.

All of Common Bonds’ finances operate from Canada, and as such the funds received will be in Canadian dollars. However, we have found that marketing in Canadian dollars regularly causes confusion (for example, the prices get mistaken for US dollars and look higher than they are) and that the world at large is more used to converting to and from US dollars. We have chosen to give estimated US dollar values to facilitate everyone’s decision making.

Canadian dollars. US dollars are exclusively there as a guide and are an estimate based on current conversion. You will be charged according to the Canadian dollars and BackerKit should give you the value in your own currency.

We are expecting to send Common Bonds 3 to backers before the end of the year! Other digital rewards from book bundles will be sent before the end of August 2026.

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