Since today marks the halfway point of the campaign, I figured I'd share some big news.
First off, a massive thank you to everyone who has helped us reach over $3500! At this rate, there's no question whether we'll get funded, only how far that we can go!
To continue, some fantastic news: a lower quote on our physical edition means that our "Physical Edition" stretch goal has been lowered, from $10,000 to $7500!
"But wait?" you're surely asking. "What about the Foreword from C.T. Kelly, aka Cryptotheism?"
Rather than a funding stretch goal, the Foreword will now be unlocked at 200 backers!
At our current backer count of 143, that leaves only 57 backers until we meet the 200 backer goal, so share this with anyone you know who might want to back!
With news out of the way, that only leaves our third Author Spotlight! Today we'll be introducing four authors: T.T. Madden, A.J. Malachite, Zeb L. West, and Mason Hawthorne!
T.T. Madden (they/them) is a genderfluid, mixed-race author of The Familialists and The Cosmic Color who refuses to keep "politics" out of their writing. Their work in scifi, fantasy, and horror often deals with the intersections of their various identities. They have upcoming books with Timber Ghost Press, Game Over Books, Slashic Horror Press, and Little Ghost Books. They can be found on social media as @ttmaddenwrites.
A.J. Malachite is a trans man who writes queer horror and dark science fiction/fantasy. His work will be featured in the upcoming anthology Midnight Menagerie. He has worked in front of house management for live performance for eight years. In both his writing and his career in the theatre industry, he strives to promote storytelling as a means of individual and community healing.
Zeb L. West is a writer and game designer, living in Berkeley, California. He holds a degree from San Francisco State in Theatre Arts, and graduated from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. West writes professionally for video games, most recently Towerborne by Stoic (makers of the BAFTA-nominated Banner Saga), and has recently started publishing short fiction. "Cuddlething" is deeply inspired by his wife’s 2023 stroke and disability, exploring the changes in our bodies, and our shared wish to transcend these fragile forms together.
Mason Hawthorne lives on the beautiful south coast of NSW, and studied creative writing and literature at the University of Wollongong, and in his spare time enjoys rock climbing, hiking, and long, meandering landscape descriptions. You can find him exploring mountaintops enveloped in clouds, searching rock pools for venomous octopi, or rock-hopping through the subtropical rainforest. Mason has stories in Midnight Echo Magazine, Unspeakable: a Queer Gothic Anthology, The Monsters we Forgot Anthology and Kaleidoscope: A Queer Anthology 2023. Find him on Bluesky & Tumblr at @masonhawthorne.
