As of today, all of the assorted bits and bobs are with our fulfillment professional, Sara. She will start mailing everything out ASAP. There was a slight delay with some of the pieces, but it's all fixed now.
Additionally, our new campaign for Jonathan Olfert's stone-and-sorcery novella, Seers in a Broken Season, begins tomorrow! To whit, we present the first look at the lovely cover art, hand-painted by the mighty Brian LeBlanc!
Mammoth versus mammoth!
As mentioned above, the campaign for Jonathan's novella goes live tomorrow. You can sign up for it here: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/old-moon-publishing/seers-in-a-broken-season-a-stone-and-sorcery-novella/pre-launch
Backers at the physical tier in the first 48 hours will receive an exclusive bookmark. All backers at the physical tier will receive a bookplate sticker, signed by the author. We have a few other surprises in store as well! In addition, the book itself is already written, edited, and laid out. That means once we're funded, production can begin almost immediately. We're quite confident the book will be in your hands by the end of the year, if not beforehand.
Well, that's all for now.
Thank you again, dear backers, for all your support!
We have, as of this morning, received the money from the pledge manager and begun printing all of the physical rewards for this campaign. Once printed, they will ship to our fulfillment contractor, who will then mail them out to you!
We know it's taken longer than we wanted, and we appreciate the patience everyone has displayed. We can't wait for you all to receive your issues (and your other assorted goodies!) and finally be able to enjoy them.
What's Next?
We have a new project to announce: Seers in a Broken Season, a stone-age sword-and-sorcery (tusk and totems?) novella by the vaunted Jonathan Olfert! A story about the wandering mammoth warrior, Walks-Like-a-Rockslide, and his war against the whalers of a distant, icy shore. It is about 35,000 words long, it is already written and edited, and the cover art will be a full-color painting by Brian LeBlanc (who painted the beautiful cover for John R. Fultz's Worlds Beyond Worlds and Schuyler Hernstrom's The Eye of Sounnu, among others). The teaser page for the campaign is up here
Eat your heart out, L. Sprague
There will be some fun rewards for early backers, so sign up now and be ready when the campaign goes lives at the end of July! If you're unfamiliar with Jonathan's work, check out his previous stories featuring Walks-Like-a-Rockslide in Old Moon Quarterly volume 5, and volume 8. You can also find many of his lovely stories gracing the pages of Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Lightspeed (among other places) as well: here, for example. If you're a fan of Primal and its combination of heartfelt melancholy and extremely metal fight-scenes, or if you want a good tale that asks the question, "should I, a civilized mammoth, continue the cycle of violence? Yes, or no (but also maybe yes)?", or if you simply enjoy anything that looks like it belongs on the side of the coolest van in town back in the '70s, then you'll find a lot to love in Jonathan's work.
That's all for now. We're incredibly excited to have rewards shipping out; we're even more excited to have this novella by Jonathan ready and raring to go. See you all soon!
Just a reminder: our Pledge Manager will lock in 48 hours! That means by 4 PM EST on June 17, 2026, you will no longer be able to access it, and your orders will lock. Shortly thereafter, we will charge cards for shipping. Shortly after that, fulfillment itself will begin.
So, if you still haven't filled out your pledge manager, please do so as soon as possible!
The epub and pdf editions of Old Moon 9 and 10 are available now. Please download and peruse at your leisure! And let us know what you think of them either here, or on our social media!
The other digital downloads for back issues will be live once we lock orders on the pledge manager this weekend, as well.
Thank you again for your support, and we hope you all love these stories as much as we do!
The pledge manager is finally open! Please input your shipping info, purchase any add-ons you want, and so on and so forth. It will stay open until June 14th, at which point it will close, cards will be charged, and printing/shipping will begin.
Thank you, once again, for your patience! We can't wait for everyone to see these issues.
