Hope you're having a happy Pride! if you want to get some queer books and support indie creators during pride month, our Year 5 campaign for 8 new Space Wizard books is running now. This is also the 5th anniversary of Space Wizard, and my 10 year anniversary of publishing. Lots going on this month!
Space Wizard Year 5 is already funded, and we're working hard toward our first stretch goal, which is to get a cover for the upcoming Quirk & Moth omnibus, which will collect the first three books and two short stories, one of which has not yet been published!
Here's a list of all the books in the campaign:
Lucianus, by C.J. Beshara- An ancient wizard, reincarnated into a new body, learns how the world has changed since his catastrophic death, and why his new traveling companion is interested in him!
Aliens in New Florida, by Carmen Loup, author of the Audacity Omnibus (and in the same universe) - A road trip across post-apocalyptic Florida with prophesy, an attractive reptilian alien, psychedelics, omniscient aliens (and humans), and a quest for the fabled Kingdom!
Gunmaker, by Chris Gerrib, in the same universe as his previous Space Wizard book One of Our Spaceships is Missing - A murder by gunshot on the indentured mining colony of Eros, a place where guns are not allowed, sparks an investigation into the corruption of the colony owners!
Romance and the Gentle Art of Rocket Racing, by Rena Rocford, author of the recently released Mothball Magic - A rocket-racing rogue must help her secret half-brother, the king of his colony, to woo the woman of his dreams, through silk, intrigue, and fast ships!
Pressure Magic - book 3 of William C. Tracy's Shifting Lands fantasy series. Silluka has survived the invasion of Chimor, but she, her brother Ichu, her girlfriend Cosquella, and Lugopo, the eldritch octopus, find themselves stuck on a strange island with a master craftsman!
Promise of Manifest, by Alex Kingsley - Find out what happens in the conclusion of The Bastion Cycle, in a world of post apocalyptic giant crabs and human scavengers! This is the third book, following Empress of Dust (the 2025 Small Spec Book award winner for Science Fiction)and Relic of Haven!
Queen and Obsidian, by J.S. Fields, a duology of science fiction space opera stories. It begins with Queen, where an intersex woman is trapped on a barely hospitable planet of women, only to learn their meager living area is further threatened. This is followed up by Obsidian, which follows the events of the first book!
We've also recently introduced our Tea With Books, matching unique tea flavors with a Space Wizard book:
Lesbians in Space tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, flavored black tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using standard kitchen ingredients to brew a complex, themed tea evoking the orange, white, and pink of the lesbian flag!
Foggy Iramont tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, flavored Earl Grey black tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using some easy-to-find ingredients and frothed milk. Goes with the newly released Tea Tale by Kristina W. Kelly. It's a recipe in the book!
Snowshroom Spice tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, Pu'erh tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. Comes with a custom recipe using some extra spice and goodies to create a tasty, nutty pairing for an afternoon of reading! Goes with the newly released Tea Tale by Kristina W. Kelly. It's a recipe in the book!
Fruits of the Gods tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, decaf, Rooibos tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with all four godfruit (dried) to create a fruity, complex pairing for an afternoon of reading! Goes with the novel Fruits of the Gods by William C. Tracy!
Kuhifadi Magic tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf herbal tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with an amazing herbal kawakawa tea from New Zealand with a mix of extra spices to make this one really magical! Goes with the anthology The World of Juno, produced by Daniel Eavenson!
Fire tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, decaf, cinnamon-flavored Rooibos tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with instructions on how to prepare both hot and iced versions! Goes with the novel Mothball Magic by Rena Rocford!
Ice tea pairing: This is a 1/2 oz canister of looseleaf, caffeinated, apple-flavored green tea. Good for 4-5 servings or one full teapot. The tin comes with instructions on how to prepare both hot and iced versions! Goes with the novel Mothball Magic by Rena Rocford!
To top it off, this campaign is running in The Book Bazaar Summer Bonanza, with 11 new projects, brought to you by indie creators. If you back 5 of the campaigns or more, you get a sticker sheet with all the covers!
(sorry if you get this multiple times. Trying to get the word out!) Just a quick note to say Space Wizard is on r/Fantasy today (November 18) for an AMA! If you’ve ever had any questions about how we operate, what we publish, want to meet our authors, or anything else, come check out the thread here. Come ask questions, since we’ll be around all day. Oh, and please give the post an upvote when you get there so more people come join us!
Just a very quick email: Space Wizard Year 4 Part 2 just launched yesterday and we're already over $2500! If you like what we're doing at Space Wizard, it's a great time to support more queer indie authors!
We've got seven more great books for you, and if you've supported our campaigns in the past, five of these books are sequels, so you can continue the journey!
The Dragonscale Comb, sequel to The Rosewood Penny- The much awaited continuation of the romantasy by J.S. Fields!
Corruption - A bisexual young man must discover the secret of magic disappearing, in a land with fiery seas, from Alexander Verbeek-van den Toren!
Tea Tale - Kristina Kelly's next story in the popular cozy fantasy romance with D&D elements! Sequel to Tavern Tale!
The Healer's Magic - The conclusion of C.J. Hosack's epic YA adventure the Beads of Bone, about an adopted young woman who searches for her parents in a world where magic is dictated by bloodline!
Fractal Terminus - Even more lesbian horror/comedy in space? It's getting even weirder in AZ Rozkillis' next scifi tale, sequel to Space Station X!
Talio Rossa and the Elixir of Life - More epic fantasy in a city of canals and holy magic, with a M/M relationship, the sequel to last year's Talio's Codex, from J. Alexander Cohen.
Mothball Magic - It's the Golden Girls meets the Dresden Files! Four geriatric people must stop the Queen of Winter from taking over the world, in Rena Rocford's debut adult novel!
Go check it out! We have interviews with the authors, and this is also part of The Book Bazaar, a collective of 20+ indie authors, all with amazing books for you. Browse through, get some new reading material for the winter, and support indie authors!
I just got in my copies of Intent Magic! I really love the cover on this one, and of course it's always nice to get copies of a book I wrote myself. I'm excited to know what you think of this one. It's got even more magic, martial arts, and eldritch octopuses than last time!
This is the last book for Space Wizard Year 4 Part 1, which means I'll be packing up the final packages to ship this week and closing out the campaign. I hope to have everything shipped out before the start ofSpace Wizard Year 4 Part 2, which is coming November 12th. Make sure to sign up for that one to see author interviews, and back the next 7 books from Space Wizard!
Two piles of Intent Magic, by William C. Tracy
I think this campaign method turned out well! I love to finishing up a campaign in a shorter time, and getting all the promised rewards out quicker. I made up a poll to see what you think about this new format! Let me know below.
Some last housekeeping: There are 5 unanswered surveys (for people I haven't already talked to). There are 5 credit cards that need updated information to ship charms. There are 2 failed credit card payments.
Please fix these in the next week! If you don't fill out/fix your survey by the time the campaign closes, I'll assume you're fine with donating any rewards back to Space Wizard for future campaigns!
I just got copies of A New Beginning and packed up shipments to go out tomorrow!
Intent Magic, the last of the books in Year 4 Part 1, just got finished with copy editing, so I'm getting the last bits for the cover ready now, and I anticipate getting that set up in the next week. I should have copies of that one well in advance of the release date! Everyone who backed the full subscription to this campaign will get all your books then!
That means I'll be wrapping up this campaign very soon! I still have 6 people who haven't filled out their surveys and 7 people who haven't filled in credit card information for the updated shipping costs. If you haven't gotten your rewards yet, that might be why! I can't send out your rewards until you do, so please get that in! This project will be closing fairly soon.
Part 2 is coming up quickly! It begins November 12, which is just over a month away! I'll be starting up a launch party soon with author interviews and some other fun stuff. We've got a great list of books coming to you, so check out the page and make sure you're signed up!
