It's the second half of Space Wizard's fifth anniversary, and we have even more great titles! From zombie pirates and cozy adventure, to sci-fi romance, near future detectives, YA fae, and space stations and space ships!
Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a queer science fiction and fantasy indie publishing company started in 2016 to publish William C. Tracy's books. In 2021, the publishing company opened its doors to more authors. Space Wizard prides (pun intended) itself on making sure our authors get great exposure and marketing for their books. Space Wizard aims to stay debt-free on initial releases, as well as giving great royalty rates, wholesale prices for authors, up-to-date covers, and effective marketing for all of its books.
2026 is our 5th and 10th anniversary!
Our intent has always been to showcase quality science fiction and fantasy stories with queer characters, because they don't get enough exposure in the publishing world. If you've backed our previous campaigns, you know the quality of work we publish. We have some great new books coming to you!
Each year since we've started running our yearly campaigns, we've raised between $17,000 and $30,000 each year to make our books a reality. That means our authors get paid royalties immediately upon their book's release, and you get new queer books before they go on sale in stores!
Space Wizard Year Five Part 2
The fifth year of Space Wizard has some incredible new works, and we're capping off our year with 8 new queer science fiction and fantasy books, releasing from January to June 2027!
Read through our amazing new stories in the "Books" section below!
In this campaign, you can get any of the new books, or any of our back catalog, in eBook or paperback format (signed by the authors)! Want to know what's coming next? The schedule is below, or you can visit the Space Wizard Coming Soon Page for full descriptions of all the books.
As a reader, you can get hardcovers, signed books, trilogies, diverse stories, and even a subscription to Space Wizard! You just have to sit back, read, and enjoy! There are also some cool buttons, pins, and keychains. Finally, we've introduced our new Tea with Books, with an ever-expanding number of choices!
This campaign will pay for great covers for the upcoming books, as well as editing, publishing fees, and other cool things like illustrations, bookmarks, and omnibuses!
Releasing from January to June 2027, we've got a bunch of sequels and new books coming your way!
January 2027: Dead in the Water, by Athena Giles, book 2 of the Children of Sea and Sky fantasy series After the events of Waves Take Your Bones, Tallis is now captain of ship, while Finn discovers the inner workings of Giant's Isle while he deepens his relationship with Cori. But the Shriekers, hordes of undead who stop at nothing to increase their numbers, are still encroaching on the last remains of humanity. It will take an unlikely alliance, tricks of the fleet, and a risky spy mission to determine who their leader is and how to take him down for good! Find out what happens in Dead in the Water!
February 2027: Bond of Wildflowers, by Connor Kim. Willow Choi’s goal of making it through high school without any drama or emergencies is shattered when she finds her mom has terminal cancer. But when a new student greets her in a patch of strange glass wildflowers, she starts unlocking memories of magic that could save her mother’s life. Niall seems too good to be true, and her autism means she’s gotten burned by letting people in before. Or maybe she was the one doing the burning, and she refuses to hurt him that way. Then Niall shows her another world where fey magic exists, but it’s fading away in the bloodlines. This strange place is slowly opening up to the outside world, and more dangerous people than Willow are on the hunt for healing magic. Her one advantage is that she has Niall on her side, and he seems to truly care about her. If only she could figure out why, and what it means to care about him too. Other worlds, healing magic, fey beasts, and magic collide as Willow discovers a Bond of Wildflowers!
March 2027: Battle Tested, book 2 and Resistance, book 3 (June 2027) of The Unforgiving Stars by E.J. Isaacs: Captain Rena Sheets has settle her new crew on an experimental starship leaving human space for the first time. They've contacted new civilizations and a select few of her officers know of the artificial intelligence, Shenna who is slowly growing to personhood while running integral parts of the ship. But when an Angel vessel is discovered following them, the crew's world is turned upside-down. The Angels have dominated a galactic war for decades, until humans first surprised them with their ingenuity. Now the crew must learn if their planning is enough to take on an Angel battlecruiser one to one. It's time they were Battle Tested.
April 2027: Tide Tale, by Kristina W. Kelly, the third in the Trelvania series! After the events of the Midwinter Nights Faire, Divine and Saph are busy with ideas for their tea shop, but Divine’s magic has other plans, and her new-found creature connection continues to evolve—whether she likes it or not. When Divine summons lizards into party glasses and can’t escape an intoxicating need for attention, a holiday among sand and sea is just what Divine and Saph need, but the only ship captain willing to risk the winter home of the dangerous sea serpents is a pirate with a flair for the dramatic. Each swell and retreating wave brings new creatures and friends, from jellyfish to mermaids, and challenges of love and magic. But the bubbling tides reveal the true current is the rhythm of their growing love. Follow Divine and Saph with a new tale of travel, trust, truth, and the magic that connects when you’re far from where you started.
Early May 2027: Anything But Ordinary by Heather Tracy, the second in the interconnected universe of These Dreams. When Suz’s roommate and not-a-girlfriend-at-all of many years, Clare, abruptly moves out, Suz sees her soon after on the street kissing a random guy. Suz drives in the rain to get comfort food, but when someone runs a red light, her car is rammed into a light pole, and Suz is left unconscious. Cassie is one of Suz’s closest friends, met while playing the MMORPG, Lord of the Stars. When she hears Suz get into the accident over the phone, she rushes to Suz’s side. Her attachment only grows, but she has no idea if her feelings are reciprocated. While Suz is first unconscious, then in recovery for injuries, she can’t play their beloved game anymore. So how then is she still showing up in the game? Follow Suz and Cassie through dreams, neurodivergence and romance, as they both discover the people they’re meant to be in Anything but Ordinary.
Late May 2027: Purgatory Rift - book 3 of the Call of the Void series, by A.Z. Rozkillis, starting with Space Station X and Fractal Terminus. Did Jax and Saunders survive the plunge through the deep-space Rift or are they doomed to live out their nightmares where the improbable bleeds through reality? For their small band of survivors, the unthinkable has become routine as they scrape to survive on the edge of a cosmic mystery. Day by day they fight to keep their Station alive, as the Rift provides, but what the Rift provides is anyone’s guess. Sometimes it’s a new victim, fallen from a corner of the galaxy, sometimes it’s a much-needed surplus supply of coffee, and sometimes it’s a gelatinous blob that stalks the halls, sounding like a late-night talk-show host with a ravenous hunger for feet. The dimming hope of escape grows more challenging as the Rift enacts more atrocities. Jax and Saunders have gotten lucky thus far, but the rules are changing fast. It’s impossible to know who they can trust, and they will need each other more than ever if they want to escape this unspeakable corner of madness.
June 2027: The Venus Vendetta, by Robin C.M. Duncan. Come back to the Quirk & Moth near sci-fi detective series, including The Mandroid Murders, The Carborundum Conundrum, and The Rigel Redemption, with Book 4! Even the world’s largest corporation can’t stand up to her. With her father finally out of the picture, Jennifer Kirby, née Simister has inherited the most powerful corporate entity in human history. But she intends to break C Corp down. The legacy board resists, but Jennifer’s dismantling of the consumptive behemoth has begun. Then, there's a murder. Then, there's another, and when she needs him most, her husband Quinton is gone. Meanwhile, all-grown-up Moth scours New York, chasing down C Corp-affiliate financial fraud aided by Nick Kirby and the syRen® Bea. The dull data job gets spicy when bullets fly and lasers fry. Why did a receptionist suddenly shoot her suspect boss? How did an android make her do it? And where the hell is Quirk when he’s needed? Three years from the events of The Rigel Redemption, the spectre of rogue androids looms again, but that’s the least of Moth and Jenny’s troubles. Anti-android sentiment rises, spawning violent clashes; factories burn, cities erupt, and no one knows who the enemy is.
NOTE: These Graphic Novels and Omnibus Collections are available as addons! If you only want a hardback, select the "Keeping an eye on things!" pledge for $1 and add your hardback. We also have LOTS of add-ons for bundles of individual authors as eBooks, which you can add in the same way!
Space Wizard is proud to present our first graphic novel! Hand drawn by Carmen Loup, The Audacity graphic novel covers the events of book one in full color hilarity! If you're a fan of The Audacity Omnibus, and Aliens in New Florida, you don't want to miss this one. See Xan in his fancy racing hat!
NEW: The Shifting Lands, Books 1-3 by William C. Tracy. Follow Silluka, Ichu, Cosquella, and of course Lugopo, as they grow from simple farmers on the coast to powerful practitioners of the Adept arts!
When the Turtleman island crashes into their land, obliterating their village, Silluka and her friends must flee inland, across the desert, braving the godless Allwiya, to end up in Chimor, a huge city of powerful Adepts.
But there is much more going on beneath the surface as the gods vie for control of the ancient city. When the traitor god finally shows his hand, the crew is swept away to Motu, an otter Worldbeast in the boiling ocean, to be trained by a master craftsman. But things are not as they seem. Find out what happens in the first three volumes of The Shifting Lands: Physical Magic, Intent Magic, and Pressure Magic!
NEW: The Quirk & Moth Omnibus by Robin C.M. Duncan. A hard science fiction series about a quirky detective and his foulmouthed teenage ward, solving mysteries and foiling plots in the near future! This contains the books The Mandroid Murders, The Carborundum Conundrum, and The Rigel Redemption, as well as the short stories The Bibliothek Betrayal and never-before-published The Hygeia Hijack! You can get the omnibus and continue the story with The Venus Vendetta, featured in this campaign!
NEW: Space Wizard Novellas Volume 1: This is a collection of all the novellas published by Space Wizard from 2022 to 2025. Explore a wide range of queer science fiction and fantasy stories, in shorter format! Contains: Ajakava by Chaitanya Murali, Awry With Dandelions by J.S. Fields, The Witch and the Ostrich by Jordan A. Wener, It's You, Isn't It? by Antony Paschos, Junk Junction by Sara Codair, Peace in the Sky by Caye Marsh, and Isaac by Allee Mead.
The Audacity Omnibus by Carmen Loup is a humorous sci-fi trilogy, about a human abducted from Earth, a draft dodger, and a goddess of chaos. If you like Douglas Adams, you'll like this! ONLY available in omnibus format! Contains The Audacity, The Audacity 2: Time Warp, The Audacity 3: Be Kind, Rewind, plus the short story Bite.
The Biomass Conflux by William C. Tracy. A hard sci-fi series about a generational fleet trying to build a colony on a planet entirely covered by sentient fungus. However, the colonists are not aware the fungus is sentient, at first. Plus, the fungus has its own point of view in the story! Contains Of Mycelium and Men, To a Fungus Unknown, and The Spores of Wrath, plus the novella Down Among the Mushrooms!
The Dissolution Cycle - (NEW COVER!) and Tales of the Dissolutionverse are science fantasy space operas by William C. Tracy, using music-based magic. The Dissolution Cycle contains an epic trilogy, where a young man must learn to use magic while dealing with voids of energy threatening the homeworlds. Tales of the Dissolutionverse contains 10 short stories and novellas from the same universe with music-based magic as The Dissolution Cycle, from action and adventure, politics and intrigue, a Sherlock Holmesian murder mystery, a Jules Verne-style adventure, and slices of life from around the ten homeworlds!
Ardulum: Origins is J.S. Fields' space opera. It concerns Emn, a powerful engineered being who might just be a god, and Neek, an outcast who has rejected her religion. The story develops over a full trilogy, revealing more of the charted systems, cellulose-based technology, and gods who may not be as divine as expected. The omnibus contains all that, plus all the new short stories in the re-released books, plus all of the content of Tales from Ardulum together in one beautifully bound book!
So what is currently available from Space Wizard? All the books you see below, and you can get any of these in this campaign too! We have a lot of books! Don't know what to pick? Browse the Space Wizard booklist to help make your choice. Try this way to whittle things down:
Pick Fantasy or Science Fiction in Book Genre.
Or, if you don't care, pick Book Type and choose between Novella, Stand Alone, or Series.
If you don't have strong feelings on that either, pick what LGBTQIA+ representation you want to see between M/M, F/F, Bi/Pan, Ace, Trans, Nonbinary, or Poly!
You can then filter further by one of the other categories, or pick a single Book Series you're interested in.
Space Wizard Science Fantasy is a labor of love, seeking to uplift those voices who are not heard as clearly as they should be. We also seek to pay people their worth, and this campaign will help make that happen. The base funding goal will be used to pay for book cover costs, as well as copy editing and copyright costs.
At $6,500 Connor Kim will write a new short story in the world of Bond of Wildflowers and everyone gets a digital copy, distributed through Bookfunnel! At $7,500 We will pay for a new cover for The Shifting Lands Omnibus 1, containing Physical Magic, Intent Magic, and Pressure Magic all backers get an eBook copy! Over 650 pages! At $9,000 Heather Tracy will write a new short story and everyone gets a digital copy, distributed through Bookfunnel! At $10,000 Backers pick our next Space Wizard Tea with Books! It will become available as an addon. At $11,000 We will pay for the audiobook of Lofty Mountains, and all backers will receive a free copy!
Do you love books? We do too. That's why Space Wizard strives to make exciting adventures across time and space. If there's juuuust one more book you want, you can add it on when you pledge in eBook or paperback format.
Want to show your love? What's better than a pin, button, or keychain with Space Wizard on it! Maybe some stickers and decals for your laptops, cars, bottles, windows, or wherever you want?
We have some fantastic swag from Geek Girl Stuff!
Simply choose your addon(s) when you pledge, in the pledge manager. If you picked a digital reward, you'll be asked for your address when choosing a physical addon.
So what authors are included in the fifth year of Space Wizard? You've seen them in their interviews (and if you haven't, give them a watch), but check out the full list of names below!
Athena Giles (they/them) grew up adventuring in the woods of Seacoast New Hampshire, wooden sword in hand. They graduated from Hampshire College, where they studied creative writing and children's literature, before running away to join the circus for 5 years. Athena is now a Special Education Teacher living in Arlington, Massachusetts. Their work with middle school and upper elementary students has inspired them to expand the books available for children and adolescents to see themselves in, especially for those identifying as trans and non-binary. For updates on their work, visit www.athenagiles.com.
Connor Kim (they/he) is a plant scientist who has gone from studying wildflowers to apples to blueberries. They dreamed of being an author from a young age, kicked off by writing adventure stories inspired by the Frog and Toad books in elementary school. Now, they are interested in taking those sorts of light, hopeful narratives and mixing in messy emotions from characters whose backgrounds and identities intersect in complicated ways. A Bond of Wildflowers is their debut novel. You can find them at @connor-kim.bsky.social.
E.J. Isaacs (he/him) is a new writer with Space Wizard Science Fantasy after spending decades in Information Technology. He is a futurist and likes to talk about where technology will take us. Currently living in South Carolina, you can meet him at various local conventions. He loves science fiction, ballroom dancing, and curling up with a good book and a cup of tea. You can find him at solinterests.com, or as E J Isaacs on Mastodon.
Kristina W. Kelly (she/her). Since childhood, writing stories on her mother’s typewriter or trying to catalog her own books like a library, Kristina has been in love with storytelling. Her undergraduate pursuits focused on Psychology, Music, and Computer Science. With trumpet as her main instrument and a connection to nature, Kristina often works music and visual landscapes into her writings. She is an author of poetry, short stories, and novels including the Etherea Cycle which she wrote with one of her best friends; it blends SciFi with Fantasy, which she loves to do. In her spare time, she does photography, makes various crafts, plays video games (RPGs are her favorite), dabbles in other instruments, and tends to her flower garden. She loves going on new adventures in the great wide somewhere (sometimes just by picking up a new book). Kristina resides in Indiana with her husband and sons. Visit her at kristinaseyes.com
Heather Tracy (she/her) is a travel agent by day and a masked copy editor by night. She's found hundreds of typos, comma splices, and other grammatical nitpicks for Space Wizard Science Fantasy since before 2016. With over 30 titles copy edited, this year she turns her hand to her second published novel, Anything But Ordinary.
A.Z. Rozkillis (she/her) builds spaceships in her day job. She teaches about spaceships on the side. And now she apparently writes about spaceships in her spare time. Where she finds the spare time is still a mystery. Having been raised on a steady diet of classic science fiction and horror—consumed mostly through the staircase railing after bedtime while her father was asleep on the couch—A.Z. has always maintained a love for space travel and the unknown. This has largely fueled her career in aerospace engineering but originally fueled a passion for writing science fiction stories when she was very young. After a long quantity of months cooped up inside, A.Z. finally returned to her storytelling origins. A.Z. lives in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US with her wife and son, their dogs, several thousand honeybees, and way too many Legos.
Robin Duncan (he/him) is a Scot born and living in Glasgow. A Civil Engineer by profession, he has written since 1980, but seriously only for the last 12 years. Robin’s debut novel The Mandroid Murders published in 2022; its sequels The Carborundum Conundrum in 2023, and The Rigel Redemption in 2024. The Venus Vendetta now joins the Quirk & Moth novels.
His stories feature in Space Wizard’s Distant Gardens, Farther Reefs, Lofty Mountains and World of Juno anthologies. Robin’s story “The NEU Oblivion” was long-listed for the 2019 James White Award.
Robin belongs to the Glasgow SF Writers’ Circle, Reading Excuses, the British Fantasy Society, and the British Science Fiction Association. robincmduncan.com
Finally, we have some incredibly talented artists also contributing to the campaign!
Serene Chia is creating the cover for Tide Tale! Hanna "Spoon" Wilson is creating the cover for Bond of Wildflowers and Anything But Ordinary MoorBooks is our excellent cover designer for the rest of the books!
Thanks also go to our esteemed copy editors, Heather Tracy and Courtney Brooks! Since we now have some more copy editing resources, you'll see we have two different copy editing backer levels!
My shipping fees are from my experience in the last six campaigns. Note the above numbers are estimates. Shipping will be added when you fill out your survey form, and is based on your location. Generally, US shipping for one book will be about $7, three books will be about $9, and five books is around $11. See below for International shipping.
Subscription Box:
To keep shipping costs manageable, the next 6 months worth of Space Wizard books will be sent all at one time, around June 2027. This brings shipping costs for all the books down to around $15. If you want to get each book as it's released, just pick the "multiple shipment option" addon for the US (see below).
International Shipping:
Yep. It's expensive. The cost starts around $30 for one book, shipping to Canada, and $50 international. The price will go up for extra books by weight. For example, another 2 books will add around $5-10 in shipping. Backers will be responsible for all VAT, import taxes, and tariffs. This sometimes amounts to another $20-$40. This is the cheapest I've been able to find shipping for, especially if you are getting multiple books. I'd recommend getting the eBooks, and then you can get as many as you want!
If you do want to order physical books, especially for the subscription box options, I've set the shipping to send you the books after they are all released, however, you'll get them as late as June 2027, after the latest publish date, depending on which ones you choose.
Multiple Shipment Option! I will send out each book to you as it arrives (US only), but this is an extra shipping charge. To get the physical books as they release, pick the "multiple shipment option" in the addons either in the campaign or when you fill out the survey afterward. Then each book will be sent individually, and the total shipping will be around $45. This covers shipping you around 7-8 boxes over the course of the next 6 months, each one containing a new adventure!
Where's all the money going? Risks and challenges.
These projects will be published, at a base level, even if the campaign is not funded. This campaign is to help realize the full potential of this indie publishing company to start out each book without any debt so the authors can see immediate returns on their hard work.
Books will be published, around one a month, so as a backer, you can expect to see an electronic copy of the book a few weeks before it's released. If you backed the physical version as well it will be delivered around the release date (if you picked the multiple shipment option) or otherwise once all books you've backed are released. The Year 5 subscription will be delivered in one shipment around June 2027.
There are always risks and challenges with determining a budget for a campaign such as this, but I am a Professional Engineer by training, have spent the last 20 years in cost and benefit analysis, and now do data analysis for a living (along with publishing). I have accurately assessed costs for large projects in my work environment so I have a good understanding of how and where money is spent, and I have applied that knowledge to my previous campaigns. See below for how the money from the campaign is used:
Even if you don't pledge, thanks for taking the time to read this through! We strive to deliver quality queer stories to you with a professional feel. We hope Space Wizard will continue to expand, making plenty of stories where everyone can see themselves.
We have eight great authors and books this campaign is helping to fund, and chances are you've heard at least one of those names. Please spread the word, and I hope to see you all back in June 2027 (or maybe before!) with more books!
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🌟 Back ten (or more) projects, get an exclusive reward. We're offering an exclusive The Book Bazaar: Volume 2 reward to anyone who goes all out and backs ten or more projects. The Book Bazaar 2026 participants are putting together a one-of-a-kind anthology full of unique and never-before-seen stories. This anthology is available as an ebook to qualifying backers, and physical perfect-bound book for an additional fee (shipped separately from other rewards in early 2027). Claim your anthology by showing your support now!
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