Catherine Lundoff's Blog

I’ve got a new book recommendation list up at Shepherd, the new book recommendation site, to celebrate the audiobook release of my Wolves of Wolf’s Point series! Check out my recommendations for “Best Fantasy Tales About Women Over 40” - https://shepherd.com/best-books/fanta...

Melissa Scott and I have curated another StoryBundle - 15 titles by authors like Ginn Hale, Nicole Kimberling, Melissa Scott, Jerry Wheeler, Andi C. Buchanan, Rem Wigmore, Cynthia Ward, Vincent Scott, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor and Sim Kern, plus anthologies from Neon Hemlock and Speculatively Queer! Get the bundle at the $20 level and you can earmark part of your purchase price as a donation for Rainbow Railroad's work with LGBTQ refugees. Ends 7/1.
https://storybundle.com/pride

Get 16 books by Melissa Scott, Matthew Bright, R. B. Lemberg, Eboni Dunbar, Cecilia Tan, Langley Hyde, Anya DeNiro, dave ring, Leigh Harlan, J. Scott Coatsworth, A.J. Fitzwater, Andi C. Buchanan and me!

https://www.storybundle.com/pride

I still have openings for my publishing class next Sunday (6/13) at the Rambo Academy - want to learn more about what goes into publishing a new book? Publishing other authors? Join me to get a bunch of your questions answered! http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/class...

Join us at Madame Askew's Temporal Entourage's August Book Club Meeting on 8/16! Queen of Swords Press title MURDER ON THE TITANIA AND OTHER STEAM-POWERED ADVENTURES by Alex Acks is the book and Alex will be visiting for an author chat. https://www.facebook.com/events/d41d8...

The new Pride Month StoryBundle has launched! https://storybundle.com/pride
I'm curating this year and we have a stellar lineup of queer specfic for you! And if you buy it at the bonus level ($15-20), you not only get 11 great reads, but StoryBundle donates a portion of your purchase price to Rainbow Railroad, an organization that works with LGBTQ refugees (be sure and click the Donate box).
Included:
$5 level
Best Game Ever by R. R. Angell

• The Counterfeit Viscount by Ginn Hale

• A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney

• Capricious: The Gender Diverse Pronouns Issue by Andi C. Buchanan

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular books, plus seven more more books, for a total of eleven!

• Grilled Cheese and Goblins by Nicole Kimberling

• The Armor of Light by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett

• Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones

• The Hollow History of Professor Profectus by Ginn Hale

• Will Do Magic For Small Change by Andrea Hairston

• The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater

• Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise

At least for a bit. So A.J. Fitzwater was hoping to a short book tour of the U.S. to promote Cinrak and their other upcoming title, No Man’s Land, in May, but you probably already know how that’s turning out. So instead, we have a bunch of fun online stuff going on this month and next to celebrate! Check here for the version with all the links -https://queenofswordspress.com/all-th... A.J. FitzwaterA.J. Fitzwater

The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper will be out on April 6th and we’re having a virtual release party! Login to Zoom for A.J.’s Tea Time Virtual Release Party (check your time zone if you want to catch it live – we’ll also post a recording) to listen to A.J. read and talk about their work.
There’ll also be a new reading video going live on our YouTube channel on 4/6.
And Catherine will be interviewing A.J. on the Queen of Swords Press (@qopress) Twitter feed on Saturday, April 11th at 2PM. Comment and like to be entered into a drawing for a copy of Cinrak and one of the new Cinrak coffee mugs.

Other fun things:
A.J. was on a virtual panel on Queer SFF at r/Fantasy on 3/29.
Looking for some new books to read? Check out “Six Books with A.J. Fitzwater” at Nerds of a Feather.
Read A.J.’s guest blog “Krakens are friends, not food” at The World Remains Mysterious on 4/6.
And “Turn the Puns up to 11” at Mary Robinette’s Kowal’s My Favorite Bit on 4/7.

There are also new Cinrak reviews – check out the Cinrak page for links and excerpts!
And there’s more on the way!

Catherine Lundoff news:
Mind Meld: The 101 and the 201 of SFF at Nerds of a Feather – get some new book recommendations from a bunch of writers, including Catherine!
Check out Catherine’s new article, “Book Releases on a Budget,” at the SFWA Blog.
Catherine will be teaching several online classes at Cat Rambo’s Academy for Wayward Writers in the next few months. If you’re looking for the opportunity to take more writing-released classes, there are lot of options out here!

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE OCCULT DETECTIVES edited by John Linwood Grant includes a new story by me in Vol. 2 and is in the last 20 hours of its Kickstarter- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Queen of Swords Press has a couple of titles marked down for the Authors Give Back Sale! Get some fun steampunk reading from Alex Acks - https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
and pirates and werewolves from Catherine Lundoff - https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...

Cat Rambo is offering a sale on bundled writing classes through 1/1/20. This includes my upcoming class, "Book Promo on a Budget," as well as a bunch of other nifty things. Sign up for some online classes and save some $! http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2019/...

Hidden Timber Books is also offering a bundle discount on webinars through 1/28/20. This one includes my February class on "Breaking Out of the Slush Pile," along with some other useful things. https://hiddentimberbooks.com/author-...

All Queen of Swords Press titles (ebook only) will be on sale from 12/24/19-/1/2/20. Sales prices may show up sooner on some platforms than others, but should be reflected in the following order:
12/24/19 Queen of Swords Press website - https://queenofswordspress.com/upcomi...
12/25/19 - Amazon
12/26/19 - Smashwords and everywhere else.

Happy holidays! Enjoy some good reading!