Beyond The Stars Press

@beyondtstarspress.bsky.social

Est. 2025. Small trad publisher specializing in speculative fiction and poetry, with a focus on Own Voices stories. OPEN CALL: Novels & Novellas

We've got a few days left of our Kickstarter campaign! 'Phantasms & Phenomena' is aiming for an October release (a year after our open call!) and we cannot wait to share it with the world Back us today so we can do some cool interior graphics for our authors 👀 💜🖤💚 ♠️📚🌈📚🪐

Phantasms & Phenomena: An Aspec Paranormal Anthology

Presenting 'Phantasms & Phenomena', an upcoming collection of aromantic and asexual paranormal short stories

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I've used “lily” in only one story: “The Garden of Unfinished Stories” which is part of @beyondtstarspress.bsky.social's The Anthropocene Epic (Anthology) - and you can still pre-order: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #AmWriting 💙📚

Suddenly, an image flooded his mind: a woman, old and frail, with hands gnarled like the bush’s roots, tenderly nurturing these very flowers. He felt her profound love for them, her quiet pride, and then, a sudden, chilling vision of her final breath, a gasp of pain, a fleeting moment of terror before the peace. He felt her lingering attachment, not to the house, but solely to these lilies.

He snatched his hand back, and the vivid vision dissolved. To his astonishment, the lilies, moments ago on the verge of collapse, had perked up, their heads lifted as if revitalised.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for March 23rd is "lily" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
March 23 - lily
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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What do you MEAN the cozy horror anthology in our preorder Kickstarter are special edition?? No one can get illustrated anthologies when after late orders close??? 😱 😱 😱 WAIT—no one can get the stickers I made too???! Ahhhhhh! Get yours NOW!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey... #books #horror

The Anthropocene Epic

From heart-wrenching short stories to hope-filled poems, join 20+ authors in celebrating humanity and Earth.

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100 backers! We're going to sound like a broken record at some point, but thank you for believing in this book as much as we do 💜 This book started as something we wanted to make for our community, and that community is something that we are incredibly grateful for 💚

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