Dancing Star Press
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Micro press publisher of science fiction and fantasy novellas. Jennifer Crispin, publisher. Lansing, MI. www.dancingstarpress.com
I am currently eating green apple cinnamon doughnut holes and drinking candied apple black tea, and I blame @virginiam.bsky.social somehow.
Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with Bride of the River God by @killianfantasy.blacksky.app, an all-ages fantasy novella I just hand-delivered to my favorite area high school English teacher.
Bride of the River God | Dancing Star Press
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FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard
Looking for engaging stories you can read in a single sitting with strong spooky and/or fall vibes? Dancing Star Press has you covered!
"Speaks to both the oppressive-systems fighters and the single-starfish rescuers among us." —Francesca Forrest Enter win a copy of @virginiam.bsky.social's "A House of Perfect Safety" from @dancingstarpress.com #💙📚 #Booksky www.librarything.com/ner/detail/5...
👋 I'm guoldu- illustrating vibrant light, historical fantasy humans, & as many layers of fabric as you'll allow. Open for comic & novel covers, splash art, tour posters. my work: guoldu.com masc4masc sapphic zine collective: futurebuff.neocities.org email: guoldu (@) proton(dot)me #PortfolioDay
We had a wonderful time. A cozy full house at the teahouse, @virginiam.bsky.social's reading was so lovely, some friends and family watching from far away, and even if you missed live, the video is still up on the event page if you would like to check it out!
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 2w agoStarting in just over an hour, for those of you still on Facebook, we will be hosting a virtual reading with @virginiam.bsky.social Lanstronauts can show up in person and sample apple blossom tea, or anyone with a Facebook account can join in to view the Live! facebook.com/events/s/a-h...
Starting in just over an hour, for those of you still on Facebook, we will be hosting a virtual reading with @virginiam.bsky.social Lanstronauts can show up in person and sample apple blossom tea, or anyone with a Facebook account can join in to view the Live! facebook.com/events/s/a-h...
If you're looking for a comfort read for these days leading up to Nov 3, allow me to recommend... It's available today! I've just downloaded my ebook copy and will be starting it over lunch. ❤️
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 2mo agoGuess what? You can already start getting your pre-orders in here!
Today's the day! She is unleashed upon the world! Let's all have a cup of tea & a cookie about it. 🩷
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 2mo agoGuess what? You can already start getting your pre-orders in here!
If you missed the wonderful Very Witchy Reading @csecooney.bsky.social hosted last weekend, it is still up for viewing on her twitch channel here: Virginia's reading was wonderful, of course, but there were so many wonderfully spooky readings! Ranging from cozy to disturbing to nail-biting!
The Phoenix Quill Tavern — Stories Written in Fire! - csecooney on Twitch
csecooney went live on Twitch. Catch up on their VOD now.
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ONE WEEK UNTIL IT IS UNLEASHED UPON THE WORLD!! PREPARE prepare for... coziness justice good-faith curiosity a very cute house books and snacks BE READY
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 2mo agoGuess what? You can already start getting your pre-orders in here!
The perfect season to go on a jaunt with some lonely monsters tearing up the highlands (and to tear a little into the megalith's profits, too)
The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away
One evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The...
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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 3w agoAnti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Starting any minute now! Come join us?
C. S. E. Cooney@csecooney.bsky.social · 4w agoTHIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON! Join 10 authors of reality-redefining Fiction as they converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination: Oct 4, 3-4:30 PM Eastern www.twitch.tv/csecooney Read more about the authors and their works here: csecooney.com/2026/09/23/o...
Tomorrow! Don't miss it! 🕯️🧙♀️🕸️🎃👻🕯️
C. S. E. Cooney@csecooney.bsky.social · 4w agoTHIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON! Join 10 authors of reality-redefining Fiction as they converge in a bizarre bazaar for the imagination: Oct 4, 3-4:30 PM Eastern www.twitch.tv/csecooney Read more about the authors and their works here: csecooney.com/2026/09/23/o...
The October batch of Early Reviewers is now live! Head over to LibraryThing to enter to win one of 3,321 copies of 303 titles. This month we've got exciting new titles from @alcovepress.bsky.social, @angrygablepress.bsky.social, @dancingstarpress.com, @unmpress.bsky.social & more! #💙📚 #Booksky
Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month with the book Black Nerd Problems said "Black and brown youth (and the young at heart) need in their life."
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 3y agoThread for A Ruin of Shadows by @ellethevillain.bsky.social! 🧑🏿Older Black woman badass protagonist 🗡 Assassin army 🧞 Wise-cracking djinn 🦏 War rhinos 🏞 Lush world-building ⚔️ fighting, revenge, chases, escapes! ✨ a little bit of magic, a bit more gore
Commissions are OPEN! Fill out this form to submit a request: forms.gle/DFqyziLkkvHF...
Emily Cheeseman@emcheeseman.bsky.social · last mo.Trading card commissions will return this Friday, September 25 at noon ET! My art schedule is clear for the first time in many months and I am ready to draw your cool guys. More info at emilycheeseman.com/commissions.
🎃👻💀🕸️🧙♀️🕯️ A very witchy reading THIS SUNDAY! Featuring @virginiam.bsky.social, author of A House of Perfect Safety, along with a host of other amazing authors! Check out this stellar lineup below! ⤵️
C. S. E. Cooney@csecooney.bsky.social · last mo.Witchy Links & Lineup! @zzclaybourne.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social @virginiam.bsky.social @amcgeewrites.bsky.social @asakiyume.bsky.social @emmajgibbon.bsky.social @stgibbon.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @atsayre.bsky.social csecooney.substack.com/p/october-4t...
NOVELLAS (quoted post missing alt-text. it contains cover images for A Ruin of Shadows, The Dead Withheld, We're Here anthology, Out There Screaming anthology, and an issue of FIYAH litmag)
DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · last mo.That doesn't even do her contributions justice, and we're not even started on her body of work as an editor and author! More of her short fiction is available, well, just about everywhere. And the NOVELLAS, y'all! Latest from @neonhemlock.bsky.social "The Dead Withheld"😍
One of my favorite people shouting up another of my favorite people! (alt text for photo in comments)
DaVaun Sanders@davaun.bsky.social · last mo.FOUR DAYS until the Forged in FIYAH anthology releases! Today we celebrate the queen herself @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app with fave lines from "The Fae Island Incident, 1892" 🔥🔥 Not only as a bedrock founding member of the mag, L's talents and labor have quite literally transformed the SFF landscape/
Making small edits to the ebook today, and re-enjoying the "why choose the bear when you can be the bear?" scene. 🐻💖
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 2mo agoI have been sitting on this for SO LONG, but it is finally ready to share with the world! Look at this absolutely beautiful cover by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social! For A House of Perfect Safety by @virginiam.bsky.social, coming out this October!
This year, it's THE NIGHT SWEEPS THE MOUNTAINS AWAY by @tanawir.bsky.social from @dancingstarpress.com . War, sorrow, vampires, and a lyrical beauty and darkness that haunts me. dancingstarpress.com/product/the-...
The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away | Dancing Star Press
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Marty Cahill@mcflycahill90.bsky.social · last mo.What's a book you love with all your goddamn heart that you believe did NOT get the love and attention it's due? I'll go first, and it's abso-LUT-ely THE CITY IN GLASS by Nghi Vo. There are moments from that book that live in my blood and wake me from the dark.
Hello and hi! That magazine I've been teasing for funsies for like a year and a half is now mostly a real thing! soundandcolormag.com
Sound & Color
A digital interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction
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Get your sapphics in space for #SapphicSeptember and the holiday weekend!
Dancing Star Press@dancingstarpress.com · 5mo agoDancing Star Press here! Our queerest title is A Feast for Flies! Sapphic noir space opera on a generation ship with mind-reading, second chance romance, and the best service dog (who is briefly imperiled but does not die). dancingstarpress.com/shop/
