Lesbians in Space: The Anthology (Where No Man Has Gone Before)

HI all,

Woo! We are already more than 75% funded after the first day! In fact, all of Booktopia is doing very well, with nearly half the projects funded! Now, I know you're probably getting tons of updates from all the BookTopia projects you've backed, so I'll try to keep this short...

I received the final artwork yesterday for two of the three cards you'll get for free from my campaign with any physical pledge (You'll also get three from my Cross Collab Partner's project--see below)!
Here are all three together:

I love these designs! They will come to you as tarot-sized playing cards. I'm also planning to include the two new ones as illustrations in the full book. If you get the hardcover version and we hit the "Fancy Hardback" stretch goal, the illustrations will come to you in full color!

Now, if you haven't backed a bunch of projects, may I suggest my Cross Collab Partner, Aimee Cozza's The Warm Machine, about two robots falling in love and running off together:



You should also give some love to a great kid's book about diversity with some incredible artwork, Violet's Pretty Purple Playground. Gold Dust Publishing is putting this story out, and they are another LGBTQ+ press and good friends of mine, so go check it out!



Alright, I said I would keep this short, so that's all for now. I'll be back when we hit the our goal!

-William Tracy

Hello everyone! Launch day is fast approaching, and we're going to have a launch party with a bunch of the other Booktopia participants at 12:00 PM EST on Thursday the 5th! So come watch us launch this Booktopia shindig live from 12:00 to 1:00pm! If you're following the project, you should get a notification about an hour before it goes live!

Then afterward, come back the campaign! We have a lot of cool stuff planned, and you can get some amazing rewards, including, of course, the anthology itself, with stories from:
Travis Baldree
Mary Robinette Kowal
Seanan McGuire
Emma Newman

And we'll be opening up to submissions at the same time, until December 31, 2024, so get your keyboards warmed up to write about Lesbians in Space!

See you tomorrow!