The first book of our 2024 season is out now: the beautiful, surreal, and tender magical realist novel The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca.
Check out some of the high praise this book is getting:
“This fascinating political fantasy … [is] poignant and lyrical … [and] will entice those seeking fantasy dealing with serious topics like resource draining and climate justice.” – Publishers Weekly
“An explosive work of magical realism … The Jaguar Mask is an arresting novel about constant upheavals and fights against oppression in which a few people make a difference.” – Foreword Reviews
“The Jaguar Mask is a gorgeously capacious novel. It is sophisticated, playful, frightening, leaping from hardboiled murder mystery to family biography, telling tales of revolution and magic along the way.” – Rebecca Campbell, 2023 Ursula K Le Guin Prize Winning author of Arboreality
Read more about the book here and grab your copy of this uniquely compassionate and fierce fantasy today.
What’s Next in 2024?
After The Jaguar Mask, we have two more books coming out in late 2024:
- Zebra Meridian and Other Stories by Geoffrey W. Cole (September), a dark and absurd short story collection that brings science fiction, fantasy, and horror into conversation with environmental issues and a unique examination of the human condition; and
- You Will Speak For The Dead by R.A. Busby (October), a surprisingly tender body horror novella about a troubled hoarder house cleaner.
Forthcoming Books Acquired During Our Open Call
At the end of 2023 we were open to general submissions. During that open call we acquired the following books:
- Origin of Desire in Orchid Fens by Lynn Hutchinson Lee (novella; dark fantasy; Canadian)
- Seed Beetle by Mahaila Smith (poetry collection; science fiction; Canadian)
- What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker (novella in short stories; science fiction fairy tales)
- The Other Shore by Rebecca Campbell (short story collection; speculative fiction; Canadian)
- The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex (short story collection; interconnected short stories, speculative fiction)
- The Wetworks Miracle by Caleb Sierra (novella; weird horror/dark fantasy)
We’re still working out agreements and reading manuscripts from the call, so will have more acquisition announcements soon! We are always interested in chatting with Canadian and/or BIPOC authors about their environmental storytelling projects, so if this sounds like you and your current WIP, please get in touch via our contact page.