Queen of Swords Press
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Queen of Swords Press is a small press publisher of stories from out of this world. Queer AF. Catherine Lundoff, publisher. Minneapolis, MN. https://www.queenofswordspress.com
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Queen of Swords is an independent small press specializing in swashbuckling tales of derring-do, bold new adventures in time and space, mysterious stories of the occult and arcane and fantastical tale...
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#Booksky Intro: H! Queen of Swords Press is a small queer woman-owned press based in Minneapolis (Catherine Lundoff, publisher, writer & general dogsbody) and we specialize in science fiction, fantasy and horror w/queer MCs. Mostly for grownups. We have a newsletter and stuff! queenofswordspress.com
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I was lucky enough to have a story included in this excellent collection!
#Booksky #3 Like pirates? We got pirates! Check out SCOURGE OF THE SEAS OF TIME (AND SPACE), a fun-filled anthology with pirate tales by @fiversdream.bsky.social, @jolantru.bsky.social, @ginnhale.bsky.social and more! queenofswordspress.com/product/scou...
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I was lucky enough to have a story included in this excellent collection!
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My fun capybara romp has been out for 5 years now and still garners cheer and smiles.
#Booksky #4 Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate. Winner of a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collection! By terrific NZ author @ajfitzwater.bsky.social! THE VOYAGES OF CINRAK THE DAPPER! queenofswordspress.com/product/the-...
November 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
My fun capybara romp has been out for 5 years now and still garners cheer and smiles.
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1
Personal Me: I had a major sad when I found out that “The Butlerian Jihad” had nothing to do with either Judith or Octavia.
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Personal Me: I had a major sad when I found out that “The Butlerian Jihad” had nothing to do with either Judith or Octavia.
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Well! This is a nice thing.
BIG congrats to Melissa Scott @blueterraplane.bsky.social for her recent review in the NYT and inclusion on the list of Great Cyberpunk Novels That Imagine New Futures ... #cyberpunk
Great Cyberpunk Novels That Imagine New Futures
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Well! This is a nice thing.
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Small press, MSP local, LGBTQ, great stories! Paperbacks and ebooks, bold adventures, creepy chills, derring-do, mysteries and mayhem, pirates (including a capybara pirate), menopausal werewolves, and more!
#Booksky Only 2 days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Small press, MSP local, LGBTQ, great stories! Paperbacks and ebooks, bold adventures, creepy chills, derring-do, mysteries and mayhem, pirates (including a capybara pirate), menopausal werewolves, and more!
#Booksky Only 2 days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I have many thinky thoughts about vendor spaces after setting up 5 vendor tables this month! Starting with: if your vendor tables are less than 5-6 inches apart from each other, you have too many vendors. Visually hard to scan, crowded and increased tension to get customer attention. 😱🤔
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I have many thinky thoughts about vendor spaces after setting up 5 vendor tables this month! Starting with: if your vendor tables are less than 5-6 inches apart from each other, you have too many vendors. Visually hard to scan, crowded and increased tension to get customer attention. 😱🤔
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did you know: all purchases with physical rewards during the extended Black Friday Sale period will be honored 💲at the sale price💲 print zine collectors, this one's for you!
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
did you know: all purchases with physical rewards during the extended Black Friday Sale period will be honored 💲at the sale price💲 print zine collectors, this one's for you!
#Booksky Here we go! Last in person event for November (#6, for those counting along)! Come see us at the Queer Market at the Open Book in Minneapolis 11-4PM today! Masks required. queervoicesmn.org/market25
November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#Booksky Here we go! Last in person event for November (#6, for those counting along)! Come see us at the Queer Market at the Open Book in Minneapolis 11-4PM today! Masks required. queervoicesmn.org/market25
#Booksky Only 2 days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
#Booksky Only 2 days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout on our site, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
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QSFer M. Christian has a new gay horror book out: Running Dry.
A new kind of vampire… Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuage his guilt. ...
www.queerscifi.com/new-release-...
#Horror #Gay @mchristian.bsky.social
A new kind of vampire… Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuage his guilt. ...
www.queerscifi.com/new-release-...
#Horror #Gay @mchristian.bsky.social
New Release: Running Dry – M. Christian
QSFer M. Christian has a new gay horror book out: Running Dry. A new kind of vampire… Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuag...
www.queerscifi.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
QSFer M. Christian has a new gay horror book out: Running Dry.
A new kind of vampire… Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuage his guilt. ...
www.queerscifi.com/new-release-...
#Horror #Gay @mchristian.bsky.social
A new kind of vampire… Artist Ernst Doud has been living with his secrets for over a century: feeding, killing and creating art to assuage his guilt. ...
www.queerscifi.com/new-release-...
#Horror #Gay @mchristian.bsky.social
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If you haven't tried the Astreiant series (historical fantasy/mystery with a *dash* of romance), now the perfect time 😍
#Booksky Have you visited DriveThruFiction? Our queer books are part of the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale! Get your sapphic steampunk, gay gaslamp mystery, piratical and other reads on! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you haven't tried the Astreiant series (historical fantasy/mystery with a *dash* of romance), now the perfect time 😍
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I'm really excited for tomorrow's talk on
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and Violence in South Asian Horror
Come join us only for free online at 10am or 4pm GMT (5am/11am EST, 3.30pm/9.30pm IST)
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
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Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and Violence in South Asian Horror
Come join us only for free online at 10am or 4pm GMT (5am/11am EST, 3.30pm/9.30pm IST)
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – The Ghost is Upper-Caste: Haunting, Caste Aesthetics, and Violence in South Asian Horror with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom
The Ghost is Upper-Caste: Haunting, Caste Aesthetics, and Violence in South Asian Horror with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom, Sat 29 Nov 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talk...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'm really excited for tomorrow's talk on
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and Violence in South Asian Horror
Come join us only for free online at 10am or 4pm GMT (5am/11am EST, 3.30pm/9.30pm IST)
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and Violence in South Asian Horror
Come join us only for free online at 10am or 4pm GMT (5am/11am EST, 3.30pm/9.30pm IST)
10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
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If you're looking for books this Friday, may I recommend one of my favourite small bookshops? Portal in York! They specialise in queer literature of all varieties and there are so many great reads available for delivery!
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About | The Portal Bookshop
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November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
If you're looking for books this Friday, may I recommend one of my favourite small bookshops? Portal in York! They specialise in queer literature of all varieties and there are so many great reads available for delivery!
the-portal-bookshop.square.site/about
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*Hell* yes. Yet again, if you've yet to read Astreiant, you should. And this is the great format to catch up with it.
#Booksky We’re doing our first
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
ebook set! THE COMPLETE ASTREIANT created by Melissa Scott @blueterraplane and Lisa A. Barnett, cover from @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social, is up for preorder now! Releases 12/15 (and it’s eligible for the Best Series Hugo!). queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
*Hell* yes. Yet again, if you've yet to read Astreiant, you should. And this is the great format to catch up with it.
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Happy Friday, SF readers. Some fresh links to ponder over the weekend:
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Wow! Signal: November 2025
Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. N…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Happy Friday, SF readers. Some fresh links to ponder over the weekend:
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/28/w...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/11/28/w...
Thank you for the reskeets and shoutouts, lovely people! 💖
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Thank you for the reskeets and shoutouts, lovely people! 💖
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Gwen exemplifies that game designers are artists of many types.
Artistry pictured: Nightwell Games vest, T-shirt designed for Jules, and the one-of-a-kind piece Sean was wearing in our previous post.
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Artistry pictured: Nightwell Games vest, T-shirt designed for Jules, and the one-of-a-kind piece Sean was wearing in our previous post.
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
@nightwellgames.bsky.social
Follow for more 💥
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Gwen exemplifies that game designers are artists of many types.
Artistry pictured: Nightwell Games vest, T-shirt designed for Jules, and the one-of-a-kind piece Sean was wearing in our previous post.
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
@nightwellgames.bsky.social
Follow for more 💥
Artistry pictured: Nightwell Games vest, T-shirt designed for Jules, and the one-of-a-kind piece Sean was wearing in our previous post.
@gwenckatz.bsky.social
@nightwellgames.bsky.social
Follow for more 💥
#Booksky Have you visited DriveThruFiction? Our queer books are part of the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale! Get your sapphic steampunk, gay gaslamp mystery, piratical and other reads on! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#Booksky Have you visited DriveThruFiction? Our queer books are part of the Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale! Get your sapphic steampunk, gay gaslamp mystery, piratical and other reads on! www.drivethrufiction.com/en/publisher...
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As a small press we don’t do #BlackFriday, but we have a selection of bundles.
New now: The Yuletide Bundle, perfect for anyone who yearns to sit in front of the fire reading spooky stories.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
New now: The Yuletide Bundle, perfect for anyone who yearns to sit in front of the fire reading spooky stories.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
As a small press we don’t do #BlackFriday, but we have a selection of bundles.
New now: The Yuletide Bundle, perfect for anyone who yearns to sit in front of the fire reading spooky stories.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
New now: The Yuletide Bundle, perfect for anyone who yearns to sit in front of the fire reading spooky stories.
👉🏼 helleborezine.com
What this publisher does on her day off: made period recipes from the Patrick O’Brian cookbook! As you do.
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Lobscouse and Spotted Dog
'A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology.'—<em>Washington Post</em>, Lobscouse and Spotted Dog, Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels, Ann...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What this publisher does on her day off: made period recipes from the Patrick O’Brian cookbook! As you do.
wwnorton.com/books/Lobsco...
wwnorton.com/books/Lobsco...
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Giving this another boost for the evening crowd! We're sitting at 1/3 of our goal and I need your help to get the rest of the way. Pledge levels include:
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
Help me fund epic poem GULA: A Poem For The End Times on BackerKit! A modernist/post-modernist long-form poem, GULA explores Carrion City, a place where the lost and forsaken end up and rarely leave -- a mirror city to the world of the beloved and treasured.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Giving this another boost for the evening crowd! We're sitting at 1/3 of our goal and I need your help to get the rest of the way. Pledge levels include:
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
-Just the e-book of GULA
-The e-book set of THE SINGULARITY, CARRION CITY and GULA (all very much thematically connected)
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#Booksky Only a few days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#Booksky Only a few days left to get our Vendor of the Month deal!
Use code WisCon26 at checkout, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Use code WisCon26 at checkout, you save some $ and we’ll make a donation to a long running cool feminist sf convention! queenofswordspress.com
Personal Me: About once or twice a year, someone will track me down at an event to tell me that my novel, SILVER MOON, was their coming out book. And gotta say, as a queer elder, that is the coolest damn thing in the world. 💖
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Personal Me: About once or twice a year, someone will track me down at an event to tell me that my novel, SILVER MOON, was their coming out book. And gotta say, as a queer elder, that is the coolest damn thing in the world. 💖