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Brain Jar Press
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Australian publishers of fantasy, horror, science fiction, crime and geeky non-fiction, specialising in chapbooks, novellas, and short novels.
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We're now taking pre-orders on a collection of Sourdough themed coffee mugs, featuring characters created by @angelaslatter.bsky.social with illustrations from @tanaudel.bsky.social.

Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/ag-s...
June 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Happy Book Birthday to Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, coming out in ebook and paperback today!

Available everywhere good books are sold, but we always have a special love for folks who buy from Brain Jar Press directly :)

Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles displayed over a picture of a storm-wracked sea. There are giant swells in the storm wracked water, but a few hints of sunlight gleaming through the dark clouds.
May 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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We just got our print run of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles ten days ahead of schedule, so guess whose weekend just got devoted to shipping out pre-orders?

The rest of the world waits until May 27, but we'll be shipping books from Monday.

You in? www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring a collection of boats sunken beneath the ocean and a few skeletal mermaids.
May 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Happy Book Birthday to @fearofemeralds.bsky.social's NEVER AFTERS omnibus, which is out in ebook and trade paperback today.

Brain Jar Press Store: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...

Other Retailers: books2read.com/NeverAftersO...
The front cover of Kirstyn McDermott's Never AFters, featuring a young woman in regency dress standing at an arched window, looking over a winter landscape. The cover is for the book, presented on a tablet.
May 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on paperback and ebook editions of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, out from Brain Jar Press on May 27.

Read a Sample: read.bookfunnel.com/read/em32gw5...
Pre-Order the Book: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring sunken boats in a blue channel with spectral mermaids swimming among the depths. The cover is laid over a green textured pattern.
May 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I think the Never Afters Omnibus is the first time I've ever been worried about a stack of our books falling on us and doing some damage.

When you pack a book to the gills with seven novelettes, it turns out the final volume is *dense*.
Copies of Kirstyn McDermott's Never Afters stacked fourteen books high, with the cover visible on the top volume.
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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The official release is May 6, but print copies of Never Afters are now shipping from the Brain Jar Press store if you enjoy getting your books earlier than everyone else!

Get your copy here: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...
Six copies of Kirstyn McDermott's collection, Never Afters, on a busy computer desk in the Brian Jar Press offices.
April 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Ordered print copies of The Night Stair, figuring they'd last us a year.

Gone in three days.

Ordered a second round of print copies, figuring demand would slow.

Two copies left after packaging pre-orders to date.

Contacting the printer for a third round of books in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Two copies of Angela Slatter's Chapbook, The Night Stair, resting on a white tabletop.
February 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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With a whole bunch of folks discovering @AngelaSlatter for the first time (or realising just how much she's written), we've pulled together a low-cost bundle of all her short story collections and chapbooks folks can pick up for a discounted price.

Details: www.brainjarpress.com/angela-slatt...
The covers of five Angela Slatter Books: Red New Day, The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, No Good Deed, and The Night Stair. Available as a bundle for 25% off.
February 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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The Night Stair Chapbooks, fresh from the printer.

Not out until March 25, and we’ve already had to go back and order more!
A small pile of Angela Slatter’s The Night Stair chapbook in print, placed on a blanket covered in dinosaurs The dinosaurs aren’t thematically linked to the book at all. It’s just the blanket we have at the office right now.
February 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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If you downloaded your free copy of The Night Stair yesterday and still crave an @angelaslatter.bsky.social fix, here's a reminder you can also get a copy of the No Good Deed chapbook by signing up to our newsletter.

Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed
A copy of Angela Slatter's No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale in ebook, displayed on a tablet, placed atop a pile of skulls.
February 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on Angela Slatter aka AG Slatter's chapbook, The Night Stair, featuring a tale of vampires, vengenace, and treachery set in Angela's Sourdough universe.

Get the free ebook today at offers.brainjarpress.com/thenightstair
The cover of Angela Slatter's The Night Stair against a red, concrete textured background. Accompanying text reads "Available March 25 in Chapbook and Ebook"
January 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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We've published a few short story projects from @angelaslatter.bsky.social over the last few years.

If you missed all of them, we're now offering all four books at a discounted price in the Angela Slatter Short Fiction Bundle: www.brainjarpress.com/product/ange...
Paperback editions of four Angela Slatter books: The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings; Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales; Red New Day and Other Microfictions, and the chapbook No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale.
December 5, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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What's your favourite line in Kathleen Jennings' Travelogues?

Personally, I find it really hard to go past the memories of home that lead us to "Fall is made-up, like yellow schoolbuses, sororities and American high schools."

Still got to get your copy? We've got you: tinyurl.com/yc62awf8tion/
Lines from Kathleen Jennings Travelogues: Baltimore to NYC "I think autumn is an invention, an infection. Culverts and buttresses, cuttings and weighbridges, iron and concrete both softened and fall-stained. A pine-green shed, a turned-bone tanker. Both bleed and lichen and bloom. At home it is spring, the verigated-rose bark is peeling like ribbon candy and the trees are shedding violet and scarlet like painted shade. Fall is made-up, like yellow schoolbusses, sororities and American high schools."
November 17, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Open the door to some spooky holiday reads this Christmas season. Whether you're a horror reader or a horror writer, Brain Jar Press has some outstanding books from some of Australia's best horror authors.

Details: www.brainjarpress.com/shop/
A spooky barn door opening into a ghostly light beyond occupies the right side of the screen. On the left is a series of titles from Brain Jar Press's horror range, including Angela Slatter's Winter Children and Other Stories, Joanne Anderton's Inanimates, Kaaron Warren's Capturing Ghosts on the Page, and Alan Baxter's The Martial Art of Writing (which, yes, doesn't sound like horror, or even look like horror when you see it, but trust us...)
November 15, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Thinking about your writing goals for next year? Lee Murray's GOAL SETTING (LITERALLY) is packed full of practical advice for scoping out your creative career, setting targets, and charting your development as a writer.

Go here to pick up a copy on sale ---> www.brainjarpress.com/product/goal...
A paperback copy of Goal Setting (Literally): A Writer's Guide by Lee Murray, set against a gray sheet. The covver depicts a giant red lightbulb with a small silhouette of a person at the bottom, quietly working on a laptop.
November 15, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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We're meant to stop promoting the collections of spooky, gothic speculative fiction just because it's not Halloween anymore?

Yeah, that's not happening. Here's a snipped from @angelaslatter.bsky.social's wonderfully creepy 'Only The Dead and Moonstruck'

Link: www.brainjarpress.com/product/wint...
Text from Angela Slatter's story "Only the Dead and Moonstruck" from Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales Reads "...And that girl with skin as pale as a fish's belly, thick lips, and wide-set protruding eyes that even in the moonlight appeared to have no whites, had looked up at Becky's window. That girl seemed to see here, even in the darkness, even through the lacy curtain. And that girl smiled slowly to let all those tiny teeth catch the rays of the moon and stars..."
November 14, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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It's a stinking hot day here in Brisbane, so we're dipping into the winter landscapes of Kathleen Jenning's Travelogues poems to cool off.

If you need to find a little moment of chill amid the coming Australian summer, get your copy here: www.brainjarpress.com/product/trav...
A quote from Kathleen Jennings' poem Northampton to NYC: "The ponds are rimmed with frost, like salt, and filmed with ice, like a cats eye. A grisaille day, a sepia-wash day, a froth of white startling under a brick archway. River like old tin..."
November 14, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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Jason Nahrung on the inspiration behind his new vampire novella, Cruel Nights, and why this new take on 90s vampire grunge links back to an album by Heart: jasonnahrung.com/2024/04/10/g...
The front cover of the novella Cruel Nights, depicting a woman smoking a cigarette at the back of a grungy club.
May 9, 2024 at 10:24 PM