are now available! Two terrific new fantasies from Masque Books are available on Amazon, B&N, Scribd, and will soon pop up in all the other ebook venues. Click to read more about Erzebet Yellowboy’s Fingerbones and the third and final book of the Casting the Bones Trilogy—Rookwar by Sunny Moraine.

Two new terrific new fantasies from Masque Books are available on Amazon and will soon pop up in all the other ebook venues! Click to read more about E. Catherine Tobler’s novel WATERMARK and THE DON’T GIRLS, a novella by Octavia Cade.

Both novels are currently only on Amazon.com—at a bargain price of only $2.99!—but will soon be available elsewhere.

Read more about Matthew Rivett’s debut novel Nova Byzantium and the second book of the Casting the Bones trilogy—Ravenfall by Sunny Moraine.

E. Catherine Tobler’s duology—originally published in ebook-only as Rings of Anubis: Silver & Steam
and Rings of Anubis: Gold & Glass—is now available in trade paperback in one exciting volume! Rings of Anubis: A Folley & Mallory Adventure. The to e-books are also available as one novel.

The Book Smugglers review Every In Between:

I’m very pleased to say that YellowBoy’s Every In Between holds its own thanks to its heartfelt protagonist, convincing writing style, and few key departures from the usual plotting standbys… [the novella ]gets really good in my opinion, because it defies the mind-numbingly predictable trope in which the plucky heroine escapes her sanitized fate within the domed world to find a super dreamy dude to instantly fall in love with in the world outside. In Every In Between, Every is confused by the mix of yearning, excitement and happiness she feels for Ally—the most beautiful girl Every has ever seen. She’s also confused by the intense nameless feelings she has for her trainer and raid partner Carduus, with his stern commands and focused attention. I love the fact that this story features a polyamorous romance between Every and the two people she feels so much for – as Every comes to learn, love is a strange and complicated thing and she embraces it whole-heartedly… the thing that really makes Every In Between work is the titular character, Every herself. She’s resourceful and a survivor, but her most endearing quality is her desire to do the right thing, no matter what the cost to herself… Every In Between is a wonderful novella, and I’m very much looking forward to trying more of YellowBoy’s (and Masque’s) work in the near future.

The Bone Whistle by Erzebet YellowBoy is now avaialable on Amazon. Other venues will have the ebook soon! We will update the book page as soon as other booksellers have it in their systems.

Catch up with Masque Books’ first print release ASCENSION: A TANGLED AXON NOVEL by Jacqueline Koyanagi. The informational page now includes an excerpt from the books as well as a round-up of book reviews. Official release date is not until 3 December, but Amazon and BN.com both already have it for sale, so it should be showing up in fine bookstores everywhere!

Submissions to Masque Books are currently closed. If you have already submitted something, it will be replied to as scheduled. Thank you for considering Masque Books as your publisher!

I’ve learned a lot from the discussion on Twitter under the #DiversityinSFF tag and I thought, as the Acquisitions Editor for Masque Books, that I’d write a bit about what kinds of books we’d like to acquire in addition to the awesome that we have already acquired–and published.

We have already published books about a queer, disabled woman of color and the spaceship she’s waited her whole life for, a steampunk adventure with an out-of-the-ordinary heroine, and the travels of a young woman through the land of dreams.

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to help make this community I love more inclusive and diverse through acquiring books like these.

We want to acquire speculative fiction books that represent the full range of human experience–different nationalities and races, gender identities, sexual orientations, class, sizes, religions, and ability. Not just that, we want our authors to be as diverse as their fiction and we especially encourage submissions from writers from groups which are traditionally unrepresented (or represented badly) in speculative fiction.

We’re off to a good start, but we can and must do better. Which is where you–yes, you!–come in.

If we want to publish books that reflect that diversity, we need submissions. We need science fiction romance and science fantasy. We need military science fiction and paranormal fantasy. We need planetary romance and cyberpunk. We need space opera and epic fantasy. We want to publish it all and the only way we’re going to be able to do that is with your help.

We want books that are well-written and compulsively readable. If you’re interested in sending us something, here are the full submission guidelines.

And we also would love to send electronic ARCs out to a diverse population of reviewers–bloggers, especially. If you’re interested in reviewing any of our titles, drop me an email, leave a comment, or find me on Twitter and I’ll make sure you get a copy. All you need to do in return is send us a link to your review (good or bad!).