Aussie folks - @brainjarpress.bsky.social, an indie press with fab fantasy titles, is moving and doesn't want to ship all their books across town! So grab 30% off using code NEWLAB2025 - I just nabbed some short story collections by @angelaslatter.bsky.social and Lisa L Hannett I was lusting after.

*chants* Mugs! Mugs! Mugs!

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...

This is a magnificent collection which will stick to your ribs like nothing else!

And here's my review! (TL;DR I loved it and you should just buy it.) randomalex.net/2025/05/27/t...

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-...

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-...

My author copies of Never Afters have arrived! It's such a beautiful book and I am so thrilled to see this collection of revisioned fairy tales out in the world.

We've been all about the new books this week, so now is a good moment to remind folks they can read Angela Slatter's NO GOOD DEED chapbook absolute free. Check it out if you love gothic fantasy with folklore vibes, or you dig the Sourdough universe. Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed

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...

I already pre ordered mine.

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-...

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*.

Haha! Returned from write club to find this glorious thing waiting! Thanks @brainjarpress for this @kirstyn_mcdermott brilliance. 💜💜💜

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...

Hi Folks! The Brain Jar Press offices are located in Brisbane, Australia , which is about to get hit by a cyclone for the first time in a few decades. We can't predict what's going to happen, but I'm pretty sure that there will be disruptions to our ability to ship physical books this week.

We're waiting on new print copies of The Night Stair after preorders winnowed our local stock down to just 2 copies, but this is your reminder you can download the ebook free at offers.brainjarpress.com/TheNightStair.

Oh wow please grab these if you've not encountered Angela Slatter's stuff before - I know a lot of folks would only have read her novels - she's one of the masters of short form fiction and you will LOVE these. All of them.

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...

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...

Dear People On Substack: the next best time to leave Substack is now

So @BrainJarPress put out about a dozen reprint titles from my backlist before we started publishing other people. The plan was always using my work to get through the learning curve, so I wasn't fucking up with someone else's book.

The Night Stair Chapbooks, fresh from the printer. Not out until March 25, and we’ve already had to go back and order more!

The inks for the postcard I illustrated for the launch of @angelaslatter.bsky.social ’s The Crimson Road

So, real talk: we produce great books, but we suck at social media. Brain Jar's mostly 1 guy and 2 cats doing all the work. We don't have the resources to be good and consistent at socials. That's why we rock a cool-ass newsletter with a kick-ass freebie: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed

A reminder for Brisbane folks! The Crimson Road launches next week. While it's not a Brain Jar Press book, we'll be there cheering Angela on (and might have a few, sneaky copies The Night Stair available on the night). RSVP details: www.angelaslatter.com/book-launch-...

Computers have failed us this week! Everyone is sending through such lovely messages about Angela's chapbooks, but our ISP has decided we can only receive--not send or reply--emails sent to Brain Jar. Fingers crossed tech support will figure out the problem and get it licked today.

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

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

Something. Is. Coming.

Reminder: The Crimson Road launch! Moi in convo with Helen Marshall. Come into the Darklands with us... Deets: Tues 11 Feb from 6pm (6:30pm start). At Auditorium, Level 2, Law Society House, 179 Ann Street, Brisbane. RSVP to Pulp Fiction Booksellers, 07 3236 2750 or [email protected].

Current job: waiting for the printer to tell us a secret @AngelaSlatter chapbook is ready, so we can announce it to the world. What are you folks doing?

“I don’t think this is something the Australian government is interested in fixing...But the implications are that we will lose Australian culture in the process.” Thank you @sophtree.bsky.social & @beneltham.bsky.social for stating the bleeding obvious: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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...

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/

"Get in, loser. We're reading small press speculative fiction and horror."

This novella is brilliant and you should all go and read it forthwith.

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/

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...

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...

I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays. My short fiction is available in two short story collections: 🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a... 🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...

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...

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...