The KS campaign will offer "A Second Cup", our sequel to "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity, as an add-on for backers. "A Second Cup" will include 8 authors we did not have the budget for in the original book, but were worthy of being printed.

Open calls for "Are You Everything Alright" and "Endings" are posted - aanpress.com/submissions.... - Please do note we will need the upthread KS campaign in August to fund these two books.

The pre-launch link for our next KS book campaign is now active - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sff #bookshy #sf #fantasy Hope you'll join AaN's campaign and pledge to help bring two new books to life and support talented authors.

had a dream this early morning where i was listening to the band Joy Division playing in a mall food court and i was chatting with them but it was actuality Peter Murphy and Sonic Youth members

I had another poetry book-Stars on Fire-in the wings. It is done! Out in September. Summer Poems. Once my Kickstarter is live in August for Morty Takes a Walk, it will be an add on too. If you would want a print of these image, you can find it here: www.jessicapixie.com/product-page...

New post in a loose series of highlights of books you might not know but are well worth your time: Apollo Quartet by Ian Sales - alt history, hard SF, multiverse novellas.

sad when you like someone but know your dating life has been over with for years.

Link to the book wherein the recent poetry of mine will be published by Lemon Jelly Press - www.lemonjellypress.com/shop/p/pre-o...

today in the garden

taking a break in the slightly cooler air outside with my respirator on. quite pleasant aside from it being hazardous otherwise

today’s not fooling around outside gear

@xleforce.bsky.social reads their beautiful story next on Tales Unearthed. Check out @aanpress.bsky.social for this amazing anthology and others. Next up, @crossingwinter.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

Please listen to @xleforce.bsky.social read their “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” story. One of the most unique in the anthology. We knew this one had to be in the book after we read it.

now reading

was going to sit outside but nope nuh uh no way. the smoke from Canada has reached us at last

Look for a KS campaign (Two Intriguing AaN Anthologies) for our next two books (and TCSG: A Second Cup as an add-on) launching August 4. Preview link coming soon. #booksky #sff

If I ever did put together a cosplay outfit I would not do any artificial weathering. I would prefer to be mint in box.

Game designer hat on today to finish up the draft of a solo journaling RPG for my local game store to use as a giveaway. First time writing something like this. Sent it along to the powers that be for some playtesting and review.

now reading (my 23rd book by Matthew Hughes, guess I am a fan of his writing by this point)

now then do i put some thyme in the peach clafoutis

goal in life: to learn the Samurai Jack rave dance.

tired of the world today. hoping all the evil people die soon.

Here is the full cover layout and cropped front cover without the watermarked image. "Are You Everything Alright", soon to be a KS campaign (August?) and then an OC (September?) along with "Endings". Think it is time and these two books will pair well together for curious authors and readers.

now reading

On the virtual boards this morning - playing with cover designs for a future anthology idea, sparked yesterday by a quote (and by some spam @scottedelman.bsky.social received). Folds into the idea for an apocalypse/dystopia anthology but only for the evil people. The rest of us make a better place.

“Modern society is progressing towards nothing worth arriving at.” Now that is a thought to mull over.

now reading. so far very good and very weird. reminds me a little of Klara and the Sun

An interview conducted by Maria Simbra about my publishing work and cover design thoughts. (And yes I look quite old) app.screencastify.com/watch/hHxOUE...

A new "Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity" review, this time highlighting @crossingwinter.bsky.social @roxanellanque.bsky.social and Meg Candelaria (Buy a copy here - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...)

#MakeItWidelyKnownWednesday: A signal boost thread highlighting a few of our quirky projects that need a wider reach: "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency" - 4 provocative Future History/Hard SF stories that share a common opening - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...

Today's task with my game designer hat on - work on a solo journaling RPG for my favorite local game store's holiday giveaway game. First time trying to create one of these.

A compelling piece of music to me - youtu.be/YgLJkyBkeWk?...

have what appears to be a candy striped poppy

today’s ongoing good deed to help a friend. first coat of sealant on a folding screen. still too hot to do outside but i got a wipe on sealer so no vapors. glad i have the workbench room.

Lemon Jelly Press has accepted my submitted poem for their "Sea Pamphlet". Nice thing to wake up to.

Wearing my game designer's hat to say my solo game of romance between the wars "Pulp Romance" and its second expansion has 2 days left on KS. You are able to get the base game as well as the 1st expansion as well, though that option is limited - www.kickstarter.com/projects/194... #boardgame

secret talents: I do a very good impression of the Dictator Phantom of the Planet Krankor.

At this point I might as well pull everything out of the garden and just plant wildflowers each year. The jerks of the animal world don't bother them

think it is time to go read a book at a cooling center i.e. the library for awhile.

Sums it all up

Proud of my salami rose platter from a get together I hosted today

oh and idiot man baby if you could do the country a favor and saunter off to the burny place before 7/4 it would really make it a proper holiday to celebrate independence.

now reading, but which. your vote decides.

With an author I have had the pleasure of publishing, celebrating her own first book of poetry under her own Tiny Bat Press imprint, here is a 28-29 year throwback to my very first two self published AaN books.

They are here! This is sort of an indescribable feeling, but this is hands down one of my favorite things i have created. To be able to hold my words in book form wrapped within this painting is some kind of epic magic. Here is the link if you would like one- www.jessicapixie.com/about-5

Enjoy @abigailkemske.bsky.social reading her short story in the recent anthology Tea or Coffee, Stars and Gravity published by @aanpress.bsky.social Next up, @leootherland.bsky.social 🤍 open.substack.com/pub/jessicap...

It's @abigailkemske.bsky.social time to join @jessicapixie.bsky.social for a beverage of her choice, & the reading of her story from "Tea or Coffee, Stars, & Gravity" Listen over on Tales Unearthed - jessicapixietales.substack.com/p/abigail-ke... (Books available here - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...)

Oil pastel drawings on pigmented paper have been added to the AaN Press Artworks site - aanpress.com/artworks/

now reading

Soon to be added to the artwork shop section of AaN (aanpress.com/artworks/) - oil pastel on pigmented paper