~ PRIDE MONTH!! 🌈🚀💫 ~ Want to support queer creators (hi!) and small presses at the same time? Want your ecology with teeth & your witches snarky and .. undead?! Preorders for my novella LIGHT & EARTH & MARROW are open at shirakipress.com #sapphic #folklore #magic #booksky #horror #sff

Hey small press author friends, join us! 👇

We have been keeping a little secret. In January we participated in smallpitch.org for the second time. And we are delighted to say that we were able to sign THE MOST TERRIBLE AND WICKED EVIL DARK LORD ACCIDENTALLY INVENTS THE PUBLIC LIBRARY by @mishamwrites.bsky.social ! Available Spring 2027!

We're excited to be joining @losttheplotbooks.bsky.social for the Bookish Bazaar at Old Stove Gardens on June 14th from 2-7 PM. During the event, Old Stove Brewing will donate $1 from every pilsner sold to support Peer Seattle. Learn more at www.peerseattle.org Come out and support a great cause!

This was such a fun conversation between me, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, & M L Dumars, hosted by @marisawolf.bsky.social & directed by @penelopeflynn.bsky.social! Come for the meaty worldbuilding discussion & stay for the great writing advice. Thanks to @swsworlds.bsky.social for making it happen.

Happy Pride. We're making stories all year long about choosing to be the person you want to be. @teffeau.bsky.social Emily O'Malley Liu @millieabecassis.com

One week after @bremertonbythebook and I decided to write a market day recap as a first time vendor. I cover the cost of equipment, time spent, schedule, cost of merchandise, and how much we actually sold! You can read about it at shirakipress.com/blogs/news/b... Big thanks to @BallastBookCo !

This Saturday, New Mexico! Find me at the very first Books in Santa Fe festival, celebrating authors of all kinds from the Land of Enchantment. I'll have copies of all my books (including Implanted which is finally available in print again), short story collections, and more! Hope to see you there!

Signed copies from all of our authors are in stock right now on our site. @teffeau.bsky.social @millieabecassis.com shirakipress.com

As I approach my book tour of fairs and conventions, I'm thinking about the economics of art and taking in washing. https://www.marievibbert.com/taking-in-washing/

@jeanniemarschall.bsky.social 's LIGHT & EARTH & MARROW is a disarmingly cozy novella about the horrors that await the unkenning. The scariest creatures in the darkness... just might be us, but we aren't alone in the woods. @alawinans.bsky.social - This cover is everything. ETA Sept 22, 2026!

We'll be at the Northwest Book Fair & Media Fest in Vancouver, WA a month from today. Come check out a bunch of cool books! northwestbookfair.com

I've got a new interview up over at the Night Beats Extended Universe talking about the inspiration behind my latest book Accelerated Growth Environment! nightbeatseu.ca/2026/05/26/b...

As always, thanks for hosting #LateNightWrite @blackbirb.bsky.social. Today I'm shouting about my latest release THE COLOR OF TIME, a sci-fi retelling of "Donkeyskin" in space. Think DUNE meets a fairytale with a sapphic and hopepunk twist. Now available everywhere books are sold (or borrowed!) ⬇️

We are ecstatic to be working with @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social on her upcoming title - LIGHT & EARTH & MARROW - to be released on September 22, 2026. Learn more about Jeannie at shirakipress.com/pages/jeanni...

THE COLOR OF TIME by Millie Abecassis is out today! Get yours: shirakipress.com/cot @millieabecassis.com repped by @ajvanbelle.bsky.social

Today is my (Brianne’s) birthday. 🎂 There are a lot of things I wish for, and I believe change is possible. I’ve come a long way personally and I’m grateful for everyone who’s helped us along the way. I’m doing what I can to share hope and inspiration. Keep it going!

One week! T-6 days til blastoff. Travel across the galaxy with Princess Cyrelle to discover what it means to fight for yourself against all odds and win. The Color of Time by @millieabecassis.com arrives on May 19th.

A passionate plea echoes through space and time for a princess to save herself and the kingdom she loves. The Color of Time by @Millieabecassis.com Preorder it today at shirakipress.com/cot

Rosemary Jones did a very nice interview with us for Book Publishers Northwest News!

"An expansive original parable of sapphic yearning, mistakes and redemption" - @florencechien.com Need more info? + Classic fairy-tale structure + a space traveling princess + the anger of the gods + righting injustices = The Color of Time by @millieabecassis.com Releasing May 19th!

Or yanno you could build a floating nursery to rewild the earth.... like they do in my ecothriller Accelerated Growth Environment 🌱🌎 www.shirakipress.com/books/accele...

Hi, for those of you who don't know us personally we're Brianne Shiraki and Josh Sutphin. Two years ago we were both working in the games industry. But on May 4, 2024 I (Brianne) woke up to one of the worst phone calls I've ever had to take.

My sapphic ecothriller Accelerated Growth Environment has been out for two months! Check out the book trailer and the latest reviews on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

The Color of Time is out in just 19 days!

It is a dizzying feeling to see a book that you worked on in relative isolation for months and months see the light of day. But Emily O'Malley Liu's Wine for Roses has certainly bloomed beautifully. And then to see it on a shelf... 🥹 Photo credits to @tkrex.bsky.social

Use promo code SHIRAKI to get 15% off Shiraki Press books at Bookshop.org, and support your favorite local book store in the process! We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/shirak...

Had a great time at Indie Bookstore Day w/ @bkwrks.bsky.social this weekend! A fresh stack of signed copies (!) of Accelerated Growth Environment is available at Bookworks as well as the harder to find Bram Stoker Award nominated anthology Chromophobia, w/ a story by Yours Truly, so check it out!

Drumroll please!!! Fruits of our Labor by @ianpattersonauthor.bsky.social is releasing August 25, 2026! The advent of Parthenogenetic birth is changing the fabric of American society - but who gets to decide what we become? ePub ARCs are available via NetGalley or shirakipress.com/pages/arc-re...

We visited 8 indie bookstores today (we hope to visit more this week!) and we are so grateful to live in such a literary community.

This Saturday, you can find me at local indie @bkwrks.bsky.social to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day from 1-3pm. I'll have copies of my latest books and am looking forward to seeing you there!

A disabled gardener and a reclusive trustee must work together to free the Kilbride Estate from its curse in this queer gardencore romantic fantasy. Get your copy today at shirakipress.com/wfr

🚨 GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 When the king commands her hand in marriage, a lesbian space princess flees across the galaxy to escape it, and becomes embroiled in a rebellion in a rival kingdom in THE COLOR OF TIME, a new sapphic space fantasy by Millie Abecassis. app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/34...

We love to celebrate firsts on this crazy publishing journey! We're so excited to see The Color of Time out in the wild in just a few short weeks. Pre-order it now at shirakipress.com/cot!

This Earth Day, consider a story that imagines what it could look like for us to fight *for* the climate. Now available: shirakipress.com/age #BookSky #EarthDay

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

Use promo code SHIRAKI to get 15% off Shiraki Press books at Bookshop.org, and support your favorite local book store in the process! We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/shirak...

Thrilled to learn my environmental fantasy novella A Hunger with No Name, (which came out fall of 2024 from @utampapress.bsky.social), placed THIRD (!) overall in the third annual Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (#sfincs3 #sfincs)!!

I'm running a giveaway for THE COLOR OF TIME, my sci-fi short novel forthcoming May 19, 2026 at @shirakipress.com 🐍 - 5 paperback copies (for residents of the U.S. and Canada) - 20 ebook copies (open worldwide) Enter now 👇

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

One year ago yesterday, we posted an open submission call on the Clarion West Discord server. A year ago today @teffeau.bsky.social submitted her manuscript to us. And on 3/3/26 we published Accelerated Growth Environment. Jorna’s story reminds me that our pasts do not define our futures.

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out now! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

Use promo code SHIRAKI to get 15% off Shiraki Press books at Bookshop.org, and support your favorite local book store in the process! We love Bookshop.org and you should too ❤️ bookshop.org/lists/shirak...

It's time to make the roses bloom. WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu is out today! Get your copy in ebook or paperback at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

THE COLOR OF TIME comes out May 19! <3 shirakipress.com/products/the...

Jorna is an #exvangelical, type-A scientist who is making the world a better place one plant at a time. But she can’t outrun her past. If you need a reminder that you’re the only one you have to convince to give yourself a second chance, then shirakipress.com/age might be your next favorite read. ❤️

An author in her natural environment.

WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu comes out April 14! Preorder now at shirakipress.com/wfr #booksky #gardencore #fantasy #romance

Calling all #librarians! Emily O'Malley Liu's gardencore romantic fantasy WINE FOR ROSES comes out April 14. Available via Ingram, Overdrive, and Hoopla. More info at shirakipress.com/wfr