ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social , over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... #booksky #fantasy #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

I've enjoyed this series! Particular favorites: - Muthi Nhlema, Piss Corpse (very droll) - Libby Young, The Smell of Rain (haunting me since I read it) - Carmelo Rafalà, The Clarity of Ice (my kind of SF 🤩) Also liked Zainab Omaki's The Last and Final Battle.

I've been following these coming out and bookmarking for when I have time to read and I think that time has come!! (Particularly excited about Piss Corpse as an RPCV and critical scholar of aid & development work...) Thank you for doing this publishing labor and getting these stories out there!

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'. More in the thread ---⬇ #fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃 More in the thread ---⬇ #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃 More in the thread ---⬇ #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

🎃The ZamaShort Halloween Special!🎃 🎃ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)🎃 More in the thread ---⬇ #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

This month's ZamaShort Subscriptions delivered! If you would like advance copies of our monthly releases sign up for a subscription or buy a bundle here: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort

🎃The ZamaShort Halloween Special!🎃 Book Trailer 🎃ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)🎃 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX2KBC5Z #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

🎃The ZamaShort Halloween Special!🎃 🎃ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)🎃 More in the thread ---⬇ #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

🎃Something real special coming out this Halloween from ZamaShort 🎃

my debut collection is officially out in Nigeria today! after being born in the US & the UK in 2023, it came here to meet me halfway. i am fizzing with gratitude to the Supreme Being, to the publisher, to kindest friends, and to all future readers. Welcome to the weird.👹

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social , ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair'. Dare Segun Falowo is a writer in the Nigerian Weird. Their work draws on cinema, indigenous cosmologies, pulp fiction & a lived surreality. More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #5 'The Smell of Rain' by Libby Young over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

The ZamaShort Bundle Special is Live! All our stories one time. Save 24% off the retail price for the individual stories. You will be supporting our future, our authors, African literature, and read excellent stories! selfany.com/s/ZamaShort #AfricanSFF #AfricanLit #booksky 🪐📚💙

Publication Day! ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social In the mythical African Kingdom of Uju, Chief Len and his son Fren must undertake a journey to find a cure. A tale of magic, achillean romance and finding one’s true self. #booksky #fantasy #lgbtq #AfricanSFF

ZamaShort Update, Six Months! Six months, nearly, since our first publication, to date we have published excellent stories from Muthi Nhlema, Nerine Dorman, Zainab Omaki, Carmelo Rafala, Libby Young, and next is Dare Segun Falowo.

We're on tiktok now www.tiktok.com/@zama1short, just posted a little promo vid there. Have an idea about getting round to doing some book trailers and such. If tiki tok is your jam we'll see you there!

I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU HONEY: am so excited for you all to read this short story and enter the world of Uju. Loosely inspired by fairytales, esp. Cinderella and the myth of Persephone + a first exploration of queer romance in my ouevre. Out October 1!

ZamaShort 6 ‘Sindi Fair’ by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social In the mythical African Kingdom of Uju, Chief Len and his son Fren must undertake a journey to find a cure. A tale of magic, achillean romance and finding one’s true self. #AfricanSFF #booksky #fantasy #lgbtq

First update/newsletter out. If you'd like to receive our updates by email please add yourself to our connections at our shop: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort

Our shop is back! Platform sorted back-end issues, all is well, up, and running.

First release to subscribers out! Because we decided that an added bonus of our subscriptions will be getting our releases when they go up for pre-order.

Our shop is down for now while waiting for the platform to sort out some back-end stuff, if they don't sort it out we will find another platform. All subscriptions will be honoured as that's something we do, not the platform.

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #4 'The Clarity of Ice' by Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... #booksky 🪐📚💙

Fantastic story by the excellent Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social acquired, will release 1st Oct. 2025 (we have been working on it a while, just finalised everything). #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

Introducing The ZamaShort Shop! Today is a new day for ZamaShort, we are launching our very own shopfront where you can buy from us directly! selfany.com/s/ZamaShort #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 @nerinedorman.bsky.social @zainabomaki.bsky.social @carmelorafala.bsky.social

Big news coming soon, something we have been working on for ages now seems to have come right! (So vague heh, I know, more to follow this week!)

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Libby Young, ZamaShort #5 'The Smell of Rain'. #AfricanSFF #clifi #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

Good to see Libby library loans of the ZamaShort stories are picking up a bit. You can read all our stories for free if you have a library card and your library is signed on for libby @libbyapp.com. #booksky 🪐📚💙

Publish Day! ZamaShort #5 ‘The Smell of Rain’ by Libby Young. #AfricanSFF #clifi #climatefiction #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #3 'The Last and Final Battle' by Zainab Omaki, over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #fantasy

What am I straining the bounds of my reading list with this week/end? I’m glad you asked! 💙📚

New review by Elizabeth Suggs of Carmelo Rafalà's 'The Clarity of Ice' Many thanks Elizabeth! @elizabethsuggs.bsky.social #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi #hardscifi

ZamaShort #5 ‘The Smell of Rain’ by Libby Young In the near future the Climate Crisis rages on relentlessly. On a isolated farm in South Africa Tilda and her dog Alfie somehow survive. Until the day a desperate young boy changes everything. #AfricanSFF #clifi #climatefiction #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

#AfricanLit #booksky ❤️📚💙 #romance

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts ZamaShort #2 'Summer' by Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social over at the whatsapp channel, whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

#AfricanSFF #booksky 🩸📚💙 #horror

Fantastic story by T.L. (Tendai) Huchu acquired, will release on Halloween (Oct 31st 2025). Particularly excited by this not just because it is of course an excellent story coming from Tendai, but it will also be our first story published from a Zimbabwean author.

#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙 #historicalfiction

#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙 #literaryfiction

#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙 #fantasy

Have standardised and updated the ZamaShort Genre Icons, for a clearer design language across releases. Here's the first!

Running some ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts over at the whatsapp channel, starting with ZamaShort #1 'Piss Corpse' by Muthi Nhlema.

Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social on ZamaShort #4 'The Clarity of Ice' by Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social Many thanks Donna! #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi

Meet Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social author of ZamaShort #4 'The Clarity of Ice'. #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi

Publish Day! ZamaShort #4 ‘The Clarity of Ice’ by Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social Now Out! Routine planet human-seeding run compromised. Bio-engineers Karlyn and Cruz must troubleshoot catastrophic failure in a desperate bid for survival. #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi 1-10

More love.

Tej Turner @tejturner.com on ZamaShort #4 'The Clarity of Ice' by Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social "Intriguing and original, well realised. The prose is excellent, the characters feel real, relatable and compelling. Overall, a very enjoyable read." — Tej Turner. #booksky 🪐📚💙 #scifi