Happy 2020, faithful blog readers! Here’s hoping you’ve had some time off (check), are feeling rested (well, I was until I finally caught the death!cold that’s been going around, and I still can’t sleep a full night without coughing), and are heading into the new year with at least a tiny bit of optimism (check).
We’ve had a busy year here at Turtleduck Press writing stuff for your enjoyment…
We returned to the world of our fantasy novel City of Hope and Ruin with an anthology called Love Shines Through, featuring romance stories from not just Kit and me (the authors of the original novel) but also KD and Erin, who kept asking us hard questions about the world that they needed answers to in order to write their stories. (Note to self: next time, write a story bible or a wiki while you’re writing the novel. It’s much easier than doing it after the fact, when you’ve forgotten all the details.) The four stories have a wide variety of pairings, because that’s how we roll: two queer (F/F and M/non-binary) and two straight (M/F).
Our full-length novel release for the year was by KD Sarge, a lighthearted fantasy adventure called Flame Isfree and the Feather of Fate, featuring a runaway elf named Flame, a party of adventurers on a quest for untold riches, a priest who won’t tell them where they’re going or why, and one very annoying ex-betrothed. (Free sample.)
We’ve also been putting out free fantasy serials:
- “Coat of Scarlet” by Siri Paulson (yours truly)
- “Curiosity Killed the Cat” by KD Sarge
- “Sun Touched” by Erin Zarro
…as well as standalone short stories by Kit Campbell (science fiction) and Erin Zarro (horror). All of these free stories are available on our Freebies page.
And we blog here every week, talking about what we’ve been up to and what’s on our minds. You can read (or reread!) all of those posts under Bloggish Things.
Looking ahead, 2020 is the tenth anniversary of Turtleduck Press. I know! We can’t believe it either. We started planning early in 2010, and launched that fall with Knight Errant by KD Sarge (science fiction romance), Life as a Moving Target by Erin Zarro (poetry about disability), and Hidden Worlds by Kit Campbell (fantasy adventure). We’ve put out two or three books for sale every year since, and you can find them all on the Turtleduck Works page.
We’ve got some special surprises planned to celebrate as the year goes on, so stay tuned! And thanks for being here with us. We couldn’t do this without you.