Elsewhen Press

08/01/2024

Blood War, Book 3 in the Avatars of Ruin series by Tej Turner, is out today in eBook.
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/2024/01/blood-war-by-tej-turner-published-today/

31/12/2023

For stories on any topic up to 2,000 words. With chief judge Ian Rankin. The Edinburgh Short Story Award is open to writers worldwide. We offer numerous prizes, publication in our next anthology to the top twenty stories, invitation to the Story Awards Soiree for all finalists. The Isobel Lodge Awar

08/12/2023

We are delighted to be able to reveal the cover of Erin Hosfield’s forthcoming debut novel Lacuna, the first book in her Chimera series.

The Chimera series is speculative fiction for the senses, a gritty urban fantasy in an alternate present, with rain-laden streets and neon lit bars. A cozy narrative behind fogged over windows, the scent of verdant herbs and earth and petrichor. A sci fi mystery layered beneath fog shrouded skyscrapers, in a modern society juxtaposed with tradition and alchemy. An emotional tale of loss, betrayal, and the unbreakable bonds that carry us through, Chimera is a love story with ties that are thicker than blood, holding secrets that are more than skin deep.

Set in an alternate present, Lacuna opens with tattooist Lynna’s transition to an atmospheric northwestern city. Derailed from what she’s built, she finds herself immersed in the lush world of medicinal horticulture, enveloped in the kind of close-knit relationships she always craved. Her fantasy has become reality, but not without caveat. As she plunges further into this new life, she begins to expose the conflicting threads holding it together, and what she discovers will bring more questions than answers.

As well as being the author, Erin Hosfield is herself a tattooist and an artist and she also designed the cover of the book. Erin says “The cover art is inspired by the novel’s atmosphere — rainy urban grit and neon lights, Lynna’s story unfolding behind droplet-spattered windows.”

Lacuna will be published in April 2024 as an eBook and in May as a paperback.

28/11/2023

In conjunction with The Fantasy Hive, we are delighted to reveal the cover of Blood War, book 3 in The Avatars of Ruin series by Tej Turner.

06/10/2023

Special Open Submission: Yevgeny Zamyatin

04/09/2023

lovely review for Riftmaster

Just Like Us ambassador Niamh O’Toole reflects on themes of grief, friendship and home in Miles Nelson's q***r sci-fi novel 'Riftmaster'

29/08/2023

: Games industry veteran develops powerful new fiction writing system
From ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ in the 90s, through ‘Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire’ and ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ to the award-winning ‘Eufloria’, Rudolf Kremers’ game design experience enhances his story-telling.
Rudolf Kremers is a BAFTA nominated game developer. Having spent over 20 years working as a designer and consultant to many of the largest entertainment companies in the world, as well as writing a well-respected text book on Level Design, Rudolf has written screenplays and video game narratives across various genres. His skill and experience naturally come to the fore when he writes fiction, and the publication of his debut science fiction novel, Birds of Paradise, has made him think about how his video games career has affected his writing and vice versa, leading to some inspiring conclusions.

From ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ in the 90s, through ‘Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire’ and ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ to the award-winning ‘Eufloria’, Rudolf Kremers’ game design experience enha...

21/08/2023

Loophole by Ian Stewart available in paperback from today.

Loophole by Ian Stewart

21/08/2023

Fellow of the Royal Society writes SF novel exploring weird physics

Professor Ian Stewart, renowned mathematician and author, writes an ‘inventive’ ‘high concept’ science fiction adventure to speculate on ideas at the edge of known physics.

Science fiction provides an ideal medium for such speculation and Ian Stewart’s latest novel, Loophole, seizes that opportunity to explore concepts on the edge of known physics while keeping within the bounds of probability: faster-than-light travel, wormhole-linked black-holes, alternative universes. At the same time, he tells a gripping adventure story of universe-shattering proportions.

Multiple award-winning hard-science-fiction author Stephen Baxter says of Loophole, “When universes collide … A multicosmos at war in a scenario of staggering, but scientifically authentic, invention … As if the Marvel multiverse collided with 2001: A Space Odyssey … I am awed, and I don’t awe easily. The highest of high-concept SF.”

Henry Gee, Senior Editor at Nature, and author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth and The Sigil trilogy, says, “There’s Hard SF. There’s Wide-Screen Baroque. Now with Ian Stewart’s Loophole we have Wrap-Around Rococo. Daringly inventive, Loophole is a mind-fryingly, Möbius-twistingly intense SF adventure of the first order.”

Read the full press release at https://elsewhen.press/index.php/2023/07/fellow-of-the-royal-society-writes-sf-novel-exploring-weird-physics/

15/07/2023

Francesca from Luna Press with 5 good reasons to write short fiction.

Question Time continues at Luna HQ.Today we focus on my 5 top reasons for writing short fiction.Remember to check out our Publishing 101 Series which will ta...

14/07/2023

Seven days. Seven deaths. Seven brides for seven rivers…

It is New Year’s Day. The city of Galata, with its ancient river-streets, is slowly sinking into the sea. But for one week its citizens want to forget this, and celebrate the city’s thousand-year anniversary.
For Joseph, a jaded ex-detective, the day brings a glimmer of hope. Last night he met and kissed Celice, a free-spirited artist. Tonight he is meeting her again. But Celice never turns up.
Then her body is pulled out of the canal.
There are papers on her; charred at the edges, with mysterious writing on them. As Joseph teams up with his former police colleague J.D, they discover this may be just the first in a series of eerily similar crimes that took place on exactly the same week, 100 years ago.
Is history about to repeat itself? And can they stop it happening again?

Out today in eBook. Get it from your favourite retailer via books2read.com/Galata
In paperback 14th August, pre-order from your favourite retailer via books2read.com/Galata

11/07/2023

Seven days. Seven deaths. Seven brides for seven rivers…

It is New Year’s Day. The city of Galata, with its ancient river-streets, is slowly sinking into the sea. But for one week its citizens want to forget this, and celebrate the city’s thousand-year anniversary.

For Joseph, a jaded ex-detective, the day brings a glimmer of hope. Last night he met and kissed Celice, a free-spirited artist. Tonight he is meeting her again. But Celice never turns up.

Then her body is pulled out of the canal.

There are papers on her; charred at the edges, with mysterious writing on them. As Joseph teams up with his former police colleague J.D, they discover this may be just the first in a series of eerily similar crimes that took place on exactly the same week, 100 years ago.

Is history about to repeat itself? And can they stop it happening again?

Urban fantasy meets police procedural.
Galata by Ben Gribbin out this friday in eBook. Pre-order now at https://books2read.com/Galata

07/07/2023

Birds of Paradise by Rudolf Kremers is out today in eBook format.


Humanity received a technological upgrade from long-dead aliens. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Get the ebook now from your favourite retailer or pre-oprder the paperback: https://books2read.com/BirdsOfParadise

Humanity had somehow muddled through the horrors of the 20th century and – surprisingly – managed to survive the first half of the 21st, despite numerous nuclear accidents, flings with neo-fascism and the sudden arrival of catastrophic climate change. It was agreed that spreading our chances across two planets offered better odds than staying rooted to little old Earth. Terraforming Mars was the future!

A subsequent research expedition led to humanity’s biggest discovery: an alien spaceship, camouflaged to appear like an ordinary asteroid. Although the aliens had long since gone, probably millions of years ago, their technology was still very much alive, offering access to unlimited power.

Over the next hundred years humanity blossomed, reaching out to the solar system. By 2238, Mars had been successfully terraformed, countless smaller colonies had sprung up in its wake, built on our solar system’s many moons, on major asteroids and in newly built habitats and installations.

Jemm Delaney is a Xeno-Archaeologist and her 16-year old son Clint a talented hacker. Together they make a great team. When she accepts a job to retrieve an alien artifact from a derelict space station, it looks like they will become rich. But with Corps, aliens, AIs and junkies involved, nothing is ever going to proceed smoothly.

If you’re a fan of Julian May, Frank Herbert or James S.A. Corey, you will love Birds of Paradise.

30/06/2023

Many politicians misleadingly use ‘witch hunt’ as a dismissive label when being held accountable for their own lies, corruption and misdeeds.

Whereas, actual witch hunts in the UK are conducted by HM Office of the Witchfinder General, a secretive arm of law-enforcement concerned with enforcing ‘magus laws’, and ‘Protecting the public from the unnatural since 1645’.

Find out more at https://elsewhen.press/index.php/2023/06/many-politicians-misleadingly-use-witch-hunt-as-a-dismissive-label-when-being-held-accountable-for-their-own-lies-corruption-and-misdeeds/

29/06/2023

Head Full of Dark, by Simon Kewin - Author is out now as an eBook.

The third story of HM Office of the Witchfinder General:
Protecting the public from the unnatural since 1645

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

There is clearly someone in the Office of the Witchfinder General who is working for or with English Wizardry, and Danesh and the Crow are determined to track them down. It might even be one of the Lord High Witchfinders. Who can they trust? Can Danesh even trust the Crow?

To ensure the traitor is not alerted, Danesh conducts an off-the-books investigation under cover of an inquiry into a cold case. But not all cold cases stay cold; not all dead witches stay dead; and not all traitors stay hidden…

… and what is the significance of the goat’s skull?

Buy now from your favoiurite eBook retailer: https://books2read.com/HeadFullOfDark

For more details, visit: https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/head-full-of-dark/

Cover by Alison Buck

20/06/2023

Today we're thrilled to reveal the cover of Ian Stewart's far-future hard-sci-fi LOOPHOLE, coming soon from Elsewhen Press!

Read more here: https://wp.me/p8ZX5L-4yg

16/06/2023

Today Rudolf Kremers revealed the cover of his science fiction novel Birds of Paradise, which we will be publishing in July. The fantastic cover art is by Max Taquet.
Find out more at https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/birds-of-paradise/

09/06/2023

Out today in eBook.
A gnome, a mouse and a skeleton meet on a train

No… not the start of a joke but of an adventure that crosses worlds, space and time!

https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/an-extraordinary-tale/

05/05/2023

The Last Star by Terry Grimwood is published in eBook format today. https://books2read.com/TheLastStar-Grimwood

Never forget that old saying: Beware god-like aliens bearing gifts


Stasis and inorganic self-repair, new spacefaring technologies for humankind, yet more gifts from its closest extra-terrestrial ally, the Iaens. There are, it seems, no limits to humanity’s outward journey.

Then Lana Reed, Mission Commander of the interstellar colony seeder, Drake, awakes from her own stasis to discover that all but three of the vessel’s other tanks are dark, their occupants suffocated, screaming yet unheard in their high-tech coffins. But the stasis tanks are not all that is dark. The sensors return no readings from outside. The external vid-feeds show only unending blackness.

There are no stars to be seen. No planet song to be heard. No galaxy cry. No echoing radio signals that proclaim life.

The Drake and its surviving crew are adrift and alone in a lightless, empty universe.

��From Terry Grimwood, another taste of the human realpolitik alliance with the Iaen, begun in Interference.

Cover design and artwork: Alex Storer/The Light Dreams

28/04/2023

Science fiction author pioneers pay-it-forward Gift-A-Book scheme in Durham
Miles Nelson, author-in-residence at the BookWyrm indie bookshop, advocates for LGBTQ+ and mental health resources and believes everyone should have access to the books that bring them joy.

Miles Nelson, author-in-residence at the BookWyrm indie bookshop, advocates for LGBTQ+ and mental health resources and believes everyone should have access to the books that bring them joy. Elsewhen...

28/04/2023

Out today in eBook. Renegade is the much anticipated sequel to Riftmaster, the 2021 bestseller from Miles Nelson, author-in-residence at the BookWyrm bookshop.

Get it now from your favourite retailer: https://books2read.com/Renegade-Nelson