Pink Narcissus Press

07/22/2024

New review over on Reedsy for Wooldridge's WHERE MONSTERS PRAY. "Wonderful, wicked and weird speculative writing."🙂

Review: Where Monsters Pray, by Trisha J. Wooldridge, is a collection of sixteen pieces of wonderful, wicked and weird speculative writing.

07/08/2024

Murder at the Sideshow! Dr Bill and Michael will be hand selling hardcover copies of their weird, dark and fully illustrated adult picture book at Readercon next weekend, but a paperback version is available today at Amazon.

Tales From the Sideshow

06/25/2024

Now available in trade paperback and on Kindle! WHERE MONSTERS PRAY by Trisha J. Wooldridge, a dark and creepy collection of stories with a touch of the feminist and the q***r. Warning: may contain murderous tentacles, zombie unicorns, and genetically-modified cats - but at least the chickens are all right.

Where Monsters Pray

06/16/2024

Now available for pre-order for the Kindle! A collection of dark and twisted, q***r and feminist stories by award-winning author Trisha J. Wooldridge. Cover art and illustrations by Michael Takeda.

Both e-book and trade paperback will be available June 25th.

Where Monsters Pray

05/04/2024

Coming out in June! A feminist (mostly) horror collection of stories and poems by the marvelous Trisha J. Wooldridge.

"Unicorns, zombie parasites, murderous designer cats, and tentacled women populate this satisfyingly gruesome collection of q***r and feminist stories [...] Wooldridge’s confident voice and reclamation of monstrosity will appeal to creature-feature and pulp horror fans seeking a feminist twist on traditional tropes."

Unicorns, zombie parasites, murderous designer cats, and tentacled women populate this satisfyingly gruesome collection of q***r...

01/12/2024

Now available in both e-book and paperback! Stuart Sharp's AFTER THE WAR, THE PLAY is a fantasy novel that is part Terry Pratchett's British humor and part Shakespearian comedy.

After the War, The Play

11/20/2023

Here's a lovely recent review for our new book! "Philosophical and humane, The Final Days of Kobold Kody’s Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show is a magical fable about changing one’s destiny for the better."

The Final Days of Kobold Kody’s Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show: In Eli Horowitz’s rich, thoughtful fantasy novel "The Final Days of Kobold Kody’s Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show", talented misfits navigate a magical world. Melding elements of the Wild West with a land in which dragons, ...

11/16/2023

Now available! THE FINAL DAYS OF KOBOLD KODY'S FRONTIER EXPOSITION AND TONIC SHOW by Eli Horowitz.

Set in a post-war fantasy world under the Empire’s never-ending expansion, the story begins with a bloody vision by Andra, the show’s Fortuneteller, culminating with a showdown with Pol, the Empire’s most powerful magician and poet. It is up to Andra alone to thwart the dark prophecy and save her fellow performers, a quirky cast of outsiders and misfits, from their terrible fates.

Two days out from the capital, the Fortune Teller has a vision. It is a bloody prophecy, as her visions often are. Yet this one is more. It is the beginning of the end for Kobold Kody’s Frontier Exposition and Tonic Show.

09/18/2023

In recent news, our author Tlotlo Tsamaase (The Silence of the Wilting Skin) was short-listed for The Caine Prize for Africa Writing.

[London, UK] – The Caine Prize for African Writing, an esteemed annual award honouring outstanding African writers, is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2023 edition. The five shortlisted stories were carefully selected from a pool of 297 entries originating from 28 African countries.

06/15/2023

Now available on Amazon! One dystopian tale set underground, the other about a trans vampire who wants to receive his new name, both q***r. Written by Nat Buchbinder, with cover art by Nicolae Negura.

Inkweed: + The Mellification

03/28/2023

First review of Nat Buchbinder's INKWEED from Publishers Weekly is now live!

Buchbinder debuts with an inventive and intimate duo of q***r, fantastical novellas bound by a common theme of escape from oppre...

09/21/2022

Now available! REVIMORE, a feminist sci-fi novella about a company that recreates loved ones as replicants, and explores what it means to be human. Written by Ciel Dexter. Cover art by Duncan Eagleson.

Revimore

06/26/2022

First review for REVIMORE, our spec fic novella forthcoming in September 2022.

Dexter’s debut brings thoughtful sensitivity to a familiar science fictional “what if.” In the near future, the London-based Rev...

04/13/2022

In recent news, one of our novels, Tsamaase's THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN, has been released in Italian.

07/28/2021

Here's a sneak peek at the cover of REVIMORE by Ciel Dexter, one of our upcoming novellas. Told through the voices of women, this thought-provoking work examines the nature of grief, and the ethical dilemmas inherent in Revimore, a company that creates artificially intelligent replicants to replace loved ones after death. Cover art & design by Duncan Eagleson.

07/10/2021

Now available: The Starting Hurricanes StoryBundle. Pay what you want for 4 fab spec fic e-books, or pay at least $15 for 11 e-books, including Bo Balder's THE WAN.

05/30/2021

Congratulations to our author Tlotlo Tsamaase who is on the short list for the Nommo Awards for THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN.

Supporting African Speculative Fiction By Africans

05/15/2021

Here's a free and marvelous short story by our author Bo Balder (THE WAN) in the most recent issue of Clarkesworld.

Subscribe to Clarkesworld and never miss an issue of our World Fantasy and Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. This page: The Force Exerted on the Mass of a Body by Bo Balder

05/02/2021

Here's a recent interview with our author Tlotlo Tsamaase on the Intermultiversal Space podcast.

A podcast about writers and writing.

03/16/2021

Congratulations to our author Tlotlo Tsamaase, whose novella THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards!

Announcing the 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalists, selected from more than 1,000 book submissions by over 300 publishers

02/07/2021

Another new review of THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN! "This novella is, however, a read that will get under your—ah—skin. It’s an itchy read—one that, for all its narrative imprecision, can leave imprints upon the flesh as good as if an otherworldly spectre had touched you there."

The intensity of loss and the all-encompassing trauma of death in Tsamaase’s prose and poetry has and will continue to pose a substantial challenge to her readers.

01/17/2021

New Review of THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN in this month's issue of Locus! "In this bewildering truth and artful metaphor that Tsamaase has constructed, I found each page to be gorgeously written and often profound. This is a novella that wraps in velvet a raft of loss and outrage that must be recognized."

08/02/2020

Our novella, THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN, gets a shout out in The Washington Post as one of the best spec fic books of the year so far!

“The City We Became” and “Vagabonds” made waves. Next up: Susanna Clarke’s “Piranesi.”

07/12/2020

Now available! The World SF 3 Bundle curated by Lavie Tidhar. Includes a copy of our latest novella: THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN.
https://storybundle.com/scifi

06/20/2020

Our newest book, THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN, gets a shout out from Ink and Paper Blog.

Description Hello Everyone! I hope everyone is doing well, and getting through these tough times. I thought I would take some time today to share with you some of the books that I have just finished reading, that I am currently reading and those that I am looking to read next (always subject to chan...

06/07/2020

New review! "It is full of beautiful, vivid and jarring imagery and the combination kept me entirely engrossed."

The Silence of the Wilting Skin by Tlotlo Tsamaase is an anticolonialist fantasy/dreamscape novel about the importance of family, love and one woman’s fight to preserve her identity and her culture…

05/23/2020

This week marks out 10-Year Anniversary!

Here's a snapshot of what we've accomplished so far:

*9 anthologies (with a total of 200 stories/comics)

*19 novels/novellas/short story collections by 15 authors

*60% of those authors are women

*At least 33% identify as gay or le***an

*20% are not American

*1 POC author (but we would like more!)

Also: thank you to all our readers! We would be nothing without you.

And a special shout out to all our editors, but especially Dr. Bill and Sweet Josie Brown who have being quietly (Bill) and not-so-quietly (Josie) been Pink Narking since the beginning.

05/21/2020

Now available: THE SILENCE OF THE WILTING SKIN, the debut novella from Tlotlo Tsamaase that Lavie Tidhar calls "a surrealist masterpiece". Cover design by Duncan Eagleson.

The Silence of the Wilting Skin

04/04/2020

Heather Fowler's magic realism collection, SUSPENDED HEART, is now available in audiobook!

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In an explosion of love’s metaphors, Fowler’s debut magic realism collection, Suspended Heart, takes on American fabulism with a cast of unexpected heroines in the narratives of life and loss - women whose hearts fall out at public malls, wom...

02/13/2020

Starred review from Publishers Weekly for our upcoming speculative fiction novella!

Motswana author Tsamaase debuts with a lyrical and incisive allegory about personal identity and cultural loss set in an unnamed, phantasmagoric African city. The nameless narrator, an artist, lives