Just Add Writer

May 15, 2025 1:12 am

-Just Add Writer-

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Today is release day for Just Add Writer by Tim Waggoner! If you've ever wondered how to write your favorite characters in their native settings this book has tips and tricks plus lots of real-world examples for all types of IP and tie-in writing. You can read the first chapter on Tim's blog.


We've also scheduled an online workshop where Tim will cover many of the topics in Just Add Writer, answer questions, and give personalized tips. The workshop costs $25 and you can sign up here.


-Bottling His Ghosts Cover -

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Bottling His Ghosts is the 8h book in our novella series and the final book from the first batch of signings. All the covers have been created by Lynne Hansen and for this one she turned in another eerie, but beautiful, piece that captures the novella inside perfectly. Coming July 15th, preorder the book now for a $2 discount.


-African Sci-Fi StoryBundle -

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On sale until May 22 • 13 books for $20

A fantastical ensemble of short story collections and anthologies by multi-award-winning writers from Africa and the African diaspora. From time travel, space opera, AI, zombies, African spirituality, the Afro-irreal and surrealism to racism, immigration, the occult, the literary weird and more in fantastical and intergalactic worlds. Features work by Nalo Hopkinson, Wole Talabi, Nuzo Onoh—the "Queen of African Horror", Tobias Buckell, Linda D. Addison, and more. Curated by Solstice, British Award Winner and Otherwise Fellow Eugen Bacon, who is also a multi-award finalist (Philip K. Dick, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, BSFA Awards).


-Stretching Genres

imagePublisher's Weekly included Blood Cypress on it's list of 12 Genre-Stretching Works of Fiction:


In these recent releases, "authors use the conventions of genre as a launchpad to explore unsettling and all-too-real truths…a southern gothic novella morphs into a horror tale of shapeshifting swamp creatures, and more."


Get a signed copy from us.


-The Monster Looms-

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Pam Kowolski is a Monster! launches May 21st, the preorder discount will be in effect until then. We just got in SIGNED BOOKPLATES so all preorders will come with one while supplies last.


“Creepy and manic, Langan’s mixed media novella will grip you, pull you in, and take you right to the center of its beating, bloody heart.”

—Kate Maruyama, author of Bleak Houses, The Collective, and Harrowgate


“…totally unhinged, absurdly delightful, a ripper of a novella.”

—Lindy Ryan, author of Another Fine Mess


-Everything Endless Book Tour -

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Linda Addison and Jamal Hodge did a fantastic job launching Everything Endless and celebrated with some fantastic book events in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. We even got them to sign some books for us so if you'd like one order here.


-Eugen Bacon Receives Solstice Award -

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The SFWA gives The Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award to a person who has made significant contributions to the science fiction, fantasy, and related genres community. For 2025 they have decided to give the award to Eugen Bacon for her work in the community. Read the full press release about the award here.


-MEDIA MENTIONS-

Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge on the Coffee Fueled Stories Podcast


The Post Partum Survey by Stephanie M. Wytovich


Interview with Elizabeth Broadbent



-UPCOMING EVENTS-

May 30 - June 1

Just Add Writer Workshop

Tim Waggoner


June 12-15 • StokerCon

Tim Waggoner Guest of Honor, Linda D. Addison, Colleen Anderson, Michael Arnzen, Elizabeth Broadbent, James Chambers, Kristin Dearborn, Geneve Flynn, Maxwell I. Gold, Sarah Hans, Amanda Headlee, Jamal Hodge, Pedro Iniguez, Vaughn A. Jackson, RJ Joseph, Vince Liaguno, Kate Maruyama, Shannon, Marzella, Jessica McHugh, Sonora Taylor, L. Marie Wood


June 26 • 5 - 7 pm

Tim Waggoner signing at Vortex Books & Comics


June 27-29 • Horror on Main

Tim Waggoner Guest of Honor


July 17-20Camp Necon

Cynthia Pelayo Guest of Honor, Sonora Taylor

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