Author: Journey Press

The Sirena Audiobook is here!

With the publishing of the Audiobook for Kitra, a whole new audience of listeners was introduced to the story of the Majera and her crew. Ever since, we’ve been flooded with requests: when is Lorelei Esther going to narrate the sequel, Sirena? Wait no longer! The Sirena audiobook is here, and it’s sensational. Plus, we’ve made it available […]

Journey Press is on Discord!

You asked for it, so now you’ve got it! Journey Press now has a Discord server where fans, authors, and Journey Press staff can mingle. It’s been a long time coming. Why did we do it? Well, it’s no secret that a publishing house needs some kind of internet presence these days. But social media…

Everywhere you go…

Since we opened up shop in 2019, we have always had twin goals: not only did we want to make the best books for folks to read, but we wanted to make sure folks could get their hands on these books. We didn’t want to just dump them on the Evil A and hope people…

Coming to a library near you…

When we started Journey Press back in August 2019, we had one overriding goal: to publish excellent speculative fiction about and by women and queer people—and get them into your hands! To that end, over the past five years, we’ve built a distribution network to make sure you can get our books in as many…

Good things come in threes…

It’s taken a lifetime, or at least feels like it, but August marks the book birthday for Hyvilma, the third book in The Kitra Saga. This exciting new chapter in Gideon Marcus’ YA space adventure series is the closest the books have gotten to “space opera”, with pirate ships, rebel Imperial Navy vessels, plenty of…

Interview with two time traveler!

Amazing Stories, started in 1926, is the oldest science fiction publication in existence. So you can bet we were honored when they asked if they could interview two of our authors. You may know that Gideon Marcus and Janice L. Newman, when they aren’t writing novels, maintain the Hugo nominated Galactic Journey — a time…

Listen up!

Kitra has new illustrations—and an audio book version!

Tom Purdom (1936-2024)

One of the occupational hazards of being an historian, particularly of the times half a century passed, is that you meet a lot of the people you are researching. When I was composing a history of the earliest Moon probes, I befriended most of the original scientists and engineers at Space Technology Laboratories. I even […]

‘Tis the season…for romance

We’re very excited about this one. You all know Laura Weyr, who won the Rainbow Award in 2021 for The Eighth Key, her high fantasy gay romance par excellence. Well, Laura decided it was time to feature the other side of the coin, and so she has given us a terrific Sapphic love story: Mirror […]

Notice anything different?

There are few things more thrilling for a publisher than the chance to yell “STOP THE PRESSES!” We’ve always known that Marie Vibbert, author of nearly 100 short stories in all the biggest science fiction magazines, was just this side of making it big. And now she has! This year, Marie not only got nominated […]

The coolest book you’ve never heard of…

It’s not often a publishing house gets to print a “first” anything. Journey Press has got a book that was the first for a lot of things. In 1964, Ace Books published I Want the Stars, the first novel by a young science fiction author named Tom Purdom. It was about as humble a beginning […]

STOP THE PRESSES!

Our newest author, the super-feminist, Nazi-punching journalist, Managing Editor-emeritus of Snopes.com, is about to blow the truth wide open…with magic!

Today, the Gods Awoke

  Launch day is always an exciting one. This one is particularly thrilling. I have a confession: I’ve always wanted to publish Marie Vibbert. I’m not exactly sure when I first became aware of her work. Maybe it was a science fiction story in one of the big magazines, like Single Malt Spacecraft or the […]

“By Your Side” is out!

The release of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is more than the exciting launch of a landmark work. It is, quite literally, the culmination of a dream. I’ve known Erica for more than 20 years. We met back when she was at the beginning of her journey to […]

Journey Press has three Hugo Nominees!

Journey Press Illustrator is Youngest Hugo Finalist Ever Comic artist Lorelei Esther, illustrator for The Kitra Saga, is the youngest Hugo Finalist in the history of the award.  On April 7, 2022, Lorelei was selected for the Fan Artist category for her unpaid works, including her celebratory pictures of DC Comics characters Tim Drake and […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 10: Whoops!

Someone once asked me what, as a writer, was my biggest fear. Was it writer’s block? Impostor syndrome? Clichéd composition?  I always give the same answer: typos. Few types of business offer as many opportunities to mess up as publishing. After all, in addition to the gross issues of production, distribution, sales, and marketing, there’s […]

Spotlight on Dr. Lisa Yaszek

Catalyst for Rediscovery I’ve often said that one of the best things about running a publishing house is the friends I make. From readers to booksellers to fellow authors and publishers, there are now several hundred folks I’ve had the pleasure of associating with these past two years. One of my very favorites has been […]

Rediscovery 2 is HERE!

How does one go about making an anthology? Well… With Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963), which we informally call Rediscovery 1, it was easy. I’d already been running Galactic Journey for the six years that volume would cover. All I had to do was pick out my favorite stories by women (which were often […]

Big news for At First Contact!

Happy New Year, everyone! We’ve kept things quiet for a bit so we could all enjoy the holidays. But behind the scenes, things have been rumbling right along. The best news has been that people have loved At First Contact, our latest release. Not one, not two, but three major outlets asked new author Janice […]

The Eighth Key wins the Rainbow Award!

When The Eighth Key came out last spring, it made an impact. Not only was it a gripping fantasy yarn, but it was a steamy, slow burn male/male romance. One reviewer praised it for “making consent sexy”. Another found it refreshing that gay angst wasn’t featured, just a great gay couple. Our favorite review gushed […]

Where to find Journey Press in November/December!

It was kind of inevitable. Once the worst of the pandemic was over (we’re vaxxed and boosted — go House Pfizer!) we knew we’d be hitting all the local and regional shows. After all, the funnest part of running a press is meeting all of you cool people! Well, that and writing Pinky jokes. We’ve […]

This Month at Journey Press (October edition)

All I can say about October is “Wow!” Last year was tough as anything. With the pandemic raging, live shows were out of the question and bookstores were shuttered. Running a press was like one-armed mountain-climbing — it can be done (shout out to Maureen Beck!), but it’s a lot harder.  So I guess it […]

Now Available: Sirena – Book Two in The Kitra Saga!

It’s been a long road, but Sirena, book two in The Kitra Saga, is here at last! Writing is something I’ve always wanted to do. It’s really something I’ve always been doing. I wrote my first real science fiction story when I was 14 for Freshman English, and I’ve written nonfiction professionally since 2015. But […]

It’s Like Ingram WANTS Amazon to Win

For many years, the only way to get a book published was to work with a traditional publisher. Traditional publishers were the only ones who had access to printing at a reasonable cost and distribution at a large enough scale to make selling books worthwhile.

Until the internet.

This is why we CAN have nice things!

Let me start with the most important news: Only until the end of this month, the e-book version of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) is on sale for just $2.99. That’s half price, folks. There. You can stop reading. Oooorrr… you can hear me explain why it’s on sale. And also hear some exciting […]

An International Endeavor

Books take on lives of their own. They spread like a beneficial virus, through word-of-mouth. Once we figured out how to get books in front of readers, all of a sudden, they were free to run wild. And run they did!

adjective+noun Reviews Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women

There’s such a diversity of tone among the works in this anthology that I can make no sweeping recommendations as to who might enjoy this work, but I believe anyone who enjoys science fiction will find something to enjoy in Rediscovery: SF by Women. 

Sibyl Sue Blue is HERE!

  When I was putting together our first collection of classic science fiction, Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963), one name kept popping up. Rosel George Brown exploded onto the SF scene in the late ‘50s, earning a nomination for the Best New Author Hugo in 1959. It was deserved — Brown combined a savviness […]

A Real Pride Celebration

Happy Pride Month! Join us for a sale on all of Journey Press’ wonderful queer titles. In my last post, I announced that Journey Press openly and proudly identifies as a queer press. LGBTQIA+ isn’t all we do, but it is a big part of who we are and what we publish. I was a […]

Journey Press’ Coming Out Party

  It’s Pride!  Even better, it’s Pride in a (mostly) post-pandemic year! Oh rapture! 🙂 There was no question that I’d be writing about Pride Month, the time for especial celebration of all things queer (LGBTQIA++++) this week. After all, pretty much everyone who works here is some flavor of queer, and we’ve been waiting […]

Parallel Worlds Magazine Reviews KITRA by Gideon Marcus

Let’s kick off Pride Month with a review of Kitra by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus! Featuring a young, bisexual woman of color, Kitra is a fantastic June reading choice — and Parallel Worlds Magazine is here to tell you all about what makes it so wonderful.

Tor.com Reviews REDISCOVERY: SCIENCE FICTION BY WOMEN

James Davis Nicoll curated a wonderful list of older SF collections to Tor.com – and chose to cap it off with Rediscovery! Nicoll notes the special attention Marcus paid to highlighting lesser-known gems of the silver age, and he compliments the choice to pair them with modern, up-and-coming authors.

The Eighth Key is FREE with Kindle Unlimited!

We have been blown away by the positive reaction to our first foray into Fantasy Gay Romance, Hugo Finalist Laura Weyr’s The Eighth Key. I mean, we knew y’all would like it, but we didn’t realize how much! As kind of a reward, and to help reach as many electronic readers as we can, we […]

April 24 is Independence Day!

Four score and seven years ago, the independent bookstore was the place to get the latest, most interesting titles. Guess what — it still is.

The Path to Publishing, Part 8: Talking Points

(Welcome to the latest installment of The Path to Publishing, a series on starting a small press aimed either at the writer who wants to improve their stature or the editor who wants to run an independent publishing house. If you missed any of the prior posts, you can find them here.) I’ve mentioned in […]

The Eighth Key is here!

We are very excited to announce our first release of the year, The Eighth Key, by Hugo Finalist Laura Weyr! Featuring a steamy slow-burn male/male romance with one of the best-realized fantasy worlds I’ve seen, The Eighth Key is a must-get. Queer fantasy romance is still a newish genre, so it’s always a delight to […]

Talking Copyright with r/Fantasy

Last Friday, we had a lovely and quite successful Small Press AMA (Ask Me Anything) on the fantasy subreddit. We had a slew of excellent and varied questions from lots of readers, and it really gave us a chance to explore our motivations for writing, discuss what inspires us, divulge behind-the-scenes tidbits on the creation […]

Women’s History Month is Here!

Lost in Time It’s Women’s History Month! And to kick it off, our article today is on the unsung women science fiction and fantasy authors of yesteryear. Pop quiz: How many pre-1980 woman science fiction authors can you name? If you’re like most people I’ve asked this question of, Ursula K. Le Guin comes springing […]

Launching in a Pandemic, Part Two

by Gideon Marcus State of the Union Nearly a year ago, I wrote about what is was like to run a small press at the beginning of a global pandemic. And here we are still in the middle of a global pandemic, albeit closer to the end of than the beginning (hopefully). They’ve been tough […]

Gideon’s List: Recommendations of Vintage Science Fiction in Print

The intersection of the two sets “good vintage science fiction” and “vintage science fiction still in print” has still got quite a few titles in it. I’ve created a list of some of my favorites, all of which are conveniently linked to Journey Press’ bookshop.org storefront.

Journey Press Hugo Eligiblity: 2021

Philcon II attendees gathered for the first ever Hugo ceremony Nearly seventy years ago, a group of several hundred science fiction fans got together in Philadelphia for the annual World Science Fiction convention. Though this was the eleventh time a global conclave of fans had gathered, “Philcon II” marked the beginning of a grand tradition: […]

The Path to Publishing Part 6: Bookstores are the Best

(Welcome to the latest installment of The Path to Publishing, a series on starting a small press aimed either at the writer who wants to improve their stature or the editor who wants to run an independent publishing house. If you missed any of the prior posts, you can find them here.) by Gideon Marcus […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 5: Be Somebody

(Welcome to the latest installment of The Path to Publishing, a series on starting a small press aimed either at the writer who wants to improve their stature or the editor who wants to run an independent publishing house. If you missed any of the prior posts, you can find them here.) by Gideon Marcus […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 4: Time in Service

(Welcome to the latest installment of The Path to Publishing, a series on starting a small press aimed either at the writer who wants to improve their stature or the editor who wants to run an independent publishing house. If you missed any of the prior posts, you can find them here.) by Gideon Marcus […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 3: Infrastructure

(Welcome to the latest installment of The Path to Publishing, a series on starting a small press aimed either at the writer who wants to improve their stature or the editor who wants to run an independent publishing house. If you missed the last two posts (on distribution and the factors going into the decision […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 2: Distribution

by Gideon Marcus Welcome back to “The Path to Publishing,” a series detailing all that we’ve learned in the last two years of running a small press. If you missed installment one, where we discussed our disenchantment with the traditional publishing process and why we founded our own press, you can find it here. There […]

The Path to Publishing, Part 1: Sharing Our Story

by Gideon Marcus We are now nearly two years into this enterprise we call Journey Press, and there’s no sign of stopping. Along the way, we’ve learned lots of lessons, made a few mistakes, and had a rollercoaster of a ride. As a member of the #writingcommunity, I see the thousands of aspiring and current […]

Launching in a pandemic

When we launched Kitra, my YA space adventure, I feared the worst. After all, the launch date was April 1. 2020. Let’s face it — Nothing was happening in April 2020. We were all in lockdown, and the bookstores were all closed. So much for my debut title. Except, Kitra has been a consistent success […]

Reviews? Yes we get reviews!

One of the most gratifying things about running a publishing house is reading the reviews of the titles you produce. We have been fortunate enough (or perhaps good enough at our jobs) to collect a lot of good press. It occurred to us that you might enjoy reading what other folks are saying about our […]

Bookplates now available!

Long ago, in the before-time, one of my greatest joys was signing my books. Picture this: an intimate gathering at a bookshop or a huge, boisterous crowd at a microbrewery. I’ve just given a 30 minute talk on the women pioneers of space science or the state of science fiction in 1963. And then I […]

I Want the Stars is out!

Hello! Today, we are launching Tom Purdom’s timeless classic, I Want the Stars, now back in print after 56 years! Eight hundred years from now, Earth is a paradise. Humanity has faced its greatest challenges…and won. Every wish is fulfilled. Every need is met. But is that enough? Jenorden wants more, wandering the galaxy with […]

Kitra, a YA Space Adventure, is here!

Hey! What a lousy month March was. We’ve been stuck inside, the news is scary, the stores have no toilet paper. School has been cancelled. Kids are cooling their heels at home, or worse, struggling with distance learning. Working from home isn’t as fun as it sounded, and if you have to go on site […]

Publishing in a time of crisis

Hello, out there. What a crazy month it’s been for all of us. Businesses are shuttering, people are going into self-isolation (we’ve been staying home and not visiting with anyone since Saturday), and things are getting scary. But this is exactly the time when those of us who can should keep on keeping on, providing […]

State of the Press, March 2020 edition

Rediscovery a smash hit Hello from sunny San Diego! When we began Journey Press early last year, we had high hopes. Our goal was not only to bring back some of the forgotten classics of science fiction’s Silver Age, but also to encourage new voices in the genre. Our focus is on marginalized voices: women, […]

State of the Press, Nov. 1, 2019 edition

Hello, everybody! Journey Press has blown out of the gate in a big way, thanks to your support, and we’re already planning our next releases. Here’s a list of upcoming publications and events: Sad All Over What if November 22, 1963 had seen a double tragedy — not just the loss of our President, but […]

Young people read Rediscovery!

In 1453, a wave of Byzantine refugees from the newly conquered city of Constantinople brought to Italy a treasure of lost classical Greek literature. This influx of knowledge and art spurred the European Renaissance. We don’t expect our publication of Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963) to have quite so dramatic an effect on human […]

Journey Press announces Rediscovery: SF by Women (1958-1963)

From the team that produces the Hugo-nominated Galactic Journey: The Silver Age of Science Fiction saw a wealth of compelling speculative tales — and women authors wrote some of the best of the best.  Yet the stories of this era, especially those by women, have been largely unreprinted, unrepresented, and unremembered. Until Now. Rediscovery: Science […]

Journey Press partners with Makeshift Press and Inklings Press!

Teaming Up In the process of creating Journey Press, we have run across some amazing small presses with similar missions. Of course, Journey Press will primarily be dedicated to producing its own quality works, but we don’t want you to miss out on the chance to pick up some of our favorites from our new […]

Journey Press has arrived!

At long last, after months of hard work and endless anticipation, the newest independent press has arrived! Why Journey Press? Science fiction has been around as a genre for some eighty years. In many ways, the field is bigger than ever. On the one hand, that means that the reader has a huge range of […]