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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,…

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 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…