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The Last Ghost and Other Stories Enters Pre-Order!

The day has arrived! As promised, The Last Ghost and Other Stories by Marie O'Regan is officially ready for pre-order!AND, if you are coming to Eastercon Ytterbium, this coming Easter, you can select this option at checkout and bag yourself a free delivery! Remember to pre-order by the 1st of April.The book will be out on the 9th of April, so if you cannot wait for Eastercon, just choose your preferred delivery and you will receive the book on the release day, if not a little earlier.As always, you will find the pre-order special price on our website only, and our subscribers will also find an extra special voucher in the newsletter which goes out on the 1st of each month - which means you are still in time to join the Luna monthly newsletter group.Enjoy the harvest and visit the store now!

The Controllers - Out Now!

We are delighted to announce that Paul Kane's The Controllers is officially out!If you haven't pre-ordered your copy yet, and you are coming to Eastercon Ytterbium, you can select 'Delivery to Eastercon Ytterbium' and skip the shipping costs!With Ben Baldwin's haunting cover, it is a collection that all horror fans should have. And if you think I say that just because he's part of our family, well, take a look at these testimonials:‘Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.’(Clive Barker — Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels)‘Paul Kane’s lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that’s very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement.’(Mike Carey — Bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Fellside and The Boy on the Bridge as M.R. Carey)‘Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales.’(Kelley Armstrong — Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound and Thirteen)‘I’m impressed by the range of Paul Kane’s imagination. It seems there is no risk, no high-stakes gamble, he fears to take...Kane’s foot never gets even close to the brake pedal.’(Peter Straub — Bestselling author of Ghost Story, Mr X, Lost Boy Lost Girl, and In the Night Room)‘Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very creepy.’(Tim Lebbon — New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin in the Woods, The Silence, and Relics)‘His stories not only, at his best, put him neck and neck with Ramsey Campbell and Clive Barker, but also in the company of greats like Machen and MR James. You don’t rest easily after reading a Paul Kane story, but strangely your eyes have been somewhat opened.’(Stephen Volk — BAFTA winning screenwriter of Gothic, Ghostwatch, Afterlife, The Awakening, and Midwinter of the Spirit; author of Whitstable, Leytonstone, and The Parts We Play)‘He stands out as one of the better writers I’ve read.’ (Eternal Night)‘Wonderfully dark and satisfying.’(Dark Side Magazine)‘Kane is best when taking risks with his bizarre flights of imagination.’(SFX Magazine)‘Kane is a highly regarded author whose influence can be felt across the genre, with a large and notable body of work behind him.’(Starburst Magazine)

Call for Papers 2018: Introducing Evil!

We are delighted to introduce you to the contributors to our third CfP, A Shadow Within: Evil in Fantasy & Science Fiction. Our family continues to grow and we are so very proud to open our arms to healthy research and inquisitive minds in the speculative genre field.As is traditional with Academia Lunare's CfPs, I like to give a lot of space to explore the full width and breath of a chosen topic. Once the main theme has been set, there is a huge list of prompts to be found on our website, encouraging a diverse approach and different forms of media. I certainly was not disappointed this year, with the highest number of submitted papers to date, twenty-one of which will be published.You can just imagine the titles of all the various emails we have been sending to each other over the course of the last year: evil editing, evil query, evil contract, evil abstract, and, of course, evil authors! BUT, evil they are not; just incredibly talented. Today we will share a little bit about them and the titles of their papers. From Sunday 17th of March, and for the following Sundays all the way to the 4th of August, I will introduce you more closely to our authors and to their papers and abstracts.The book will be released at Dublin Worldcon 2019, on the 14th of August.Here they are, in alphabetical order:(Top row, left to right)Step P. Bianchini (Italy). Academic and social scientist based in Scotland. Historian by education and economist by professional practice, she also writes/reviews speculative fiction. Presenting the paper: “The Inquisitor's creatures: the historical roots of the witch trope and its evolution over the centuries”More news on the blog post of Sunday 17th of March.Teika Bellamy (UK). PhD. in Chemical Research from University of London. Managing Editor of the independent press, Mother’s Milk Books. Writer of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry (under the pen-name of Teika Marija Smits). Presenting the paper: “Bluebeard – The Eternal Predator”More news on the blog post of Sunday 24th of MarchOctavia Cade (New Zealand). PhD in science communication. Presenting the paper: “Spring Again: The Problem of Evil and the End of Winter in C.S. Lewis' Narnia”More news on the blog post of Sunday 31st of MarchAlice Capstick (Australia). PhD student in literary studies at Monash University. Presenting the paper: “The Antihero’s Journey: The Influence of Milton’s Satan on the Evolution of the Dark Hero”More news on the blog post of Sunday 7th of AprilA J Dalton (UK). PhD Creative Writing. Fantasy author with Gollancz. Presenting the paper: “Embodiments of evil and reflections of social change in second-world fantasy”More news on the blog post of Sunday 14th of AprilSharon Day (United Kingdom). Occult Researcher, Writer, and Historian. Creatrix of the Alexandrian Witchcraft Historical Timeline website. Alexandrian Witch & Priestess. J.D. in Law. Presenting the paper: “Through the Veil of the Digital Revolution and into the Abyss of Artificial Intelligence: The Insidious Desensitisation of Humanity”More news on the blog post of Sunday 21st of AprilTatiana Fajardo (Spain). MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling. Researcher and Writer. Presenting the paper: “The Bloodlust of Elizabeth Báthory: From the Brothers Grimm to American Horror Story”More news on the blog post of Sunday 28th of AprilSean Z Fitzgerald (UK). PhD in Creative Writing Practice, University of Winchester. MSc in Science Communication, The Open University. University Lecturer in Media Production and Creative Writing. Published writer of fiction and non-fiction. Presenting the paper: “The fictional scientist as a dichotomy of good and evil in contemporary realist speculative fiction”More news on the blog post of Sunday 5th of May(Middle row, left to right)Jason Gould (United Kingdom). Writer of fiction and non-fiction, genre and non-genre. Graduate in Creative Writing at University of Hull. Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award. Presenting the paper: “Re-Writing Evil: An Alternative to Personification: Portrayal, Presence and Purpose in the Short Fiction of M. John Harrison”More news on the blog post of Sunday 12th of MayLucinda Holdsworth (UK). PhD student in English Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow. MLitt in Fantasy Literature, University of Glasgow. Presenting the paper: “The Problem of Evil in Pseudo-Taoist Secondary Worlds”More news on the blog post of Sunday 19th of MayAnna Köhler (Germany). PhD student researching gendered magic in contemporary fantasy at the Chair for British Literature at RWTH Aachen University. Presenting the paper: “Evil Rewritten: Witches in Revisionist Fairy Tales”More news on the blog post of Sunday 26th of MayJyrki Korpua (Finland). PHD in Literary studies and Lecturer. Researcher. Presenting the paper: “Machines of Chaos – The Shadows and the Reapers as representations of evil in the television series Babylon 5 and the Mass Effect game series”More news on the blog post of Sunday 2nd of JuneRostislav Kůrka (Czech Republic/Finland). MA Theology. PhD, Writer. Presenting the paper: “From Dark Side to Grey Politics: The Portrayal of Evil in the Star Wars saga”More news on the blog post of Sunday 9th of JuneKim Lakin-Smith (UK). MA in Journalism and Creative Writing, Fantasy and Science Fiction writer. Presenting the paper: “Born Bad: Unmasking Evil in John Carpenter’s Halloween and James Cameron’s The Terminator.”More news on the blog post of Sunday 16th of June(Bottom row, left to right)Robert S Malan (South Africa). Non-fiction and horror writer. Senior Editor at freeflowedit. Shortlisted for the Nommo Awards 2018.Presenting the paper: “Xenomorphobia – Eighties Societal Fears and Issues as reflected in the movie Aliens.”More news on the blog post of Sunday 23th of JuneAnna Milon (Russia). Current PhD in English Literature and Paganism, current Education Officer for the Tolkien Society and assistant editor for the interdisciplinary academic journal Exclamation!on. Presenting the paper: “Naming the Terror in the Forest: Evolution of The Horned God in Fantasy Fiction.”More news on the blog post of Sunday 30th of JuneThomas Moules (UK). MLitt in Fantasy Literature, University of Glasgow. Writer of non-fiction. Presenting the paper: “I have done only what was necessary - An exploration of individual and structural evil in the works of N. K. Jemisin.”More news on the blog post of Sunday 7th of JulyKatarina O’Dette (USA). PhD candidate researching fantasy television at the University of Nottingham. Researcher and fantasy writer. Executive committee member for GIFCon 2019. Presenting the paper: “Yesterday’s Tyrant: Evolving Evil in Fantasy Television’s Reformed Villains”More news on the blog post of Sunday 14th of JulyCharul (Chuckie) Palmer-Patel (Canada). Doctorate from Lancaster University, UK; independent researcher of fantasy fiction; head editor of Fantastika Journal. And Matthew J. Elder (New Zealand). PhD Candidate at the University of Waikato; Researcher of contemporary fantasy literature, magic, and identity construction. Presenting the paper: “Imperialism as Evil in Epic Fantasy: An Analysis of the Fantasy Works of Eddings, Jordan, Sanderson, and Brett”More news on the blog post of Sunday 21st of JulyDominic Riemenschneider (Germany). Magister Artium, self-funded PhD candidate in Art History at Mainz University. Independent scholar with a focus on the visual Fantastic and its roots in art & architecture. Presenting the paper: “From Light to Dark – Using Gothic Styles to Visualise Evil in Architecture”More news on the blog post of Sunday 28th of JulyBarbara Stevenson (UK). BVMS and BA (Open University) creative writing and German. Fiction writer and veterinary surgeon. Presenting the paper: “The Nature of Evil in the Thomas Covenant Chronicles of Stephen Donaldson”More news on the blog post of Sunday 4th of AugustWhile you are here, visit our Luna Family page to read more about our authors, and also to have a look at our lovely "Around the World with the Luna Family" display!

Peter Roe XIX Enters Pre-Order!

Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens: Peter Roe Series XIXThis volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith in itself.The book will be released on Monday 25th of March, to celebrate Tolkien Reading Day, an annual event launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003. It has the aim of encouraging the reading of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.The beautiful cover art, 'Starkindler’, is by Becky Green.Table of Contents:Introduction by Editor Anna Milon"On the Providential Historicism of Middle-earth" by Ryan Haecker "The Nature of Arda: An Artwork as the Embodiment of the Flame Imperishable" by Aslı Bülbül Candaş"Honouring the Valar, Seeking the Elf Within: The Curious History of Tolkien Spirituality and the Religious Affordance of Tolkien’s Literary Mythology" by Markus Altena Davidsen"Tolkien’s Mandos, Pratchett’s Death" by Justin Lewis-Anthony"Also Sprach Fëanor, Spirit of Fire: A Nietzschean Reading of Tolkien’s Mythology?" by Giovanni Carmine CostabilePre-Order in our store now!

Writing a Cover Letter

When I began to contemplate sending my YA SF Tijaran Tales series off to publishers and agents, the thought of writing a cover letter filled me with dread. What should I include? What if I say the wrong thing? What if I say too much or too little? I would do as much research as I could, including reading the Writers and Artists Yearbook, as they always had great tips, but the niggling suspicion of doing it wrong was still lingering...If a book is excellent, I hear your cry, a poor cover letter won't hurt your chances, right? Perhaps, and then again it might. Taking on a manuscript is not as straight forward as it seems, and the number of things that are taken into account before making that decision is very high, no matter the size of the press. What if a publisher happens to be considering two manuscripts of equal weight, only one of them has a cover letter that works? With the years, looking at the type of responses I got from publishers, I realised that the more customised the cover letter was, the more favourable the returns, even when it was a rejection. Everyone wants to be recognised for what they represent and who they are, and publishers and agents are just the same.So, what does this mean in practice? I can share my experience as a publisher. Four years into running Luna Press Publishing, I have received my fair share of submissions and cover letters - in the first week of January 2019 alone I received around 250 entries for our SF open submission week. I know what I need to read in a cover letter and what I don't. It is necessarily a custom job.How do I know what to include in the cover letter?To answer that question successfully, the first thing you need to do is go to the publisher/agent website and read the submission guidelines, which will inform the content of your cover letter, and here is why.If a 'Submit to' name is given, use it. If not, use a variation of 'Editorial Team', 'Luna Team', 'Senior Editor'. These will do just fine. An editorial team, say the Luna Team, decides on the criteria for the submission: format, genre, length, USP (unique selling points), etc., as well as other info requests, are pulled together and then shared on the website/socials, etc. We would consider the schedule over the next three years, authors who have been signed and authors who we are talking to at the time of the submission week. We look at the budget and our vision - where we are and where we want to be - and we also allow for a degree of flexibility as we don't want to curtail opportunities for creativity. In short, we customise what we want according to Luna's requirements. In the same way that the publisher takes time to inform you about the exact requirements of a specific submission, so should the author take the time to write their cover letter according to these. Customise. There goes that word again. What if they ask me about something I don't have?OK. Say you are asked to share your social media links, whatever they may be. Most authors have at least one these days; however, new authors may not have started one yet. Simply say so. Having a social media presence is a big deal in the internet age, as it does help to spread the news, but it's not a deal breaker, at least not for me. A few of the Luna authors were signed up at debut, and had not started their 'social media' life as authors yet: they did so with us. We talked about what was the platform most suitable to them and their personality, and we gave tips on how to do that. Same for sharing past publications: if you are a debut author you won't have any. But don't forget to mention if your book has already been out on Lulu or Amazon as self-pub before: again, not always a deal breaker, but a very important fact to share. If you have a writing experience of another kind, mention that: if you have been blogging successfully for years, it shows commitment, no matter the topic. Is an email enough or should I attach a separate file?Again, the submission page of the website will specify if they want a cover letter as a separate file, or if in the body of the email is sufficient.Here the most important thing, especially if you write in the main body of the email and especially if you are doing a bit of copy and paste, is that you take a minute or two to make sure your font style and size is consistent! You'd think this should be common sense - think again. What not to include in a cover letterIf it's not mentioned in the guidelines, it's not necessary to include it. Unsolicited extra info you may want to share, should be relevant and to the point, and perhaps relegated to the bottom half of the email. Start with the requested info, then add the extras if you feel they are important.And another don't. Remember the 250 submissions I mentioned earlier? A handful of them were press releases... These authors weren't even talking to my team or me. They just pasted a press release in the body of the email. No other info, not even a 'Hi there!' To Recap: -'Customise' is the word -Read the submission page guidelines -Follow said guidelines -Keep it simple, relevant and honest There should be no fear in approaching a publisher: you are both professionals whose primary wish is to find the perfect match. Let's start that relationship in the right way.

The Controllers Enters Pre-Order!

The day has arrived! As promised, The Controllers by Paul Kane is officially ready for pre-order!AND, if you are coming to Eastercon Ytterbium, this coming Easter, you can select this option at checkout and bag yourself a free delivery! Remember to pre-order by the 1st of April.The book will be out on the 5th of March, so if you cannot wait for Eastercon, just choose your preferred delivery and you will receive the book on the release day, if not a little earlier.As always, you will find the pre-order special price on our website only, and our subscribers will also find an extra special voucher in the newsletter which will go out tonight around 5PM - which means you are still in time to join the Luna monthly newsletter group.Enjoy the harvest and visit the store now!

Luna Welcomes Italian Francesca Noto!

It is with great pleasure that we welcome award-winning Italian writer Francesca Noto! Once again, Luna has acquired English World Rights from Astro Edizioni, the same Italian press that gave us Daniele Azara.Francesca writes Teen Fantasy Romance, and it's her successful novel Sons of Storm that will be translated and published with us. Sons of Storm represents a first for Luna, in more than one way: it's our first Fantasy romance and also our first male romance.Francesca Noto is a journalist, editor and book translator who has had a passion for writing since she was a young girl. She also has a PhD in Archaeology from Rome University “Tor Vergata”. She is the author of three urban fantasy novels, published in Italy by Astro Edizioni, winning the International Montefiore Award in 2016 with the first of them, Il segno della tempesta. Her interests range from Norse mythology to medieval swords and fencing, from horse riding (with a young painted mare named Rain) and martial arts to roleplaying games and narrative video games, without forgetting a sheer passion for books of all kinds, especially fantasy, science fiction, and horror. She lives in Rome with her husband Marco, her two daughters Mila and Giorgia, and two crazy chinchillas.About the book:Sons of Storm is an urban fantasy novel, based on Norse mythology, about the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood and the ties of a deep friendship, developing into male romance, between two very different boys. Nathaniel is a shy seventeen-year old guy raised between New York and Florida, with a stunning case of heterochromia, a prophecy to fulfill, and an unusual and loving family around him which he fears disappointing with his lack of hereditary special powers; Winter is a lonely nineteen-year old albino boy, raised without a family and as mad at the world as he is street-smart. When they meet, under the most unlikely of circumstances, and get stuck in a wild and ancient world, they will need all their strength, powers, and the special bond developing between them, to survive and find a way back to our reality. Forced to face harsh fights, hard decisions, and devastating revelations, they will share a common fate and fight a war greater than themselves, to finally find out what it means to be Sons of Storm.We asked Francesca to tell us more about the story:"The two main characters of Sons of Storm started telling me their story back in 2016. At the time, I was translating a beautiful horror novel by Poppy Z. Brite into Italian. I was so in love with her lyrical, powerful style of writing, and the way she managed to describe a passionate and delicate male romance in the most terrifying and weird context. I think she inspired me very much in the creation of my story: I felt I needed to enter the minds and hearts of my two characters, and understand their deepest reasons, to give them true life. Nathaniel and Winter are teenagers on the verge of adulthood, forced by circumstances to grow up fast and make hard decisions to survive and find the answers they seek. Their journey home becomes a deeper quest from boy to man, and their bond oversteps friendship, teaching them the meaning of true love, despite everything and everyone. In the end, Sons of Storm is not just a fantasy adventure: it’s a tale about diversity, finding your true self and the sheer importance of cherishing the time we have been given."We'll be cracking on with the translation then! You can follow our progress in the monthly newsletter.Once again, Benvenuta, Francesca!

Introducing "Wourism and Other Stories" by Ian Whates

Wourism and Other Stories by Ian Whates is the sixth book in The Harvester Series. All the books in this series will include excellent stories from the past and some brand new ones, along with special bonus material. For Wourism and Other Stories, Ian has included personal reflections for each of the stories.Chris Baker, aka Fangorn, is the man behind the cover. Fabulous!Important dates for you:1.Wourism and Other Stories will enter pre-order on the 2nd of July 2019 - so make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to receive an extra discount on the already discounted pre-order price.2. The official release date is Tuesday 6th of August 2019.3. The launch party will be held at Fantasycon 2019, and we really hope to see you there!A word from Ian on his collection:"Wourism and Other Stories is my first collection of short stories to be released in English since 2016’s Dark Travellings (I’ve had a collection, Torres de Babel, published in Spanish in the interim). Any writer likes to think their work evolves and improves with time – however experienced you are, you never stop learning – and with most of the stories in this one having been written during the past four years, I’d like to think it’s my best collection to date, certainly the most consistent.Not all the stories are recent, however; there are also a couple from earlier in my career that simply didn’t fit into previous collections, which contributes to the varied nature of the book. My first love has always been science fiction, and the majority of stories here would fall under that broadest of umbrellas in one way or another, though not all. There are also some darker tales that dip into horror, including one that draws on a scent that haunted my teen years – to this day I’ll never know whether this is something I encountered once that stayed with me or something I completely imagined, but I always knew there was a story in it somewhere. When I finally worked out what that story was, I was delighted to see it feature in John Joseph Adams’ Nightmare magazine.Two of the stories are standalone tales set in the same worlds as my novels, with Beth and Bones taking place in Thaiburley, City of a Hundred Rows, a century before the events depicted in City of Dreams and Nightmare, and Montpellier, featuring the Saflik, a criminal organisation first encountered in Pelquin’s Comet. Most, however, inhabit realities all their own.While some of the stories look to the distant future – Sane Day, a previously unpublished story set on an alien world with no human involvement at all, for example, and The Failsafe, which appeared in one of the best-selling Explorations series of anthologies –many examine the near future. Near future SF is often the trickiest to write, because the world can change so radically so swiftly (who among us predicted Donald Trump's presidency?), instantly rendering a story out-of-date, but it’s also the keenest tool for highlighting the implications of trends and developments that are evident today. This is something I attempt in my own fumbling fashion in the collection’s title story, Wourism (originally seen in Galaxy’s Edge), and also in a triptych of linked flash pieces: Trending (originally published by Daily Science Fiction), Browsing (which first appeared in the science journal, Nature), and Temporary Friends – the latter an unpublished piece written especially for this collection.After more than a decade of writing them, I still get a real kick every time I sell a short story. It means that an editor liked a given piece enough to splash some cash on it, and s/he would only do that if they felt confident their readers would enjoy it as well. At the end of the day, that’s all any writer can hope for."You can find out more about The Harvester Series by clicking on the Harvester tag on the News page.

Introducing "And The House Lights Dim" by Tim Major

And The House Lights Dim by Tim Major is the fifth book in The Harvester Series. All the books in this series will include excellent stories from the past and some brand new ones, along with special bonus material. For And The House Lights Dim, Tim has included personal reflections for each of the stories and full soundtrack!Daniele Serra is the man behind the cover. Visit Daniele's website for more art.Important dates for you:1.And The House Lights Dim will enter pre-order on the 2nd of June 2019 - so make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to receive an extra discount on the already discounted pre-order price.2. The official release date is Tuesday 9th of July 2019.3. The launch party will be held at Fantasycon 2019, and we really hope to see you there!A word from Tim on his collection:"And The House Lights Dim is my first collection of short stories, which were written over a three-year period. They’re pretty diverse, spanning weird fiction, horror and SF – but I confess that when I wrote them they seemed more diverse than they really are. It was only recently that I realised just how prevalent particular themes have been in my writing: houses, homes and family.Perhaps it’s no surprise. The earliest of the stories was written when my wife was pregnant with our first child; one of the novellas was written in a mad hurry in the weeks before his birth; nowadays I write in a fog of fatigue due to my second child’s sleepless nights. I think about family constantly and as a freelance editor I’m trapped in my home for the greater part of every day.In this collection are stories about a sentient house overprotective of its new occupants, a supernatural Greenland shark that attacks a family via sound, a married couple alone on a lengthy space flight, two young girls who live in isolation and in fear of the world beyond their walls, a camping trip that turns a family feral, a post-apocalyptic Center Parcs, a man who has defragmented his mind and another who splices a rival’s brain patterns onto his own.Most of the stories have been published in various places, including Interzone, Not One of Us, The Literary Hatchet and anthologies published by Fox Spirit, Jurassic London and Hic Dragones. ‘Carus & Mitch’ was previously published as a standalone novella by Omnium Gatherum and was shortlisted for a This Is Horror Award in 2015. People have been very nice about it: Lynda Rucker said it was a ‘compelling, unconventional page-turner… blending a John Wyndham-esque melancholy with a dose of existential despair’. Adam Roberts called it ‘punchy and scary and tense and genuinely moving’ and James Everington said it was ‘an intimate, original, and character-driven take on the post-apocalyptic genre’, all of which made me feel awfully proud."You can find out more about The Harvester Series by clicking on the Harvester tag on the News page.

Introducing "Incomplete Solutions" by Wole Talabi

Incomplete Solutions by Wole Talabi is the fourth book in The Harvester Series. All the books in this series will include excellent stories from the past and some brand new ones, along with special bonus material. For Incomplete Solutions, Wole has included personal reflections for each of the stories.Joey Hi-Fi is the man behind the cover. Visit Joey's website for more art.Important dates for you:1. Incomplete Solutions will enter pre-order on the 2nd of May 2019 - so make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to receive an extra discount on the already discounted pre-order price.2. The official release date is Tuesday 4th of June 2019.3. The launch party will be held at Fantasycon 2019, and we really hope to see you there!A word from Wole on his collection:"From the bustling streets of Lagos to the icy moons of Jupiter, the stories in Incomplete Solutions explore accelerating technology, complex histories, diverse beliefs and human potential from my own unique perspective. This collection contains both previously published stories and stories that are exclusive to this collection. Among the new stories is a science-fiction novella “Incompleteness Theories”, in which an international team led by a troubled Nigerian physicist attempt to create teleportation technology, with unsettling results. The previously published stories include stories that have never appeared online before and others that have seen wide circulation, such as “A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You”, which was longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award, “Parse. Error. Reset.” which won the AMC/Motherboard Post-Humans story contest, and “Wednesday's Story” which was a finalist for best short story at the Nommo Awards.Incomplete Solutions contains 17 short stories, 2 novelettes, and 1 novella, as well as art and notes on some of the stories for the bonus material section. Some readers may find the collection reminiscent of award-winning Nnedi Okorafor’s Kabu-Kabu: Stories, with notes of Phillip K. Dick filtered through my own distinct imagination. Incomplete Solutions collects stories from the first chapter of my writing career, that I believe are evocative, philosophical, subversive, and exciting. I hope readers enjoy reading the collection as much as I have enjoyed creating it."You can find out more about The Harvester Series by clicking on the Harvester tag on the News page.