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…
Long overdue—an audio version for I Want the Stars
I Want the Stars (finally) has an audio book version!
Listen up!
Kitra has new illustrations—and an audio book version!
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…
Even the best laid plans…
Rediscovery, Volume 3, has been recalled. Find out why!
Tom Purdom (1936–2023)
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
On the Road with Marie Vibbert, Part 2
On the Road with Marie Vibbert, Part 2!
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!
On the Road with Gideon and Janice
On the Road with Gideon and Janice!
On the Road with Erica Friedman
On the Road with Erica Friedman!
On the Road with Marie Vibbert
On the Road with Marie Vibbert!
Big News for Kitra!
New news about the Kitra saga!
It’s getting #Musky in here
Why we ain’t gonna Tweet no more.
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 heart-rending…
Working with The Big Apple
Journey Press titles are now ALL available through Apple Books!
“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…
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…
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…
AT FIRST CONTACT is here!
I’m so excited. My first novel-length work, At First Contact, had been published! It’s been a long time coming, the culmination of more than two years’ work (oh, how the pandemic slowed everything down…). Each tale is its own story, independently created and designed to stand alone. And yet, now that they have been combined…
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…