The false diviner whose prophecies turn out to be true... the storyteller who risks everything to explore the taboo of cross-sex love... the traders who dare to explore the furthest reaches of the map and the runaway who learns to heal. Clays Beneath the Skies collects seven stories of the Jokka of Ke Bakil, an alien species with two chances at puberty to change sexes: female, neuter or male... a species crushed between the harshness of their world and the imperatives of biology. Whether it's creating a new religion or choosing to accept the hand of a strange male in a dance, each Jokkad makes sense of its world in its own way.Seven voices. Seven choices. A completely alien world. Come explore.Includes the Strange Horizon's Reader's Choice story "Unspeakable," and the Tiptree Reading List story "Freedom, Spiced and Drunk." With special foreword by Hugo Award-winning editor Susan Marie Groppi.

Clays Beneath the Skies (The Stone Moon Trilogy)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hogarth, M.C.A.

Fantasy

Stardancer Studios

What is the definition of strength? At what point is there nothing more to learn than the limits of endurance? When is darkness no longer contrast to light but a suffocation, and how close to that line can a person walk before she risks her soul? Ten years after she graduated from the Fleet Academe at Terracentrus, Alysha Forrest was captain of the battlecruiser UAV Stardancer with more honor to her name than any other officer her age. But before that dawn there was a night, and it is in the darkness that souls are made...or broken.

Alysha's Fall

Science Fiction

Cornwuff Press

They say Love is the oldest story on Earth, but we don’t have to tell it the same way every time. How many ways are there to explore our feelings that we may have never even considered? Countless fragments of different worlds, all held together by the greatest force of all. Join us as we explore the many different forms of love—family love, forbidden love, love that embraces what society always taught was wrong. Seasoned veterans and brand new talents bring you seventeen anthropomorphic stories with all different forms of sexuality and relationships, in a journey across genres, worlds, and time. Love can bloom, thrive, and end. Love can heal, mesh, and blend. We’re all Fragments trying to stick together. Tending the Fires - Jess E Owen Transitions - Mog Moogle The Mistress of Tidwell Manor - Renee Carter Hall Yet Time and Distance - Kris Carver Polynomials - Fever Low Raise Your Voice - Stefano "Mando" Zocchi Going Out - T C Powell Harvest Home - Altivo Overo The Foreigner - Dwale Trade All the Stars - Watts Martin Draw to the Heart - Ocean Tigrox Paint the Square-Cut Sky - Slip-Wolf Hearth Soup - Laura "Munchkin" Lewis Brass Candy Girl - M C A Hogarth Footsteps - Televassi Rain Check - Field T Mouse The Soul of Wit - Daniel Lowd

Fragments of Life's Heart

Literature & Fiction

Wolf, Slip

Tigrox, Ocean

Lewis, Laura Munchkin

Zocchi, Stefano Mando

Carver, Kris

Powell, T.C.

Low, Fever

Lowd, Daniel

Mouse, Field T.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Weasel Press

In all Kherishdar there is one man with no choices... and one woman with them all.When alien taint destroyed her former House, Haraa nai'Qevellen-osulkedi was raised out of casteless despair to translate human languages for the god of Civilization, the Ai-Naidari Emperor. At first her curiosity and intelligence serve her well, but the longer she spends among aliens, the more questions she has about her world. How did Kherishdar come about? Why is the Emperor singular, and the priest who serves Shame? Why does Kherishdar need an Exception, and why is it always a woman, and why does she annoy Haraa so badly?Kherishdar's Exception is a coming-of-age story set in a world where everyone has a place. But among the Ai-Naidar, you don't get to choose that place.Unless....The fourth installment in the Books of Kherishdar returns us to the mannered world of the Ai-Naidar, and builds on everything we've learned in the first three. The author recommends reading in order for full immersion:1. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar2. The Admonishments of Kherishdar3. Black Blossom4. Kherishdar's Exception

Kherishdar's Exception

Independently published

For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence over individualism; to know one's place... to always have one. Also includes 5 full-color painted illustrations.

The Aphorisms of Kherishdar (Kherishdar 1) (The Chapbooks of Kherishdar)

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Admonishments of Kherishdar (Kherishdar 2) (The Chapbooks of Kherishdar)

The Alliance has sent twelve ambassadors to the Chatcaavan Empire; all twelve returned early, defeated. None of their number have been successful at taking that brutal empire to task for their violations of the treaty. None have survived the vicious court of a race of winged shapechangers, one maintained by cruelty, savagery and torture. Lisinthir Nase Galare is the Alliance's thirteenth emissary. A duelist, an esper and a prince of his people, he has been sent to bring an empire to heel. Will it destroy him, as it has his predecessors? Or can one man teach an empire to fear... and love?Book 1 of Princes' Game. Contains adult/difficult situations.

Even the Wingless (Princes' Game)

When the angel Asrial discovers that the halos of the Fallen have been maintained in Heaven against their eventual return, she speaks out against Archangel Michael’s plan to make war on them on Earth. For her insolence, she is driven from grace and ends up in the parking lot of a Jesuit high school. But can she, a priest, a demon and two high school kids stop the Apocalypse... and redeem the Fallen?

A Rosary of Stones and Thorns

Black Blossom (Kherishdar 3)

Literary

In my first year on Kickstarter, I ran four campaigns. All four succeeded; in fact, all four overfunded, some by over 400%.  I am not a media superstar. I am, at best, a very energetic indie author and freelance painter. But even a small fish can make a big splash in the Kickstarter pond... with the right tools. This guide outlines the steps I took to build and fund all of my campaigns, from the spark of an idea, through project design and running the campaign, all the way to fulfillment... and beyond. It's even got checklists... and cartoon jaguars!  Are you ready to run your own successful Kickstarter campaign? Let's get started!

From Spark to Finish: Running Your Kickstarter Campaign

Business & Money

Finance

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