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We're a small press publishing genre fiction. We offer a selection of original books, zines, and magazine articles. Founded and run by @AlanDistro .

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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 months
We have NINE new books releasing over the next six months and I couldn't be more excited for every one of them. From gory Killer VHS titles to literary novellas and illustrated novelettes, to our first single-author collection and nonfiction/screenplay book...what a line up! 👀
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Shortwave Magazine will be open to submissions, for the first time, in the coming weeks. We'll be looking for new stories (general theme of horror or dark sci-fi) under 4,000 words. Pay is $.05/word. More details/guidelines to come, just wanted to give everyone the heads-up!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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5 months
The decision to drop Zach’s stories yesterday cost us about $600. I had paid him for his magazine story (5 cents/word) already, I had paid to have it line/proof edited already, I had paid to have his story in the SHADOWS IN THE STACKS anthology proofed, and paid to print
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
New Anthology Announcement! WILTED PAGES: An Anthology of Dark Academia, edited by @AiJiang_ & @ChristiNogle , is set to publish in August 2023! Open submissions, invited authors, cover reveal, and more are all forthcoming spring 2023! For more info:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
✨COVER REVEAL✨ for @AiJiang_ 's forthcoming novelette, I AM AI. "Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human" – @samitbasu This cover was a collaboration between Ai Jiang, her mother, and Alan Lastufka. Read more about the cover and release here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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5 months
This morning we dropped Zach Rosenberg's story from the forthcoming SHADOWS IN THE STACKS anthology. We also had a Shortwave Magazine story from him scheduled to publish later this year. That has been dropped as well. We do not want to work with folks who behave the way he
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Saw a few folks giving a certain indie press a hard time for announcing their new titles two years in advance. I'm curious... how long do y'all think it takes to properly produce a book? It can be done fast, especially in the small/indie space. But, at least for us, we don't
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@ShortwaveBooks
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5 months
We sold our 10,000th book last night! 🎉 This is all since publishing our first title, FACE THE NIGHT, on March 8, 2022, so it took us just over 2 years (and that first year, we only had two titles). Thank you all so much for your early support. We will continue to work hard
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Apropos of nothing, I wanted to confirm again that Shortwave will never publish anything machine-generated. Not stories, not articles, not art... We work with incredible human storytellers and educators. And I spent way too much on my graphic design education to not use it.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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4 months
No. Audiobooks are very expensive to produce, but we will never turn to AI voice narration. We've produced two audiobooks so far (with more coming), working with extremely talented human narrators, like Audie Award winner Elisabeth Rodgers. And that's how we'll continue to
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Today we updated our style guide to no longer italicize foreign-language words in our English-language books. Listening to numerous authors ask us (and other publishers) not to 'other' these words by setting them apart has informed our copyediting moving forward.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
Title announcement! I AM AI, a new sci-fi novelette by @AiJiang_ , coming June 2023! Ai describes I AM AI as "close to my heart: a novelette on toxic productivity, the detriments of AI, and the merits of humanity along with its challenges." Read more:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
Extended submissions for WILTED PAGES: An Anthology of Dark Academia begin March 1st!! WILTED PAGES will be edited by @AiJiang_ and @ChristiNogle . Start getting those stories ready by reading the submission guidelines posted this morning:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 months
👁️ New title announcement! 👁️ Our first new horror novel in over two years... THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE by @todd_keisling will be published April 2025! This 100k-word novel—pitched as COCOON meets THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE—is crawling with grief, odd neighbors, and cosmic horrors.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
(25/27) Please welcome Alex Woodroe ( @AlexWoodroe ) to the anthology! Alex is a Romanian folklore nerd and the editor at @TenebrousPress . Her OBSOLESCENCE story, "Homegrown", is a dark and *delicious* look at human biological augmentations.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
After over 500 open submissions, we have our final author list for Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia! We will tweet a teaser for each story leading up to release, but for today, you can view the entire final TOC here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
The WILTED PAGES Kickstarter is live! *Every* reward has FREE US shipping (and reduced International shipping). The Paperback Box Set (pictured below) features an exclusive edition of the anthology available only thru this Kickstarter! Get yours here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Alright, who's got a story for us?! SHORTWAVE MAGAZINE will be open to submissions next month. 🎉 Full details here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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5 months
Happy to announce the recently opened spot in our SHADOWS IN THE STACKS anthology will now feature a new story by @evelyn_freeling ! SHADOWS will be released at the StokerCon pre-party, Spirited Giving, and in all bookstores the same day. Out May 28th!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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7 months
In light of everything, yet again, we want to stress we will never use AI for covers, interiors, editing, writing, or any other creative aspect of any title we publish. I didn't go to college and study art just to ask a machine to steal it for me.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
I heard the twitter discourse today was about there not being enough horror and sci-fi novella/novelette publishers. Oh wow do I have a few treats for you!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
OBSOLESCENCE is finally out today! I've tried writing this a dozen times, but summing up my overwhelming appreciation and love for all of these stories and their authors is impossible in so few words... This has been such an incredible project to work on. Thank you all. 🖤
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
9 months
We just received a tv/film rights inquiry and manuscript request from Temple Hill (SMILE, TWILIGHT, FAULT IN OUR STARS) for one of our upcoming titles so, yeah, this week is starting off well! 🎉 (we help handle tv/film stuff for our authors who don't yet have representation)
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
✨ Cover Reveal ✨ SHADOWS IN THE STACKS is a charity horror anthology, featuring new stories from @jamieflanagan81 , @claymcleod , @AiJiang_ , @JonathanMaberry , @JAWMcCarthy , @TimMcGregor1 , and many others. Releases May 28th. Full TOC and more info here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Publishers/self-pubbed authors, you should all head over to ACX and claim any titles you own the audio rights to, even if you don't plan on making an audiobook today. That stops anyone else from being able to claim your title and releasing an audiobook without your permission.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Shortwave Magazine submissions are now closed! 🎉 What a week! Total sub count: 1,192 stories 👀 We hope to finish reading by Nov 1st, but please be patient if you're waiting to hear back. This is twice the number of subs we've ever received for any open calls in the past. 💀
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
4 months
Every time someone points out how happy they are that we give so much attention to novellas and novelettes I want to reply, "Well, we are called Shortwave, not Longwave." But I restrain myself.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
This month has been our highest grossing month since we launched two years ago! Thank you all for your support and for digging the stuff we're publishing. Our authors are doing some fantastic work and I'm so happy to see it's connecting with readers. 🖤🖤🖤
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
As of 3 hours ago, it's technically Saturday in the first time zone, so Magazine Submissions are now open! We've received 17 already, and I doubt they're all from that Australian time zone, but hey, let's roll with it, let those submission emails fly!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Happy pub day to WILTED PAGES, edited by @AiJiang_ and @ChristiNogle , and featuring cover art by @ravenkult ! This new anthology is out now in ebook and paperback everywhere. We just sent out our newsletter about this release, which you can read here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 months
We signed our 10th Killer VHS contract this week. The series is now scheduled through 2027! 👀👀👀 Thank you all for the early support. We're just getting started. 🥳
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
5 months
📞 COVER REVEAL! 📞 Excited to share the full wrap for @claymcleod 's STAY ON THE LINE, featuring six full-page illustrations and a cover illustration by @slimyswampghost , with layout/typography by @AlanDistro . Available everywhere in paperback and ebook on July 30th!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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10 months
UPDATE: All magazine submission decisions have been made. This was a historic (for us) open submissions period. We needed and budgeted for 12 stories. We opened subs for one week. We received 1,200 submissions. A literal 1% acceptance rate. Better than lit agents, but worse
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
Everyone liked our temp cover for @claymcleod and @slimyswampghost 's STAY ON THE LINE so much that we turned it into an art print included **free** with direct orders from our shop! Designed by @AlanDistro . Signed by Clay and Trevor. Get yours here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
Who wants to come over and help assemble 300 shipping boxes for OBSOLESCENCE? 😍
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
5 months
Our first few print proof copies of @claymcleod 's STAY ON THE LINE, featuring a cover illustration and six full-page interior illustrations by @slimyswampghost , just arrived. 👀 And they're perfect! Who wants an ARC? 😅
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
OBSOLESCENCE print proofs (paperback + hardcover) just arrived!!! Once @KristinaHorner and I approve these, the printer will begin running off backer and contributor copies for us to mail out in a few weeks. Wide release on May 16th! Pre-order here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
We just published a new story: "Given" by the incomparable @horrorsong ! All our magazine stories (fiction and nonfiction) are free to read, but we pay professional rates. Please support us in continuing this mission by reading and sharing new stories. 🖤
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@ShortwaveBooks
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4 months
As just one small example of how not-competition we are... When we were getting started, @TenebrousPress shared one of their standard contracts with me so I didn't have to start from scratch. Since then, I've made a lot of updates, incorporating feedback from agents and authors,
@medusahaus
Medusa Publishing Haus
4 months
Other small presses are not competition. Variety keeps our ecosystem healthy & it's better for writers. A few presses I love: @WeirdpunkBooks @ShortwaveBooks @TenebrousPress @LittleGhostsBoo @StelliformPress @PressOrchid @CursedMorsels Shout out a small press below ⤵️
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
🪓 COVER REVEAL! 🎄 @BrianMcWriter 's CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN: The Second Slaying! A sequel that picks up immediately where the first book left off with Candy coming to town on Christmas morning to punish a parish full of sinners. Out this November:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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6 months
Helped connect not one, but TWO, of our authors with tv/film rep people today who have read and are actively interested in their titles. Will we see more Shortwave titles becoming films in the future? I very much hope so. 😍
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 month
Novelettes don't always get the love they deserve, but we love them! And so do our readers! This is a chart of our Top 10 bestselling print books over the last 30 days. The top two are novelettes, and there are three total in our Top 10. 🎉 Read any good novelettes lately?
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@ShortwaveBooks
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7 months
Just signed a contract for our first single-author collection! 🎉 This one's been in the works for months, but that also means we'll get to announce it soon. Like, next week soon! 👀
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
5 months
I'll post about this again next week, but for those who work through the weekend like I do... our submissions page has been updated! Spoiler: we're now OPEN for dark sci-fi novels by women, for publication in 2025.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
9 months
New Deal Announcement! REST STOP by @natcassidy , in which a young man finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom, caught between the horrors on the other side of the door and the horrors rapidly skittering down the walls inside. Out Oct. 2024!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
Just received this photo from @slimyswampghost . All postcards are now hand-signed by both @claymcleod and Trevor! These are included FREE (while supplies last) with orders of STAY ON THE LINE from our direct shop.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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7 months
Congrats to all on the Stoker prelim list! 🎉 Sadly, we didn't make the cut. However, we were the 3rd most recommended press this year. So that's something to celebrate! # of rec'ed titles: Tor Nightfire - 18 Crystal Lake - 17 Shortwave - 16 Hungry Shadow - 14 Brigids Gate - 12
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
10 months
New magazine story! "Give Me English" by @AiJiang_ , which was a finalist for both the Nebula and Locus awards, available now for the first time to read for free. "Give Me English" was originally published in the May/June 2022 issue of @fandsf .
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
👁️ Cover reveal for @writerlynds 's debut collection, LIMELIGHT and Other Stories. 👁️ LIMELIGHT is "an impressive collection" ( @R_E_Treasure , Managing Editor of APEX Magazine) of dark science fiction tales from near and far futures. Cover art by @AlanDistro . Out September 3rd!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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4 months
TELEPORTASM print ARCs just arrived and they are glorious! We'll send copies out to our regular reviewers list first, and a sign-up form for other reviewers who are interested in print ARCs will be available soon.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
Each copy of our OBSOLESCENCE anthology ordered direct from us will ship in its own protective box. I just finished designing them! 👀 If you missed out on backing it last year, OBSOLESCENCE is now available for pre-order in our shop, shipping May 16th!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
👀 Cover Reveal 👀 time for @adamfgodfrey 's debut novella, NARCISSUS! If the remainder of your life was only as long as your ability to avoid your own reflection, how long would you last? Find out on May 2nd... More info/preorders:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 years
✨Cover Reveal✨ for @writerlynds 's HAVE YOU DECIDED ON YOUR QUESTION! If you could live your life over again, what would you ask to change? Something big? Something small? A single moment? Have you decided on your question? Zoe has... Info/preorders:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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2 months
Tomorrow we are announcing our first new horror **novel** since our very first book in 2022, @AlanDistro 's starred and award-winning, FACE THE NIGHT. 👀 This is a big one for us, and a direction we'd like to focus on a bit more alongside our regular novellas and novelettes.
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Not mentioned in the guidelines, but submissions are being anonymized. Neither the early readers nor I will have any idea who wrote what until after we've read/accepted. Mostly saying this so whether your story is accepted or rejected, you'll know it's nothing personal. :)
@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
As of 3 hours ago, it's technically Saturday in the first time zone, so Magazine Submissions are now open! We've received 17 already, and I doubt they're all from that Australian time zone, but hey, let's roll with it, let those submission emails fly!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
9 months
New Deal Announcement! STAY ON THE LINE: A Novelette by @claymcleod and @slimyswampghost , coming July 2024! This is one of Clay's creepiest stories, featuring numerous full-page illustrations and cover art by Trevor. Pre-orders available now:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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4 months
Just announced! Huge congrats to editors @AlanDistro and @KristinaHorner , and all 27 incredibly talented contributors to OBSOLESCENCE! Our debut anthology is a FINALIST for BEST NEW HORROR at the 2024 Next Generation @IndieBookAwards !
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
Announcing our largest Deal Report yet tomorrow. A three-book deal! 👀👀👀 Stay tuned.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
4 months
🪲 COVER REVEAL! 🪲 @tanyacarinae 's CICADA is the fourth book in our Killer VHS Series, coming September 24th! Pre-orders are now available for eBook and Paperback!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
Big news! The PEREGRINE ESTATE TRILOGY by @CSHumble , three new prequel novellas in THAT LIGHT SUBLIME series, will be released Summer 2025! • To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place • San Antonio Mission • Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard More info:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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1 year
Excited to announce that our forthcoming novelette, I AM AI, by @AiJiang_ is being taught this quarter at the University of Washington! ( @UW ) The Honors Program course explores AI ethics through sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Read more here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
4 months
So happy for and proud of @AiJiang_ and this little (Hugo Award nominated!) novelette that we published last year. If you haven't read it yet, it's available everywhere in eBook and paperback.
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Hugo Book Club Blog
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Ai Jiang ( @AiJiang_ ) is the sixth-youngest author ever shortlisted for the Best Novelette #HugoAward . One of the 25 youngest authors ever shortlisted in any of the prose categories (novel, short story, novelette, novella, or series).
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@ShortwaveBooks
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6 months
I am so in love with our 2024 line up. Sometimes, I open our home page and just stare lovingly at it for a minute before getting back to work. But I mean... can you blame me? Look at this. 🔥
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
8 months
Just when you thought Christmas was over... #CandyCainKillsAgain 🎄🎄 @BrianMcWriter
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
DREAD CENTRAL is hosting a very cool, exclusive cover reveal today… ours! The cover for @AlexEbenstein 's forthcoming novella, MELON HEAD MAYHEM, was revealed this morning by @DreadCentral here: Click over and join in on the mayhem!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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6 months
New Deal Announcement! BIG F*%K, a novella by @joshuathehull , in which a foul-mouthed teen hires a professional Bigfoot hunter to track Bigfoot down after the beast massacres his entire family. This will be the sixth book in our Killer VHS Series. The hunt begins spring 2025!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
7 months
LIMELIGHT by @writerlynds is a new collection of over twenty dark science fiction tales from near and far futures. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Love, Death + Robots, LIMELIGHT will be out in hardcover, paperback, and eBook Sept. 3rd! More info:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
New title announcement! NIGHT OF THE WITCH-HUNTER, by @pbarb , in which an outcast teen inadvertently summons a demonic witch-hunter from the 1600s to her present-day small town while working on a video project for school. This was originally pitched as THE CRAFT x A NIGHTMARE
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Come back Monday for the full Wilted Pages TOC reveal! 👀👀👀
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
Our first open call for submissions starts TODAY! OBSOLESCENCE is a new collection of short stories about horrifying or fantastical interactions with technology. Submission guidelines can be found here: Send us your dark, weird, scary stories!
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@ShortwaveBooks
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7 months
"Books don't have expiration dates." I wrote that in an email recently and haven't stopped thinking about it. New books are exciting and shiny (unless they feature matte covers, of course), but I wanted to pause and spotlight a few "old" books... our first five books! Way past
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Following @TenebrousPress 's lead, we're adding a clause to all contracts asking authors and designers to confirm no more than 10% of their work has been machine-generated (the 10% allowance is a technicality for spell check tools, Grammarly, "smart" Photoshop plugins, etc).
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
New Deal Announcement! Shortwave will be publishing a new DEALTHREALM anthology this fall! DEATHREALM: SPIRITS, edited by @markrainey59 , will feature new stories by @joelansdale , @BrianKeene , @hystericteeth , and many others. More info here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
7 months
We receive a fair number of unsolicited submissions from agents and I always kinda wondered why? We're a tiny press with fair, but smaller, contracts. Certainly not worth the time for agents to seek us out, right? But today I learned we're the 3rd Top Dealmaker for Horror on
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Totally not a big deal and totally not subtweeting anyone, but I've seen a few people refer to us as "Short Wave" or "Short wave". No, no. We're "Shortwave", like the radio signals! You know, limited reach, but carrying data not found on the large corporate stations. That's us!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
5 months
Can't wait to share whose name is obscured here... The Killer VHS Series is now planned out for the next two years. 👀
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
5 months
We are very excited to share that @AiJiang_ ‘s novelette, I AM AI, which we published last June, is a finalist for the Hugo Award! Congrats, Ai! 🎉
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Print proofs just arrived for @AiJiang_ 's I AM AI novelette! And they look so good!! I AM AI is out everywhere June 20th in ebook and paperback. Buying direct comes with a hand-signed bookplate (and maybe more secret goodies)!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
Tomorrow seems like a good time for a cover reveal, yeah? 👀
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Ai vs A.I. Given the same prompt, who wrote it better? @AiJiang_ or ChatGPT? @AngelaYSmith provides the prompts, Ai Jiang writes her stories live, and then the same prompts are given to ChatGPT. Read more and watch the full livestream here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
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9 months
We have more to announce, and more to add to the site still, but wow 2024 is shaping up to be a great year for Shortwave releases. Fifteen months ago, I couldn't dream of working with so many talented people. This is just awesome. ❤️ One more title announcement and maybe one
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
8 months
Cover reveal 🎉 for @EMurrayAuthor 's forthcoming novelette, WHEN THE DEVIL! Paperback and eBook pre-orders available now from Amazon and our own shop! WHEN THE DEVIL will be released May 7th!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
7 months
Shortwave just hit our first #1 Amazon Bestseller! Our horror anthology, Deathrealm: Spirits, is on a huge sale—only 99 cents for the next five days! And just over 12 hours into the sale, we topped the Horror Anthology and Short Story charts! 🎉
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Just signed the contract for our final 2024 title! 🎉 We have a fantastic run of books scheduled for the next 18 months and I can't wait to share all of them with you!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
My only focus for today: building the WILTED PAGES kickstarter for our forthcoming dark academia anthology co-edited by @AiJiang_ and @ChristiNogle . Extended submissions open in a few days on March 1st! Have you started on your story yet?
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
6 months
It feels like Christmas morning! 🎄🪓 Announcing @BrianMcWriter 's CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN: The Second Slaying A slasher sequel that picks up immediately where the first book left off with the festive killer coming to town on Christmas morning to punish a parish full of sinners.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
8 months
60% of our 2024 titles have been announced already and I just can't get over this amazing lineup... - Rest Stop by @natcassidy (Oct 2024) - Cicada (Killer VHS #4 ) by @tanyacarinae (Sept 2024) - Stay on the Line by @claymcleod and @slimyswampghost (July 2024) - Teleportasm
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
9 months
New Deal Announcement! The 4th Killer VHS Series novella is CICADA by @tanyacarinae ! Ash is stuck at the worst small town film festival, dying of boredom, until she realizes she's starring in the bloody sequel. This is Tanya's debut, out Sept 2024!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Our free-to-read online magazine opens to submissions this Saturday! Are your stories ready?! Complete guidelines here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Happy release day to @AiJiang_ and her brilliant novelette, #IamAI , available now everywhere books are sold! This was a fun (and timely) project to work on, and the response from early readers and reviewers has been wonderful! More info + links here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
Cover reveal time for @BrianMcWriter 's CANDY CAIN KILLS! The second entry in our Killer VHS Series, this holiday slasher will be available to hide under the tree starting November 14th. Pre-orders (and ARC requests) are now available here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
8 months
For a one-person press, Shortwave had a fantastic 2023! Thank you to all the authors, readers, and reviewers who helped make our first full calendar year in business such a success! 🤎 Not counting our two dozen new magazine stories, we published 14 titles this year. 4
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
7 months
New Deal Announcement! SHADOWS IN THE STACKS—a Spirited Giving charity anthology benefiting the San Diego Library Foundation—features new stories from @jamieflanagan81 , @AiJiang_ , @claymcleod , @JonathanMaberry , @JAWMcCarthy , and others! More info here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
11 months
We're also mystified. If you have read OBSOLESCENCE, please consider reviewing it or telling a friend about it. We all put so much energy into this collection, and it's genuinely fantastic. 27 new stories by a group of incredibly talented writers, new and established.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
I've tried to let the work speak for itself, but it turns out if you don't ask, you don't receive, so... This is me asking: please review our titles?! Love it? Hate it? Wish there were ten more books in the series? Scream about it on Goodreads, Amazon, StoryGraph... wherever!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
WILTED PAGES: An Anthology of Dark Academia, co-edited by @AiJiang_ and @ChristiNogle , is out next month! We just received our print proof copy (featuring @ravenkult 's gorgeous cover art!), seen below with some of the campaign backer perks. Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
Our first new story of 2023! In "Indigo Night" by @AlexWoodroe , a father and son travel to the last planet in our universe, intrigued by what they may (or may not) find there... Read it here for free:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
2 years
WILTED PAGES: An Anthology of Dark Academia editors @AiJiang_ and @ChristiNogle are looking for a few early slush readers. If you would like a chance at reading submissions for the anthology, please fill out the form below! Apply here:
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
10 months
I started sending out a few acceptances today from our Shortwave Magazine open call. 🎉 We received 1,200 story submissions and are still reading through them, but we are nearly finished! Another 2-3 weeks and we should have decisions for all of the pieces.
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
3 months
Just added the 30th Shortwave title to Goodreads! 🎉 If you can, please rate and review, or save future titles. Every little bit helps!
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@ShortwaveBooks
Shortwave Publishing
1 year
New Deal Announcement! 🎉 We are excited to bring you WHEN THE DEVIL, @EMurrayAuthor 's debut novelette, in which a woman finds salvation in a new sapphic partner, homebrewed poison, and facing a God that she no longer believes in. In paperback and ebook summer 2024. 😈
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