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Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Aussie folks - @brainjarpress.bsky.social, an indie press with fab fantasy titles, is moving and doesn't want to ship all their books across town! So grab 30% off using code NEWLAB2025 - I just nabbed some short story collections by @angelaslatter.bsky.social and Lisa L Hannett I was lusting after.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

*chants* Mugs! Mugs! Mugs!

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We're now taking pre-orders on a collection of Sourdough themed coffee mugs, featuring characters created by @angelaslatter.bsky.social with illustrations from @tanaudel.bsky.social. Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/ag-s...

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Kirstyn McDermott @fearofemeralds.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is a magnificent collection which will stick to your ribs like nothing else!

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Happy Book Birthday to Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, coming out in ebook and paperback today! Available everywhere good books are sold, but we always have a special love for folks who buy from Brain Jar Press directly :) Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...

The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles displayed over a picture of a storm-wracked sea. There are giant swells in the storm wracked water, but a few hints of sunlight gleaming through the dark clouds.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We just got our print run of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles ten days ahead of schedule, so guess whose weekend just got devoted to shipping out pre-orders? The rest of the world waits until May 27, but we'll be shipping books from Monday. You in? www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...

The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring a collection of boats sunken beneath the ocean and a few skeletal mermaids.

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Kirstyn McDermott @fearofemeralds.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My author copies of Never Afters have arrived! It's such a beautiful book and I am so thrilled to see this collection of revisioned fairy tales out in the world.

Copy of the collection Never Afters by Kirstyn McDermott standing alongside a small stack of additional copies. The cover features a woman in historical garb standing before an arched window looking out on a wintry landscape. Sitting on the stack of books is an enthusiastic-looking gargoyle. Or maybe he's just hungry ...

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We've been all about the new books this week, so now is a good moment to remind folks they can read Angela Slatter's NO GOOD DEED chapbook absolute free. Check it out if you love gothic fantasy with folklore vibes, or you dig the Sourdough universe. Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed

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Get Your Free Copy of No Good Deed

Angela Slatter’s No Good Deed is a dark fantasy tale of magic, ghosts, and marriage set in her World Fantasy Award-winning Sourdough universe. Isobel assumed her wedding would be the grandest day of h...

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Happy Book Birthday to @fearofemeralds.bsky.social's NEVER AFTERS omnibus, which is out in ebook and trade paperback today. Brain Jar Press Store: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve... Other Retailers: books2read.com/NeverAftersO...

The front cover of Kirstyn McDermott's Never AFters, featuring a young woman in regency dress standing at an arched window, looking over a winter landscape. The cover is for the book, presented on a tablet.

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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I already pre ordered mine.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on paperback and ebook editions of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, out from Brain Jar Press on May 27. Read a Sample: read.bookfunnel.com/read/em32gw5... Pre-Order the Book: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...

The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring sunken boats in a blue channel with spectral mermaids swimming among the depths. The cover is laid over a green textured pattern.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I think the Never Afters Omnibus is the first time I've ever been worried about a stack of our books falling on us and doing some damage. When you pack a book to the gills with seven novelettes, it turns out the final volume is *dense*.

Copies of Kirstyn McDermott's Never Afters stacked fourteen books high, with the cover visible on the top volume.

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Haha! Returned from write club to find this glorious thing waiting! Thanks @brainjarpress for this @kirstyn_mcdermott brilliance. 💜💜💜

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The official release is May 6, but print copies of Never Afters are now shipping from the Brain Jar Press store if you enjoy getting your books earlier than everyone else! Get your copy here: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...

Six copies of Kirstyn McDermott's collection, Never Afters, on a busy computer desk in the Brian Jar Press offices.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hi Folks! The Brain Jar Press offices are located in Brisbane, Australia , which is about to get hit by a cyclone for the first time in a few decades. We can't predict what's going to happen, but I'm pretty sure that there will be disruptions to our ability to ship physical books this week.

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Imogen Cassidy @imogenwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Oh wow please grab these if you've not encountered Angela Slatter's stuff before - I know a lot of folks would only have read her novels - she's one of the masters of short form fiction and you will LOVE these. All of them.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Ordered print copies of The Night Stair, figuring they'd last us a year. Gone in three days. Ordered a second round of print copies, figuring demand would slow. Two copies left after packaging pre-orders to date. Contacting the printer for a third round of books in 5... 4... 3... 2...

Two copies of Angela Slatter's Chapbook, The Night Stair, resting on a white tabletop.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

With a whole bunch of folks discovering @AngelaSlatter for the first time (or realising just how much she's written), we've pulled together a low-cost bundle of all her short story collections and chapbooks folks can pick up for a discounted price. Details: www.brainjarpress.com/angela-slatt...

The covers of five Angela Slatter Books: Red New Day, The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, No Good Deed, and The Night Stair. Available as a bundle for 25% off.

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 11/02/2025

Dear People On Substack: the next best time to leave Substack is now

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Peter M. Ball @petermball.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So @BrainJarPress put out about a dozen reprint titles from my backlist before we started publishing other people. The plan was always using my work to get through the learning curve, so I wasn't fucking up with someone else's book.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Night Stair Chapbooks, fresh from the printer. Not out until March 25, and we’ve already had to go back and order more!

A small pile of Angela Slatter’s The Night Stair chapbook in print, placed on a blanket covered in dinosaurs

The dinosaurs aren’t thematically linked to the book at all. It’s just the blanket we have at the office right now.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The inks for the postcard I illustrated for the launch of @angelaslatter.bsky.social ’s The Crimson Road

A woman with loose hair holding a dagger in the folds of her long skirt and with roses growing behind her

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So, real talk: we produce great books, but we suck at social media. Brain Jar's mostly 1 guy and 2 cats doing all the work. We don't have the resources to be good and consistent at socials. That's why we rock a cool-ass newsletter with a kick-ass freebie: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed

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Get Your Free Copy of No Good Deed

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A reminder for Brisbane folks! The Crimson Road launches next week. While it's not a Brain Jar Press book, we'll be there cheering Angela on (and might have a few, sneaky copies The Night Stair available on the night). RSVP details: www.angelaslatter.com/book-launch-...

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Book Launch: The Crimson Road

It's almost here! Please join me on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at the Queensland Law Society (Level 2, Law Society House, 179 Ann St, Brisbane City). The delightful Helen Marshall will be doing the in...

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Computers have failed us this week! Everyone is sending through such lovely messages about Angela's chapbooks, but our ISP has decided we can only receive--not send or reply--emails sent to Brain Jar. Fingers crossed tech support will figure out the problem and get it licked today.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you downloaded your free copy of The Night Stair yesterday and still crave an @angelaslatter.bsky.social fix, here's a reminder you can also get a copy of the No Good Deed chapbook by signing up to our newsletter. Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed

A copy of Angela Slatter's No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale in ebook, displayed on a tablet, placed atop a pile of skulls.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on Angela Slatter aka AG Slatter's chapbook, The Night Stair, featuring a tale of vampires, vengenace, and treachery set in Angela's Sourdough universe. Get the free ebook today at offers.brainjarpress.com/thenightstair

The cover of Angela Slatter's The Night Stair against a red, concrete textured background. Accompanying text reads "Available March 25 in Chapbook and Ebook"

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Something. Is. Coming.

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Reminder: The Crimson Road launch! Moi in convo with Helen Marshall. Come into the Darklands with us... Deets: Tues 11 Feb from 6pm (6:30pm start). At Auditorium, Level 2, Law Society House, 179 Ann Street, Brisbane. RSVP to Pulp Fiction Booksellers, 07 3236 2750 or pulpfictionbooks@bigpond.com.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Current job: waiting for the printer to tell us a secret @AngelaSlatter chapbook is ready, so we can announce it to the world. What are you folks doing?

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Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

“I don’t think this is something the Australian government is interested in fixing...But the implications are that we will lose Australian culture in the process.” Thank you @sophtree.bsky.social & @beneltham.bsky.social for stating the bleeding obvious: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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‘It will be dire for readers’: the disappearing voices of Australia’s independent publishers

Many local award-winning authors first found a home at a small publishing house, but as yet another is subsumed by one of the ‘big five’, there are fears for the writers of the future

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We've published a few short story projects from @angelaslatter.bsky.social over the last few years. If you missed all of them, we're now offering all four books at a discounted price in the Angela Slatter Short Fiction Bundle: www.brainjarpress.com/product/ange...

Paperback editions of four Angela Slatter books: The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings; Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales; Red New Day and Other Microfictions, and the chapbook No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

What's your favourite line in Kathleen Jennings' Travelogues? Personally, I find it really hard to go past the memories of home that lead us to "Fall is made-up, like yellow schoolbuses, sororities and American high schools." Still got to get your copy? We've got you: tinyurl.com/yc62awf8tion/

Lines from Kathleen Jennings Travelogues: Baltimore to NYC

"I think autumn is an invention, an infection.

Culverts and buttresses, cuttings and weighbridges, iron and concrete both softened and fall-stained. A pine-green shed, a turned-bone tanker. Both bleed and lichen and bloom.

At home it is spring, the verigated-rose bark is peeling like ribbon candy and the trees are shedding violet and scarlet like painted shade. Fall is made-up, like yellow schoolbusses, sororities and American high schools."

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Peter M. Ball @petermball.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"Get in, loser. We're reading small press speculative fiction and horror."

Still image of the "Get In, Loser" beat from the 2004 comedy drama Mean Girls (which was a good film, don't get me wrong, but a movie where I'm slightly baffled by it's longetivity in 2024).

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 16/11/2024

This novella is brilliant and you should all go and read it forthwith.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Open the door to some spooky holiday reads this Christmas season. Whether you're a horror reader or a horror writer, Brain Jar Press has some outstanding books from some of Australia's best horror authors. Details: www.brainjarpress.com/shop/

A spooky barn door opening into a ghostly light beyond occupies the right side of the screen. On the left is a series of titles from Brain Jar Press's horror range, including Angela Slatter's Winter Children and Other Stories, Joanne Anderton's Inanimates, Kaaron Warren's Capturing Ghosts on the Page, and Alan Baxter's The Martial Art of Writing (which, yes, doesn't sound like horror, or even look like horror when you see it, but trust us...)

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Thinking about your writing goals for next year? Lee Murray's GOAL SETTING (LITERALLY) is packed full of practical advice for scoping out your creative career, setting targets, and charting your development as a writer. Go here to pick up a copy on sale ---> www.brainjarpress.com/product/goal...

A paperback copy of Goal Setting (Literally): A Writer's Guide by Lee Murray, set against a gray sheet. The covver depicts a giant red lightbulb with a small silhouette of a person at the bottom, quietly working on a laptop.

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

We're meant to stop promoting the collections of spooky, gothic speculative fiction just because it's not Halloween anymore? Yeah, that's not happening. Here's a snipped from @angelaslatter.bsky.social's wonderfully creepy 'Only The Dead and Moonstruck' Link: www.brainjarpress.com/product/wint...

Text from Angela Slatter's story "Only the Dead and Moonstruck" from Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales

Reads "...And that girl with skin as pale as a fish's belly, thick lips, and wide-set protruding eyes that even in the moonlight appeared to have no whites, had looked up at Becky's window. That girl seemed to see here, even in the darkness, even through the lacy curtain. And that girl smiled slowly to let all those tiny teeth catch the rays of the moon and stars..."

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11/10/2024

I write speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror & points in-between), and I also write reviews & essays. My short fiction is available in two short story collections: 🛤️ SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN: mariahaskins.com/six-dreams-a... 🐺 WOLVES & GIRLS: mariahaskins.com/wolves-and-g...

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Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories

Available now! Buy Six Dreams About the Train and Other Stories: Paperback & ebook from JournalStone Paperback & ebook from Amazon Paperback & ebook from Indiebound / B&N…

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It's a stinking hot day here in Brisbane, so we're dipping into the winter landscapes of Kathleen Jenning's Travelogues poems to cool off. If you need to find a little moment of chill amid the coming Australian summer, get your copy here: www.brainjarpress.com/product/trav...

A quote from Kathleen Jennings' poem Northampton to NYC:

"The ponds are rimmed with frost, like salt, and filmed with ice, like a
cats eye.

A grisaille day, a sepia-wash day, a froth of white startling under a brick archway.

River like old tin..."

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Brain Jar Press @brainjarpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

Jason Nahrung on the inspiration behind his new vampire novella, Cruel Nights, and why this new take on 90s vampire grunge links back to an album by Heart: jasonnahrung.com/2024/04/10/g...

The front cover of the novella Cruel Nights, depicting a woman smoking a cigarette at the back of a grungy club.

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