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Micro press publisher of science fiction and fantasy novellas. Jennifer Crispin, publisher. Lansing, MI. www.dancingstarpress.com
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Nov 14
A Feast for Flies by @leighharlen.bsky.social is out TODAY!

🚀 Generation ships
🔎 Space noir
🚨 ACAB
🎰 Casinos & crime bosses
🌺 Weird plant bullshit
🐕 Support doggo
👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic second chance
Cover Image for A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen Cover text reads: Gripping, lovely, and thrilling all at once. - Joan Tierney, author of The Killing Grounds Cover image features a woman in uniform, support dog by her side, standing in a walkway aboard a decaying generation ship, neon lights and flies buzzing all around. Cover image by Vitaliy Ostaschenko.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 20h
Looking for some weekend reading?

Check out this short story on Kaleidotrope by Tanvir Ahmed for god-drunk pigeons, dervishes, and being driven from your road by love.

(and keep your eye out for Ahmed's book, The Night Sweeps the Mountains away, coming February 2026!)
“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
(And yeah, back you should go to Neon Hemlock to pick up Leigh's previous book, shifter punk with queer Scooby-Doo vibes Queens of Noise!)
Queens of Noise by Leigh Harlen — neon hemlock
Part of the 2020 Novella Series. An 8” x 5” novella. 88 pages. In Queens of Noise , Mixi fronts the Mangy Rats, a motley found family of queers, crust punks and werecoyotes. Mixi and their band kno...
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
Finally for generation ship sapphics who have been stuck in survival mode too long, reclaiming their selves and their time as they take on corrupt law enforcement and multiple cartels, you need A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen!
A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen | Dancing Star Press
A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen. A sapphic noir novella taking place on a generation ship, with mind reading and support dogs!
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
(AND THEN you are going to want to pop over to her website to pick up some of her comics and/or original art! I especially love Soul Food Wars, which is getting a second volume soon!)
Visit Sarah A. Macklin's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
For a tale of struggle against out-of-touch figureheads that’s a little more mythical, a little less realistic, you will also want to pick up Bride of the River God by Sarah A. Macklin!
Bride of the River God | Dancing Star Press
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
(AND THEN jump over to Bookshop (free shipping until the 11th!) to pick up the first book in DaVaun's Keynan Masters middle-grade series! (or if you already have the first book, the second book released in April!))
Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew
Check out Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew - <strong>"Impossible to predict... Your new obsession." --Mark Oshiro, co-author of #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestseller <em>The Sun and the Star...
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
AS LONG AS YOU'RE THERE, and you CLEARLY have a thing for stories of older Black women burning corrupt empires to the ground, you should also pick up She Who Hears All Whispers by DaVaun Sanders!
She Who Hears All Whispers | Dancing Star Press
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
(And then jump on over to @neonhemlock, another amazing small publisher, to pick up her new book, The Dead Withheld!)

My copy is due to arrive in the mail TOMORROW!
The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis — neon hemlock
Publication date: June 30 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Items ordered with a pre-ordered title will ship when the pre-order becomes available. Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/de...
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
Use it to pick up L.D. Lewis's first book, A Ruin of Shadows!
Because now is the perfect time for the tale of a woman who says ENOUGH to the colonialist empire she's been working for.
A Ruin of Shadows | Dancing Star Press
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Jul 9
For NO PARTICULAR REASON WHATSOEVER, we are running a promotion to encourage you to support small businesses and small publishers this week! Use the code shopsmall to get 20% off everything at the Dancing Star Press shop! Offer good through July 14th!

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 23
Order this week (from the press website!) and I will write you a little love letter to go with it.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 23
Tonight I am feeling some kinda way about Bride of the River God in particular. By the amazing, multi-talented @killianfantasy.bsky.social! Modern myth energy about a young woman chosen to marry a god, but finds a way to choose her own path. Deserves its own Muppet movie.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 22
It's time for yet another installment in the series Tiny Press Press!

Today's feature is about Ryszard Merey of the amazing @traumbooks.bsky.social

Please check out the interview to learn a little more about him, then give them a follow!

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Text in image reads: tiny press press presents: tRaum Books, fluid, queer, trans lit Main image is of a hardback book, open with its spine flat against a table, two of its pages curled into to form a heart. Inset is the tRaum Books logo, which features a capital T in pixelated bubble font.
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Dhiyanah @bydhiyanah.bsky.social · May 9
"Tiny publishing spreads joy. It saves lives, in the most literal of ways. I believe that we are our stories, so to me, nothing is more important." - @edebell.com @atthisarts.com 💖 #IndiePress #books #BookSky
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 8
It's time for another installment of Tiny Press Press — a series of Q&As with the people behind tiny presses publishing speculative fiction!

This piece features Emily of @atthisarts.com
Go check out the interview and give eir a follow!

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text in image reads: tiny press press presents: Atthis Arts, Detroit Michigan primary image is of a hardback book, laid open spine down on a desk, with two of its center pages curled in to form a heart shape. image on Atthis Arts logo is of a hummingbird perched on a branch.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 8
It's time for another installment of Tiny Press Press — a series of Q&As with the people behind tiny presses publishing speculative fiction!

This piece features Emily of @atthisarts.com
Go check out the interview and give eir a follow!

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text in image reads: tiny press press presents: Atthis Arts, Detroit Michigan primary image is of a hardback book, laid open spine down on a desk, with two of its center pages curled in to form a heart shape. image on Atthis Arts logo is of a hummingbird perched on a branch.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · May 2
Boosting for the evening folk!
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 30
It's time for a second installment of Tiny Press Press — a series of Q&As with the people behind tiny presses publishing speculative fiction!

This first piece features Catherine of @qospress.bsky.social
Go check out the interview and give her a follow!

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text of image reads: tiny press press presents: Queen of Swords Press image is of a hardbound book opened with its spine flat against the table, two of its central pages curved in on each other to form the outline of a heart. the Queen of Swords Press logo is of a woman in profile, holding a sword.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 30
It's time for a second installment of Tiny Press Press — a series of Q&As with the people behind tiny presses publishing speculative fiction!

This first piece features Catherine of @qospress.bsky.social
Go check out the interview and give her a follow!

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text of image reads: tiny press press presents: Queen of Swords Press image is of a hardbound book opened with its spine flat against the table, two of its central pages curved in on each other to form the outline of a heart. the Queen of Swords Press logo is of a woman in profile, holding a sword.
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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · Apr 23
Dancing Star Press is doing this *wonderful* series. We hope you'll follow them for the posts, and check out Dancing Star's books - and all the small presses they'll be featuring! ❤️

We walk together.

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 23
Welcome to Tiny Press Press — a series of Q&As with the people behind tiny presses publishing speculative fiction!

This first piece features Claire of @duckprintspress.com
Go check out the interview and give them a follow!

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tiny press press presents: Duck Prints Press, we print diversity Image is of a hardback book, opened flat against the table, with the two central pages of the book curved to make a heart shape. There is an inset of the logo of Duck Prints Press, which is a white duck with duck prints in all the colors of the rainbow.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 19
I see people replying to posts with the 📌 emoji to save posts to their pinned feed, but I haven't used it myself so I am not sure how well it works!
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 18
You can pick up your own copy of the book to go with it at the link below, or wherever excellent books about badass Black women bringing down corrupt empires are sold.

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Apr 18
I was in an activism workshop today that made excellent use of music, and it reminded me of this fantastic playlist @ellethevillain.bsky.social to go with A Ruin of Shadows, which I had not listened to in too long. If you need a soundtrack for your weekend, I recommend it.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Mar 7
Happy Amazon boycott week! Reminder that all our ebooks on sale today and tomorrow at smashwords, and that you can pick up our paperbacks from our press site and get a little handmade bookmark as a thank you!

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Feb 26
Next week, ALL Dancing Star Press titles will be part of a special sale on @Smashwords to celebrate 2025 Read an Ebook Week from March 2 - March 8. Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #ebookweek25 #Smashwords
promotional image for Smashword's Read an Ebook Week event Text reads: Smashwords your ebook, your way. READ AN EBOOK WEEK My books are 50% off! smashwords.com/shelves/promos Image is of a Black woman lounging on her stomach while reading on a tablet. Image featuring the four books currently available from Dancing Star Press. Clockwise from top left: A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis Bride of the River God by Sarah A. Macklin She Who Hears All Whispers by DaVaun Sanders the Dancing Star Logo (a feather star) floats in the background. Text below the books reads: Dancing Star Press.
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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · Feb 26
Next week, ALL Dancing Star Press titles will be part of a special sale on @Smashwords to celebrate 2025 Read an Ebook Week from March 2 - March 8. Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #ebookweek25 #Smashwords
promotional image for Smashword's Read an Ebook Week event Text reads: Smashwords your ebook, your way. READ AN EBOOK WEEK My books are 50% off! smashwords.com/shelves/promos Image is of a Black woman lounging on her stomach while reading on a tablet. Image featuring the four books currently available from Dancing Star Press. Clockwise from top left: A Feast for Flies by Leigh Harlen A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis Bride of the River God by Sarah A. Macklin She Who Hears All Whispers by DaVaun Sanders the Dancing Star Logo (a feather star) floats in the background. Text below the books reads: Dancing Star Press.
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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · Feb 8
Blah, tagged this wrong. The book is released by
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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · Feb 8
A Feast for Flies~~A must-read for the butch noir || extortion/sting || service dog best friend || seedy neo Las Vegas aesthetics! Really enjoying this from Dancing Star Press 🎇@greeniezona.bsky.social
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A woman with an elaborate hair cut and a dog on a leash stands in the foreground--in the background, is a neon night-city scene. Cover for A Feast of Flies, by Leigh Harlen.
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