Shortwave Publishing
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
Congrats to @natcassidy.bsky.social, @toddkeisling.com, @pfracassi.bsky.social, and @patrickbarb.bsky.social, whose titles were all named a 2025 Ingram Horror Editorial Selection today!
On a year-end list with only 23 titles, we published 4 of those titles. It's been a good year for indie horror!
On a year-end list with only 23 titles, we published 4 of those titles. It's been a good year for indie horror!
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Congrats to @natcassidy.bsky.social, @toddkeisling.com, @pfracassi.bsky.social, and @patrickbarb.bsky.social, whose titles were all named a 2025 Ingram Horror Editorial Selection today!
On a year-end list with only 23 titles, we published 4 of those titles. It's been a good year for indie horror!
On a year-end list with only 23 titles, we published 4 of those titles. It's been a good year for indie horror!
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Unpacked the Christmas books and have Candy Cain front and center
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@brianmcwriter.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Unpacked the Christmas books and have Candy Cain front and center
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@brianmcwriter.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
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@brianmcwriter.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
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That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
Yeah, unfortunately. Outside the world of magazines, anthologies, and small presses sustained by obsessive volunteer labour, the capital-I industry rather does seem to find short stories an unwanted form electricliterature.com/i-love-short...
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? - Electric Literature
The publishing world’s insistence on the novel as default fails to imagine what a book can do
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October 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
"THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING."
Great thread here of some fantastic indie presses to support directly with your dollars this holiday season (and all other seasons).
Great thread here of some fantastic indie presses to support directly with your dollars this holiday season (and all other seasons).
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social for books across the speculative genres;
@chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines;
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary;
I'll never remember everyone.
THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.
@chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines;
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary;
I'll never remember everyone.
THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING."
Great thread here of some fantastic indie presses to support directly with your dollars this holiday season (and all other seasons).
Great thread here of some fantastic indie presses to support directly with your dollars this holiday season (and all other seasons).
Happy to see @toddkeisling.com's THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE and @cshumble.bsky.social's TO CARRY A BODY TO ITS RESTING PLACE on the Stoker Award reading list.
There is still time to recommend titles, and it takes a lot of recommendations to make the prelim ballot. Make sure to send in your fav reads!
There is still time to recommend titles, and it takes a lot of recommendations to make the prelim ballot. Make sure to send in your fav reads!
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy to see @toddkeisling.com's THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE and @cshumble.bsky.social's TO CARRY A BODY TO ITS RESTING PLACE on the Stoker Award reading list.
There is still time to recommend titles, and it takes a lot of recommendations to make the prelim ballot. Make sure to send in your fav reads!
There is still time to recommend titles, and it takes a lot of recommendations to make the prelim ballot. Make sure to send in your fav reads!
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🔥NEXT WEEK🔥
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🔥NEXT WEEK🔥
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
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We'll leave the subscription link for the print version of THE END TIMES open for a few more weeks. Subscribe now and get both issues 1 & 2 in December. Digital subscriptions will stay open all year. Digital subscribers have access to the complete archive as we go.
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The End Times by Benjamin Percy with Stephen King (Physical Subscription) — Bad Hand Books
FEATURED IN FANGORIA and FORBES : A YEAR OF EXPERIMENTAL STORYTELLING FOR ONE LOW PRICE. WE’VE EXPANDED OUR ORIGINAL PRINT RUN, BUT DO NOT WAIT TO BUY. Get ready for an immersive, seria...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We'll leave the subscription link for the print version of THE END TIMES open for a few more weeks. Subscribe now and get both issues 1 & 2 in December. Digital subscriptions will stay open all year. Digital subscribers have access to the complete archive as we go.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...
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Our next Novella of Utter Speculation is coming out in Early Spring but you can be part of the legend. The kickstarter is live now for this low-fi, queer, weird fiction dive into gamer lore.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/utt...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/utt...
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Our next Novella of Utter Speculation is coming out in Early Spring but you can be part of the legend. The kickstarter is live now for this low-fi, queer, weird fiction dive into gamer lore.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/utt...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/utt...
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Posted my four star review of Wilted Pages edited by @aijiang.bsky.social & @christinogle.bsky.social
Scary, atmospheric, and right on the nose. The wide diaspora and clever format made this collection fun, creepy, and provoking. Everything I could have wanted.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Scary, atmospheric, and right on the nose. The wide diaspora and clever format made this collection fun, creepy, and provoking. Everything I could have wanted.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Daniel Mowery's review of Wilted Pages
4/5: Alright class, please turn to page—well turn to any page, really—so you may find incomprehensible horrors; the depths of human heartbreak, suffering, and capacity for evil; or worst of all: the a...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Posted my four star review of Wilted Pages edited by @aijiang.bsky.social & @christinogle.bsky.social
Scary, atmospheric, and right on the nose. The wide diaspora and clever format made this collection fun, creepy, and provoking. Everything I could have wanted.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Scary, atmospheric, and right on the nose. The wide diaspora and clever format made this collection fun, creepy, and provoking. Everything I could have wanted.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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I've read the first chapter of this, and it's great! Super glad Brie's novel got picked up!
New book coming summer 2027!
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I've read the first chapter of this, and it's great! Super glad Brie's novel got picked up!
New book coming summer 2027!
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New book coming summer 2027!
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
ALLIGATOR BABY, the debut novel from the writer of the WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE podcast, Brie Williams!
This is a novel-in-stories (similar to King's Cycle of the Werewolf) about a monster that has seemingly risen out of legend to terrorize an isolated coastal community.
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GUESS WHAT: REST STOP IS COMING FOR YOUR EARS, TOO … and it’s bringing friends ...
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
More big news!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
GUESS WHAT: REST STOP IS COMING FOR YOUR EARS, TOO … and it’s bringing friends ...
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
So excited for this collection to have found an audiohome with Simon Maverick. The narrator we’ve got is an absolute superstar, and there just may be some extraspecial audio delights included, as well.
More big news!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
More big news!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
I KNOW A PLACE: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours, @natcassidy.bsky.social's first collection, will be getting an audiobook from Simon Maverick, an audio imprint of Simon & Schuster!
The audiobook is available for pre-order now everywhere audiobooks are sold!
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I read THE EXTRA on Halloween and still mean to post my reader review in the usual places, but for now, in this space, here it is in a nutshell: It rocks. Absolutely gripping delivery on a five-star high concept. Quite eager to read its sequels when they drop.
Between Ingram and bookstore orders (thanks @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social!) we've sold nearly another 100 paperback copies of THE EXTRA today alone. 👀
You'll be hearing about this book for a while. And the next in the series, THE OTHER, is coming June 2026!
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You'll be hearing about this book for a while. And the next in the series, THE OTHER, is coming June 2026!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/the-...
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I read THE EXTRA on Halloween and still mean to post my reader review in the usual places, but for now, in this space, here it is in a nutshell: It rocks. Absolutely gripping delivery on a five-star high concept. Quite eager to read its sequels when they drop.
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2026-2027 is shaping up to be quite a time 🥹🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️ 📚
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
2026-2027 is shaping up to be quite a time 🥹🙆🏻♀️🤍🙇🏻♀️ 📚
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Added a stocking stuffer novella list to my staff picks page today!
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November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Added a stocking stuffer novella list to my staff picks page today!
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Only 8 hours left!
Our 2026 Book Box campaign closes this Sunday! We're down to the last few days!
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Only 8 hours left!
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I got my physical ARC of Neurotica (Shortwave Publishing) and it’s really a beautiful little poetry book. Alan’s skillful work at layout and the overall presentation is stunning, truly. I can’t wait to share this book with you all soon! 🙂
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I got my physical ARC of Neurotica (Shortwave Publishing) and it’s really a beautiful little poetry book. Alan’s skillful work at layout and the overall presentation is stunning, truly. I can’t wait to share this book with you all soon! 🙂
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
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This is sort of the plot of my story Hush, Little Sister (except AI dead sister) in OBSOLESCENCE from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social, also in collection Limelight and Other Stories! OBSOLESCENCE also has other haunting and dark tales of tech terror...👀
You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.
What if AI dead mom ends up neglected just like one of those digital picture frames. Sold at a digital goodwill for $2.50.
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is sort of the plot of my story Hush, Little Sister (except AI dead sister) in OBSOLESCENCE from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social, also in collection Limelight and Other Stories! OBSOLESCENCE also has other haunting and dark tales of tech terror...👀
Our 2026 Book Box campaign closes this Sunday! We're down to the last few days!
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our 2026 Book Box campaign closes this Sunday! We're down to the last few days!
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
16 books automatically delivered to your door throughout the year, at $80 off vs buying each title individually.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ala...
New Deal Announcement!
We're thrilled to be working with Tyler Jones again!
This time with NIGHT OF THE GLASS KNIVES, a novel about a paranormal investigator who is hired by a wealthy man to track down an ancient artifact responsible for some of the darkest days throughout history.
Spring 2027.
We're thrilled to be working with Tyler Jones again!
This time with NIGHT OF THE GLASS KNIVES, a novel about a paranormal investigator who is hired by a wealthy man to track down an ancient artifact responsible for some of the darkest days throughout history.
Spring 2027.
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New Deal Announcement!
We're thrilled to be working with Tyler Jones again!
This time with NIGHT OF THE GLASS KNIVES, a novel about a paranormal investigator who is hired by a wealthy man to track down an ancient artifact responsible for some of the darkest days throughout history.
Spring 2027.
We're thrilled to be working with Tyler Jones again!
This time with NIGHT OF THE GLASS KNIVES, a novel about a paranormal investigator who is hired by a wealthy man to track down an ancient artifact responsible for some of the darkest days throughout history.
Spring 2027.
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"There is beauty in our lives. There is hope.
We’re literally, each and every single one of us, living miracles. There will never be another me again in the history of this world. There will never be another you in the history of this world.
Beckett, I truly believe, recognized that..."
We’re literally, each and every single one of us, living miracles. There will never be another me again in the history of this world. There will never be another you in the history of this world.
Beckett, I truly believe, recognized that..."
A new entry in our YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE AUTHOR series is now live in our online magazine!
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"There is beauty in our lives. There is hope.
We’re literally, each and every single one of us, living miracles. There will never be another me again in the history of this world. There will never be another you in the history of this world.
Beckett, I truly believe, recognized that..."
We’re literally, each and every single one of us, living miracles. There will never be another me again in the history of this world. There will never be another you in the history of this world.
Beckett, I truly believe, recognized that..."
A new entry in our YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE AUTHOR series is now live in our online magazine!
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A new entry in our YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE AUTHOR series is now live in our online magazine!
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
This month @patrickbarb.bsky.social chats with @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social about Samuel Beckett!
Read here for free:
shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...
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A Very Tenebrous 2025.
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.
It's our mission to find them.
We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️
Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.
It's our mission to find them.
We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️
Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A Very Tenebrous 2025.
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.
It's our mission to find them.
We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️
Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.
It's our mission to find them.
We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️
Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com
Always nice when our deals get featured in the Publishers Lunch. Only three horror titles this week... one from Penguin Random House, a second from Penguin Random House, and then Shortwave!
Still feels a little surreal.
If you missed it last week, check out Maisie Culver's OF MONSTERS AND MENSES!
Still feels a little surreal.
If you missed it last week, check out Maisie Culver's OF MONSTERS AND MENSES!
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Always nice when our deals get featured in the Publishers Lunch. Only three horror titles this week... one from Penguin Random House, a second from Penguin Random House, and then Shortwave!
Still feels a little surreal.
If you missed it last week, check out Maisie Culver's OF MONSTERS AND MENSES!
Still feels a little surreal.
If you missed it last week, check out Maisie Culver's OF MONSTERS AND MENSES!