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Strange Ink #4

Hello, Reader!

We just published 2 new books!

This is the first stage of a larger project that I'm embarking on with friends GMB Chomichuk, James Gillespie, and Chadwick Ginther, called SHARED WORLD.

In essence, we have co-created a shared world where we can set sword and sorcery stories with a horror twist. Think Conan the Barbarian meets H.P. Lovecraft.

We're putting out an anthology called Shared World that contains 6 stories (2 from each of us) and then Chadwick has added 3 more stories set in and around the world's largest city, Khyber, for a solo story collection.

We are also inviting YOU to write stories set in our Shared World!

Find out more by coming to our book launch at McNally Robinson! If you don't live in Winnipeg, you can stream the event from McNally via YouTube.

​All the event info is here!​

You can also order the books now. They just arrived at the Stranger Fiction office!

Part of what makes this so exciting is that these are the first prose works put out by the publishing wing of Stranger Fiction, and they're gorgeous books, owing largely to the talents of GMB Chomichuk, who in addition to co-creating the project made matching covers and many illustrations for the interior.

We really wanted these books to recall the look and feel of the old pulp sword and sorcery paperbacks.

You can order these books now! Please do.

I always suggest people order books from McNally Robinson, my local independent bookstore.

You can get Shared World here and also get Khyber here when it comes to ordering via McNally.

Stranger Fiction also has copies for sale directly. You'll get a discount applied during checkout when you order both books together.

(Maybe you'll get a bigger discount if you add a third book... only the Shadow knows!)

Recently, we recorded a podcast about this Shared World project.

If you're not already subscribed to my podcast Writing the Wrong Way, you may have missed it.

​Here's a link to that recording.​

You can hear us talk about the origins of the Shared World, and how I horned my way into it! Plus get a bit more of a sense of what these books are about.

I will also be at the Winnipeg Comic Con.

If you are going, drop by the Stranger Fiction booth at 2620. We'll have books available there as well.

I can sign copies of Shared World you get from my site or at the con. But all of the authors will be at the McNally event, so that's where you can get all your books signed by everyone.

PLUS Gregory has made some great prints, and everyone who gets a book from us at one of these events can have a free print.

Come on out! Tell your friends!

Stay strange,

Jonathan

PO Box 70043 Kenaston PO, Winnipeg, MB R3P 0X6
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