Rising Tide Week: Tuscany Bay Books
A little bit of everything, and featuring the legendary John C. Wright!
The year is 1994. From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction! Traditional Publishing is cast in ruin. Small publishing houses are reborn! A strange new world rises from the old. A world of savagery, super-science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his bonds to fight for pulp! With his companions, he pits his strength, his courage, and his fabulous pen against the forces of evil. He is LawDog the Barbarian!
Today's NextGen Publisher isn't a personal friend—yet.
Tuscany Bay Books came to my attention when there was a bit of a kerfuffle involving one of their authors and their publisher—Richard Paolinelli—backed his author. Sorry to say that's kind of unique these days.
They started out as an online magazine publisher in 2007, expanded to novels in 2013, and has a decent collection of authors, including (but not limited to) Bob Brill, Rob Jones, Raconteur authors Declan Finn and Lori Janeski, and others.
I'd like to mention that Lori was in a massive car wreck recently, so if you could go by her Amazon page and show her some love, it would be greatly appreciated.
As you can see, Tuscany Bay Books offers some genres that the other NextGen Publishers I've mentioned don't—including poetry.
I am gently informed that most of our readers would probably enjoy the Planetary Anthology series, and members of our staff are big on the Saint Tommy series, so you might consider starting there. although—quite honestly—the Cthulu Amalgamated series looks right up my alley.
Their YouTube channel is here.
Facebook is here.
One thing to keep an eye on, too, is the long-awaited debut of SF living legend John C. Wright’s Starquest series, borne out of the author’s frustration with a certain…war of stellar bodies…setting.
Publisher Richard Paolinelli himself has two prequels out in this series, which is off to a promising start!
I'd take it kindly if you'd tell five friends about Tuscany Bay Books, go by their social media and say “Hi!” and then browse their backlist. I think you'll be pleased.
(Cross-posted on the LawDog Files.)
Ian
There are a lot of great stories in the Planetary Anthology series. I'm glad Tuscany Bay Books was able to bring them back into print. And Pluto counts as a planet for Anthology purposes. :)