We are now in Southeast Asia!

Big news!

Gerak Budaya bought the rights to publish and distribute The Sea Is Ours across Southeast Asia! You can buy it from their bookstore in Petaling Jaya, Selangor (Malaysia!) or you can buy it from their website and they will ship it to you!

If you were looking for a different option for buying the book in North America that's NOT Amazon, consider buying directly from our distributor, IPG!

#SEAsteampunk on SFSignal!

Editrixes Jaymee and Joyce were interviewed recently for SFSignal! Check it out: "Southeast Asian Steampunk"

More reviews!

Reviews for The SEA is Ours continue to roll in from all corners!

Here's one from Her Commonplace Blog, which is interestingly excited and dramatically critical at the same time:

The intro to the anthology felt really dramatic, but in a good way. Felt quite empowering and inspiring and I challenge any other SEAsian SFF author out there to read it and not feel inspired!! My only issue is that saying “hella queer” in the intro felt a bit out of place, compared to the rest of the tone that is used in the intro. But maybe that’s just me being a bit nitpicky…

FanGirl Nation had really cool adjectives for us: "rich, unexpected, and outstanding." Big words!

Gnomes from Gnome Reviews also got to our book! With a satisfying response:

To readers unfamiliar with Southeast Asian culture and folklore, this book presents many opportunities for learning and research. The gnomes fell down the Wikipedia rabbit hole every time a new location, historical reference, or frightening creature was mentioned. This meant that it took (a lot) longer to finish the collection, but they learned a lot and were able to fully understand the stories.

Why yes, yes, that is part of the point.

Sean Wright, the Bookanaut, took a while to read our anthology, but despite two hard drive crashes, he gave us a wonderful review:

An intriguing selection that is reminiscent of Alternative Alamat in some ways. This *is* steampunk, but where that might cause potential readers to roll eyes and think "not another clockwork collection", The Sea is Ours is much more South East Asian alternative history and is all the better for it. The steampunk is subtle in most cases and where it isn't it’s original.

Yessssssss @ at that shoutout to Alternative Alamat, edited by contributor Paolo Chikiamco! 

IndieGoGo Campaign End

On Oct 23rd, we finished our IndieGoGo campaign at $10,101, or some 125% of our original goal. Which means we achieved the Teacher's Edition! And have some extra for future awesome projects! Thanks to everyone who donated, and supported us by signal boosting our campaign.

Perks will be sent out when our publisher gets back from Europe at the end of November. He practically lives at the post office when sending out perks, so please be patient!

Thanks again, and we'll see you when we see you! 

IndieGoGo has hit 100%!

We just hit 100% funded on our IndieGoGo campaign today! With still 16 days left, there's plenty of time to order the book directly from our publisher, and get ebooks besides. If we hit $9,000, we will also develop a teaching edition of the anthology. Please continue supporting us! We appreciate every cent. 

Pandora Society Interview

Ofeibea Loveless of Airship Ashanti was very kind to interview the editrixes for the Pandora Society!

Free stuff!

For the month of the campaign, contributors Timothy Dimacali and Paolo Chikiamco are making some previous work available for free!

In "Skygypsies," Timothy teams up with John Raymond Bumanglag to give us a look into a possible future for the Badjau people, who are also known as 'seagypsies.' (The Malay-speaking world may recognize that name, though we spell it "Bajau.")

"High Society" is Paolo's collaboration with artist Hannah Buena, a story set in the Animata universe that Paolo's story in The SEA is Ours is part of. Anti-colonial pushback from the spirits of the land!

Enjoy!