I received some exciting news today: The list of finalists for the 2018 Foreword INDIES came out, and Tattoo, by Michelle Rene, is a finalist in the Fantasy category! Tattoo is a great story, but it is a hard to categorize story, so it is gratifying to see other people recognize its charms. Tattoo tells […]
In Victorian Cambridge, a young math lecturer with a stutter and a big imagination met a family with three daughters. The middle daughter, Alice, became his muse… and because of that, Alice in Wonderland was written. Before the book was published, Lewis Carroll (whose real name was Charles Dodgson) and Alice’s family had a falling […]
One of the most unexpected benefits of starting this little publishing company has been my discovery of how much I enjoy reading old short stories. When this company was brand new, I decided to publish a few anthologies of classic short stories to provide some extra titles in my catalog. I published what I call […]
It is that season again… the season of awards eligibility posts and gift guides. So let’s take a look back at 2018! We have two books that are eligible for the Hugo and Nebula awards: Tattoo, a novella by Michelle Rene, is set in a dystopian future. Judgment Day came, and the judgment was that […]
It is Small Press Week! And Annorlunda Books is most definitely a small press. In honor of Small Press Week, we are running a 50% off sale on ebooks at Gumroad. Use the discount code spweek18 and take 50% off any and all ebooks when you order from the Annorlunda Gumroad store. The discount will […]
We’re already hard at work on the books that will be coming out in 2019, and we have our first cover to show you! The Dodo Knight, by Michelle Rene, will be out in April, 2019. It is a historical fiction novella, taking the “Liddell Riddle” – the mystery of why Lewis Carroll fell […]
The Inconvenient God, Francesca Forrest’s novelette about what happens when a government official tries to decommission a god who isn’t quite ready to retire, is now available for pre-order. Release day is October 10, but you can pre-order the ebook now: Amazon BN.com GumRoad iTunes Kobo Smashwords There will also be a paperback edition, available […]
Some stories grab ahold of me from the minute I start reading them and insist that I must publish them. Francesca Forrest’s novelette The Inconvenient God is one such story. I was intrigued by the idea that there might be a world in which gods could be formally decommissioned, and read the entire novelette in […]
We are very excited to announce our acquisitions for 2019! We have four great books coming up: The Dodo Knight, by Tattoo author Michelle Rene, is a fictionalized story of the relationship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, Alice Liddell. No one now alive knows what really happened between […]
My kids went back to school today. The start of the school year always makes me think of… book fairs! So I decided to celebrate the start of this school year with a virtual book fair of my own. Sadly, Gumroad doesn’t have a “buy one, get one” option. Instead I set up a promo […]
