@brainjarpress.bsky.social
Australian publishers of fantasy, horror, science fiction, crime and geeky non-fiction, specialising in chapbooks, novellas, and short novels.
*chants* Mugs! Mugs! Mugs!
07.06.2025 00:10 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
We're now taking pre-orders on a collection of Sourdough themed coffee mugs, featuring characters created by @angelaslatter.bsky.social with illustrations from @tanaudel.bsky.social.
Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/ag-s...
This is a magnificent collection which will stick to your ribs like nothing else!
27.05.2025 07:51 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0And here's my review! (TL;DR I loved it and you should just buy it.)
randomalex.net/2025/05/27/t...
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles displayed over a picture of a storm-wracked sea. There are giant swells in the storm wracked water, but a few hints of sunlight gleaming through the dark clouds.
Happy Book Birthday to Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, coming out in ebook and paperback today!
Available everywhere good books are sold, but we always have a special love for folks who buy from Brain Jar Press directly :)
Details: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring a collection of boats sunken beneath the ocean and a few skeletal mermaids.
We just got our print run of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles ten days ahead of schedule, so guess whose weekend just got devoted to shipping out pre-orders?
The rest of the world waits until May 27, but we'll be shipping books from Monday.
You in? www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
Copy of the collection Never Afters by Kirstyn McDermott standing alongside a small stack of additional copies. The cover features a woman in historical garb standing before an arched window looking out on a wintry landscape. Sitting on the stack of books is an enthusiastic-looking gargoyle. Or maybe he's just hungry ...
My author copies of Never Afters have arrived! It's such a beautiful book and I am so thrilled to see this collection of revisioned fairy tales out in the world.
09.05.2025 13:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We've been all about the new books this week, so now is a good moment to remind folks they can read Angela Slatter's NO GOOD DEED chapbook absolute free.
Check it out if you love gothic fantasy with folklore vibes, or you dig the Sourdough universe.
Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed
The front cover of Kirstyn McDermott's Never AFters, featuring a young woman in regency dress standing at an arched window, looking over a winter landscape. The cover is for the book, presented on a tablet.
Happy Book Birthday to @fearofemeralds.bsky.social's NEVER AFTERS omnibus, which is out in ebook and trade paperback today.
Brain Jar Press Store: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...
Other Retailers: books2read.com/NeverAftersO...
I already pre ordered mine.
06.05.2025 00:50 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The front cover of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, featuring sunken boats in a blue channel with spectral mermaids swimming among the depths. The cover is laid over a green textured pattern.
We're extraordinarily pleased to open pre-orders on paperback and ebook editions of Lisa L. Hannett's The Fortunate Isles, out from Brain Jar Press on May 27.
Read a Sample: read.bookfunnel.com/read/em32gw5...
Pre-Order the Book: www.brainjarpress.com/product/the-...
Which means every book we sell isn't just a chance to put some extraordinary gothic fantasy tales in somebody's hands.
It's also a book that puts us one step away from a stern lecture about workplace safety with regards to our stacking habits ;)
Check it out: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...
Copies of Kirstyn McDermott's Never Afters stacked fourteen books high, with the cover visible on the top volume.
I think the Never Afters Omnibus is the first time I've ever been worried about a stack of our books falling on us and doing some damage.
When you pack a book to the gills with seven novelettes, it turns out the final volume is *dense*.
Haha! Returned from write club to find this glorious thing waiting! Thanks @brainjarpress for this @kirstyn_mcdermott brilliance. 💜💜💜
30.04.2025 04:05 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Six copies of Kirstyn McDermott's collection, Never Afters, on a busy computer desk in the Brian Jar Press offices.
The official release is May 6, but print copies of Never Afters are now shipping from the Brain Jar Press store if you enjoy getting your books earlier than everyone else!
Get your copy here: www.brainjarpress.com/product/neve...
Fortunately, our ebooks are delivered automatically via our delivery partners at Book Funnel, so if you're in the mood for a digital read we've got a lot of fine authors for you to check out.
We'll update when things are returning to normal.
Cheers,
Peter and the Brain Jar Press Team.
Hi Folks! The Brain Jar Press offices are located in Brisbane, Australia , which is about to get hit by a cyclone for the first time in a few decades.
We can't predict what's going to happen, but I'm pretty sure that there will be disruptions to our ability to ship physical books this week.
We're waiting on new print copies of The Night Stair after preorders winnowed our local stock down to just 2 copies, but this is your reminder you can download the ebook free at offers.brainjarpress.com/TheNightStair.
21.02.2025 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh wow please grab these if you've not encountered Angela Slatter's stuff before - I know a lot of folks would only have read her novels - she's one of the masters of short form fiction and you will LOVE these. All of them.
17.02.2025 07:09 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two copies of Angela Slatter's Chapbook, The Night Stair, resting on a white tabletop.
Ordered print copies of The Night Stair, figuring they'd last us a year.
Gone in three days.
Ordered a second round of print copies, figuring demand would slow.
Two copies left after packaging pre-orders to date.
Contacting the printer for a third round of books in 5... 4... 3... 2...
The covers of five Angela Slatter Books: Red New Day, The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales, No Good Deed, and The Night Stair. Available as a bundle for 25% off.
With a whole bunch of folks discovering @AngelaSlatter for the first time (or realising just how much she's written), we've pulled together a low-cost bundle of all her short story collections and chapbooks folks can pick up for a discounted price.
Details: www.brainjarpress.com/angela-slatt...
Dear People On Substack: the next best time to leave Substack is now
11.02.2025 04:53 — 👍 254 🔁 148 💬 10 📌 5So @BrainJarPress put out about a dozen reprint titles from my backlist before we started publishing other people.
The plan was always using my work to get through the learning curve, so I wasn't fucking up with someone else's book.
A small pile of Angela Slatter’s The Night Stair chapbook in print, placed on a blanket covered in dinosaurs The dinosaurs aren’t thematically linked to the book at all. It’s just the blanket we have at the office right now.
The Night Stair Chapbooks, fresh from the printer.
Not out until March 25, and we’ve already had to go back and order more!
A woman with loose hair holding a dagger in the folds of her long skirt and with roses growing behind her
The inks for the postcard I illustrated for the launch of @angelaslatter.bsky.social ’s The Crimson Road
05.02.2025 05:13 — 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0
So, real talk: we produce great books, but we suck at social media.
Brain Jar's mostly 1 guy and 2 cats doing all the work. We don't have the resources to be good and consistent at socials.
That's why we rock a cool-ass newsletter with a kick-ass freebie: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed
A reminder for Brisbane folks! The Crimson Road launches next week.
While it's not a Brain Jar Press book, we'll be there cheering Angela on (and might have a few, sneaky copies The Night Stair available on the night).
RSVP details: www.angelaslatter.com/book-launch-...
Computers have failed us this week!
Everyone is sending through such lovely messages about Angela's chapbooks, but our ISP has decided we can only receive--not send or reply--emails sent to Brain Jar.
Fingers crossed tech support will figure out the problem and get it licked today.
A copy of Angela Slatter's No Good Deed: A Sourdough Tale in ebook, displayed on a tablet, placed atop a pile of skulls.
If you downloaded your free copy of The Night Stair yesterday and still crave an @angelaslatter.bsky.social fix, here's a reminder you can also get a copy of the No Good Deed chapbook by signing up to our newsletter.
Details: offers.brainjarpress.com/nogooddeed
Very cover shaped.
31.01.2025 08:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
