We look forward to seeing it!

Don't forget! Save the date! We're excited to see your submissions!

We're looking forward to seeing what people submit!

There will be three stories chosen for this book, so three writers and three illustrators.

Marie Enger's author photo, their hair windblown and covering their face.

An illustration from Marie Enger's TTRPG Death To The Wizard kings, where Hate Pit and Pit Pit stroll through the ominous innards of the Bongcano and discuss labor rights.

An illustration by Marie Enger of a rather shady looking character, a skeleton in spiked armor holding a card sparking with magic and a gnarly looking dagger.

Our latest Creator Spotlight features @soengery.bsky.social ✨

Marie will be illustrating our newest novella, This Mortal Coil, and they were kind enough to share some art with us!

Read more about Marie (and get a glimpse of Marrow and Kingslayer!) on our blog: www.bonedustpress.com/blog/creator...

The cover for This Mortal Coil, with art by Jan and Vlad Schwarts. The book is written by Jasmine walls and illustrated by Marie Enger. The cover shows a skeleton wearing a cloak and holding a golden, broken sword, their pose furtive as they tug at their hood. Behind them is a path leading up to a looming and shadowed castle framed by a bright moon and a blood red sky.

We're excited to reveal our newest illustrated novella:
This Mortal Coil

Written by @mythjae.bsky.social
Illustrated by @soengery.bsky.social
With gorgeous cover art by @artwins.bsky.social

We’ve also got some very cool announcements to go with this cover reveal, but first, what's the story? 🧵✨

Just a couple of weeks before submissions open for the Stardust Collaboration!

Get those manuscripts ready and those art portfolios polished!!

Hehehehehe, it came! Time to reread!
@bonedustpress.bsky.social @mythjae.bsky.social #traitorandthewretch

Thank you so much!

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Just a couple of weeks before submissions open for the Stardust Collaboration!

Get those manuscripts ready and those art portfolios polished!!

Y E S. When I was asked to do this I lost my mind. This Mortal Coil would have had complete control over my brain when I was coming up, and Jasmine IS my Skeleton Muse SO! I am really going all in on this.

Marie Enger's author photo, their hair windblown and covering their face.

An illustration from Marie Enger's TTRPG Death To The Wizard kings, where Hate Pit and Pit Pit stroll through the ominous innards of the Bongcano and discuss labor rights.

An illustration by Marie Enger of a rather shady looking character, a skeleton in spiked armor holding a card sparking with magic and a gnarly looking dagger.

Our latest Creator Spotlight features @soengery.bsky.social ✨

Marie will be illustrating our newest novella, This Mortal Coil, and they were kind enough to share some art with us!

Read more about Marie (and get a glimpse of Marrow and Kingslayer!) on our blog: www.bonedustpress.com/blog/creator...

Only 30 of these limited miniatures are left! 💀✨

We have not decided where to donate just yet for April, but we will announce it soon!

Bonedust Press is a publisher, which means we need to sell books to survive as a business, but that is nothing compared to the people around the world, including in our own communities, trying to simply survive through genocide, war, natural disasters, and hateful bigotry. We cannot ignore our need to balance these two truths. Bonedust Press commits to donating 10% of all direct sales to mutual aid on a continuing basis. Every month, we will donate to a specific cause and we will continue to do so for as long as we are able. Just to be perfectly clear: we support freedom and independence for Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and every place being bombarded or threatened. We see Sudan and we grieve and wish for peace. We support our trans and queer siblings and their freedom. We do not tolerate hateful bigotry. We are just a small indie publisher, but we are built by human hands. We are Black, queer, and angry. Our heart hurts for the people in pain, and we’ll do what we can with what we have.

A small announcement before we continue yelling about books:

Thank you so much for sharing! We're glad this book resonated with you.✨

The Traitor & The Wretch By Jasmine Walls (Full review on Patreon) A cultist suddenly freed of the Ancient Evil's domination of their mind. A traitor who'd gotten tired of their friends being the proverbial red-shirts. A forced collaboration to escape pursuit through deadly tunnels. The Traitor & the Wretch is an intimate aftermath story, a tale that attaches you to two of high fantasy's most hated character tropes and gives you messy and incredibly sympathetic characters to root for. It will instantly convince you Knell deserves his second chance, and then want Percy to be the first to give it to him. It also delightfully understands the tropes of its genre(s), plays with them, and succeeds in both being so clearly in an Epic High Fantasy yet conserve such a tight focus.

The Traitor & The Wretch By Jasmine Walls (Full review on Patreon) Percy explicitly describes his attractions as aromantic and asexual spectrum, slow to come and rare, but there is a distinctly aspec texture to the book as a whole, in the way it eschews big dramatic kisses (and lampshades them ceaselessly) and constant attraction reminders. It's 99% cuddling, forehead kisses, and deep care in this house, and it felt different and welcome in ways that are hard to explain.

Highlights of my full Patreon post about THE TRAITOR AND THE WRETCH <3

TL;DR is: I LOVED IT. LOVED THE CHARACTERS. LOVED THE ASPECNESS OF IT ALL. Oh an my brain is weird about romance. Join us in the Protect Knell fanclub ~~

www.patreon.com/posts/traito...

A grayscale charcoal-style illustration of the two main characters, Knell and Percy, from "The Traitor & The Wretch." There is a small artist watermark in the corner. Knell, on the left, clasps his hands uncertainly. Knell has dark gray skin, long tangled black hair, and dark eyes with glowing irises. Knell is skinny, dressed in a dark tattered robe. Percy, on the right, looks back at Knell with disgust and distrust. He has short black hair, large facial scars, and a missing tooth. Percy has his back to the viewer and is draped in a torn cape. Percy's muscular right arm ends at the wrist and is wrapped in bandages.

Fanart for "The Traitor & The Wretch" (based on the cover art). #art#book#reading
My video about the book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlOu...

Thank you so much for sharing your review and lovely fanart!

Cover reveal: This Mortal Coil — Bonedust Press Cover reveal and pre-orders for our newest novella, This Mortal Coil ! Written by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Marie Enger, and with this stunning cover art by Jan and Vlad Schwarts. Plus a speci...

Outliving an evil wizard would have been great for anyone other than an animated skeleton. Now they're stuck on a quest with a judgmental talking sword to find a decent wizard who can break the spell binding them to this mortal coil.

Read more about it here: www.bonedustpress.com/blog/cover-r...htt

Pre-orders are ✨NOW OPEN✨

Ebooks: www.bonedustpress.com/shop/p/this-...

Paperbacks: www.bonedustpress.com/shop/p/this-...

But that's not all! We've got something truly special in store, a limited edition collaboration exclusively for this pre-order! 👇

A photo of paper miniatures, including a skeleton, a golden but broken sword, and a dungeon tile stand. The art and design for these miniatures is by BenoitRc.

A photo of the skeleton paper miniature from behind, showing how the paper sword sticks to its back with magnetic force

A side view of the skeleton miniature, with the sword being "held" in hand thanks to the power of magnets.

This limited exclusive includes the paperback novella and a set of handmade paper miniatures in collaboration with the amazing paper artist, @benoitrc.bsky.social 🎉

www.bonedustpress.com/shop/p/this-...

A series of photos showing the skeleton figure in separate pieces, each clicking neatly back into place thanks to magnetic joints.

These little skeleton miniatures have their own surprise as well 💀✨

Magnetic joints means they can be taken apart and reassembled!

Check out all these pre-order options in our shop:
www.bonedustpress.com/shop

You can read an excerpt from the book here, thanks to the author:
www.jasminewalls.com/this-mortal-...

Apologies, we really do wish we could take on international shipping, but it's just not feasible for us at this time.

A fun little buddy!

Isn't it? And thank you! We're very excited to get these books (and little skeleton buddies) out into the world!

Bonus: the post that inspired this collab in the first place (and a chance to see those fun magnet joints in action!)

benoitrc | Patreon PrintablePapercraft Miniatures and Battlemap for tabletop Games

This limited miniature set is made in collaboration with @benoitrc.bsky.social

They created the custom design for the mini paper Kingslayer, and every one of these limited pre-orders means we get to pay them a little extra!

Check out their shop for more cool minis: www.patreon.com/cw/benoitrc/...

This mortal Coil paperback — Bonedust Press This Mortal Coil, a paperback illustrated novella and exclusive paper miniatures

We're already down to 40 of the handmade papercraft miniatures!💀✨
That's just about halfway gone, so if you're hoping to snag one, make sure to pre-order yours before they're sold out!

www.bonedustpress.com/shop/p/this-...