Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Spec Fic collection to benefit STEM research charity
TL;DR: Beneath Strange Stars, our sixth and largest collection of short stories and poems to date, created to benefit the Association for Science Education, is now available in print and eBook! Buy your copy now for 35 fantastical, mind-blowing, and original reads and help fund STEM education.
Buy your copy on Amazon, or search “TL;DR Press Beneath Strange Stars” on your country’s Amazon site!
How we got here:
We began in September with a call for submissions to writers to help us create a collection of Sci-Fi, Spec Fic, and Fantasy stories and poems to benefit the Association for Science Education.
We knew the response would be huge, so our editorial team consisted of four curators and eight additional editors, all of whom were absolutely integral to the success of this project thus far.
From September until the end of October, we worked with the authors (and each other) to mentor, edit, and judge. As with our previous collections, we paired every interested writer with an editor, who worked with them to create the strongest piece they could moving forward. The editor scored the final piece from 1 to 10, and passed it on to a second scorer from the curators team. The average of the two scores became the piece’s final score.
We were utterly blown away by the quality of the submissions to this collection! We received 115 works by the end of the call for submissions and so many delivered wonderful and innovative ideas from across the genres.
We want to thank the #tldrwriters community for your stories and support while we curated a fantastic lineup of new voices. This collection is the work of hundreds of hours, and we can’t wait to share it with the world.
Thank you to our contributing writers for your short stories and poetry:
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Thank you to our editors!
Sarah Linders, Lyle Enright, Camden M. Collins, Chris Hubbard, Zelda Nicolette Echternacht, Eric Franco, Hannah Hulbert, and Katie Conrad.
Thank you to our curators!
Alex Hareland, Callum Colback, David G. Clark, and Joe Butler.
Thank you to our cover illustrator!
Joe Butler
Thank you also to Carlos Carrillo for his promotional illustrations!
Thank you to our production director!
Alex Hareland
How to support our release:
- Buy our collection in eBook and/or Paperback!
- Retweet our big news and tag @TLDRpress!
- Share with your friends, family, and followers in person, online, or via telepathy across the scorched wasteland of planet X622B.
- Rate and review our collection on Amazon.
We will be holding an online release party on the TLDR Discord channel on 4 January, 2020, at 14.00 Pacific/ 22.00 GMT (socializing without leaving the house? perfect!). Come along and hear some of the authors whose wonderful work features in the collection: https://discordapp.com/invite/nJdrT7E
Watch out for more news in the coming weeks about our next call for submissions, as well as workshops, resources, Teal Deer Open Mic Nights, and more! Want to stay in the loop? Follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our newsletter, and join our Slack writing group.