Hey everyone! Mary here with a totally shameless blog post this week. Back in 2014, fellow sci-fi author Paige Daniels and I were ranting on Facebook about we didn't see enough tech-savvy girls in sci-fi, especially YA. At least, not as the main characters. Oh, you'd have your bespeckled lab nerd making gadgets for your dudely superhero, or your PhD-at-22 babe who's there to dissect the villain's doomsday machine for exposition purposes and get rescued then swept off her feet by a bro-y action star. But we wanted to put the nerd girls front and center.
So we crowdfunded a YA sci-fi charity anthology about girls in STEM, with proceeds from sales being donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund, and published it in 2015. Then we decided to make another one. And another. And another. Oh, and another.
And now, we're back again with our sixth volume, BRAVE NEW GIRLS: CHRONICLES OF MISSES AND MACHINES, which just went live for preorder! And here's our pretty cover, art by Streetlight Graphics:
Why do we keep putting out volumes? Well, because we want to. And people seem to like them (we do most of our selling at conventions, and some people are happy to come back every year for the newest volume). We've raised about $8,500 so far, which may sound like peanuts compared to the major charity operations out there but is a big deal for us small-time indie publishers. Plus, there are now about 140 more stories about girls in STEM out there than there were before. So we'll keep going, because why not?
Here's the full list of stories and authors who will be in this year's volume, coming July 5!
The Adventure of the Listening Machine by Veronica Lee
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Flor Contreras
Blooming Where She's Planted by JD Cadmon
CompAInon by Chris Kanther
Girls Rule the Steampunk World! by Ira Nayman
The God-Maker by Tyan Priss
Intergalactic PenPal Program by Andrew K. Hoe
Jupiter Jaguar by Kris Katzen
Mystery Aboard the Old Faithful by Karissa Laurel
Mainframe Magic by Denise Sutton
The Microscope by Brad Jurn
Tuesday Evening Social Club by Paige Daniels
A Planet Named Beatrice by Melanie Harding-Shaw
The Pod by Josh Pritchett
Premature Emergence by Raphael Sutton
The Price of Progress by A.A. Jankiewicz
A Special Theory of Circus by Mary Fan
Tercio by J.R. Rustrian
Vandermecha by Jelani-Akin Parham
Webs by Elizabeth Stombock
Wendy's Findings by Annie Gray
ZIKES by Mackenzie Reide
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