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4 Terrifying New Releases from Indie and Small Presses in March 2026 From stalking serial killers to a fiery doomsday, here are our most anticipated horror books from indie and small presses this March!

Hails to @the-line-up.bsky.social featuring @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE on its quartet of March indie horror books to keep an eye on!
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Working on Chapter 16 today, the one where Donya says “shit” a bunch and needs to smoke weed.

Wondering what your thoughts are on why readers reject non-premodern fantasy worlds? I’ve noticed it too and I wonder if maybe it’s just too big a leap

It’s basically impossible for a marginalized author to reach the height of SJM or Sanderson in traditional publishing. Publishers will not allow us to take up the same amount of space. We don’t get to build universes for readers to invest in. We have to hop between short standalones.

Whenever I see a cishet fantasy author get to split their book in two so they don’t have to cut material, I think of how my last big five publisher made me cut 30k words and some really important representation from my last trad pub book because “paper is just too expensive right now”

I have spent half an hour on culinary research to write this feast scene while knowing I’m the sort of reader who will skim feast scenes in books 😭😭😭

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OLYOKE cover art by Jenna Cha, a paper-y human skin floats peacefully through the sky above the small town of Olyoke against a greenish yellow sky. Blurb by Michael Wehunt: “Vincent Endwell’s OLYOKE lures you into the crevice between Weird fiction and Appalachian horror, where something inscrutable yet warm has been gestating. You will come back different—burned in a great fire, perhaps serenaded by a Dolly Parton impersonator—but you never have to think of your old self again. If that isn’t a resin—I mean reason, oh God, the book has infected me, too!—to recommend this unique melting pot of horrors, I don’t know what is.”

Preorders for @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE continue to move briskly!

Not exactly shocking, considering the actually-sorta-frighteningly-accurate description of "like an Appalachian Twin Peaks" should be like catnip to...well, ALL of you Weirdos🖤☠️

Preorder here:
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Screenshot of David Benioff, showrunner of game of thrones, saying “Dany kind of forgot about the iron fleet”

😂sometimes I’ll be consulting tidal charts and nautical enthusiast websites to painstakingly calculate when a fleet will arrive at a certain location and then I’ll remember…

Book two is all Eva fighting tooth and nail for revolution while Andreas is like “I took piano lessons.”

😂my inability to write a rom-com biting me in the ass because it would 100% turn into a fantasy book midway through

why does this make me want to write a sapphic rom-com about a trans woman coming out at her single mom BFF’s gender reveal party and the hijinks that ensue?

flyer for Vincent Endwell's release party for OLYOKE on Wed. 3/18 at the Twisted Spine in Brooklyn, alongside BACKMASK author OF Cieri

Two of the best currently operating in the fringes of what-the-fuck-did-I-just-read, hosted by our good friends at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn!
It's an OLYOKE release party featuring epic conversation between author @endwellian.bsky.social & BACKMASK Void-ian @ossuary.bsky.social
Wed. March 18🖤☠️

⬇️ ⬇️ start throwing money at indies across all artistic industries and not only will you start getting more stuff of actual quality, you will see a deluge of DIVERSE quality stuff too.

SKULLRUNNER by @vyvre-argent.bsky.social is an anti-colonial sapphic pirate secondary-world fantasy with fascinating gods and monsters

TESSA OF HUNDRFELD by @ashheardwrites.bsky.social is a Nordic-inspired fantasy about a woman regent and the evil king she's trying to take down

Coming July 7. Preorder now! Book cover for The Final Chronicle of Yeneh by Jo Miles, a sci-fi adventure blended with a portal fantasy: A tree-like alien creature looks over its shoulder at the reader while running away, framed by thorny vines and metal barriers

Preorders are live for The Final Chronicle of Yeneh! Part portal fantasy, part sci-fi adventure, all heart.

Think Narnia in space. If you love Narnia but wonder why they needed four British children to rule them after deposing the evil queen, this one's for you.

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Just put Eva on stilts!

Cevette Zarcanzi is short butch representation (she’s 5”2)

Warrior
Wizard
Cleric
The Guy With Weed

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let’s fucking go (make some soup)

After 12 chapters of war and drama, pleased to report that in chapter 13 of book two Eva and Cevette go grocery shopping together and make soup

for your consideration: Evazina Gavon, hapless lesbian and a silver of the soul of the death goddess in mortal form, adopted daughter of the military leader who manipulates the memories of a whole society so they hero-worship him

(SKULLRUNNER: for readers who enjoy The Locked Tomb and boat facts)

Looks like a painting!

Ah yes the classic dragon books I read as a teenager that shaped my love for SFF that I cannot publicly discuss without a dozen trigger warnings

Every now and then I remember some of the stuff in the Pern books and go “woah.”

Yep you gotta! Especially considering how hard it is to know how a moon looks from a planet without PILES of evidence

American equality meant, and still means for many, the promise that one might rise above the circumstances of their birth to wield the same power over others that an English nobleman held.

People refer to this statement as contradictory. How could enslavers write this? I think what they wanted to say was “we believe that all wealthy white men should have the same privileges regardless of if they hold a noble title.” Or, simply “we believe we should hold the same power you do.”

“All men are created equal” was written to legitimatize the idea that Jefferson and Washington could create their own government without the divine approval signified by having a king as head of state.