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July 1, 2025

Queen of Swords Press Newsletter - July, 2025

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Book cover for Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett
Point of Hopes is a Midwest Book Awards WINNER!

Big News!

  • Point of Hopes by Melissa Scott and Lisa A. Barnett is the winner of the 2025 Midwest Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction! All our congrats to Melissa! This is the first Queen of Swords Press title to win the award and the third to be a finalist.

The book covers for Silver Moon and Blood Moon by Catherine Lundoff. Text above the covers reads: Welcome to Wolf's Point, where menopause kicks off with a few extra changes...like bonus lycanthropy.
Catch Catherine Lundoff at one of our events this month!

July Events:

  1. Inbound Brewing Book Fair for Grown-Ups – July 12th, 12-7PM. Education Building, MN State Fairgrounds, St. Paul. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.

  2. Readercon – July 17th-20th. Burlington, MA. Catherine Lundoff will be there and on programming.

  3. We can't make it to West St. Paul Pride (July 11th-12th) this year due to a conflict, but we've donated a Queen of Swords Press Novella Package to the benefit auction! Stop by and bid if you're in the area.

  4. If you missed Michael Merriam's guest appearance to talk about Terror at Tierra de Cobre at the Temporal Entourage Steampunk Book Club last week, you can catch it on YouTube right here.

Book cover of Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam.
Check out Michael’s appearance at the Temporal Textual Talks Virtual Book Club!

More about the Press:

Publisher Catherine Lundoff has a Patreon, which supports us, and we have a Ko-fi account, if you'd like to send a little love our way. Many thanks to our awesome patrons!

All 
Queen of Swords Press titles are available in print as well as ebook (except Knife's Edge and Desire, which are ebook only). Silver Moon is also available in German translation and both it and Blood Moon are available in audiobook. Your library or cool local indie bookstore can also order our titles in, if they don't already have them.

If you have enjoyed any of our titles and haven't already done so, please post a review on the site where you purchased it, Goodreads, your social media, etc.! They are much needed and appreciated. Many thanks to those of you who've reviewed our titles so far! Please follow us on 
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