Stefon Mears’ The Rescue Game: The Tale of a Professional Damsel in Distress is one of fifteen exclusives in The Light Fantasy Bundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Stefon answered questions about what the job actually requires, who takes Marigold’s complaints, and what a young dragon gets out of being defeated for a living. The…
Waverton, Kentucky looks like an ordinary small town. The library looks like an ordinary library, and Jade’s cat café looks like an ordinary cat café, right down to the red cat-print blinds. To a witch, it’s the place you go when you need a familiar, and the cats in the old pool room are deciding…
Fantasy for Lunch is fourteen of Debbie Mumford’s fantasy short stories in two volumes, one story for each workday for two weeks, sized for the time it takes to eat a sandwich. It’s one of fifteen exclusive books in The Light Fantasy Bundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. The Interview The first story, “Enchantment, Inc.,”…
Moretown Bay looks a lot like Seattle, if Seattle had a Bureau of Magical Enforcement and a rough patch down by the docks that the locals call The Shadows. It’s home to D & D Investigations: Dee, a human with precognition that works when it feels like it, and Diz, her elf partner, who is…
A summer-vacation teacher, a small-town lawyer, a semi-retired private investigator, a minor superhero, a stressed-out mom. The seven people in Kari Kilgore’s Beware the Hairs in the Kitchen Sink and Other Tales of Fancy are all somewhere in the middle of their lives, with the aches and the reading glasses to prove it, and aren’t…
A leprechaun hauls a writer out of his granny’s toilet and presents him with a bill for royalties. Bad dreams turn out to be manufactured in a service center inside Devil’s Tower, with beige walls and decaf. An old mountain man’s shadow has started itching itself when he isn’t looking. And a fantasy kingdom’s seven…
Perdita Tuck has just been fired. She saw it coming—she wrote the software that replaced her—and she’s carrying her whole career out of the building in a printer-paper box. She hasn’t even reached the elevator when a recruiter in a black cowboy hat drops a business card in the box, and the card smells faintly…
Kari Kilgore on strange undercurrents, Appalachian ground, and the magical bookstore that began as a workshop prompt—an author interview for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles.
DeAnna Knippling on the fold, Colorado’s Front Range, and writing kids who are a little bit magic—an author interview for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles.
Three volumes of A Procession of Faeries join the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—forty-seven exclusive fantasy books from fifteen writers, pay what you want through August 27.
