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This Actually Happened in the Book World

Boozhoo Books
Naomi
• Jan 10

Hello Friends!

Happy New Year! You may think I'm late, but the French say Happy New Year for the entire month of January and I like this tradition! So HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I spent the New Year in the Redwoods (The North Coast is my favorite part of California)!

Publishing Updates

I am so thankful for all of you and your support of What Feeds Below. One of my immediate goals was to get 1,000 adds on Goodreads and because of you, in just over two weeks we are at 927! That is so incredible! You may have heard me say it before, but supporting indie and marginalized authors on Goodreads is so important! Adding books to your Want to Read shelf helps these books get noticed, gets them on media lists, gets book box attention and signals to publishers that the book is going to do well. This can help author's land future contracts. I know many of my supporters have migrated to author platforms, but if you want to support marginalized author's, I strongly urge you to consider using both. If you haven't added What Feeds Below to your Goodreads shelves yet, please do so here.

PREORDERS: I've been pretty blunt (surprise, surprise lol) about my very ambitious preorder goal for What Feeds Below. I want to hit 1,000 preorders early, like by tomorrow haha! There are 2 BIG reasons why:

  1. I am absolutely obsessed with this book. I think it has the potential to be such a huge hit (I'm thinking big: movies! I'm already preparing my red carpet dress. PLEASE! Dare I say...TRILOGY?) I think this is the best book Tatiana has written so far. I think most people will read it in one sitting. I think there are so many cosplay opportunities! I think you're going to sleep with the lights on! I want this book to compete with trad pub releases this year. I want book box options. I want to hit a best seller list.

  2. I want to publish more books. I want the books I publish to be in conversation with some of the hottest books of the year. (I have great taste, so they should be LOL). After WFB, we have Cracks in an Ocean of Glass, an incredible literary horror coming out in Spring 2027. I want to ensure a book for Fall 27. (I've already received a pitch for an Indigenous sci-fi fantasy that I'm pretty sure the world needs). The way to make sure we get there is to hit these preorders early!

There are over 2,000 of you here now! That's 2,000 readers who believe in this mission, who believe traditional publishing has failed us, who believe women in horror deserve equal conversation time to their male counterparts and Indigenous authors need more books on the shelves at your local bookstore. If all 2,000 of you pre-ordered this book today, you would not only change my life, but the lives of our current and future authors. The book is $16.73 on bookshop right now. GRAB IT HERE. If you can spare the $16.73 this month, investing in marginalized authors, investing in indie publishing, investing in this change we want to see in the world is a great way to spend it.

READING UPDATES

I've read 3 books so far this year:

Current reads:

On deck:

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

To join the Women in Horror book club and Good Day To Read Indigenous Book Club, connect to our community Discord on the main page.

Journal CLUB!

We are starting a 100 day project tomorrow using the prompts in The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For An Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad. You don't have to start tomorrow to join, just have a love for journaling (or wanting to try!)

Upcoming for Paid Members:

Paid members get publishing news first. They get to see the cover process in action. They get to hear about all the publishing meetings that happen and provide input! If you're interested in how the book all comes together, consider upgrading to $5.

$5 members will get e*arcs of all Boozhoo Books.

$12 members will get physical arcs of all Boozhoo Books AND their name on the thank you page.

Your paid membership makes this community run. Part of the funds go into the production of the books and I'm using the rest to host giveaways (and sometimes buy a latte!)

Letter Club: you heard it here first. I'm starting a penpal club for paid members (still working on the name? IDEAS??? Will keep you posted in the upcoming weeks!

Traveling Arc Club: more details to come, but I've wanted to start a traveling arc club for a long time! Books chosen will have permission from the publisher or author. (If you are an author reading this and want to participate, DM me!)

Traveling Journal Club: the idea here is that everyone has their own journal to start off, and we rotate, adding things to the journal, the journal gets circulated to all members until it's full and then mailed back to the original owner as a keepsake. Details to come!

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