Skies Press | OUR FIRST BOOK COMING FALL 2025!!!

OUR FIRST BOOK COMING FALL 2025!!!

HOPEFULLY you have seen this already, but just in case you haven't, IT'S ALL HAPPENING!

Last week I announced that my imprint, Skies Press, had acquired not only its first book, but it's first TWO books! I have acquired To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu in a two book deal, to be released Fall of 2025 and Fall of 2026!!!! Read the Publisher's Marketplace announcement here:

And now that it officially exists, IT'S ON GOODREADS! Now is a great time to add TBWM to your Want To Read shelf...just sayin...

Also ignore the release date listed as January 1, 2025. That's just a placeholder for "2025 release" until we get more information in the listing. We're currently looking at a Fall 2025 release!

More information is coming soon and exclusive insider info will be being shared with Inner Circle and Producer level subscribers, so now's a great time to upgrade if you're interested! And also as a reminder, Inner Circle subscribers will receive early e-book copies of Skies Press books while Producer subscribers will receive early print copies and your name in the Thank You acknowledgments of the book <3

First up in the upcoming production meetings is meeting with the design team tomorrow for our first kick-off meeting on cover design.

And as a final note, if you click over to the Featured Books section of Bindery you'll see that we've moved from Consideration to Editorial and we have an official banner up, which I just think is very fun to see

CAN YOU BELIEVE TO BARGAIN WITH MORTALS HAS BEEN OUT IN THE WORLD FOR A MONTH???

It feels surreal, but she's really out there, all over the world. So I set aside today as a sort of celebratory day and there are some things I've got for you guys and some Calls To Action I have to request of you.

From me to you
First up, I just posted the public release of a previously subscriber-only podcast episode! An interview/intro with R.A. Basu! Listen to this episode of Reader Tangents here or wherever you get your podcasts
For subscribers, I just posted one of the coolest things I've ever shared on Bindery: A complete retrospective of To Bargain With Mortals. Every single step of how it went from an idea to a published novel over the course of four and a half years.
R.A. went back through years of documents to give us dates in the timeline, but also the photo the original text prompt was based on (hey there Jimin), the original Pitch Wars query letter back when it was a completely different book, and some of the older working title options (and why she hated them), all in the years before it made its way to me and we here became a part of the process.
See that post here.
And finally on my end, I have one of our last VIP Influencer mailer boxes from promoting TBWM to give away to one of you! You can see a breakdown of what's in the boxes we designed here! This post was previously posted for Subscribers in July but is now unlocked for everyone.
To win this box, just tell me in the comments here if you've had a chance to read TBWM yet or if it's in good company on your TBR! (whether you've read it or not has no bearing on your chances of winning.)
U.S. only.

And now, for a few things I'd like to ask of you.
If you haven't purchased a copy of To Bargain With Mortals yet for yourself, OR if you're planning on gifting it for the holidays, today is a great day to buy it!
Bookshop.org currently has Free Shipping (through tonight) and is a space for online book shopping that I will always recommend over Amazon because they share profits with independent bookstores!
If you HAVE read Bargain, please please please post your review! Even if you feel like you don't really have much to say in reviews or know how to write a review (there's no one right way!), even just a rating and/or a couple short and sweet thoughts is great.
Obviously the main place for sharing reviews is Goodreads (main place both for readers and for publishing as an industry), but if you've already done that, have you considered cross-sharing the review on retail sites like
Amazon (oh the duality of hating this company and yet being beholden to the position it holds with sales, it's great for ebook visibility if there are reviews here but I do not understand why Amazon doesn't just import goodreads reviews automatically since they own goodreads. Ugh, let me not get on my soapbox about this right now...)
Barnes and Noble
Kobo
And as always, I love to see whenever you guys share TBWM on socials so keep tagging me in stories and photos and videos ^_^ They make me so happy! Looking at my notifications like

OH AND ONE LAST THING!
The map lives! If you live in one of the following states, you can help us fill out a U.S. full of TBWM:

I'm collecting pictures of Bargain in bookstores all across the country! If you see it out in the wild, I'd love it if you could pop a photo in discord or email it to me at business@emmaskies.net
Happy one month and may TBWM have many more happy months to come <3

Happy TBWM celebration day! A giveaway, a new podcast episode, and I have some favors to ask...

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