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Exclusive Cover Reveal: Common Bonds 3 ed. by Claudie Arseneault, Em Ishii, and RoAnna Sylver

Today on the site, I’m delighted to reveal the cover of Common Bonds 3 ed. by Claudie Arseneault, Em Ishii, and RoAnna Sylver, the third in a series of anthologies starring aromantic main characters! The editors have written up their own intro to present a Kickstarter campaign, so I’ll let them take it away!

Common Bonds strikes a third time with a new volume of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters. After a flood of incredible stories in their submission pile, the Common Bonds team decided to build not one, but two glorious anthologies of platonic, aromantic love.

In Common Bonds 3, you will find marine biologists getting trapped in a bubble of magic, a necromancer reviving their toxic ex from the dead, lifebonds with sirens, dreamwitches trapped in a cursed murder town and so much more.

We are very excited to introduce you to the marvellous works within, but in order to do so we need to raise the funds to pay our authors the money they deserve. This is what our BackerKit crowdfunding campaign is for: pay authors, cover artist, and the shipping and printing of initial copies.

And now, our new Common Bonds cover!

Common Bonds 3’s cover is from Hugo-Awards winning Laya Rose. As with previous covers, we have two friends sharing in an activity—but this time we’ve moved into winter and a hot warm drink.

Two friends in winter clothes sharing a hot drink from which steam wafts up. One of them has little horns, and they are painted in pink, sitting under cold blue, barren tree branches. The steam wafts through the title in bright white letters, Common Bonds 3. A subtitle at the bottom says “a speculative aromantic anthology”.

Follow the campaign to help us make this new installment a reality!

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Stake Sauce, Arc 2: Everybody’s Missing (Somebody) by RoAnna Sylver

Just in time for spooky season, we’re thrilled to be revealing the cover of RoAnna Sylver’s newest release, the second arc of horror-paranormal romance mashup Stake Sauce, which is coming from Kraken Collective Books on Halloween!

Rep within includes: Polyamorous M/M, queerplatonic F/F, gray-ace and aro-spec MC, gay and bisexual dudes, lesbian and aroace ladies, physically disabled MC, trans MC, neurodivergent/mentally ill (autistic, PTSD, depression) MC, multiple fat love interests, nonbinary major characters, and you can find out more about the story here:

Act 2, In Which: Our friends, some old and some new, must awaken a powerful, centuries-old magical force – before an old enemy gets there first…

Life for Jude is finally getting back to normal – or as normal as it gets when your new boyfriend has fangs, your old maybe-boyfriend isn’t dead after all (and has even bigger fangs), and everyone’s scrambling to adjust their lives accordingly.

There’s enough to worry about without evil, ancient vampires closing in, preparing dark rituals, and threatening to undo everything Jude, Pixie, and their loved ones have built together. But as they’ve all seen, normal doesn’t tend to last for long. And it’s hard to shake the feeling that something’s missing.

But then, it seems like everybody’s missing somebody.

And here’s the cover, designed by the author!

Preorders come with the first Stake Sauce book and an exclusive bonus collection of short stories, so make good use of this link!