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.

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