Blackbird Publishing

08/27/2026

Author interview! 📚 Kari Kilgore on Fantastic Shorts—sixteen stories where the ordinary world hides strange undercurrents: a tree that’s not quite right, an eerie light on the mountain, and a magical bookstore called Odds and Endings.

Kari talked with us about her native Appalachia and its secrets, the little girl who runs the writing machine in her head, and why she wants readers to always expect the strange.

Kari Kilgore on strange undercurrents, Appalachian ground, and writing Fantastic Shorts for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—an author interview.

08/27/2026

New author interview! 🔮 DeAnna Knippling on The Fold Magic Stories—contemporary fantasy set where reality creases and the strange slips through.

We talked about writing the in-between places, where these stories really come from, and the comedy heist novel currently making her kid lie down laughing.

DeAnna Knippling on writing The Fold Magic Stories for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles—an author interview from Blackbird Publishing.

08/25/2026

New author interview! 🔮 DeAnna Knippling on The Fold Magic Stories—contemporary fantasy set where reality creases and the strange slips through: a ghost dad who still wants a fist-bump, a witch grandmother, and two brothers working out what it costs to be the kid who’s a little bit magic.

https://blackbirdpublishing.com/interview-deanna-knippling-the-fold-magic-stories/

08/02/2026

It’s here! 🧚 The 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles is live—and our A Procession of Faeries 4–6 is part of it.

Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, this StoryBundle gathers fifteen exclusive collections—roughly 47 books in all—from fifteen fantasy writers. Pay what you want through August 27, and a share of every purchase goes to World Central Kitchen.

storybundle.com/fantasy

07/11/2026

The whole Blackbird Publishing catalog now lives in one place: our brand-new shop! 📚

Every anthology, every novel, every non-fiction book we’ve ever published—all on the new shop. Browse by cover, read the descriptions, and grab each title at whichever store you already love.

https://blackbirdpublishing.com/shop/

06/25/2026

Ten monsters, one open road. *Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip* is the Borogrove Press book in the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle — and we caught up with three of its contributors. Mark Leslie races his Canadian werewolf against a train; DeAnna Knippling drops a 1957 zombie-plague comet on the Nevada desert; and Jamie Ferguson sends two goblins on a cross-country road trip to a proposal. Plus the question that matters most: the worst possible monster to be stuck in a car with. 🚗👹

Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip packs ten monsters into cars, trains, and trouble—and we pulled three of its contributors aside to talk about

06/24/2026

Ten monsters hit the open road — and not one of them filled the gas tank first. *Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip* is the Borogrove Press book in the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle: ten trips gone gloriously wrong, with werewolves, a wind-loving dragon, Medusa, and creatures you’ve never met. We talked with co-editors Jamie Ferguson and DeAnna Knippling — who Kris Rusch calls “dangerous” together — about what earns a story a spot on the trip, editing each other’s work, and what’s coming up. (Hint: monsters fall in love too...in their own way...)

Ten monsters hit the open road, and not one of them remembered to fill the gas tank. Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip—the second issue of the

06/22/2026

Kristine Kathryn Rusch curated the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle, which is available for a few more days. Her own contribution, *What If… Volume 1*, pairs two of her most acclaimed novels exclusively for the bundle. In *Snipers*, forensics and time travel chase a 1913 Vienna killer who was never caught; *Consecrated Ground* which runs along two timelines, the rise of Na**sm in the 1930s and the 1972 Munich Olympics, as an American reporter presses a retired detective about the failure that haunted him. Check out the interview with Kris!

Two of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most acclaimed novels share one StoryBundle-exclusive volume. In Snipers, a bestselling crime writer and a detective’s

06/21/2026

Four time-travel stories, four award finalists — and not one of them runs on a time machine. In *Into the Time Slip*, Douglas Smith reaches through time by other means entirely: remote viewing, entropy, the branching multiverse. We talked with Doug about building time travel without the gadget, the Springsteen songs woven through the collection, and what makes his science fiction distinctly Canadian.

Douglas Smith on refusing the easy version of a time-travel idea — remote viewing, particle colliders, a dinner that takes three lifetimes — across the four award-finalist stories of Into the Time Slip, part of the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.

06/20/2026

Michael Warren Lucas treats time travel like a nuisance the universe inflicts on the people stuck living through it. *Tiny Time Wars* collects five tales where the stakes lurch from world-changing to last year's taco shop. We talked with Michael about the physics he'll cheerfully break, why he writes so many stories about orcs, and why a time-travel story is never really about the time travel.

Michael Warren Lucas on singularities, the almighty power of last year’s Taco Shop, and why the soil interests him more than the seed — across the five stories of Tiny Time Wars in the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.