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Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer is out. 

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My book Afrofuturism and Black Sound Studies is out now in the eBook version - hard copies coming in December. 

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Afrofuturism comes to Liverpool on 21st May at District. Featuring special guests Ytasha Womack and Jon Daniel with workshops, art and performance galore! Tickets available on sale now!

http://festival.writingonthewall.org.uk/events/10-events/66-future-journeys-afrofuturism-at-wowfest.html

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Help Rosarium Publishing Continue Producing Diverse Books

We are an Independent multicultural novel and comic book publisher that is raising funds via a crowdfunding to help pay for production of a minimum of 10 more titles this year. The campaign, entitled Rosarium Publishing: The Next Level, has set out to raise $40,000 on Indiegogo to cover the costs of offset printing and marketing. Rosarium produces in the children’s, science fiction, crime, steampunk, satire and comics genres. Our titles can be found on Amazon, in Barnes and Noble, Comixology, Indyplanet and PeepGameComix.

Rosarium Publishing was founded in 2013 by scifi/fiction writer Bill Campbell with one goal: to bring true diversity to publishing so that the high-quality books and comics the company produces actually reflect the fascinating, multicultural world we truly live in today.

  “I believe it’s imperative that people are able to tell their own stories. They can build their own tables rather than ask for a place at the table.” -  Bill Campbell, founder, Rosarium Publishing

Rosarium has grown from a company of one to a full roster of over 40 artists and writers of different nationalities, genders, orientations and religious beliefs. From a story about a daywalking vampire bitten as a slave to science fiction stories told by Latin American protagonists to a Southeast Asian Steampunk anthology to an anthropomorphic retelling of the Iranian revolution as told by a fish, Rosarium is redefining diversity in literature by simply publishing well-written stories, with stunning artwork, by people who reflect the identities and cultures of the world’s population.

  Rosarium has been able to produce several critically-acclaimed projects such as Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, The SEA Is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia, and APB: Artists against Police Brutality; many of our titles are a being read in high school and college classrooms across the country and the company has been mentioned, reviewed, and featured in literary publications such as Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Library Journal, Locus, Boston Globe, Washington Post, countless websites and blogs as well as The New York Times. Projects such as the indie comic DayBlack  and the crime novel Making Wolf have also won literary awards. That success has come from the support of the indie comic, science fiction, art, and speculative fiction communities and supporters of POC in literature.

But with that success comes a new problem. It’s no longer cost effective to publish via Print-On-Demand. Print-On-Demand is the choice for many indie publishers starting out that can’t afford the upfront investment of printing, have low print runs or are looking for distribution. At Rosarium, our books are now distributed to bookstores by IPG, and have been so successful that demand has now dictated that a switch to offset printing is now necessary to get more of their work to the masses sooner and that is where their new crowdfunding campaign comes in. With the success of Rosarium Publishing: The Next Level campaign, the company will be able to print thousands of books and continue their mission to further their quest for diversity in publishing with the high-quality work they are known for.

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Thanks for the in-depth review of APB: Artists Against Police Brutality, Black Sci-fi! Check out the entire review over on their website.

“The harsh reality of the topic is on full display, and no punches are pulled as the pieces are laid out. To be honest, that’s how I feel that it needs to be. We don’t need lofty language being said by talking heads on large corporate funded news channels. We don’t need monotone delivery of facts provided by heads of police departments who would rather have such topics shunted to the side.The direct and unflinching nature of this book is what’s needed. This is the voice of the victim, the disenfranchised.And everyone needs to hear it.“

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Thanks for the Stories For Chip shoutout, Locus Magazine! You can check out their recommendations for books published in 2015 over on their website.

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“Things Your Writing Teacher Never Told You: Pro-Tip From Carlos Hernandez“ over on Black Gate!

“The story [“More Than Pigs and Rosaries Can Give”], synopsized by Carlos thusly: “A Cuban expatriate travels to Cuba and hires a local historian to suck the ghost of his mother out of the bullet hole where she was shot at the dawn of the Revolution,” is part history, part magical realism, and in equal parts an admonishment to be brave and dare to step off into that adventure, no matter how scary that first step may be.“

(The story mentioned in the article is from The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria).

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Beginning tomorrow: my class on Afrofuturism at the University of Copenhagen. 

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Enter the MysticVerse - http://www.enterthemysticverse.com 

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Cover preview of next @blackquantumfuturism work dropping mid-February. Space-Time Collapse features experimental writings and images by visionaries exploring possible space-time narratives and temporal perspectives of Black enslaved ancestors held captive on the slaveship during the Middle Passage journey, through the TransAtlantic slavetrade, and subsequently on the plantation. The slaveship and plantations themselves are explored as chronotopes containing layers of different times, imprinted by the experiences of the people held captive. The writings also examine conceptions and perceptions of time and space in relation to Black memory, historical and social change, systems and conflict, Western technological development, and how they are sifted through or persist into the present. Some of the writings propose ways to move beyond the dominant concept of the linear progress narrative by exploring alternative concepts and shapes of time. Featuring work by Ytasha Womack, Joy Kmt, Alex Smith, Femi Matti, Theo Pajimans and more. Cover by @artbykrigga

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Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jewelle Gomez. Moderator: John Jennings. 

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Intergalactic Research Center on Afrofuturism, the Copenhagen Branch

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for some ODD reason, a lot of people still don’t know who SZA is.