#othercovenants — Public Fediverse posts

Shavua tov!

Somewhat unexpected Shabbat quote from #OtherCovenants, Rivqa Rafael's story @rivqa

"Worse’n solitary, the mindless work, the awful food of this prison in all but name, there’s the Shabbat services."

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#Mazeldon #Jewish #Shabbat #ScienceFiction #AlternateHistory #JewishAuthors #ShortStories #RivqaRafael

Too gay for the seforim sale, this anthology I'm in -

https://twitter.com/BenYehudaPress/status/1635387491221139457

Bizarrely, *my* story in the book is not even queer.

#mazeldon #BookBans #OtherCovenants #Jewish #SFF #QueerAuthors #TransAuthors

7. We also publish speculative fiction!

Most recently, #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People edited by @adlobel and Mark Shainblum!

With stories and poems on alternate versions of everything from the Bible to the Soviet Union!

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#Anthologies #ShortStories #Poetry #Fantasy #ScienceFiction @shortstory @shortsff #AlternateHistory #Jewish #Mazeldon

Welcome to Esther Alter @esther_alter who's just registered on Mastodon yesterday!

Her story in #OtherCovenants provides a new perspective on the Bible itself...

Excitement!!! We found more of authors of #OtherCovenants on here! Will add people with their fancy graphic shortly (G-d willing) 😺​

Next time around, we'll follow with authors of our many other books! (G-d willing soon!)

And if you don't see yourself in this thread, but you had a story in #OtherCovenants, let us know and we'll add you and your fancy graphic!

Also make sure to check out our pinned post if you need a quick intro to Mastodon 😺​

Enjoy and shabbat shalom!

And now for #FollowFriday Ben Yehuda Press authors edition #1: #OtherCovenants authors on Mastodon!

So far we've found eight, but the numbers are ever increasing!

Let's have a small thread 🧵​ where we also tell you about everyone's stories in the anthology.

#Mazeldon #JewishAuthors #WritingCommunity #ScienceFiction #Anthologies #Bookstodon #AlternateHistory
#Fantasy #Jewish #JewishBookMonth

Frequently asked question: Will there be ebooks of #OtherCovenants?

Yes, they are coming hopefully very soon! (G-d willing, but we're working on them...)

USPS is gearing up to deliver copies of #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People! 📦​ ➡️​ 📭​

(and we have noticed that there are emoji both for an open mailbox and a closed one.)

You can still order your copy:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#JewishAuthors #SFF #Fantasy #AlternateHistory #WritingCommunity

We had a technical issue with preorders for #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People. Sorry about that! It's now fixed.

If you were trying to preorder, but it wasn't going through, please try again:

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#Jewish #Mazeldon #Bookstodon #SFF #Fantasy #AlternateHistory

More and more of our authors are showing up here on Mastodon: today, welcome Rivqa Rafael at @rivqa!

She has stories in *counts on fingers* at least two of our anthologies, including #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, which is about to launch:

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

And she has a queer Lilith story in #StrangeFire: Jewish Voices from the Pandemic -

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/strange-fire/

#Mazeldon #JewishWriters #JewishAuthors #Jewish #QueerSFF

"When the curtain came down on another day, he always needed a little while to remember he wasn’t Jakub Shlayfer, a hungry Jew in a Polish village that had vanished from the map more than a hundred years ago."

- Harry Turtledove in #OtherCovenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People.

Launching next week!! Over 400 pages of Jewish speculative literature!

https://jort.link/www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/

#Jewish #Mazeldon #SFF #AlternateHistory #Fantasy #HistoricalFantasy #Shtetl

In addition to the #OtherCovenants launch next week, we'll also have a new Jewish Poetry Project book: Moon Writing by Betti E. Kahn!

This means we will have THREE poetry collections with "Moon" in the title -

Moon Writing:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/moon-writing/

How to Bless the New Moon:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/how-to-bless-the-new-moon/

Shiva Moon:
https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/shiva-moon/

By comparison: We have 0 books with "Sun" in the title.

#Mazeldon #Poetry #JewishPoetry #Moon #Bookstodon

Only 3 more days!!! https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/other-covenants/ #othercovenants #book #newbook Just in time for #Chanukah!!