Space Opera Libretti is now available!

Well. I have had a long year. Totally uprooted my life, moved out of my mom‘s apartment, living in a group home… and all of that unfortunately delayed a lot of projects, but through it all, there was the anthology.

It was stressful because a lot of people were relying on me when I could hardly rely on myself. But I had someone I could rely on: my amazing coeditor Brian. It took longer than it should have, longer than we wanted, but we are proud to FINALLY announce that Space Opera Libretti is now available for purchase.

When you put a book on Amazon, it doesn't always put the e-book and the paperback version on the same page right away. So for the time being, I have two separate links for you. In a few days, either link should work for either version. 

E-book

Paperback

In the coming weeks, I'm going to be hosting interviews with the authors and talking about their stories. For now, though, I will let Brian McNett, my fearless copilot and coeditor, give you a description of the book as a whole.

The problem with space opera is that there's not enough opera in it, and certainly a dearth of coloratura diva sopranos in the third act. This anthology sets out to fix that by placing the music front-and-center. We've created a glittery disco-ball of fun. 20 stories designed to amuse. Some actually take place in space. There's even an actual opera in here. We didn't hold back.Time-traveling cats that quote opera... Intergalactic singing competitions... An endless song that becomes the soundtrack to countless generations of rebellions... And, of course, invisible space bears made of black holes that may or may not be extinct.

That last one is my story. I'll be talking about that one, too, even though I would rather talk about all of our fabulous authors:

Ingrid Garcia

Lizz Donnelly

Harry Turtledove

Brian McNett

Jennifer Lee Rossman

Alex Kropf

KG Anderson

Spruce Wells

EDE Bell

James Dorr

Cait Gordon

Dean Brink

Dawn Vogel

Minerva Cerridwen

Bruce Taylor

Tom Barlow

Larry Hodges

Jean Graham

Julia Huni

Dave D'Alessio

I am absurdly proud of all of our writers, and all of the authors who we could not publish despite having amazing stories. Our authors get paid when we get paid; we are splitting everything evenly between the 20 of us.

And a very special thank you to Ivori Blake, who did our cover art!