#neokosmos

hi we are always open to new beta readers !

Remember the NEOKOSMOS webcomic from 2015? Well, 8 years and over 400,000 words later it's a series of novels. If you wanted to know how the webcomic would have ended, I've got great news. The entire first book has been written and re-written, and is ready for YOU to read! And if you're curious about what happens after that, we're on the last 3 chapters of Book 2, too.

Join the discord today and be part of our community of readers! Liveblog the books, give feedback and critique, hang out in chat or just lurk! We're happy to have you!

we'll be starting on the third book as soon as we wrap on two. The fact that THIS YEAR, within weeks, we will be working on the third and final book in the trilogy. this is fucking crazy.

if youre curious, we're going to self publish online. the piecemeal way we've been sharing neokosmos as we write it isn't particularly appealing to traditional publishers. nor is the fact that we're going to draft out the whole trilogy before publishing the first book as a way to make sure the whole series is consistent narratively and in quality. not to mention our books will be full of literally hundreds of color illustrations. Ya can't put that into print without the physical copy costing 100 dollars or cutting out the art all together.

our decision to not seek traditional publishing has really freed us from the deadlines, standards, and conventions associated with it. Too many times we have seen extremely promising books be edited to pieces to fit within a certain word count, or revised to the point of being unrecognizable from the authors vision in the name of being marketable to a wider audience.

Shelby and Brian (who do almost the entirety of the prose writing) have been so iron-willed about not making compromises like that. I really respect them for it. We are writing our queer polyamorous neurodivergent hearts out and we will not bend to the agenda of a publisher.

that said of course, we don't look down on traditional publishing or think that self publishing is superior. it's just not right for Neokosmos and never has been. (We're also not against critique, feedback, or notes from beta readers! We value it tremendously.)

i hope when we're done writing, editing, illustrating, and polishing Neokosmos that the people we were writing it for will find it.

Dancing Aliens  💃 💃