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Statement on AI

Candlemark & Gleam’s position on AI is simple: we don’t use it. We won’t knowingly buy or publish any work created with AI, and our contracts require writers to certify…

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October 22, 2026
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Fall Update

Time for a quick update of Candlemark & Gleam’s plans for the year ahead! In December, we will publish Bogi Takács’s post-climate-apocalypse novel The Word of the Ancients is Law.…

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August 24, 2026
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Release Day for Tales From Rugosa Coven!

It’s the release day for Sarah Avery’s revised edition of her 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner Tales From Rugosa Coven! The original collection already had a well-earned reputation as an…

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August 1, 2026
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Tales From Rugosa Coven Available for Preorder!

Sarah Avery’s Tales From Rugosa Coven is up for preorders today, and to celebrate I thought I’d share this lovely review from folklorist Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran: "The world loves…

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July 1, 2026
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2026 Pride StoryBundle!

Candlemark & Gleam is pleased to have a title in this year’s Pride StoryBundle — Melissa Scott’s The Master of Samar. We happily support (and publish!) queer SF/F, and Scott…

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June 4, 2026
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Release Day for Breath and Bone!

It’s the release day for Breath and Bone, K.V. Johansen’s gorgeous new sapphic fantasy. Johansen is well known for settings that feel steeped in history, where the past always intrudes…

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May 18, 2026
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Release Day – The Autarch’s Heir

Today is the release day for The Autarch’s Heir, the fourth book in Jo Graham’s space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars. One of the great things about this series is…

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February 23, 2026