Good morning (Imagine if I knew enough here to make this directly addressed to you),

On Friday morning we're launching our Book Moon Indiegogo campaign. We're trying to get ahead a bit as while the bookstore is going along well — sales are up 1% on last year and that was our best ever — as you know, costs: they go up.

Anyway I hope you'll check it out and maybe one of the two new T-shirts or the new tea towel or the new tote bag will tempt you. Or you could choose your name (or someone you love?) in one of Kelly's, Holly Black, or Cassandra Clare's stories. We added some zines and so on, too.

But the real reason to write this newsletter was to also point you toward some limited edition items that didn't fit there. These will be live around the same time as the Indiegogo (9 a.m. EDT)

An in-process (complete but not final) manuscript of Kelly Link's novel The Book of Love (1 available) $500
An in-process working "final" manuscript typescript of Kelly Link's novel The Book of Love. (There were a few: one is for sale.)
1,026-page double-sided loose leaf manuscript printed on white paper. Wirebinding removed by author. No markings. Word count on first page is 222,490 - slightly longer than the published edition.
Manuscript can be signed or personalized.
Comes in light grey manuscript box, broken at one end.
Ships Priority Mail within the US.
"As Is" copies of the limited edition of Kelly Link's novel The Book of Love List price: ~~$225~~ $99
Very Good condition but not in good enough shape to sell as new.
Corners may be bumped.
Covers may be scuffed or lightly scored as if someone ran a pencil down it but without leaving a pencil mark.
Possible small tear (1/8") on paper cover.
Signed and numbered.
Cannot be personalized.
Ships Priority Mail.
Cassandra Clare, Seasons of Shadowhunters (5 available) $220
4 deluxe slipcased matching hardcover volumes of new and updated Shadowhunter stories with full color artwork.
Signed. Can be personalized. No quotes added.
Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
One Must Always Be Careful of Books
An Illustrated History of Notable Shadowhunters
Better In Black
Ships Priority Mail in the US only.
Small Beer Book Bundle 1: List price: ~~$169.95~~ $56.08
10 trade paperbacks (sorry: no substitutions) sent to you nicely boxed up by the fine people at Small Beer's distributor, Consortium. Authors get full royalties, you get good books:
Elizabeth Hand, Available Dark, John Schoffstall, Half-Witch, Ayize Jama-Everett, Heroes of an Unknown World, Sarah Pinsker, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Kathleen Jennings, Kindling, John Crowley, And Go Like This, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Prophecies, Libels & Dreams, Kij Johnson, The Privilege of the Happy Ending, Nathan Ballingrud, Monsterland, Robert Freeman Wexler, The Silverberg Business.
Ships media mail.
Small Beer Book Bundle 2: List price: ~~$166.00~~ $54.78
10 trade paperbacks (sorry: no substitutions) sent to you nicely boxed up by the fine people at Small Beer's distributor, Consortium. Authors get full royalties, you get good books:
Elwin Cotman, Dance on Saturday: Stories, Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever: Stories, Kim Scott, Taboo: a novel, Kij Johnson, At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories, Zen Cho, Spirits Abroad: Stories, Jeffrey Ford, Big Dark Hole: Stories, Laurie J. Marks, Earth Logic: An Elementary Logic Novel, Anya Johanna DeNiro, OKPsyche: a novel, Richard Butner, The Adventurists: Stories, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Reconstruction: Stories
Ships Media Mail.

New Bonfire Fundraiser T-Shirt

This is a fun one: we launched a new fundraiser on the t-shirt platform Bonfire and 100% of the profits go to Translate Gender.

Kathleen Jennings in the USA

Our friend writer/artist Kathleen is coming over from Brisbane to join all the people having fun in Oakland, CA, at the World Fantasy Convention (Oct. 22-25). Say hi if you see her there.

At some point she heads east and will be signing and sketching at Book Moon on Friday, October 30th, from 2-4 p.m. Order books or books or art and get them signed/personalized and shipped to you. Or drop by if you can!

Kelly, about to go a-eventing

October 22 - 25

Word Festival, Maine

From the Word Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival event website:

On October 23, bestselling author Kelly Link will be joining Ben Shattuck, author of the the award-winning 2025 short story collection, The History of Sound, to discuss the art of the short story for Word. For those who'd like to know more about the extraordinary work of this author, Word will also be hosting an online discussion of The Book of Love, Link's celebrated 2024 debut novel the book club meeting will take place on Sunday, September 13, at 2 p.m.

October 28, 6:30 p.m.

2026 Deborah Pease Prize Celebration

The Century Association, 7 West 43rd Street, New York City