Hello Friends!

Happy First Day of Native American Heritage Month!

I want to thank you all so much for being part of this community and supporting the work that we do to support Indigenous authors!

I wanted to share some updates from the publishing world with you all! The purpose of our community is to uplift, promote and publish Indigenous authors. We have and continue to be very successful in doing those first two things.

I have been open to submissions from North American Indigenous authors for a little over a year and I thought I would have many more submissions than I have received.

That's not to say that I've had ZERO submissions. I have had some submissions that were just not the right fit. As you know, I have to move forward with a project that 1. I feel passionate about 2. I believe I can sell.

We have made a total of 3 offers over the last year and all have declined for higher advances (the sole area that Bindery cannot compete). On the backend, we have met with authors, publishing professionals, community members to help reach Indigenous authors and spread the word about Boozhoo Books, and this incredible opportunity (which we will continue to do).

Is this still an Indigenous imprint? Yes. I am Indigenous. Supporting this imprint supports the work that I do to uplift and promote Indigenous authors and one day, hopefully, publish Indigenous authors.

Last year, I opened my submissions to women writing horror. In order for this imprint to grow and flourish, we need to publish books. It felt natural for me to include women writing horror, another group of voices that deserve space, deserve to be heard. I have read some books that I truly can't get out of my mind and can't wait to share with you.

Our first book, What Feeds Below, by Tatiana Schlote Bonne, comes out October 6, 2026! Our second book, TBA, will come out Spring 2027. We are not sure if Boozhoo will have a book Fall 2027, but there are some things that can be done to improve those chances. Here's how you can help (I cannot do this, without your help and support)

1. Upgrade your membership. I need to increase paid membership by about 100 (which is less than 10% of this community). If you won't miss $5 or $12 a month, this is for you. The reason paid subscribers are so important is because a percentage of the subscription fee goes into the production of the book. The rest is put back into the community in some way (shipping fees for giveaways, etc) or affords me an iced coffee.

Upgrading to $5 a month for one year is the cost of two hardcover books. (I know.) $5 subscribers get e-arcs of all of the books Boozhoo publishes.

Upgrading to $12 or $25 a month gets your name in the book and PHYSICAL ARCS of all the books Boozhoo publishes.

All paid members get access to a private Discord channel, get early publishing updates (like seeing all the drafts of the cover, the back copy, etc), and get to participate in community decisions

2. Pre-order the book, What Feeds Below, in the first month it goes on sale (preferably from a trackable place like bookshop.org) The pre-orders have to come in early (the first month or two) from a place that is trackable in order for me to be guaranteed a book for Fall 2027.

Our community goal for 2026 is continue to grow, continue to uplift and support Indigenous and other marginalized authors and to continue to spread the word about the opportunity to publish with Boozhoo Books.

Other ways to support this month:

1. buy books from Indigenous authors (and use my link below) I get a commission for every book you buy after clicking my link to Bookshop (even if I didn't list it)

2. buy some books from my Pango shop. I have about 100 books to sell and once they sell I want to list 100 more. I have got to get rid of these books and clear up space. Kind of a weird request but please order 1 book or 3 and more. I have single packages and bigger sized boxes (that I don't want to use for 2 books) I will include a book bingo card in each order until I run out of them.

3. repost my social media posts! Tag me in your book reviews so I can boost them!

   I am so grateful with how so many of you have showed up to support in the past year and I can't wait to see how this community and imprint grows. Getting approved for a second book is just the short term goal.

   Check out the books below and have a great weekend!