Antithesis Press

YESYESYES!!

Peak trans-het romance! Literally the best of 2025 imo and many others! 🏆 @thetransfemininereview.com knows wassup.

Can't wait :D

If you're wondering whether our books will be on itch - the plan is yes - but we have to check some tax stuff with itch because of the way we're set up and the state we live in.

Watch this space...

Quick reminder that we're gathering data to work out how many copies we should print... So if you're keen to order our US printed version, please fill in the form...
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Apparently I've provided sufficient fuzzles and may now continue about my day.

(Actually, that happened a while ago, but filling boxes with books while cool doesn't make for such pretty photos).

Sorry not sorry.

Kate with Sasha, one of the cats for whom she is a mediocre servant. Sasha is curled around her neck and (not pictured) periodically batting her neck with a paw.

I am sorry to inform you that after three orders, I have been instructed that I must make up for yesterday's failure to provide sufficient fuzzles because I was absent without purrmission from my owner and so order shipping is transiently pawsed.

It's another shipping day!

Wish me luck with the cats who, I'm sure, would like to help with shipping your books.

(For values of help that include eating the books and reorganizing the paperwork by how much fun it is to scrunch up and slide across the floor on).

'Condemning war crimes is transmisogynistic' is a new and stupid low.

the covers of Transmasc Marvel Girl and Heaven, Emphatic sit above a movie ticket that bears the following text: Use code: TMG to save 30% on Heaven, Ekphrasis with your pre-order

use CODE: TMG to get 30% off Sterling-Elizabeth Arcadia's 2023 Heaven, Ekphrasis along with your Transmasc Marvel Girl preorder

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Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity provides accessible language for housing scholars and activists.

This book foregrounds the complex entanglements of housing with racial capitalism, migration control, and state violence. Support the KS here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...

Wow... The punctuation in this skeet is very "Kate's not had enough coffee yet."

These idiots ♥️

oh my goodness yesss, I read this online and it was an utter delight

Shipping set up - laptop, sticker printer, boxes of books, pile of receipts for books to ship, shipping boxes, postal scale

Oh, and if you want to make it in time for this week's shipping (likely Thursday because we are but a small thing and shipping takes a big chunk of a day) which we need to spend typesetting and...doing accounts.

Trope map for To Own the Libs: The Ultimate Prank Gone Wrong The Densest Egg Dormitory Drama Meet Cute Found Family Enemies to Besties

Lily transitioned as a prank to 'own the libs' but soon learned the most undeniable truth of all:

"Facts don't care about your feelings."

Trope map for The Heart of the Woods and Other Stories: Quest for the True Self Magical Transitions Ancient Healing Magic Dethroning the Patriarchs Forbidden Queer Romance Accidental Gender Change

“I’ve been trained to hate vampires all my life. And now. . .”

The third short story collection from the phenomenal @zoestorm.bsky.social is out now from Antithesis Press. You can order it here: antithesispress.com/shop/ (or at your local bookshop)

We're planning to release late this month, and if you're thinking of ordering directly from us (instead of your local bookstore), help us out by letting us know ahead of time here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/fN8QUwfybk

Blurred out copy of some of the artwork in progress for the cover for Bottle Blondes. It features a marker-styled title and the a college age boy and girl on the cover.

If you're wondering what our next book is, it's Bottle Blondes by the incredibly talented @transcect.bsky.social. Winner of the 2025 @thetransfemininereview.com Readers Choice romance award...

(In progress artwork)

Trope map for The Heart of the Woods and Other Stories: Quest for the True Self Magical Transitions Ancient Healing Magic Dethroning the Patriarchs Forbidden Queer Romance Accidental Gender Change

Trope map for To Own the Libs: The Ultimate Prank Gone Wrong The Densest Egg Dormitory Drama Meet Cute Found Family Enemies to Besties

@zoestorm.bsky.social's fantastic new books - The Heart of the Woods and Other Stories and the new edition of To Own the Libs are available now from our store! You can order them here: antithesispress.com/shop/

You can hear Zoe talk about the books here: www.iheart.com/podcast/1333...

Hopefully we can stop with the learning experiences, although we're hoping to start doing our taxes for the business today so...

We also identified why it wasn't doing a great job of estimating the price (limitations of our store front and the settings we'd configured which were close enough for shipping one book, but lots of folks bought two, which is great, but sucked for our shipping estimator).

Okay, Media Mail is back as an option. We found out why it wasn't showing up which was a PEBCAK issue.

Next time Kate says "Lets launch three books in March" let's remind Kate that it's also tax season.

That's absolutely understandable! We print locally through a small women owned printshop for our own copies, but until we get more established decided to use Ingram for the moment.

Yep, we use pirate ship but it wasn't available as an option when we doing our shipping through them.

Yeah, I think once we have things more settled and reliable on the shipping front we'll probably reinstate media mail and hopefully can subsidize the cost of international some. I think for a lot of folks abroad we have POD through Ingram so, that may make more sense.

Oh ah. That's useful to know.

Maybe when we are a bit further along we'll reinstate media mail as an option.

Although while media mail's unavailability in both the USPS shipping thing and the one we actually use (but appearing in the USPS price calculator) would have slowly killed any profit we might have made, it was the shipping to Canada which in multiple cases came out $10-20 less than the actual price

Laptop, label printer, receipts, books in boxes, shipping boxes, stamp, and a postal scale.

First stack of books off to be mailed.

But still feels good to get these shipped.