Help Take Rosarium Publishing to the Next Level

As you know, competition for your reading dollar is rough. There’s big publishing houses filling up brick and mortar stores with the mainstream, there’s digital 99-cent throw-away e-books (don’t get me wrong, I love some 99-cent e-books), and in the middle there are small publishers like Rosarium Publishing. When you’re in the middle, it can be hard to grow beyond the original dream, to collect enough cash to build something sustainable and forward-looking. With that in mind, Rosarium has launched their first crowdfunding campaign at Indiegogo.com. The primary goal of the campaign is to raise enough seed money to move the publisher out of the “print on demand” model, which is easier for a smaller house to manage but is very expensive over the long run, and onto a more-traditional printing model, which requires up-front money but allows for more growth over time. Watch the publisher, Bill Campbell, tell the Rosarium story.

You might not know it, but you’ve heard of Rosarium Publishing before, especially if you’ve read my book reviews. I’ve recommended two of their past anthologies — Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. I’ve have heard nothing but good things about their latest work, The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia, which is pushing its way onto my summer reading list. Led by Bill Campbell, Rosarium has grown as one of the leading publishers of speculative fiction and comics from a diverse base…