Shore Leave Book Club

Here at Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing, we spend most of our time crafting stories and producing content. On ship, we spend all of our creative energy in the pursuit of entertaining others and helping them escape the mundane. All of that spent energy, however, needs to be replenished if we’re to continue sailing. We get a boost every time we sail to a new location—convention, seminar, pop-up, festival, book signing—but sometimes we need a bigger hit. That’s when it’s time to go on shore leave.

Since we spend so much time and effort building a community of like-minded individuals who prefer to escape through speculative fiction, we decided to include all of you in our next endeavor. This is your formal invitation to join the CDS Shore Leave Book Club.

What is this Shore Leave Book Club? Kelly Lynn Colby and Kevin Pettway, with technical support from Zaepho, invite you to read a completed series, within the speculative fiction space, one book at a time. On the third Friday of each month, we’ll stream the book discussion live.

Why are we so different from other book clubs? First, we’ll only read complete series within the genres of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, one book at a time. No more starting a series for a book club and then never getting around to finishing it. Or reading all of them, but no one else did, so you have no one to talk to about it. Plus, we want to feature as many indie series as possible so readers can find the high-quality works available in the wide indie world. That doesn’t mean we’ll only read indie, but we won’t shy away from it either.

Plus, as a publisher, we know quite a few authors. We’ll make sure to have the authors on board for each discussion. Which means you’ll get to ask why they killed your favorite character or where they got the idea for the flying machine that functioned as a submarine as well.

Where will this all happen? We’ll make the announcement for the series we’ll focus on a month before the first book is discussed. If you want dedicated time to get those pages read, join Kelly on reading sprints Mondays from 7-10 pm Central here. The Shore Leave Book Club meetings will be at 8pm Central every third Friday on our YouTube channel where we’d love for you to join in and tell us what you think.

What’s in it for me? First of all, camaraderie. It’s a blast to read something and then debate its strengths and weaknesses with other bibliophiles. And because we love to give stuff away, everyone who attends the live event will be entered into a drawing to win stuff that relates to the book we’re reading. That could be anything from author-signed copies to Lego sets of a dragon.

Okay. I’m in. What do I do now? Read the first book. Here is the announcement video:

If you need a copy of the book, you can find it here. You can also order it from any bookstore.

We’ll see you for the discussion on Friday, August 22 at 8pm Central right here.