News

September 16, 2025

Shortwave Signs Distribution Deal with Simon & Schuster

Shortwave Publishing has signed a worldwide distribution deal with Simon & Schuster for new titles and select back catalog titles. New Shortwave titles released after December 1, 2025 will be sold and distributed by Simon & Schuster…

August 27, 2025

New Deal Announcement – MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST

Today we are excited to announce we’ve acquired Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost, a collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories / novelettes by Ai Jiang…

July 30, 2025

New Deal Announcement – WHEN

We are excited to announce a new deal today for WHEN, a novel-length collection of curiosities including short stories, screenplays, essays, and poems by Jamie Flanagan…

July 23, 2025

New Deal Announcement – TRAPS AND SPECTERS

We are excited to announce a new deal for Traps and Specters, a collection of horror stories and novelettes by Philip Fracassi…

July 9, 2025

New Deal Announcement – THE GARGOYLE AND THE MASON

Today we are excited to announce a new deal for The Gargoyle and the Mason by Jamie Flanagan…

July 2, 2025

New Deal Announcement – SIMON’S QUEST

We are excited to announce today the tenth entry in the Killer VHS Series will be Simon’s Quest by Todd Keisling…

June 28, 2025

WHEN YOU LEAVE I DISAPPEAR is a Manly Wade Wellman Award Finalist

Congrats to David Niall Wilson, When You Leave I Disappear is a finalist for the Manly Wade Wellman Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy…

June 26, 2025

New Deal Announcement – SLEEP ALONE

Today we are excited to announce the Bram Stoker Award nominated Sleep Alone by J.A.W. McCarthy is coming to Shortwave in January…

June 23, 2025

LIMELIGHT is a Finalist for Best Collection and Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards

Huge congrats to Lyndsey Croal, Limelight and Other Stories is a finalist for both Best Collection and Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards…

June 9, 2025

STAY ON THE LINE is a Shirley Jackson Award Finalist

Stay on the Line is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for outstanding achievement in a novelette…

June 4, 2025

Celebrating 40,000 Books Sold

This week we sold our 40,000th book! Just over a year ago, we celebrated selling 10,000 total books on March 28th, 2024. It took us two years to sell 10,000 books. Just over a year later, we quadrupled that number…

May 21, 2025

New eBook Box Set Line

Introducing Shortwave’s line of eBook Box Sets! While we love physical books, we acknowledge their costs and limitations. Omnibuses that reach well past 1,000 pages are not practical to print, or to price well for most readers…