Category: News Publishing

This Spring sees a whole lot of updates from the last few months, new releases towards the end of 2025, new releases for 2026 announced and special projects finally bearing fruit. New releases from Marie M. Mullany set in the Sangwheel World called ‘Thief’s Magic‘ as well as from Caldon Mull with a collection called ‘Sandglass: The Collection‘ closed off 2025 projects with a bang.

Special Projects and 2nd Edition re-releases or reprints from Caldon Mull included ‘The Sol Senate Cycle – Future History Omnibus‘ which collects, integrates and smooths the five (5) Future History narratives into a single timeline. These are The Estuary Tales, The Sphinx, The Folk and The Shellmen, Memestalk and Terraform Triptych. We think that the Omnibus is quite special, even though at over 1600 pages there is no way that it could ever see print at that size. So we stuck with ePub and pdf and will just live with that.

Also from Caldon Mull, we have the re-examination of The Agency Tales and what it stood for, and what it meant to the author and decided to re-release the separate dreams as stand-alone novellas in the series. So The Agency Tales 4 – Swan and Song, The Agency Tales 5 – El D’Or Dieux, The Agency Tales 6 – Stone and Flute, The Agency Tales 7 – Secular Solipsism and The Agency Tales 8 – Attitude Adjustment all saw release in the 3rd Quarter of 2025.

By way of explanation, The Agency Tales novels (The Memoirs of a Faun, Omnipresent Occultation and Mirrored Myrrh) were fix-up novels from a set of 9 lucid dreaming experiments and keeping these in print were proving to be difficult. This method of presenting the dreams as they unfolded allowed us to unlock the remaining dreams and present them in this format as short-form fiction. All the groundwork has been laid for this at a later stage, between 2027 and 2028.

New releases from Caldon Mull is Xylana Planes and is the Second Act in The Adata Saga for late 2026, as well as several Interviews and Journal Articles, and several announcements for his work pending in 2026. The boy has been busy, really busy. The Adata Saga continues the journey of the siblings as they continue to battle political quagmire of the Xylana Commonwealth, but this time from the canals and isles of the wealthy lagoon city of New Land in another installment. Darker and grimier than the lost innocence of Xylana Bells, the cadet clade of Adata Merchant Dukes are wholly adrift in a world that is determined to ruin them forever.

Other news of a more commercial nature is the movement to an online store for Marie M. Mullany, and a series of websites for silverbarkbooks.fi that have been required by various EU laws and processes, primarily GPSR but also for a measure of data and product sovereignty that we are just not getting from our IT toolkit to date. Needless to say, as a small publisher doing very specific things, we are not aligned with where big American based companies are going with their products. They make no business sense for us, are not aligned with our values and provide us with no usefulness. We have tried, now to reject this nonsense and move on.

That’s all for us, right now. Stay tuned for Summer announcements and other updates as we put out noses back to the grindstone. Keep Writing!

Welcome to Silver Bark Books Spring update for 2025. Massive updates for theme choices, page organizations and new pages are the flavor for the year… so far! So what works and what doesn’t work?

Previous updates on the site map were done to take into account new focus in a rapidly changing environment. We said no Journal Pages to reprint articles and journals because it would detract from the fiction we were publishing… only to discover as soon as it was implemented, that the Journal articles attracted more attention than the Fiction… who would have thought? So that was reversed.

Author interviews – we were meh! on the idea until panel invitations wanted to sniff out our moral compass before they invited us to attend… all this Culture War nonsense, none of us are archetypal Western authors; nor are we sometimes even aware of what triggers some of you. So we re-ordered the page to place ongoing interviews and guest slot information for the many bots and people running through our pages. (It saves on hallucinations from Chatbots, for one thing!)

So… what has 2025 brought with it? New title releases: Preacherman and Xylana Bells from Caldon Mull were out in 2024, as well as Keeper of the Gate from Marie M. Mullany. A re-design of the Web Site in preparation of our own Web Store because we are losing ground against the chaos and nonsense in the Publishing Industry Platforms and EcoSystems in your big Online markets such as, for example, Amazon. This follows account conduct, closures and pricing and royalty incidents, buyouts in Audiobook markets, Terms and Condition changes and Legislation; AI Training and web-scraping scandals notwithstanding – it’s all too much too fast.

We should all be WRITING books, not running around like headless chickens trying to stamp out problems that weren’t actual problems until somebody decided to create a problem… So we finally know what we have to do, and now just get on with it…

Omnibus editions… we have finally unlocked Caldon Mull’s reluctance to collate the Sol Senate Cycle – Future History into an Omnibus collection for ePUB. Yes, it will never fit into a print series, and yes the cost of a print series is beyond the pale… A 2nd Edition of each out-of-print title is going to be unfeasible at this point, especially looking at where the cost of printing paper is going. The same for the ‘Smithereens’ Collection reboot, with all the unpublished shorts that we have finally run through editing, plus new re-published shorts from the last few years. (Some are running down timers on options since they were last optioned… tick-tock!)

Rumor has it there is ANOTHER tale in the Sol Senate Cycle – Diaspora series. I can’t get too much information about it just yet… it might be simply an author notion, or it might be another short novel, or… we’ll see.

So here is to all good things in 2025!

Keep Writing!