Here's the cover and story line-up for BRAVE NEW GIRLS: STORIES OF GIRLS WHO SCIENCE AND SCHEME, coming August 2017! Proceeds from sales of the anthology will be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund.

Stories in the anthology (in alphabetical order by title):

The 17th Quadrennial Intergalactic Neo-Cultural Expo and Science Fair by Jeanne Kramer-Smyth
The Adventure of the Brass Lamp by Margaret Curelas
Arch Nemesis by Jamie Krakover
The Babysitting Job: A Robot Repair Girl Adventure by Josh Pritchett
The Case of the Missing Sherlock by Mary Fan
Chasing the Copper Dragon by Karissa Laurel
Circus in the Sky by Lisa Toohey
Dangerous Territory by Holly Schofield
The Experimental Bug – First Test by Jelani-Akin Parham
Hack by Evangeline Jennings
In a Whole New Light by Michelle Leonard
The Last Android by Paige Daniels
Let Androids Eat Cake by Meg Merriet
The Maker’s Handbook by George Ebey
The Non-Existence of Gravity by Steph Bennion
Nova by Stephen Landry
Our Very Respected and Always Benevolent Leader by Kay Dominguez
Scilla’s Monster by Elisha Betts
Skyris by A.A. Jankiewicz
Sweet Emotion by Bryna Butler
The Swiss Cheese Model by Eric Bakutis
The Verne Shot by Brandon Draga

When we set out on this adventure in 2014, our goal was simple: Make a good book full of stories about brainy girls. Turned out, we had so much fun with it, we wanted to do it again. And with people constantly asking us "Will there be a Volume 2?", we finally decided to say, "YES, there will be!"

Things are a little different this time around. Instead of running another crowdfunding campaign, we're using the leftover funds from the last one for production costs (they were originally meant for marketing, and the most effective way to market a book is to create another one, after all). And since we want to someday do a Volume 3 and possibly more, we're going to be keeping a percentage of proceeds from sales of Volume 2 for the Brave New Girls pot (the bulk will still be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund, and it's still a nonprofit venture).

Our goal is to release Volume 2 by August 2017.

Submissions are now open! Please see the submissions page for more detail. Deadline is January 16, 2017.

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share two bits of awesome news:

BRAVE NEW GIRLS was nominated for the Cybils Award in Young Adult Speculative Fiction.

BRAVE NEW GIRLS is also on the nominee list for the Amelia Bloomer Project, an annual list of recommended feminist literature for children.

Yay!

​-Mary

Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce that we have an official release date! Well, it's been behind-the-scenes official for some time now, since it's the date we were working toward, but we didn't want to announce it publicly until we were 100% certain that we'd make it (this is my fault, since I'm abnormally paranoid about being late).

Anyway, with the formatted proof in our hands, I can confidently say that Brave New Girls will be released on JUNE 15, 1015 in both paperback and e-book formats on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other popular e-retailers.

Sign up here to receive a reminder when it's live, or come join our Facebook party!

-Mary

Hey everyone! 

I know it's been a while since our last update - that's because we've been busy getting all the bits and pieces of the anthology together, from editing to proofreading and all the nitpicky behind-the-scenes details. Oh, and commissioning illustrations, which I'm happy to share with you in the collage below...

Aren't they awesome? I love the mix of styles we've got. We had eleven different artists on board, including a few multi-talented authors who did their own. I've also updated the stories page with them, so you can see larger versions (and see who the artists are).

Cheers,
Mary

Happy New Year, everyone! We're happy to announce that we've contracted a number of talented authors for the Brave New Girls anthology! Here's the story line-up, in alphabetical order by title:

BLINK by Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of Thought I Knew You
COURAGE IS by Evangeline Jennings, author of No Christmas, Niagara, andValentina
THE DATA TOURIST by Davien Thomas
FLEDGLING by Jason Kucharik
FLIGHT OF THE ZEPHYR by Aimie Runyan, author of the forthcoming novel Ice Flowers
GRAVEYARD SHIFT by Kimberly G. Giarratano, author of Grunge Gods and Graveyards
HELEN OF MARS by George Ebey, author of the forthcoming Phoenix Saga
THE HIVE by Kate Lansing, award-winning short story author
THE KEYS TO THE STARS by Stephen Kozeniewski, author of the bestselling novel Braineater Jones
A LITTLE BIT TRUER by Valerie Hunter
LYRA by Lisa Toohey, author of Escaping Ivernee
THE MAD SCIENTIST'S DAUGHTER by Leandra Wallace
OF CAT'S WHISKERS AND KLUTZES by Martin Berman-Gorvine, award-winning author of The Severed Wing and Seven Against Mars
THE OUTPOST by Paige Daniels, author of the bestselling Non-Compliance trilogy
PANIC by Tash McAdam, author of the international bestseller Slam
ROBIN HACKER by Ursula Osborne
ROBOT REPAIR GIRL by Josh Pritchett
TAKES A HACKER by Mary Fan, author of the Jane Colt, Flynn Nightsider, andFated Stars series

Plus a foreword by Lara Hogan, Senior Engineering Manager at Etsy and author of Designing for Performance.

We're currently in the process of having the stories professionally edited and commissioning illustrations. Still on track for a summer 2015 release - looking forward to sharing all these wonderful tales with the world!

Hi everyone! It's been a while since our last post, so I just wanted to drop a quick update. Submissions for the anthology just closed yesterday, and we've received some really great stories. Paige and I will spend the next few weeks reading through the submissions, and we'll have decisions regarding which ones we've selected around early December.  Stay tuned!

- Mary

Our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign drew to a close yesterday, and I'm happy to say that not only did we meet our goal, we exceeded it! Including offline donations, we raised more than 125% of our goal! This is truly exciting, and we're so grateful for all the help and support we've received, both from donors and from people who helped us spread the word.

A huge thank you to all our awesome donors (in no particular order):

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Thank you! Can't wait to share the finished book with everyone!