Trouble the Waters

• A diverse collection of established and emerging writers in speculative fiction, horror, afrofuturism, SF/F poetry, and Environmental Science Fiction aka Cli-Fi • Contributors have committed to promoting and posting the anthology. • Live readings will be scheduled to promote the book, including at Third Man store locations in Detroit and Nashville •thirdmanrecords.com thirdmanbooks.com @thirdmanbooks 5729 instagram followers 6687 twitter followers @thirdmanrecords 290k instagram followers 165.3k twitter followers • Video Booktrailers will be produced featuring contributors reading or discussing the book •Literary publicity agent will be hired to promote. • Editor Sheree Renée Thomas is an emerging star in the writing community and speculative fiction in particular. Her book Nine Bar Blues has sold well for Third Man Books. She is the new editor of iconic The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Has been awarded two World Fantasy Awards and a finalist for a third. She is newly contracted by Disney to contribute to the Black Panther franchise.

Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.