Small Press Saturday: The Seventh Terrace

Cover art for End of the Loop by Brent Nichols and Starseed by Stephen Guy, published by The Seventh Terrace.

Happy Small Press Saturday!

Our first month of the Butterflies and Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities has flown by, and I thought that this Saturday would be the perfect day to go really small for Small Press Saturday – like micropress small.

Meet The Seventh Terrace, a micropress based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, owned and operated by Sarah L. Johnson and Robert Bose, fixtures and disruptors of the Calgary literary scene. Both are extremely talented authors and the books they have published together also prove their editorial skills. Together they focus on books that are dark, disturbing, and undoubtably beautifully written, and lean literary while exploring the quirks and promise of genre fiction. Horror and weirdness is their jam. Tentacles are their fetish.

While this micropress is still quite new, The Seventh Terrace is a traditional publisher that offers advances and royalties to their authors. They have six titles released between their two imprints. Their main imprint is The Seventh Terrace that focuses on horror and the disturbing. Their Tiny Sledgehammer imprint focuses on weird pulp and crime fiction. The press’s seventh book, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Haley Piper, releases May 7th, and their eighth book, Terrace VI: Forbidden Fruit, an anthology curated by Sarah and Rob, is set to release on June 16th this year (at the time of publication of this post, both were listed on the Seventh Terrace upcoming releases page).

Their books are excellent and the cover art is fabulous. Perhaps you will check them out and grab yourself a copy of one of their books. You might regret it when you can’t sleep and think you hear something oozing out of your closet in the middle of the night, but you also might be thrilled to discover their hidden gems, be they cursed or not.

Happy (or not-so-happy) Reading!

– Stacey