https://diachroneitybooks.com Diachroneity Books Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:41:03 +0000 https://diachroneitybooks.com en https://diachroneitybooks.com/Home Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:56:48 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/Home <img width="3550" height="728" width_o="3550" height_o="728" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb7df19fb70ce01ee1ff3ea470436531f31e4a46f258c4c8054fd4c94cb58869/diachroneity_logo_tagline_rgb.png" data-mid="232921837" border="0" data-scale="52" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb7df19fb70ce01ee1ff3ea470436531f31e4a46f258c4c8054fd4c94cb58869/diachroneity_logo_tagline_rgb.png" /> Batshit whodunnit The Girl Who Was Tuesday out June 2026!!! 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But how would we sell that? Who’s even the audience? Why are you looking at me like that …?,” before they go quiet and stare off into the distance, uncertain now of, well, everything. Diachro isn’t so keen on convention. Our vibe is more like an artist collective than a top-down bidness. A boarding house for a ragtag gang of literary partners-in-crime. We hold up our authors, our authors hold up us, our authors hold up our other authors, and then we collectively moan about how hard it is to get featured on #booktok. Think of it like a digital Bloomsbury Group, but less white and upper-class and much more queer, in all the ways.We work low and slow to produce fat’n’juicy (ew) if erratic-sporadic offerings. Dear reader, dear writer, dear all-seeing being: We invite you to get weird and wonderful with us. Our vision Diachroneity Books untethers imagination from the market imperative to enable creativity to remain wild, playful, radical, and free. Our mission We co-operate with writers of unhomeable literature to produce uncanny books that claw at, freak out, and gently tickle the minds of readers who want media that challenges, not coddles. Who steers this here ship? ↪&nbsp;Jaclyn ArndtJaclyn Arndt is an editor and writer based in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. For the last decade and a half, she has worked in various roles in the arts and publishing, from review-writing peon to nonprofit board co-chair. She runs a freelance line editing and copyediting bizness. Jaclyn has worked on the experimental and fiction works of Joe Butler, Maria Fusco, Sheila Heti, Niall Howell, Mochu, Pope.L, and Stephanie Victoire, among others. ☀️&nbsp;@jalcynardnt ↪ Kirstyn SmithKirstyn Smith is an editor and writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. After accidentally specialising in erotica, her work can be read in Aurore and theglow and heard on&nbsp;OhCleo. Other publications include The Skinny, Huck, Extra Teeth, and The Speculative Book. Kirstyn was also the editor and publisher of Marbles. Her favourite things to edit are mind-blowing and world-ending stories that induce existential crises. 🦆&nbsp;@iiitskirstyn https://diachroneitybooks.com/Submit Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:56:47 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/Submit SUBMIT ︎ We need to publish your weird shit, your uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn’t fit in ✦Submissions are currently closed. To be notified of the next submissions window, sign up for our monthly newsletterAnd get a sample of what Diachro’s doing Diachroneity Books seeks novels, short story collections, novels-in-flash, encyclopedias (lol), and fresh translations of the above. We mostly work with prose, but occasionally open to poetry. What we want: Oddness. Stream of consciousness. Weird, but beautiful. Genre, but literary. Just a liiiiittle left of centre. Biting humour, biting commentary, and biting humour-as-commentary. Eighteen layers of sorta confusing metaphor. Make us (and you) feel uncomfortable, unsettled, unsure. Or astound us. Ideally both. If you think other places would publish your manuscript and sell mad stacks, it’s probably not for Diachro. What we don’t want: The mainstream. -isms or -phobias. Easy reading. Cool kids. If you’ve been knocked back for being “too much,” hi. Also, we aim to be, like, nice and thoughtful and understanding human beings. So if we’re thinking about doing this thing together (i.e., literary birthing), we kindly request that you be nice and thoughtful and understanding too. Teamwork makes the dreamwork, y’know? ***Here is a list of some things we like if that is helpful for you to know*** The technical stuff Submissions are currently closed. To be notified of the next submissions window, sign up for our monthly newsletter Please stick the following requests into a single editable document (.doc(x), .odt, etc.) and email: books🐌diachroneitybooks.comSubject line: SUBMISSION: [Working Title], [Your Name]Please allow minimum three months for a response. Simultaneous submissions are A-OK. Any submissions sent outside the window will be deleted without response&nbsp;˙◠˙ If you have a completed or near-completed manuscript, please send us: 1. A letter of introduction containing: - A brief outline (max. 1 page), incl. word count - Your best elevator pitch (max. two sentences) - A bio of your good self (optional; max. 200 words) - Tell us what makes your manuscript “weird,” “niche,” or “uncanny” and “unplaceable” elsewhere (max. 200 words) AND 2. The first chapter or section of your manuscript AND 3. 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Convince us that Diachroneity Books is the best partner to help you pull this thing off (max. 200 words) https://diachroneitybooks.com/News-header Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:02:41 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/News-header NEWS ︎ https://diachroneitybooks.com/2026-03-18-Announcing-The-Girl-Who-Was-Tuesday Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:41:03 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2026-03-18-Announcing-The-Girl-Who-Was-Tuesday 18 Mar 2026︎ ANNOUNCING: The Girl Who Was TuesdayHear ye, hear ye—Diachroneity Books is ready to bring forth the third of its literar offerings: The Girl Who Was Tuesday by Beatriz Seelaender. Mariam Grubbs is a different person every day of the week. Literally. To manage her unusual condition, the weekly counterparts sharing her body need to keep proper records of their memories and appointments. Everything changes, however, when Tuesday (the responsible one) gets a call from Scotland Yard about a missing person. As she struggles to piece together what happened to one of the Days’ missing friends, only one thing is certain: Her co-pilots have been keeping vital—and deadly—information from her.Available 16 June 2026 in paperback and ebook. Whee! <img width="607" height="1000" width_o="607" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ef75b5252cbbea58afe82e09f3a32eb77bd4704e14f443df3481baab40d1c3d/diachroneity_seelaender_frontcover_web.png" data-mid="246173728" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/607/i/9ef75b5252cbbea58afe82e09f3a32eb77bd4704e14f443df3481baab40d1c3d/diachroneity_seelaender_frontcover_web.png" /> https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-12-03-Introducing-Ian-Goodale Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:19:42 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-12-03-Introducing-Ian-Goodale 3 Dec 2025︎ INTRODUCING: Ian GoodaleWe’ve managed to convince another crewmate to board the good ship Diachro! We’re pleased to welcome Ian Goodale on deck.His forthcoming novel involves five (FIVE!) planes of existence and—get this—a sky baby. Trust us, it’s equally strange and fantastic, and we’re excited to be bringing it kicking and screaming into the physical world through Diachro!The elevator pitch that got us: “Five people, who are each manifestations of one common soul, struggle through their lives (and rebirths) amidst a war between their separate but interlocking planes of reality. Eventually the group converges to battle a potentially apocalyptic visitor to earth who has appeared in the form of a giant infant hovering in the sky.“Welcome aboard, Ian! (and sky baby)You’ll find Ian at:https://iangoodale.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/iangoodale.bsky.social https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-07-30-Announcing-Imperfect-Creatures Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:46:50 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-07-30-Announcing-Imperfect-Creatures 30 Jul 2025︎ ANNOUNCING: Imperfect CreaturesDiachro is pleased to announce the coming birth of its second book: Imperfect Creatures by Joe Butler. A mindmelter of an experimental horror, Imperfect Creatures is, in Joe’s words, “my love letter to David Lynch and House of Leaves through the lens of death anxiety, and dealing with loss.”&nbsp; Don’t you know the world is ending (is ending (is ending (is ending?)?)?)?Available 18 November 2025 in paperback. <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/645217b3589f984a1a73284be39aa394631bda093c2a302ac0d5799152d27fa5/diachroneity_joebutler-frontcover-small.jpg" data-mid="239094408" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/645217b3589f984a1a73284be39aa394631bda093c2a302ac0d5799152d27fa5/diachroneity_joebutler-frontcover-small.jpg" /> https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-05-04-Event-Red-Light-Launch Sun, 04 May 2025 21:37:02 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-05-04-Event-Red-Light-Launch 4 May 2025︎ EVENT: Red Light book and audio launch in Edinburgh Thursday, June 5, 20257–9 pmArgonaut Books&nbsp;15–17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh &gt;&gt;Tickets (free!)&lt;&lt; Edinburgh friends, join us for a wee party to celebrate the launch of&nbsp;The Red Light Starts Blinking by Jonathon Kane. Featuring a unique reading from the author, sent from afar just to land on your eardrums.Copies available for sale from Argonaut. https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-02-08-Announcing-The-Red-Light Sun, 04 May 2025 21:36:29 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2025-02-08-Announcing-The-Red-Light 8 Feb 2025︎ ANNOUNCING:&nbsp;The Red Light Starts Blinking What's that coming over the hill? Is it Diacho’s first book? Hot dog—sure is! The Red Light Starts Blinking is Jonathon Kane’s debut collection of short experimental fiction, equally hard-faced and tender, following characters searching for a way forward or back or around—some direction, any direction.Available 22 April 2025, in paperback and ebook. <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/588dab946c8a5bd55622bbc60184da7828e0826d1a792ff82cd07be115a8891e/red-light-starts-blinking-small.jpg" data-mid="239094412" border="0" data-scale="49" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/588dab946c8a5bd55622bbc60184da7828e0826d1a792ff82cd07be115a8891e/red-light-starts-blinking-small.jpg" /> https://diachroneitybooks.com/2024-11-14-Introducing-Beatriz-Seelaender Sun, 04 May 2025 21:36:09 +0000 Diachroneity Books https://diachroneitybooks.com/2024-11-14-Introducing-Beatriz-Seelaender 14 Nov 2024︎ INTRODUCING: Beatriz SeelaenderWe’ve got a third crewmate on the good ship Diachro: Beatriz Seelaender (Bia to her friends, and we desperately want to be her friend).Maybe she wants to be Diachro’s friend, too: “I knew I wanted to send my manuscript to Diachroneity Books as soon as I read their submission guidelines. Odd commentary and off-centre humour? Genre with a literary bent? That's my jam.”Her forthcoming novella with Diachro was inspired by what Seelaender assumed The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) was about before reading it: it tells the tale of a woman who is a different person every day of the week.Welcome aboard, Beatriz!Catch Bia at:https://x.com/biaseelaender https://www.instagram.com/slanderdaw