Mark your calendars.
PORTLAND, July 9th — Supersticery Press is pleased to announce the impending publication of —or Betty Martin, volume 4 of City of Roses, the acclaimed urban fantasy webserial by Kip Manley.
—or Betty Martin will collect chapters 34 – 44, completing the story begun in volume 3, In the Reign of Good Queen Dick, published in 2020. —or Betty Martin will be available as an ebook for all software and devices, as well as a handsomely designed paperback, on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, from all major online retailers, as well as stores within and around Portland, and directly from the publisher.
Bookslut called the overall epic an “entire, swirling, beautiful mess.” The Web Fiction Guide said it’s “utterly captivating” and “brilliant.” The Guardian said “City of Roses is an absorbing read that many fantasy fans will enjoy immensely,” and the Oregonian called it “just another Portland story.”
Review copies of —or Betty Martin will be made available toward the end of August, as production work on the volume is completed. An omnibus ebook containing the 22 chapters of season two, Spring; Summer, will also be made available. After a brief hiatus, the serial will resume; the next two volumes, also consisting of 11 chapters each, will be titled The Greene Chapel, and Eleleu Ie.
Please address any questions to the author and publisher, Kip Manley, at kipmanley@yahoo.com. (Kip Manley was, some time ago, a senior editor and staff writer for Portland’s late, lamented Anodyne magazine. He currently lives in Portland with the celebrated cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee and the generally astounding Taran Jack. Mostly he just wanders about the city looking for cool places to stage sword fights.)
