Barkless Dog Press is a publishing collective. What does that even mean? Well, we’re figuring it out along the way, too.

These days, traditional publishing feels like a country club membership, and self-publishing is akin to jumping into a shark tank while wearing a bikini made out of prime rib…and everyone seems to be forgetting the reason we write books:

The readers.

We understand that the most precious gift readers give us isn’t the $.0046 per ebook page read. It’s their time—the one thing they can never get back.

Lyra is the queen of Norse mythology retellings, Cait dabbles in Greek mythology and will eventually publish another book, and Malone? She just crosses all the genres because she was told not to . . . and, honestly, what the world needs (deserves?) is a vampire-space-opera-adventure-romance-fantasy-science fiction series.

We've got all the usual socials, so follow along . . . or not, because who's got time?

You'll love us (and our books) if:

• You have unresolved rage at your parents.

• You love cute puppies.

• You love cute vampires.

• You love cute Loki.

• You love (at your own risk) Zeus, Hades, and the other Greek gods.

• Your religion is "Don't be a dick."

• You believe that vampires belong in space.

• You've ever failed at making cupcakes from a Pinterest recipe.

• You were chucked out of art school.

• You were told you'd never be a good writer.

• You’ve been laughed at for wasting time writing fan fiction.

• You have a soft spot for blood-sucking interstellar chumps.