Get a head start on purchasing your 2025 to-be-read pile. Here's your chance to pre-order our current releases along with some fantastic goodies and add-ons, including our back catalog.
Gold Dust Publishing is a new indie publishing company for LGBTQIA+ authors & allied stories. Its mission is to provide an avenue and safe place for LGBTQIA+ authors to share their artistic talents through fiction or non-fiction writings with the world. Our non-fiction side works to help preserve our LGBTQIA+ history in a world where books are constantly being banned. Our fiction side of the company provides entertaining tales for all ages featuring LGBTQIA+ characters or written by LGBTQIA+ authors.
Since opening in January of 2023, Gold Dust has brought you the audiobook for The House on Dead Man’s Curve & The Vampire Crusades series by owner and paranormal enthusiast Jason Roach, Until Death: An Eric Kent Investigation by Rey Nichols, The Purple Menace and the Tobacco Prince by Wade Beauchamp, The Sword’s Secret – Ancient Wonders – Book 1, and a charity book titled Reflections featuring over forty different authors from around the world writing letters to their past selves.
Gold Dust Publishing is now entering its third year, with more than double the number of books we put out in 2024 being released in 2025. We have some fantastic titles coming your way, including a cozy mystery thriller, an Appalachian cosmic horror, a paranormal investigative mystery, a new charity book for The Trevor Project, a sapphic fantasy adventure, a psychological horror, some scary ghost stories, and book 1 of a new epic fantasy quest.
Mr. Tingles' Mysteries: The Curious Case of the Bodiless Head from author Sean Dale Roach
In this campy, cozy, and, at times, thriller mystery, a small-town detective and his partners find a decapitated head in an unexpected place. The discovery sparks an investigation requiring the help of none other than the well-seasoned, flamboyant professional – Mr. Tingles. As the detectives follow the clues, they’re confronted with similarities to a thirty-five-year-old unsolved murder case and one barrier after another.
The team remains resilient – chasing suspects and dodging bullets – as the leads fall into place, bringing them closer to carrying out justice. Will Mr. Tingles’ experience and wit, partnered with the detective's strong sense of logic and determination, guide the team to an ultimate victory?
Mr. Tingles' Mysteries is shooting for an end-of-March release.
Children of Solitude from author Michael G. Williams
This Appalachian cosmic horror novel tells the story of a gay man who must return to his ancestral home in the mountains of Western North Carolina after his mother’s death to clean it out and sell it off. Navigating feelings of grief and anger, he finds her house is haunted and her nosy neighbors always watching him—and one of those neighbors happens to be his favorite adult performer. While he develops a new romance and oversees his mother’s funeral, tension builds as the characters’ circumstances go from ominously creepy to terrifying.
This LGBTQ Southern horror story is set in a place exactly like the author’s mountain hometown in the Southeastern United States with shades of Lovecraft. Packed with regional folklore, original bluegrass compositions, and occult horror, it weaves an unforgettable ghost story featuring seduction, cults, murder, sacrifice, and paranormal phenomena.
Children of Solitude is shooting for a mid-April release date.
Trial by Fire: An Eric Kent Investigation – Case 2 from Rey Nichols
Possession.
Horror.
Key Lime Pie.
Only a week back from a recent investigation, paranormal investigator Eric Kent is already set to work. A mysterious haunting at a museum in Gerson, North Carolina, has Eric and his partner and occult specialist Tanner Cole back out in the field. A quick mission to handle a simple haunting, then rest. Problem is, the museum sits on the grounds where a factory fire happened nearly a century earlier. The museum’s curator starts acting strange. Even stranger is the curator’s daughter, who has ghostly secrets all her own.
Will Eric and Tanner be able to endure their latest trial and solve the mystery of the haunting in time? Or will their careers go up in flames like everything else?
Trial By Fire: An Eric Kent Investigation – Case 2 is shooting for a mid-May release
How Not to Be a Merchant’s Daughter from author Zack Brooks
In this sapphic fantasy introductive story of Aubviel - a late-teen of mixed elvish blood - resides within the Arc District of Amaford. Join her as she fights to withstand the tyrannical suppression of her overly possessive once noble merchant father, making it difficult to be her true self. Despite her inner strength and the loving support from the small number of people she can consider friends, the threat of being married off for her father’s benefit puts her at risk of being indefinitely trapped.
As if that wasn’t enough, the sudden discovery of a mysterious clairvoyant power leaves her with more questions than answers. Will this magical discovery help or hinder her path of liberation from her father's plot? Will she find a way to be with her one true love?
How Not to Be a Merchant’s Daughter is shooting for a mid-June release.
In this mind-shattering, crazily twisted thriller, George is a shy, loyal, but anxious teen desperately trying to find himself. Meagan is a reserved intellect, gravely trying to tune into her feelings. Despite the depression, trauma, and everyday life issues, both friends can’t wait to start university life, but more importantly, they can’t wait to discover their true selves. However, something more sinister lurks behind the glass. Relationships are strained, but soon George, Meagan, and their friends discover something truly ominous about their small rural town – dark secrets and occult activity run rich in the town's history. Intense decision-making creates a dark, suspenseful, and crazily twisted psychological puzzle they need to figure out before a bleak and wicked fate befalls the whole town. Defining their sexualities and their sense of self-worth will help aid them on this mysterious, horrifying journey.
The Lies I Tell My Friends: The Best of Tally Johnson from Tally Johnson
This collection brings all the fears of sitting around a campfire and telling ghost stories to life. Tally is an award-winning storyteller who is well-known in the local convention networks. His stories have been heard up and down the East Coast and now we are bringing them to you on paper so that you can enjoy them anytime you’d like or pass them along to your friends or children.
The Lies I Tell My Friends is shooting for a late September release.
The Snook Saga’s: Mysteries to Hold – Book 1 from Molly Bleaser
What if an unlikely friendship could actually be something beyond your wildest dreams?
It’s How to Train Your Dragon meets Eragon in this fantasy adventure for teens and young adults!
A new journey unfolds in this realm of action and adventure. A place where dragons used to fly, and elves safeguard magic’s biggest secrets. Where evil looms off in the distance, and it’s up to one man and his dog to see their adventure through to the end. Vic and Snook have a secret: they’re mentally connected due to an ancient spell. This secret will lead them to their newfound family as the truth about the land of Lilligray’s history unfolds. Along the way, alliances will be forged as the truth of more secrets to their past are revealed – including the true nature of man’s best friend.
The Snook Sagas: Mysteries to Hold: Book 1 is shooting for a fall 2025 release.
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International Shipping:
Yep. It's expensive. The cost starts around $30 for one book, shipping to Canada, and $50 international. The price will go up for extra books by weight. For example, another 2 books will add around $5-10 in shipping. This is the cheapest I've been able to find it for, especially if you are getting multiple books. I'd recommend getting the eBooks, and then you can get as many as you want!
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