#neokosmos

[xaveria]

Neokosmos

NEOKOSMOS is a trilogy of illustrated scifi novels about alien experiments on humans. Created by Shelby Cragg, Danny Cragg, and Brian Russel

hi we are always open to new beta readers !

[shelbycragg]

ive been dealing with a spine injury for the past 3 months that has made life very difficult. but here’s some art i’ve managed to make

[neo-kosmos]

Remember the NEOKOSMOS webcomic from 2015? Well, 8 years and over 400,000 words later it's a series of novels. If you wanted to know how the webcomic would have ended, I've got great news. The entire first book has been written and re-written, and is ready for YOU to read! And if you're curious about what happens after that, we're on the last 3 chapters of Book 2, too.

Join the discord today and be part of our community of readers! Liveblog the books, give feedback and critique, hang out in chat or just lurk! We're happy to have you!

Join the NEOKOSMOS Discord Server!

NEOKOSMOS is a series of in-progress illustrated scifi novels being self-published online! Come be a beta reader! | 155 members

We've also got a shiny new website!

[kestrel-ten]

redraw of an illo from @neo-kosmos !!! if u like sad aliens and brain parasites, go check out the discord and the novels being written in real time :3 i am an editor on it and also the story and community is so great!!!

[mostlyibis]

forgotten to show my latest 'im sick so its time to draw' neokosmos fanart :) these silly humans invade my thoughts daily with their angst and also their love

[okdannycragg]

working on Neokosmos for 8 years now, the project has become a constant anchor in my life. it's mind boggling we're almost done writing the first draft of the second book. We started writing it in 2020, three years ago in March.

we'll be starting on the third book as soon as we wrap on two. The fact that THIS YEAR, within weeks, we will be working on the third and final book in the trilogy. this is fucking crazy.

if youre curious, we're going to self publish online. the piecemeal way we've been sharing neokosmos as we write it isn't particularly appealing to traditional publishers. nor is the fact that we're going to draft out the whole trilogy before publishing the first book as a way to make sure the whole series is consistent narratively and in quality. not to mention our books will be full of literally hundreds of color illustrations. Ya can't put that into print without the physical copy costing 100 dollars or cutting out the art all together.

our decision to not seek traditional publishing has really freed us from the deadlines, standards, and conventions associated with it. Too many times we have seen extremely promising books be edited to pieces to fit within a certain word count, or revised to the point of being unrecognizable from the authors vision in the name of being marketable to a wider audience.

Shelby and Brian (who do almost the entirety of the prose writing) have been so iron-willed about not making compromises like that. I really respect them for it. We are writing our queer polyamorous neurodivergent hearts out and we will not bend to the agenda of a publisher.

that said of course, we don't look down on traditional publishing or think that self publishing is superior. it's just not right for Neokosmos and never has been. (We're also not against critique, feedback, or notes from beta readers! We value it tremendously.)

i hope when we're done writing, editing, illustrating, and polishing Neokosmos that the people we were writing it for will find it.

Anyway, if you're interested in anything I said, you should join the Neokosmos Discord! You can read our novels in progress for free!

[incorrect-neokosmos-quotes]

submissions are open. you know how incorrect quotes blogs work, you think of some quote from some thing and just replace the names with da blorbos. this is the neokosmos version of that

[in-case-of-rain]

Dancing Aliens  💃 💃

Thank you so much for the commission @impishlydistant !