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The Book Bazaar 2026 Spotlight for Blue Bird, Black Bird

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The Book Bazaar 2026 is an exciting collaborative crowdfunding event on Backerkit of 39 indie authors who have come together to raise funds for their campaigns. In celebration, and to help promote these authors, we’ll be featuring spotlights through the fundraising period for you to check and out and support! Within The Book Bazaar, you’ll find a variety of genres, including fantasy, sci-fi, horror, queer, and romance, as well as a variety of formats such as novels, novellas, series, anthologies, and audiobooks. There’s something for everyone!

The fundraising period runs from October 29 – November 19. Back 3 or more projects to earn unique bookmarks, and 10 or more projects to receive an exclusive anthology. Want a taste of these projects? Check out the free sampler bundle on Itch.io!

Please welcome Blue Bird, Black Bird by Seven Dane Asmund in the spotlight!

Blue Bird, Black Bird is a gay superhero romance story. Darren Pace is the super fast vigilante, Blue Bird. But as his love life finally begins to bother him with its absence, a harsh vigilante called the Bloody Raven becomes a new focus of interest.

Blue Bird, Black Bird is a sci-fi modern superhero story. Featuring gorgeous cover work and 5×7″ art prints of the main characters, you’ll be diving into explicit sex, love, relationships, and… superhero politics?!

Darren Pace is Denver’s own vigilante, Blue Bird. For 8 years, he’s run the city and kept things safe. But when friend and ally Black Raven starts the dominos falling in Chicago, things get tougher across the nation for vigilantes than they already were. And to be clear, what they do is already super illegal.

But under the helmets, there are just two men.

Darren and Ruth. Darren has kept himself away from a private, romantic life with anyone, because his super-physiology has created a number of quirks in his body that he could never explain away to a potential lover without revealing his secret identity as Blue Bird.

Meanwhile, Ruth is entangled in deeper things than vigilantism, and though he’s tried, he can never keep a relationship going before his own fears about his night-life colliding with his day-life cause him to end them, one after another.

Now, one night where friendship blurs to something else will change the future for the both of them.

The author is raising funds to bring this project to life with physical copies, and you can get your hands on some awesome backer rewards, including comic-style prints.

Check out Blue Bird, Black Bird on Backerkit

About the Author

Seven Dane Asmund is The Publishing Goblin, the designer and writer behind all things here and 30+ other successful projects besides. Seven has also designed the Goblin’s Oracle Dice, The Hot Housewives Tarot, The Misery Tarot, as well as put together the Alleyman’s Tarot and Alleyway Oracles, and so much more. As a queer designer, author, and business owner, 7 really wants to center the importance of being openly queer at a time when it’s more important than ever.