We are pleased to announce we’ll be publishing Jennifer Pullen’s debut novel ONCE UPON A BURNING WORLD in 2027. We first worked with Jennifer on our Behind the Mask anthology and are so excited to bring this wonderful book to the world.
Once Upon a Burning World follows Alice and her daughter Emily, a family bound by a deadly bargain with the Faerie Queen: long life and magic in exchange for a daughter each generation. Now, Alice fights to save Emily, while Emily—trapped in an endless childhood—yearns for freedom. As wildfires and melting glaciers threaten the world, the Queen sends Jack Frost to sway Emily into willingly sacrificing herself. Bound magically, Jack and Emily grow closer, complicating the Queen’s plans. When Emily escapes to Seattle and comes into her power, she must choose: save her family and the world, or forge her own fate—and decide what to do about the frost-hearted boy she can’t forget.
Jennifer Pullen is a writer, teacher, and editor. She holds a BA from Whitworth University, and MFA from Eastern Washington University, and a PhD from Ohio University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals and anthologies including Strange Machines (Apex Publishing), Behind the Mask (Meerkat Press), Pinch, F(r)iction, Cleaver, Slippery Elm, Corvid Queen, and Phantom Drift Limited. Her chapbook, A Bead of Amber on Her Tongue won the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award. Her book, Fantasy Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic) was the first all in one history of fantasy, craft guide, and anthology. She recently edited Beastly: An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales (upcoming from Lanternfish Press in 2026). She grew up running wild in the forests of Washington State but has since been sufficiently domesticated to become an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio Northern University. Once Upon a Burning World is her debut novel.
