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Books by Austen Tucker

New releases, forthcoming books, and the backlist. This is the permanent shelf: one place to see what is out, what is next, and what is still being built.

Free Play Publishing is Austen Tucker's independent publishing imprint. Individual book pages keep the same URL from first preview through publication.

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The current Free Play Publishing shelf.

2026 · available now

This is what I do for fun

A collection of short fiction: androids, kitsune, hypersleep pods, and the smallest casino in Paris.

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The next title on the publishing runway.

Coming 2026

Estelle's Children

A Chicago witch’s parlor opens onto a growing sisterhood, told through oral histories, letters, journals, photographs, and the people carrying a family history forward.

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2027

The Ink and Paint Trilogy and It Takes a Zoo.

Coming 2027

Bait and Switch

Ink and Paint Trilogy · Book 1

Fenton’s father is building a movement to ban toons from the real world just as Fenton starts becoming one.

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Coming 2027

The Painted Cat

Ink and Paint Trilogy · Book 2

Janet keeps two lives: small-town teacher Miss Perch and Bunny Cat, the cartoon self she paints into being. The wall between them is starting to crack.

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Coming 2027