Shed Simas Founds Onça Publishing

SFU Master of Publishing candidate Shed Simas is running a crowdfunding campaign to launch a Literary Speculative Fiction publishing house. 

Onça Publishing, BC’s newest literary speculative fiction publisher, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the release of its first title, a special limited edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The campaign will help establish the company in the market, secure its financial future—and create one beautiful book. The Indiegogo campaign can be found at http://igg.me/at/onca-classics and will run until December 3.

Onça Publishing’s edition of Stevenson’s classic gothic novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, will be a collector’s item printed to the highest quality standards, and the publisher aims to raise $11,000 for the book’s release. Successfully meeting the campaign goal will mean Onça can cover the cost of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s production and move into publishing new fiction starting in Fall 2015. Campaign benefits include copies of the book itself, exclusive artwork and even a permanent discount on the Onça Classics series, which will feature other classic books like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that bridge the literary/speculative genre divide.

Onça Publishing was recently founded by Shed Simas, a graduate candidate in Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing program who has worked for a multitude of BC publishers, including Ronsdale Press, Tradewind Books, Douglas & McIntyre and Harbour Publishing. Simas is branching out and starting his own company in order to expand the market presence of literary science fiction and fantasy in BC while promoting high quality printed books.

For more information, please visit the Onça Publishing website: http://oncapublishing.com

To support the Indiegogo campaign visit http://igg.me/at/onca-classics before December 3.