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title: "Help Onca Publish Its First Work"
description: "Onca is a brave new publisher of speculative fiction with a passion for the printed book. Based in BC, Onca Publishing was founded by Shed Simas, a former Master of Publishing student of mine who has..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2014/11/25/help-onca-publish-its-first-work/
date: 2014-11-25
modified: 2014-11-25
author: "Monique"
categories: ["News: Arts & Entertainment"]
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lang: en
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# Help Onca Publish Its First Work

[!(https://somisguided.com/wp-content/uploads/onca-publishing.png)](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/onca-classics-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde)

Onca is a brave new publisher of speculative fiction with a passion for the printed book. Based in BC, Onca Publishing was founded by Shed Simas, a former Master of Publishing student of mine who has worked for several BC presses, doing editing, production, design and marketing. Now he’s launched his own publishing house and is doing a (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/onca-classics-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde) to get his first title on the printing press.

As a lover of speculative fiction–science fiction, fantasy, dystopian–and literary fiction, the first book, and focus of the campaign, is a limited edition of *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* with original art from comic artist/illustrator Asher J. Klassen, and painter Marissa Brown.

!(https://somisguided.com/wp-content/uploads/jekyll-hyde-cover.jpg)

**Help Shed raise $11,000 to print the project: **

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/onca-classics-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde

More at (http://oncapublishing.com/)