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January 11, 2012
Rasputin’s Bastards Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of David Nickle’s Rasputin’s Bastards can now be pre-ordered.
They were the beautiful dreamers. From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds. They slipped into the minds of Russia’s enemies with diabolical ease, and drove their human puppets to murder, and worse. They moved as Gods. And as Gods, they might have remade the world. But like the mad holy man Rasputin, who destroyed Russia through his own powerful influence . . . in the end, the psychic spies for the Motherland were only in it for themselves.
It is the 1990s. The Cold War is long finished. In a remote Labrador fishing village, an old woman known only as Babushka foresees her ending through the harbour ice, in the giant eye of a dying kraken–and vows to have none of it. Beaten insensible and cast adrift in a life raft, ex-KGB agent Alexei Kilodovich is dragged to the deck of a ship full of criminals, and with them he will embark on a journey that will change everything he knows about himself. And from a suite in an unseen hotel in the heart of Manhattan, an old warrior named Kolyokov sets out with an open heart, to gather together the youngest members of his immense, and immensely talented, family. They are more beautiful, and more terrible, than any who came before them. They are Rasputin’s bastards. And they will remake the world.
January 10, 2012
CZP Offers Free eBook with Trade Paperback Purchases
Starting now, you will also receive the ebook for free when you order trade paperbacks via the CZP site. As always, we’re offering a 30% discount off the cover price of all trade paperbacks. Once you complete your order, you’ll have instant access to the ebook in EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats.
January 9, 2012
Another Audible.com CZP Title Now Available
Audible now also offers Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk as an Audiobook narrated by Nick Sullivan!
January 6, 2012
Ian Rogers in the Peterborough Examiner
The Peterborough examiner has run an article on Ian Rogers and his new collection Every House is Haunted—an upcoming release from ChiZine Publications. They say:
Over lunch at Common Grounds in Lindsay, Rogers said it had now sunk in a bit but there is still a feeling that all of this is "surreal."
He excitedly talks about the hardcover, limited edition, signed and numbered book that will come out first with bonus material. ChiZine’s resident graphic artist will soon begin work on the cover while Ian is planning to build a website for promotion of the book.
He said that just before Christmas, the audio rights to the book were sold—even before the book has come out. In addition to the signed, limited edition hardcover, ChiZine will also be publishing trade paperback and e-book versions of the book. There will likely be a book launch in Toronto and an event in Peterborough where Rogers and his wife live.
Kudos to Ian, and keep an eye out for Every House is Haunted when it’s released this fall!
December 26, 2011
From now until December 31st get 40% off ALL trade paperbacks
Plus, we’ll give you a FREE copy of The Seven Djinni by Mike Carey!
Yes, that’s right. ChiZine Publications is having an epic Boxing Day Sale—Save 40% when you purchase a trade paperback through the ChiZine Publications website AND we’ll thrown in a copy of The Seven Djinni by Mike Carey. Check out some of the great new books in store now. Offer ends December 31st, 2011.
December 19, 2011
First Audible.com CZP Title Now Available
We at CZP are excited to report that Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism by David Nickle is the first CZP title to be released by Audible.com as an Audiobook narrated by Oliver Wyman. Check it out!
December 9, 2011
Another Audio CZP Title Available on Iambik
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess is now also available as an audiobook on Iambik, read by Phil Chenevert.
November 25, 2011
"Black Friday" 50% sale!
For one day only, CZP is selling all trade paperback titles for 50% off when you buy through the ChiZine Publications website. Get the newest releases like Michael Rowe’s vampire novel Enter, Night or Carolyn Ives Gilman’s dark fantasy Isles of the Forsaken today!
November 21, 2011
CZP Brings Home Aurora Awards
ChiZine Publications and ChiZine.com brought home three Aurora Awards Sunday at SFContario. In the Best Fan Organizational category, Managing Editor Helen Marshall and Co-Publisher Sandra Kasturi won for their role as co-chairs of the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium. Erik Mohr, CZP’s artistic director, won in the Best Artist category for his covers. And Carolyn Clink, who is one of ChiZine’s poetry editors, won in the Best English Poem/Song category for “The ABCs of the End of the World.”
Our congratulations to all the winners, which can be found on the Prix Aurora Award’s Facebook page.
November 10, 2011
First Audio CZP Title Available on Iambik
Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann is now available as an audiobook on Iambik, read by Alex Foster.
October 28, 2011
Michael Rowe interviewed on Bookends about Enter, Night
October 24, 2011
New York Times Celebrates Small Presses
Dana Jennings of the NYT lists ChiZine Publications when he asserts that "the best work in dark fantasy and horror fiction these days is being published by small presses". We couldn’t agree more!
See the article on the NYT website.
October 15, 2011
CZP Titles Now Available at the Apple Bookstore
Hey all you iPhone and iPad users! You can now buy most CZP titles on the Apple bookstore. Currently available:
- Bearded Women by Teresa Milbrodt
- The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter by Brent Hayward
- The Door to Lost Pages by Claude Lalumière
- Eutopia by David Nickle
- Every Shallow Cut by Tom Piccirilli
- Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy
- In the Mean Time by Paul Tremblay
- People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess
- The Hair Wreath and Other Stories by Halli Villegas
- Sarah Court by Craig Davidson
- Major Karnage by Gord Zajac
- Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk
- Cities of Night by Philip Nutman
- The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon
- A Book of Tongues: Volume One of the Hexslinger Series by Gemma Files
- Katja from the Punk Band by Simon Logan
- Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann
- Chimerascope by Douglas Smith
- Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
- Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière
- Filaria by Brent Hayward
- The Choir Boats by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
- The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv
- The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema
And more on the way!
October 8, 2011
Foreign Rights now Represented by Cooke
The Cooke Agency International has announced that they will represent ChiZine Publications’ foreign rights.
Says Cooke International’s Suzanne Brandreth in a press release "We’re big fans of the books, the authors, the people, so there’s a lot of excitement here about introducing international readers to ChiZine and its authors, who are among North America’s finest speculative fiction writers."
October 2, 2011
The Steel Seraglio Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Mke, Linda, and Louise Carey’s The Steel Seraglio can now be pre-ordered.
The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines—until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the concubines must rely on themselves and each other to escape from the new sultan’s fanatical pursuit. But their goals go beyond mere survival: with the aid of the champions who emerge from among them, they intend to topple the usurper and retake Bessa from the repressive power that now controls it. The assassin, Zuleika, whose hands are weapons. The seer, Rem, whose tears are ink. The wise Gursoon, who was the dead sultan’s canniest advisor. The camel-thief, Anwar Das, who offers his lying tongue to the concubines’ cause. Together, they must forge the women of the harem into an army, a seraglio of steel, and use it to conquer a city. But even if they succeed, their troubles will just be beginning—because their most dangerous enemy is within their own number . . . .
October 2, 2011
Shoebox Trainwreck Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of John Mantooth’s Shoebox Train Wreck can now be pre-ordered.
“The living haunt the dead . . .”
These fifteen genre-bending stories are set against a backdrop of sudden violence and profound regret, populated by characters whose circumstances and longings drive them to the point of no return . . . and sometimes even further. A young girl takes a journey to see what is really hidden within the belly of an ancient water tower. A high school senior learns about defiance on a school bus and witnesses a tragedy that he won’t soon forget. Six survivors in an underground bunker discuss the possibility of Armageddon being an elaborate hoax. A man stumbles from bed to drive a bus down lonely roads, collecting passengers who’ve lost their way in the night-shrouded heartland of America. And in the title story, a former train conductor must confront the ghosts of his past while learning that it’s not the dead who haunt the living, but the other way around.
Traversing the back roads of the south and beyond, these stories probe the boundaries of imagination, taking the reader to the fringes of a society where the world looks different, and once you visit, you won’t ever be the same.
September 26, 2011
Gemma Files’ A Book of Tongues Nominated for a Spectrum Award
Gemma files’ weird-west horror novel A Book of Tongues has been nominated for a Spectrum Award in the 2011 Best Novel category.
More details can be found at the Spectrum Award web site.
August 19, 2011
Napier’s Bones Almost Crack Locus Top 5
In Locus’ latest bestsellers list, we learned Derryl Murphy’s Napier’s Bones almost cracked their top five for trade paperbacks. Placing ahead of him were heavyweights George R. R. Martin, Paolo Bacigalupi, Steven Erikson, Iain M. Banks and Suzanne Collins. Congrats to Derryl!
July 28, 2011
Two Nominations for the 2011 World Fantasy Award!
Toronto based ChiZine Publications has received two nominations for the 2011 World Fantasy awards: Tim Lebbon in the Novella category for his acclaimed work, The Thief of Broken Toys; and ChiZine Publications in the Special Award, Professional category.
“Tim’s work more than deserves the accolades,” says CZP Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “And the praise for ChiZine Publications always comes as a pleasant surprise. It would be an understatement to say we wouldn’t be where we are with it, three years later, without the accumulated effort of many, many people. Every single volunteer, slush reader, website coder, and author alike—without them, ChiZine Publications would be nothing. This is a collective achievement, for sure.”
Chizine Publications also extends congratulations to one of our authors, Lavie Tidhar, who recieved a nomination in the Special Award, Non-Professional category for The World SF Blog
For more information on the World Fantasy Awards and a full list of nominees, please visit www.locusmag.com for more details.
July 13, 2011
Picking Up the Ghost featured by Diamond Book Distributors
Tone Milazzo’s debut novel is currently being featured by Diamond. They say:
A horror novel geared towards young adults, Picking up the Ghost isn’t just a good read, it’s a good read written to make you think. A contemplation of the darker realities in life, Picking up the Ghost is filled to the brim with themes such as racial politics, inner city life, urban decay, identity, and alienation. In the back of the novel, Milazzo has even provided discussion questions to help readers navigate through the book. This isn’t a novel you can just sit down with. It is a prose book determined to get you involved and wanting to know more.
June 30, 2011
Enter, Night Book Launch Nov. 10
In partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers, we’ll be launching Enter, Night by Michael Rowe on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7:30. The event will take place at the Grant Park McNally Robinson in Winnipeg, MB.
June 29, 2011
All CZP Titles Available for the Nook
All of CZP’s titles can now be purchased from the Barnes & Noble site for their Nook e-reader.
June 28, 2011
CZP Authors Lebbon and Smith Nominated for BFSA & Sunburst
For their work with ChiZine Publications, authors Douglas Smith and Tim Lebbon have been nominated for two major SF/F awards; Smith for the 10th Annual Sunburst Award in the Adult Category for his star-reviewed short story collection Chimerascope; and Lebbon for the 2011 British Fantasy Society Award for his acclaimed novella The Thief of Broken Toys.
“It’s been a really great year for our authors in terms of nominations, and they more than deserve it,” says CZP Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “And it’s always great to see the news spread out worldwide. The global genre community has been so good to us, and without their support for both us, and the authors, we’d be back at square one.”
June 8, 2011
CZP Authors at the World’s Biggest Book Store
Gemma Files (A Book of Tongues, A Rope of Thorns), Brent Hayward (Filaria, The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter), and David Nickle (Monstrous Affections, Eutopia) featured at the WBB. More details and video on the Sci-Fi Fan Letter.
June 1, 2011
Enter, Night Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Michael Rowe’s Enter, Night can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.
Welcome to Parr’s Landing, Population 1,528 . . . and shrinking.
The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr’s Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father’s brutal murder. All will find some version of what they seek—and more.
Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr’s Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release—an invitation that has finally been answered. One man is following that voice, cutting a swath of violence across the country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient horror . . . plunging the town and all its people into an endless night.
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Enter, Night
"[S]o rich and assured it's hard to believe it's Michael Rowe's first novel . . . . Michael Rowe is now on my must-read list."
— Christopher Rice
Bearded Women
The characters are worth knowing, and the insight they provide into unusual lives is worth pondering.
— Tzer Island
The Pattern Scars
"A fine, intensely sensual novel full of keenly observed perceptions and shifting emotions."
- The Edmonton Journal
Briarpatch
"A genuine talent . . . . Pratt is a writer to watch."
- Publishers Weekly
Picking up the Ghost
"[T]his debut entertains with an original approach and mix of breezy humor and dark fantasy."
- Publishers Weekly
Isles of the Forsaken
"Vivid world-building, fascinating characters, and a rich, complex story—I love this book!"
- Kij Johnson, author of The Fox Woman
A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two of the Hexslinger Series
"Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror and baroque gore establish Files's Hexslinger series as a top-notch horror-fantasy saga."
- Publishers Weekly
The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter
". . . .combines elegant writing with moral ambiguity and an impressive array of grotesque characters."
- Locus
Eutopia
"[E]stablishes [Nickle] as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King"
- Alex Good, The Globe and Mail
The Door to Lost Pages
"Insanely imaginative. . . Lalumière's talents are on full display in this cerebral, erotic, and hypnotically compelling tale of bibliophilic wonder."
- Publishers Weekly
Napier's Bones
"[A] clever lark full of free-wheeling adventure and odd intellectual borrowings"
- Alex Good, The New York Review of Science Fiction
Every Shallow Cut
"Piccirilli delivers his greatest book yet"
- Brian Keene, author of The Rising
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners
"[A] stunning achievement . . . an unforgettable and profoundly unsettling experience."
- Paul Tremblay, author of In the Mean Time
In The Mean Time
"Powerful, emotional and unforgettable . . . Highly recommended."
- Ann Vandermeer, Hugo Award-winning editor of Weird Tales
The Hair Wreath and Other Stories
"Slippery, evocative, tasty. Elegantly and eloquently unsettling."
- Ursula Pflug, author of After the Fires and Green Music
Sarah Court
"A writer of immense power and surprising, accurate insights."
- Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter
Nexus: Ascension
"(P)age-turning thrills aplenty . . . The dystopian human dynamics (are) the stuff of an epic nihilistic hangover."
- Publishers Weekly
Major Karnage
"A recommended read for space fiction fans."
- Suite101.com
Cities of Night
"(H)as brought a fresh eye and deep enthusiasm to the business of horror."
- Clive Barker, author of The Great and Secret Show and Mister B. Gone
The Thief of Broken Toys
"A writer at the height of his powers."
- Ramsey Campbell, author of Thieving Fear and The Grin of the Dark
Katja from the Punk Band
"(R)eminds me of Harlan Ellison at his most daring and dangerous-raw, fearless, unpredictable, disturbing, and much needed."
- Jack O'Connell, author of Word Made Flesh and The Resurrectionist
A Book of Tongues
"(T)his promising debut fully delivers both sizzling passions and dark chills."
- Publishers Weekly
Chimerascope
"(T)he 16 stories in this collection showcase the inventive mind and immense storytelling talent of one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."
- Library Journal
Chasing the Dragon
"Old school horror with plenty of tension, action, and hot, wet viscera for you to hook your claws into. Get ready for a bloody ride into hell."
- Tom Piccirilli, author of Shadow Season
The World More Full of Weeping
"(H)aunting . . . seamlessly blends literary fiction with mythic fantasy"
- Publishers Weekly
Objects of Worship
"These stories are terrifically creepy. And not unlike Edgar Allan Poe or Potted Meat Product, they gave me the willies."
- Christopher Moore
Monstrous Affections
"David Nickle writes 'em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don't miss this one."
- Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother
The Choir Boats
"I could not put it down until I finished it."
- Liviu Suciu, Fantasy Book Critic
The Tel Aviv Dossier
"The most enjoyably bizarre novel I've read."
- Gareth D. Jones, SF Crowsnest
Horror Story and Other Horror Stories
"Boyczuk has a real knack for creepy, Twilight Zone-style atmospherics."
- Alex Good, Quill & Quire
Filaria
"Crackling with invention, energy, and suspense."
- Alex Good, Quill & Quire
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