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May 10, 2012
Napier‘s Bones now available on Audible
Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy is now available on Audible.com, narrated by Peter Ganim.
Never tried Audible? You can get this or another of our titles free with a trial membership.
May 6, 2012
ChiZine Reading Series May 9
We'd like to remind our readers that the ChiZine Reading Series event organized for last month has been rescheduled for this Wednesday, May 9. Come hear James Alan Gardner, Rio Youers, Ursula Pflug and Kari Maaren. More details are available on the Chi Reading Series website.
May 6, 2012
A Meme of Letters
In anticipation of the release of A Tree of Bones May 15, Author Gemma Files has completed filling her blog, "Music at Midnidght" with two letters a day, giving an in-depth look at the Hexslinger Series.
Receive an education on all things Hexslinger from Arcanistry to Zoroastrianism.
May 3, 2012
What is City 512?
Both the Soviet Union and the United States experimented with remote viewing, psychic communication and mind control as a means of gathering intelligence through the 20th century.
So far as anyone knows, they failed utterly.
Now, all that is left of their efforts is ruins, in places so remote, so inconsequential, that they do not appear on maps—they do not rate names.
One such place is the town known only as City 512. Officially, nothing ever happened there.
Unofficially . . .
But now, you can find out more . . . .
May 1, 2012
Take the Zombie Acceptance Test!
April 26, 2012
The Indigo Pheasant Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Daniel Rabuzzi’s The Indigo Pheasant: Longing for Yount Volume 2 can now be pre-ordered.
London 1817. Maggie Collins, born into slavery in Maryland, whose mathematical genius and strength of mind can match those of a goddess, must build the world’s most powerful and sophisticated machine—to free the lost land of Yount from the fallen angel Strix Tender Wurm. Sally, of the merchant house McDoon, who displayed her own powers in challenging the Wurm and finding Yount in The Choir Boats, must choose either to help Maggie or to hinder her. Together—or not—Maggie and Sally drive to conclusion the story started in The Choir Boats—a story of blood—soaked song, family secrets, sins new and old in search of expiation, forbidden love, high policy and acts of state, financial ruin, betrayals intimate and grand, sorcery from the origins of time, and battle in the streets of London and on the arcane seas of Yount.
April 26, 2012
Janus Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of John Park’s Janus can now be pre-ordered.
In the near future, Jon Grebbel arrives on the colony world of Janus, and finds himself mysteriously without memory of his life on Earth. It seems that the long journey has caused severe memory loss in many of Janus’s colonists. While Grebbel wants to start his new life, he also wants his memory back, and starts treatments to restore his past. But they only leave him angry and disturbed and he begins to doubt the glimpses of the past the treatments reveal. Grebbel meets Elinda, an earlier arrival, whose lover, Barbara, vanished and then was found lying in the woods, apparently brain-damaged. Elinda has also lost her memories of Earth, but unlike him she has abandoned the effort to recover them. Now their meeting brings each of them a glimpse of an experience they shared back on Earth. Investigating Barbara’s fate and their own, the two find their love and their search for justice turning toward bitter self-discovery and revenge, even as they begin to uncover the darkness at the heart of their world.
April 12, 2012
Three new CZP titles on Audible
We are pleased to announce that Audible has released four more CZP Titles: Enter, Night by Michael Rowe, The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet, and Sarah Court by Craig Davidson, and Major Karnage by Gord Zajac. Never tried Audible? You can get one of these titles free with a trial membership.
April 5, 2012
Trailer Released for Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies!
March 20, 2012
Iambik adds Hexslinger Titles
Iambik Audio has extended their CZP lineup to include Gemma Files’ A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns. A recording of the third and final volume of the series, A Tree of Bones is also planned.
March 12, 2012
Trailer Released for Westlake Soul!
March 2, 2012
Trailer Released for The Steel Seraglio!
March 1, 2012
CZP/Rannu Fund Opens up to Submissions Today!
The Annual CZP/Rannu Fund competition for poetry and fiction begins today. Judges will be Mike Carey, Larry Ivkovich, Helen Marshall, and Heather Spears. This year’s tie-braking judge is Ursula K. LeGuin. More details at the Fund’s website.
March 1, 2012
Bullettime Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Nick Mamatas’ Bullettime can now be pre-ordered.
David Holbrook is a scrawny kid, the victim of bullies, and the neglected son of insane parents.
David Holbrook is the Kallis Episkipos, a vicious murderer turned imprisoned leader of a death cult dedicated to Eris, the Hellenic goddess of dischord.
David Holbrook never killed anyone, and lives a lonely and luckless existence with his aging mother in a tumbledown New Jersey town.
David Holbook is trapped beyond all space and time, compelled to live and relive all his potential existences, guided only by the dark wisdom found in a bottle of cough syrup.
From the author of the instant cult classic Move Under Ground comes a fantasy of blood, lust, destiny, school shootings, and Greek diners.
March 1, 2012
Swallowing A Donkey’s Eye Available for Pre-Order
Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Paul Tremblay’s Swallowing a Donkey’s eye can now be pre-ordered.
Join Farm today! It’s only six years of your life . . . .
Farm is the mega-conglomerate food supplier for City, populated with rabidly bureaucratic superiors, antagonistic and sexually deviant tour guides dressed in chicken and duck suits, and farm animals illegally engineered for silence. City is sprawling, technocratic, and rests hundreds of feet above the coastline on the creaking shoulders of a giant wooden pier. When the narrator’s single mother, whom he left behind in City, falls out of contact, he fears the worst: his mother is homeless and subsequently to be deported under City to the Pier. On his desperate search to find his mother, he encounters ecoterrorists wearing plush animal suits, an election hangs in the balance as the City’s all-powerful Mayor is infatuated with magic refrigerators and outlaw campaigns, and he’s reunited with a wise-cracking, over-sexed priest who may or may not have ESP, but who is most certainly his deadbeat dad.
Whether rebelling against the regimented and ridiculous nature of Farm life, exploring the all-too-familiar and consumer-obsessed world of City, experiencing the all-too-real suffering of the homeless in Pier, or confronting the secrets of his own childhood, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye’s narrator is a hilarious, neurotic, and rage-filled Quixote searching for his mother, his own dignity, and the meaning of humanity.
February 14, 2012
Share the Love (of Books) this Valentine’s Day
On February 14th ChiZine Publications will give you the chance to send out personalized eCards with a FREE eBook to your friends. Share the love of books this Valentine’s Day and let someone know you care.
More details over here.
February 13, 2012
CZP Now Offers Subscriptions!
Want our books? Want them ALL? We’re now offering all 2012 titles by subscription at a 40% discount—That means not only great savings, but early access to TPB and eBook releases and our eBook bundling bargain!
The subscriptions come in three options: signed, limited edition hardcovers, trade paperbacks and ebooks.
More details over here and in our online store.
February 8, 2012
CZP signs distribution deal with HarperCollinsCanada
We are pleased and excited to announce an agreement with HarperCollinsCanada for book distribution in Canada and digital distribution worldwide. This complements our existing relationship with Diamond, who will continue to distribute our print editions in the U.S. and Internationally.
TORONTO—HarperCollinsCanada announced today it has signed ChiZine Publications as a sales and distribution client. HarperCollinsCanada will carry out all trade sales and distribution in Canada, as well as handle global digital distribution for the company.
“We are delighted to have such a quality publisher working with us,” said Leo MacDonald, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at HarperCollinsCanada. ChiZine’s reputation in the Fantasy and SF genre is second to none.”
"We’re incredibly excited to be entering into this distribution deal with HarperCollinsCanada,” said Sandra Kasturi, co-publisher with Brett Savory at ChiZine. “Our titles fill a particular niche on their list, and HarperCollinsCanada’s size and reach gives us increased exposure in the Canadian market, so it’s win-win for everyone. We can’t wait to get to work with them."
February 8, 2012
Five More CZP Titles to Become Audiobooks on Iambik
Iambik has announced new Audiobooks will be released for:
- Monstrous Affections by David Nickle
- The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema
- Bearded Women by Theresa Milbrodt
- Hair Wreath by Halli Villegas
- Cities of Night by Philip Nutman
February 8, 2012
Rue Morgue Magazine Lists CZP as "Best Horror Imprint" of 2011
As announced in their latest issue (#119). We are thrilled with the honour.
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.
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Upcoming Events
CZP/Rannu Fund for Writers for Speculative Literature Submission Period
March 1, 2012 - May 31, 2012
See the Entry Rules page for more information.
Book Launch: A TREE of BONES by Gemma Files - Now with western/cowgoth music!
Saturday, June 2nd
3:00 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Bakka Phoenix
84 Harbord Street
Toronto, ON
Book Launch: RASPUTIN'S BASTARDS by David Nickle
Thursday, June 21
7 p.m.
Rasputin Vodka Lounge
780 Queen St E
Toronto, ON
See the event page for more information.
The Chiaroscuro Reading Series Presents: Kelley Armstrong, Scott Fotheringham & David Nickle
Wednesday, June 27th
8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Augusta House
152A Augusta Avenue
2nd Floor
Toronto, ON
The ChiSeries Website for more information.
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July 12-15, 2012
Readercon
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Burlington, Massachusetts
See Marriott Burlington's web site for more information.
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Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies
"...prepare yourself for an epically odd, mind-bending experience."
The Eloquent Page
A Tree of Bones: Volume Three of the Hexslinger Series
"Potent mythology, complex characters, and dollops of creeping horror . . ."
Publishers Weekly
Ison of the Isles
"It’s actually about something."
— GeekSpeakMagazine.com
Westlake Soul
"Just read it, and you'll understand."
— FearNet
Shoebox Train Wreck
"good, spare, bleak storytelling, and some haunting images"
— Publishers Weekly
The Steel Seraglio
" . . .a thrilling tale"
— Publishers Weekly
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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