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.

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.

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.

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 20^th 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 . . . .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The subscriptions come in three options: signed, limited edition hardcovers, trade paperbacks and ebooks.

More details over here and in our online store.

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."

• 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

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.

Audible now also offers Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk as an Audiobook narrated by Nick Sullivan!

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!

]]> Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 20111226-1 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.

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!

Our congratulations to all the winners, which can be found on the Prix Aurora Award’s Facebook page.

See the article on the NYT website. ]]> Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400 20111015-1 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!

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."

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 . . . .

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Theresa Milbrodt’s Bearded Women can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

Welcome to the contemporary Freak Show. A woman trying to have a child has a parasitic twin, an extra lower torso, and set of legs named Bianca—should she have "Bianca’s Body" removed to improve her chances at conception? A bearded lady considers coming out of the closet about her hirsute nature, while carrying on a battle of wills with an overeating patron in "Mr. Chicken." A woman with four ears gets a chance to make extra money as the mascot of a tattoo parlour, and encounters a middle-aged, cookie-baking stalker who believes she is a sign that the end of the world is nigh. Meet the "freaks"—they’re mothers, wives, and lovers: all of them trying negotiate a world that is quicker to stare than sympathize.

Seems The Chiaroscuro Managing Fiction Editor Gord Zajac is might miffed at SPACE channel for not running Doctor Who on Saturday. To placate him, we’re offering free shipping on U.S. & Canadian orders of his sci-fi novel Major Karnage. Seems Major Karnage and Doctor Who have a lot in common, which Gord explains on the CZP blog.

Jerome Stueart is the winner of the Napier’s Legacy Contest. His tale "John Napier and the Treasure of Fast Castle" recounts Napier’s search for treasure in Fast Castle at the bequest of Sir Robert Logan. Congratulations to Jerome, who wins a signed, limited edition hardcover of Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Caitlin Sweet’s The Pattern Scars can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

Nola is born into poverty in Sarsenay City. When her mother realizes that Nola has the gift of Othersight and can foretell the future, she sells her to a brothel seer, who teaches the girl to harness her gift. As she grows up, she embraces her new life, and even finds a small circle of friends. All too soon, her world is again turned upside down when one of them is murdered. When a handsome, young Otherseer from the castle promises to teach her, she eagerly embraces the prospects of luxury beyond what she can imagine and safety from a killer who stalks girls by night. Little does she know that he will soon draw her into a web of murder, treachery, and obsessive desire that will threaten the people and land she holds dear, and that she will soon learn the harshest of lessons: that being able to predict the future has nothing to do with being able to prevent it.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Tim Pratt’s Briarpatch can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

Darrin’s life has been going downhill ever since his girlfriend Bridget walked out on him without a word of explanation six months ago. Soon after losing her, he lost his job, and his car, and eventually his enthusiasm for life. He can’t imagine things getting worse—until he sees Bridget again, for the first time since she walked out, just moments before she leaps to her death from a bridge. In his quest to find out why Bridget took her own life, he encounters a depressive (and possibly immortal) cult leader; a man with a car that can drive out of this world and into others; a beautiful psychotic with a chrome shotgun; and a bridge that, maybe, leads to heaven. Darrin’s journey leads him into a place called the Briarpatch, which is either the crawlspace of the universe, or a series of ambitious building projects abandoned by god, or a tangle of alternative universes, depending on who you ask. Somewhere in that disorderly snarl of worlds, he hopes to find Bridget again. . .  or at least a reason to live without her.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Tone Milazzo’s Picking up the Ghost can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

Living in St. Jude, a 110-year-old dying city on the edge of the Mississippi, is tough. But when a letter informs fourteen-year-old Cinque Williams of the passing of the father he never met, he is faced with an incomplete past and an uncertain future. A curse meant for his father condemns Cinque to a slow death even as it opens his eyes to the strange otherworld around him. With help from the ghost Willy T, an enigmatic White Woman named Iku, an African Loa, and a devious shape-shifter, Cinque gathers the tools to confront the ghost of his dead father. But he will learn that sometimes too much knowledge can be dangerous—and the people he trusts most are those poised to betray him.

More information, games, and features are available on Tone Milazzo’s mini-website for Picking up the Ghost. ]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400 20110404-2

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Carolyn Ives Gilman’s Isles of the Forsaken can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

The Forsaken Isles are on the brink of revolution. Three individuals are about to push it over the edge and trigger events that will lead to a final showdown between ancient forces and the new overlords of the land. Spaeth Dobrin is destined to life as a ritual healer—but as the dhotamar of the tiny, isolated island of Yora, she will be caught in a perpetual bond between herself and the people she has cured. Is it slavery, or is it love? Meanwhile, Harg, the troubled and rebellious veteran, returns to find his home transformed by conquest. And Nathaway, the well-intentioned imperialist, arrives to teach Spaeth’s people “civilization,” only to become an explorer in the strange realm of the Forsakens. These two men will propel Spaeth into a vortex of war, temptation, and—just possibly—freedom.

Win a free signed, limited-edition hardcover of Claude Lalumière’s new book: The Door to Lost Pages.

Lost Pages is a strange bookshop that exists simultaneously across many realities, offering titles that should not, could not exist . . .and yet they do . . .but only at Lost Pages. Beginning February 17, 2011, submit, via the form on the contest page, the title and synopsis of an imaginary book you think would be found at Lost Pages.

Derryl Murphy has launched a contest where you can win a copy of Napier’s Bones or poster art. Just pick a number between 0 and 2011 and post it to his blog, Facebook page or Twitter. Full details are up on his blog and entries must be submitted by February 22, 2011. (ChiZine Publications is not associated with this contest.)

For her weird-west horror novel A Book of Tongues with ChiZine Publications, Gemma Files has won the Best Small Press Chill Award for Dark Scribe Magazine’s Fourth Annual Black Quill Awards.

More details can be found on our blog.

To participate:

1. Write a review of one of our books on Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, The Book Depository or Goodreads—give us an honest assessment of what you think of our book.
2. Submit a copy of your review through the form provided on our contest page.
3. Keep doing it! You can enter as many times as you like as long as you’re reviewing a different book or posting on a different site.

You can participate in the nomination process for FREE by following the directions on the Prix Aurora Awards website.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Gemma File’s A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two of the Hexslinger Series can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

You must let blood to get blood.

Arizona, 1867. As consort to resurrected Mayan goddess Ixchel, hexslinger "Reverend" Asher Rook has founded "Hex City," the first place in all of human history where magicians can live and work together safely. But this tenuous peace is is threatened by the approach of Rook’s former lover, Chess Pargeter, bent on revenge over Rook’s betrayal, as he kills his way toward the very same spot, dragging Pinkerton agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow along with him. Because Chess, sacrificed in Ixchel’s name, has become far more than just a hex: his very presence has torn a crack in the world, remaking everything around him. And as the cycle of Chess’s power approaches its climax, Chess, Morrow, and a young spiritualist named Yancey Colder—caught up in Chess’s vendetta—will all have to shed yet more blood as they face down his mysterious patron demon, known only as the Enemy . . . along with every other enemy Chess has already made along the way.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Brent Hayward’sThe Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

The city is crumbling . . . . Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred years. Gods have deserted their temples. In the last days of a dying city, the decadent chatelaine chooses a forbidden lover, separating twin outcasts and setting them on independent trajectories that might finally bring down the palace. Then, screaming from the skies, a lone god reappears and a limbless prophet is carried through South Gate, into Nowy Solum, with a message for all: beyond the city, something ancient and monumental has come awake.

As we approach mid-December, we can hear sleighbells....or the tinkling of broken glass.

Something is coming...

This year, CZP wants to reward our loyal readers for giving us one of our best years yet! We’ll be offering discounts on books, free content, sneak previews of what’s in store for 2011, and much more to keep your cockles warm.

Check back daily from December 13 to December 25 for your special CZP present. And have yourself a creepy holiday season...

Voting is done through Dark Scribe Magazine’s website and is to open anyone. No registration is required. More information can be found on our blog.

Please support CZP and vote!

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of David Nickle’s Eutopia can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

The year is 1911.

In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal—with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all.

Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother’s cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation—and the barest thread of hope.

At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada, Idaho, Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansman’s noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke.

And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town, something stirs, and thinks, in its way:

Things are looking up.

Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone, they delve into the secrets of Eliada—industrialist Garrison Harper’s attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true, terrible cost of perfection—the cruelty of the surgeon’s knife—the folly of the cull—and a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon, and faith as a trap.

Signed, limited edition hardcover editions of Claude Lalumière’sThe Door to Lost Pages can now be pre-ordered from Horror Mall.

Step through the door to lost pages and escape a life you never wanted . . .

On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. At first, surviving alone on the streets is harsh, but a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life. Aydee grows up at the reality-hopping Lost Pages, which seems to attract a clientele that is both eccentric and desperate. She is repeatedly drawn into an eternal war between enigmatic gods and monsters, until the day she is confronted by her worst nightmare: herself.

If you sent us a submission between March 1st, 2010 and November 24, 2010 and have not yet received a response, please resubmit to submissions (at) chizinepub (dot) com and indicate it is a second submission due to the email crash. If you did receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your manuscript, but have not heard further, please also resubmit.

We will be giving priority to resubmitting authors.

Please also note that ChiZine Publications will be closing to unsolicited, unagented manuscript submissions from January 1st, 2011, until June 30th, 2011.

Not only that, we’ll give you the ebook version of both books—also for FREE!

Here’s all you have to do:

1. Order a book & pay like you normally would.
2. Choose a novella from the list below.
3. Pop us an e-mail to brett@chizinepub.com and tell us which novella you’d like us to include, and whether you want the eBook versions of both.

Free novellas—TODAY ONLY!!

• People Live Still in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess
• Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann
• The Thief of Broken Toys by Tim Lebbon
• The World More Full of Weeping by Robert J. Wiersema

SALE ENDS tonight at 12:00 midnight PST (3:00 a.m. EST).

Happy shopping!

Your Odd Little CZP Family

Today, we released a podcast of a story from Paul Tremblay’s short story collection In the Mean Time. “In the Mean Time,” read by the author, is the first of six stories we will be podcasting that feature the voice talents of Sarah Langan, Michael Cisco, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Mur Lafferty and Paul Tremblay.

Each week, we will announce the new story on our Facebook page, Twitter and the ChiZine Publications blog as well as adding a link on the In the Mean Time page. Or, subscribe to the podcast feed to receive them automatically.

The winners will be announced May 15, 2011.

More information can be found at rannu.webs.com.