Imaginarium 2012 now available for preorder

ChiZine is proud to present Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, now available for preorder. Co-published with Tightrope Books, this is a collection of the very best speculative short fiction and poetry published in the last year. It features stories and poetry from Kelley Armstrong, Cory Doctorow, Gemma Files, David Nickle and many more.

Find out more about Imaginarium here!

Eutopia now available on Audible!

ChiZine is proud to announce that we will be making our books available as audiobooks on Audible.com. Our first available book is David Nickle's Eutopia. We hope to greatly expand our audio catalogue throughout 2012.

Check out the Audible page!

Or buy the print edition!

Gemma Files to read at Fantastic Fiction

Fantastic Fiction at KGB is a monthly reading series held at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, showcasing the best writers in speculative fiction. This month, they'll be hosting Gemma Files, author of the Hexslinger books. Admission is free, so if you're in the area, be sure to drop by!

Where: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, Manhattan, NYC
When: Wednesday December 21, 7pm

More info can be found here.

And info about the Hexslinger books can be found here and here.

Picking Up the Ghost audio trailer

Tone Milazzo has released an audio trailer for his book Picking Up the Ghost.
You can listen to it on his website.

Picking Up the Ghost has recently been put on the long list for the 2011 Cybils Awards, nominated in the "Fantasy and Science Fiction - Teen" category. Congratulations, Tone!

Read more about Picking Up the Ghost.

Interviews and views from Simon Logan!

Two pieces today for all you punk lovers. First, Terribleminds gives us a juicy, meaty interview with Katja from the Punk Band author Simon Logan.

"Q: Your work and writing philosophies seem to embody a punk aesthetic. How can writers embrace that, and why should they? (Or, perhaps, why shouldn’t they?)

A: For me the attraction of the punk aesthetic is to properly reflect yourself and your energies and interests in your work. Be inspired by what other people are creating but focus on creating that inspiration within yourself rather than just replicating what others have done."

You can read the interview here.

Second, Ed Gorman's blog has a large quote from Logan in which he announces a sequel to Katja!

Read it here.

Buy Katja from the Punk Band here.

ChiZine shoutout on The Ranting Dragon

Fantasy news site The Ranting Dragon listed two upcoming ChiZine books in its post 'Most Anticipated September Releases' - Briarpatch by Tim Pratt and The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet. Congratulations, you two!

Read the post.

Preorder Briarpatch...
or The Pattern Scars.

CZP spotlight in Cemetery Dance!

Cemetery Dance #66 is available on newsstands now, and features a review with ChiZine's publishers, Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi. It also has a review of Tim Lebbon's The Thief of Broken Toys:

"[T]his short novel is beautifully written while at the same time unceasingly sad. . . . I’m happy to report that [Lebbon] continues to produce not just quantity, but quality as well."
—Robert Morrish, Cemetery Dance

Be sure to check it out!

Learn more about Thief of Broken Toys here.

ChiZine now available on Nook!

ChiZine Publications is proud to announce that our entire back catalogue is now available for purchase in the NOOK Book eBook format. This format is compatible with any Nook brand eReaders or apps and is available exclusively on Barnes and Noble. Our books are less than $8 each in this format - more affordable than the dead-tree versions, for sure!

Click here to access our catalogue on Barnesandnoble.com !

Enter, Night and Bearded Woman now available for preorder!

We have two new novels available for preorder exclusively on Horror Mall: ENTER, NIGHT by Michael Rowe and BEARDED WOMEN by Teresa Milbrodt. These are the last ChiZine works for 2011.
As before, these two will be available in a limited edition signed hardcover. Each limited edition will be limited to 150 copies, and they will be available until July 31, 2011. Get yours today!

Order Bearded Women here.
Order Enter, Night here.

Three ChiZine books crack the top ten at Horror Mall!

Horror Mall's preorder bestseller list for May 2011 features three ChiZine works within the top ten! The Pattern Scars is #6, followed by Briarpatch at #8 and Picking Up the Ghost at #9.

We've sold out of limited editions for Picking Up the Ghost, but you still have one month to preorder The Pattern Scars or Briarpatch. There are only 150 of each of these signed hardcover edition books, so order yours quickly!

Pattern Scars on Horror Mall
Briarpatch on Horror Mall

Just three days left in our Kobo Books offer!

April 21st will be the last day of our ChiZine's partnership promotion with e-book seller Kobo Books. Right now, you can get $2 off any of the ChiZine catalogue when you buy at Kobo Books and use the promo code "chizine". Now is the perfect time to pick up our newest titles, EUTOPIA by David Nickle and THE DOOR TO LOST PAGES by Claude Lalumière. Don't miss the savings!

Click here to buy Eutopia!

Click here to buy Door to Lost Pages!

Katja nominated for a Spinetingler Award!

Spinetingler magazine has announced its nominations for the 2011 Spinetingler Awards. Among them is Simon Logan's Katja from the Punk Band, nominated in the "Best Novel: New Voice category. Cool!

Click here and you can vote for Katja from the Punk Band!

Click here to see Katja on the CZP site!

CZP in Rue Morgue!

Rue Morgue has shone the spotlight on ChiZine in their latest issue, on newsstands April 1.

"Not only are each of these books eclectic and intelligent - many garnering good reviews everywhere from Publishers' Weekly to the pages of this magazine - but each of their covers, by gallery artist Erik Mohr, are practically frameworthy." - Monica S. Keubler

The article also includes a brief interview with Sandra Kasturi. So exciting!

Important Announcement!

CZP titles will no longer be sold through the Horror Mall, as they have ceased to sell any ebooks but their own.

However, our titles will now be available through Wizard's Tower Press, a UK-based ebook seller!

Major Karnage Nominated for CBC Bookies

Show your love for your favourite Major by voting for Gord Zajac's Major Karnage in the CBC Bookies!

Major Karnage has been nominated for Best Character.

Voting ends on Feb 20th, so it's not too late to show your support!

Blue Sunshine: Readings

Claude Lalumière and Gemma Files will be appearing at Blue Sunshine for an evening of Strange Canadian Fiction.

It's happening March 30th, 2011, in Montreal, and it's free! More information here.

CBC Bookies: Vote!

The CBC Bookie nominees are up, and CZP has two books shortlisted for prizes.

A Book of Tongues, by Gemma Files is shortlisted in the Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel category. You can vote for this category and others here.

Chimerascope, by Douglas Smith is shortlisted in the Best Short Story Collection category. You can vote for this category and others here.

Voting ends Feb 13th and 15th respectively!

Katja from the Punk Band Wins a Fireball Award

“So she walks in, trying to look cool, trying to look like nothing has happened, like nothing has gone wrong, but it’s difficult because she still feels the ghost of the revolver’s handle pressed against her palm and the scent of gunpowder in her nostrils.”
-first line from Katja from the Punk Band

Katja from the Punk Band was among the three chosen winners for Spinetingler Magazine's Fireball award, given to books with awesome first lines. Read about it.

Gemma Files Wins Black Quill Award

TORONTO, Ontario (February 1, 2011) – 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.

“It’s always so great to wake up to good news,” remarks CZP co-publisher Sandra Kasturi upon finding out about the award. “It was a thrill to be nominated and humbling to win. Gemma’s book was up against tough competition, and we’re glad both the editors and fans recognized it for the same reasons we published it. Seeing our books so fiercely supported by everyone who voted is worth just as much as the honour of the award. We’d be nothing without the readers.”

Nominations for the Black Quills are editorial-based, with both the editors and active contributing writers submitting nominations in each of the seven categories. Winners were chosen via an open online ballot on Dark Scribe’s website. Two winners were announced in each category – Reader’s Choice and Editor’s Choice. Files’ novel took both the Reader’s and Editor’s honour in her category, which is an uncommon honour with the Black Quills.

In previous years, David Nickle’s Monstrous Affections (CZP) won Reader’s Choice for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection, and Paul Tremblay’s “The Blog at the End of the World” (ChiZine #38/Virtual) was nominated for Best Dark Scribble. The aforementioned story appears in Tremblay’s short story collection In the Mean Time, which was also nominated for a 2010 Black Quill Award.

But that was not the end of today’s award news for CZP—the preliminary ballot for the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Awards was also posted today. Not surprisingly, Files’ A Book of Tongues has been longlisted for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. In addition to this, CZP author Nicholas Kaufmann’s novella Chasing the Dragon has been longlisted in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction category. The same novella is also currently being considered for the 2010 Thriller Award for Best Short Story.

Contact
Brett Alexander Savory, Publisher
ChiZine Publications
http://chizinepub.com
brett@chizinepub.com

About ChiZine Publications
ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, subtle, surreal and disturbing dark fiction. It is the book-length, print version outgrowth of ChiZine, an online professional market in operation since 1997 focused on the same type of story material. All of CZP’s publications are hand-picked by co-Publishers and Bram Stoker Award-winners Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi.

Nominating for the Auroras?

Chadwick Ginther of McNally Robinson has selected A Book of Tongues as one of the works he is most excited about for nomination for the Aurora Awards. Click here to read the full article.

Want to support Gemma Files' awesome book?  If you're a Canadian citizen you can help by nominating her work in the Best Novel category.

Nominating a work is free!  Find out how you can nominate here.

PS: Lists of eligible works are available (and can be added to) on the wiki site Canadian SF Works Database. We've got plenty of other great books up as well including Bob Boyczuk's Nexus: Ascension and Douglas Smith' Chimerascope so give it a look!