Mike Carey guest spots!

Mike Carey has two guest articles up promoting The Steel Seraglio that you should check out.

On RedEye Chicago he talks about the three-wishes story structure:

"There are literally hundreds of variations on this story in the folk literatures of the world: it's often given a sexual dimension, but not always. It can be tragedy, cosmic meditation, horror or farce (farce definitely predominates), and it can be told with masses of circumstantial detail or kept plain and simple. But at its heart, it's a deeply conservative kind of story. The moral is: be grateful for what you've got now, and don't mess with it. Any change is likely to be for the worse, and if it's for the better, you'll probably screw it up anyway because you're an idiot."

And on The Mary Sue, Mike discusses female heroes in pop culture: 

"We prefer our heroines, just like our heroes, to be real people, not cardboard cut-outs – which, in the end, means that their gender isn’t going to be their determining trait.  It’s part of their identity, sure.  How could it not be?  But it doesn’t define them, any more than a score of other things define them.  It’s in the mix, that’s all, and it shouldn’t make a difference to how the reader responds to them."

Click here to learn more about The Steel Seraglio.

Profile of Michael Rowe in Fab

Fab magazine has published a short, illuminating profile of Michael Rowe, author of Enter, Night.

"We share a love for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. 'It’s about this evil entity that comes to England to fuck with the virtue of British women. I think it has tremendous appeal for gay people because we are perceived as the same. It’s a wonderful commentary on both xenophobia and Victorian prudery,' he says."

Read the article here.

Find out more about Enter, Night here.

Two profiles of Michael Rowe

Michael Rowe is getting quite a bit of press in relation to his newest work, Enter, Night. The Winnipeg Free Press promotes him as a local success story, while Outwords praises him as a pioneer of queer horror. In both articles, Rowe gives his thoughts on Enter, Night, writing 'niche' fiction, and LGBT issues.

Read the Winnipeg Free Press article.

Read the Outwords article.

Learn more about Enter, Night.

The New York Times gives props to ChiZine!

We feel honoured to have been mentioned in this recent NYT article about dark fiction.
"The best work in dark fantasy and horror fiction these days is being published by small presses, haunted literary boutiques established (mostly) in out-of-the-way places. ...devoted to the weird, to the strange and — most important — to good writing."

Read the entire article!

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!

Derryl Murphy on The Big Idea

Derryl Murphy is featured in the latest edition of John Scalzi's The Big Idea column, talking about his inspirations for Napier's Bones.
"But there is obviously something to be said for standing in a place and discovering it in a multitude of dimensions, to say nothing of the happy accidents that can worm their way into your brain. A wrong turn I took on one hike to see a potential location ended up playing a fairly significant role late in the book, all because I discovered something that I suspect most visitors don’t even know is there."

Read the article here!

Click here to order a copy of Napier's Bones!