Interview with David Nickle

Q: ChiZine I must admit is a new publisher to me they look fantastic though, so what is ChiZine like to work with? 

A: They’re a powerhouse. Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi built the publishing house up from literally nothing, taking their ChiZine website into the tumultuous world of book publishing when most publishers were planning their exit strategies. They’re a work-hard, play-hard publisher. Sandra has been my editor for three books now, and unless she’s sick of it will be the editor for the fourth one, due in November. It really does feel like working with family; the two of them run a brood of brilliant interns and volunteers from their house in north-western Toronto, and both of them have been friends of mine for literally decades.

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David Nickle's new book, Rasputin's Bastards, is now available for pre-order! 

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.

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Shout-out to Eutopia on SF Signal

A recent post on SF Signal had regular contributors rounding up their favourite SF offerings for 2011. David Nickle's Eutopia made the cut on Jessica Strider's list.

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Click here to read about Eutopia.

Eutopia "thoughtful, accomplished, recommended"

"Eutopia accomplishes what the best horror fiction strives for: gives us characters we can care about and hope for, and then inflicts on them the kind of realistic, inescapable, logical sufferings that make us close our eyes a little at the unfairness of not the author, but the world — and all the while with something more to say for itself than the world is a very bad place.

Thoughtful, accomplished, and recommended." - Leah Bobet, Ideomancer

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The Hopeful Librarian loves Eutopia!

The Hopeful Librarian has a great review of David Nickle's Eutopia: "Nickle has created some amazing monsters here...I’m sure I’ve never heard of anything quite like them before. ...This is just all-around great work, and I look forward to reading more of Nickle’s work in the future."

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In-depth review of Eutopia

Bureau 42 gives David Nickle's Eutopia an in-depth look, giving the book high scores in areas such as story, imagery, and emotional response.

"Nickles [sic] shows with clarity both realistic settings and the more bizarre corners of his fictional world. I would quote some of the medical details here, but they’re really rather disturbing. Be warned, and read the book." - JD DeLuzio, Bureau 42

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Eutopia 'strikes at nerve endings'

The Philadelphia City Paper reviews David Nickle's Eutopia, saying: "As much as Nickle incorporates a lot of interesting, smart background stuff, he remains squarely in the land of things that go bump in the night. ...Nickle knows that horror needs to strike at nerve endings and not get too cerebral..."

Read the review (3rd on the page).

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Eutopia gets "two thumbs up for originality"

"Nickle gets two thumbs up for originality, as I’m fairly certain there isn’t another story like this—you might find yourself turning the pages of Eutopia just so you can see how he pulls all these diverse plot threads together. . . . This is certainly a book to try if you like The Twilight Zone or somewhat twisted/strange stories."
—Hardkover

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Monstrous Affections in New York Review of SF

The New York Review of Science Fiction has reviewed and recommended David Nickle's MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS in its June 2011 issue.

"Being about couples and families and what goes wrong, exaggerated and extrapolated into dripping, smelly, bloody, and often very funny situations, [the stories] get under the reader’s skin and twitch."- Ursula Pflug

Click here to buy Monstrous Affections!

Videos from our World's Biggest Bookstore Event!

On Saturday June 5th, ChiZine participated in the World's Biggest Speculative Fiction event at World's Biggest Bookstore. The event featured readings from Gemma Files, David Nickle, and Brent Hayward. The post-reading discussion was led by our co-publisher, Sandra Kasturi, and the blog Sci-Fi Fan Letter has uploaded some video of that discussion!

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Direct video links (Vimeo):
"Why do you write horror?"
"What does a short story allow you to do that a novel doesn't?"

Q&A with EUTOPIA's David Nickle

Curiosity Killed the Bookworm, a blog that previously reviewed Eutopia, now sits down with author David Nickle to discuss the book and his career.

"You know, I don't want to scare readers -- I want to worry them, give them the creeps, help them explore the sense that the world might not be as easily comprehensible as would allow them to continue feeling safe.... I really wanted to show people the strange places that lived in my imagination: my own twisted Middle Earth."

Read the interview here!
Order Eutopia here!

Eutopia gets a four-star review

Book blog I <3 Reading has given 4 out of 5 stars to David Nickle's EUTOPIA. They write, ""The writing style is bold, straight-forward and highly addictive. The storyline is well-thought-through, innovating, refreshing and at its core, deeply terrifying."

Read the full review here!
Learn more about Eutopia here!

Another Eutopia review!

Tzer Island writes, "Nickle's writing style is at least a step above the ordinary. His prose is efficient; Nickle uses a few carefully selected words to set scenes that some writers would have wasted pages developing, a skill that allows the story to develop at a brisk pace. The mood and atmosphere are perfect for a tale of the supernatural."

Read the full review here.
Buy EUTOPIA here.

Eutopia: "Seriously Creepy"

"This novel is seriously creepy. Do not read it on your own, at night, with the bedroom window open. I ended up jumpy and paranoid and then had to sleep with the window closed even though it was muggy and uncomfortable."
—Curiosity Killed the Bookworm

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SF Signal shines the spotlight on David Nickle!

SF Signal has chosen to highlight David Nickle, author of MONSTROUS AFFECTIONS and EUTOPIA, in their New Author Spotlight series. The link features a short video trailer for Eutopia.

Check out the spotlight here!
And check out our pages for Monstrous Affections and Eutopia.

Eutopia review and CZP shoutout at Barnes & Noble

The B&N Community blog has a pretty darn great review of EUTOPIA up: "Horror and dark fantasy fans who are glorying in the new generation of brilliant writers like Laird Barron, John Langan, Brian Hodge, Kaaron Warren, etc. should better add David Nickle to that list. He’s that good."

The review also concludes with this aside: "And additional kudos go out to ChiZine Publications. I’ve reviewed almost a dozen of their releases over the last few years... and have not been disappointed once." Sweet!

Read it here!

More information about Eutopia here!

The National Post reviews Eutopia!

Alex Good of The National Post has given his two cents on David Nickle's EUTOPIA! He writes, "Toronto author David Nickle’s debut novel... establishes him as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King. And I don’t mean the King of Under the Dome or other recent flops, but the master of psychological suspense who ruled the ’80s with classics like Pet Sematary."

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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!

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Eutopia reviewed at All Things Horror

"Nickle comes from a different cut of cloth than a lot of current horror authors. ...he understands that the most important ingredients are strong characters, originality, and a compelling story. That his novel is also dark, frightening, and beautifully written is just icing on the cake."

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