Bearded Women shout out in Asimov's!

In a lengthy post about short story collections, Paul Di Filippo of Asimov's Science Fiction writes, "...the magnificent, bold and perspicacious Chizine Publications delivers a phenomenal collection with Teresa Milbrodt’s Bearded Women... The most outré beings and events are presented with matter-of-fact mimetic clarity and emotional empathy."

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Chasing Empty Pavements reviews Bearded Women

Chasing Empty Pavements liked Bearded Women, writing: "[Bearded Women] was beautifully written but it had this strange, lyrical feel to it. The thing I loved about this novel was that even though each of the short stories contained a “freak” per se, their emotions and feelings of being different were relatable, tangible and so very real."

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Bearded Women "phenomenal"

Matt Baker of Oxford American calls Teresa Milbrodt's Bearded Women "phenomenal", adding that it "firmly establish[es] Milbrodt as a premier writer, and maybe the founder, of Midwestern mythic."


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Bearded Women has "wit and charm"

"With wit and charm, [Teresa Milbrodt] beautifully weaves short stories about women who are as real as we, who are strong in the presence of adversity, and whose only desire is to live their lives, embracing those aspects which make them so different than those around them." - Living Peacefully with Children

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Good review of Bearded Women

Claire Miller of Bookshelf Bombshells writes that Bearded Women "forces the reader to examine the inherent privilege of passing as unexceptional... it is a book that urges us to experience the world in another’s life for a few brief pages. ...It’s good. You’ll like it."

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High praise for Bearded Women

"I'm not even sure how to categorize this book. It's beautiful and touching with just a touch of sarcasm and wit. This collection of short stories has to be the best I have ever read." - Sara Thompson, Reading All Year Long

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Great review of Bearded Women

" Bearded Women is one of the best debut short story collections I've read over the past few years and Teresa Milbrodt will be a writer whose future I shall follow with keenness, as she already displays more command over her stories than several veteran story writers. Highly recommended." - The OF Blog

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Bearded Women review at Scholars & Rogues

Hot off their recent interview with Teresa Milbrodt, Scholars & Rogues gives us an excellent review of her collection Bearded Women.
"I recommend it highly – and I look forward to whatever this gifted writer brings us next."

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Kind words for Bearded Women

"Freakish in mind or body they may be, but Milbrodt's characters have the same problems as everyone else. . . . The characters are worth knowing, and the insight they provide into unusual lives is worth pondering." - Tzer Island

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Teresa Milbrodt interviewed by Scholars & Rogues

Scholars & Rogues has a lengthy interview up with Teresa Milbrodt, author of Bearded Women.

S&R: I get the impression that you know your way around the ancient Greeks. Have you always enjoyed reading mythology or are we seeing the result of research done expressly for this book?

TM: One of my college professors classified my work as “Midwestern mythic,” which I thought was a fitting term. Mythic themes and magical realist plot lines have always been a fascination of mine. It’s fiction, so why be constrained to the boring old real world all the time?

But to actually answer your question, I loved reading Greek mythology when I was a kid, and I’ve returned to those tales since the characters in them are both interesting and skeletal. In other words, there’s already a backstory and history for mythological figures, but at the same time there’s a lot of space for a writer to flesh out exactly who these people/gorgons/cyclops are and bring them to three-dimensional life. Plus I wanted to explore what it might be like to go through life with snakes on your head.

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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!

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