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."

Read the article here!

Learn more about Bearded Women here!

Interview with John Mantooth (with CZ shoutout)

"ChiZine Publications is awesome, how has it been working with them?

I was so excited when Sandra informed me they were going to buy Shoebox Train Wreck. I actually submitted it to them not expecting much. I’d been collecting rejections from Chizine for years, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it one more time, so I sent it. They accepted it about a year later. Working with them has been great from acceptance all the way to where I am now—about a month from publication. Brett and Sandra are extremely author friendly. They’re approachable, knowledgeable, and very supportive. They’ve got great folks working for them too (Helen Marshall, Erik Mohr, Samantha Belko, etc.), and their books speak for themselves."

 

Read this and more at Mourning Goats.

 

John Mantooth's Shoebox Train Wreck is available now!

Hexslinger one of the best series of 2011

The Hopeful Librarian's Jen lists her favourite books and series from 2011. Here's what she had to say about Gemma Files' Hexslinger books:
" I picked up A Book of Tongues on a whim from the library and was just sucked in to this wonderful, dark alternate Old West... this is one of the most creepy-fun series I’ve read in a long time. If anything, Rope of Thorns improved on the first installment."

Read the article.

Learn more about A Book of Tongues and A Rope of Thorns.

Door to Lost Pages makes Cate Gardner's top ten

Author Cate Gardner gave a quick shout out to Claude Lalumière's The Door to Lost Pages, naming it as one of her top ten novels for 2011.

See the post here.

Buy Lost Pages here.

Enter, Night named as one of the best vampire releases of 2011

Paul Goat Allen of Barnes and Noble calls Enter, Night one of the best new vampire stories for 2011, writing: "Rowe’s Enter, Night was a 'vampire novel for the ages' ... powered by a darkly lyrical – and decidedly creepy – narrative."

Read his article here.

Buy Enter, Night here.

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.

Click here to read the article.

Click here to read about Eutopia.

Shouts out to In the Mean Time and Objects of Worship

Spec-fic blog Bibliophile Stalker mentioned two ChiZine books in a recent post recommending short story collections. In the Mean Time and Objects of Worship are among the works suggested for people who want to get into writing short fiction.

"There's always room for subtlety and elegance, even in genres like horror, and Paul Tremblay understands this. What makes his fiction remarkable is that it creeps up on you, instead of being transparent and overt. "

"Claude Lalumière has the ability to combine two (or more) unrelated genres and craft this potent story that's greater than the sum of its parts. "

See the mention. (scroll down)

Find out more about Objects of Worship.

Or about In the Mean Time.

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!

Pattern Scars mentioned on Jeff VanderMeer's blog

"The hard-to-classify dark fantasy by Sweet is a gorgeously designed trade paperback—the publisher, ChiZine, has really come into their own." - Jeff VanderMeer

Check it out!

Buy The Pattern Scars!