My publisher, Brett Savory, sent me a clipping this afternoon. It’s from a rag called Publisher’s Weekly. Apparently they publish book reviews. They published a review of my book. With a star next to it. Here is what it said: Monstrous Affections David Nickle. ChiZine (LPG of Canada, dist.), $18.95 paper (292p) ISBN 978-0-9812978-3-5 Bleak, […]
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I have been remiss, yard-apes. Tesseracts Thirteen, the anthology of fearful fables edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell, has been out for a month, and it was only last week that I posted a sample of my story “The Radejastians” on The Devil’s Exercise Yard. When Tesseracts Eleven came out, I put up “Swamp
… that being the annual outdoor book/magazine/street food festival that happens this Sunday at Queen’s Park Circle in Toronto – not the sly rumor. I’m going to be there. At CZP’s booth, which is #325 (don’t worry, they have maps!), trying to convince passing bibliophiles to pick up a copy of Monstrous Affections. I’m not
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Yes, you read that right. We’re having a flash fiction contest, Bob Boyczuk and Claude Lalumière and me. It’s part of an ongoing attempt to 1) find and promote new writers of extraordinarily short fiction and 2) get our ChiZine Publications collections of short fiction in front of said writers. The rules of the contest
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Or to put it another way: squee. Just got back from a lunch-time trip to The World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto. And I am mighty pleased to report that the story collection of which you’ve heard so much, Monstrous Affections, is on the shelf there. To be specific, four very-recently-signed-by-the-author copies are there, in the
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The launch of Tesseracts Thirteen – the scary-story edition of the long-running Canadian sf anthology series – was, by all accounts, a shrieking, quivering success yesterday. There was a huge crowd of authors – a somewhat larger crowd of readers (always a good sign at these things) – and a healthily-diminishing stack of books. Karen
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… and for those who can’t make it, to Bakka Phoenix books, at three, may I present some John Adams. With Lego. Enjoy.
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No, it’s not a boat, or a rocket, or a tirade. Tesseracts Thirteen is the latest edition of the long-running sf anthology series for and by Canadians, and when I say it launches I mean that there is a big book-selling party in its honor, and it’s happening this Saturday. We’ve spoken of this before
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When I say John McDaid, I mean the John McDaid who blogs tirelessly about Rhode Island politics, who writes science fiction so well he won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction with his first sale, “Jigoku no mokushiroku”, in 1995, and with whom I hang out for one week a year at the Gibraltar
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Monstrous Affections, the story collection of mine of which you’ve heard so much, is now available for pre-order at ChiZine Publications*, which is the most righteous way to pre-order the book. You can click right here, make the necessary arrangements, and the book will be delivered to your home / business / anonymous post office
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