I’ve been holding off on crowing about this one, but I find I can keep my peace no longer. There will be another book coming out from ChiZine Publications, by me, this spring, and this is it. Rasputin’s Bastards is a big book – right now, it’s clocking in at 186,000 words. It is a …
It has only been a couple of days since we finished the proof-reading of Eutopia, my novel about eugenics and gunfighters and monsters. But already, it’s up for pre-order here, at The Horror Mall, in it’s high-end, $50 collectable hard-cover edition. There’s a more affordable trade paperback that will be available at the same time …
It can at last be spoken aloud. In the spring of 2011, my novel Eutopia will appear under the ChiZine Publications imprint – the same imprint who did such a fine job with my story collection Monstrous Affections. CZP announced the title and publication date on Twitter and Facebook just this afternoon. So I am, …
Dedicated yard apes will recall last watching this video here in July, 2008, when I congratulated winners of the ChiZine short story contest I helped judge. Well, the creepy android lady is back – and so am I. This year, I’ll be helping judge the 15th ChiZine Short Story Contest with a deeply cool slate …
This is not the first time I’ve sent praise in the direction of Erik Mohr. It may not even be the first time I’ve posted a blog entry devoted to this clever, diabolical cover designer from northern Ontario. But given recent internet activities surrounding my collection Monstrous Affections, certain things are becoming clear. A large …
We drank tea and ate scones and sang Cthulhu Christmas carols and carried on like the risen dead at the Merril Collection – and as a final Christmas miracle, my laryngitic voice held out long enough to render a uniquely terrifying reading of “The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement And Then Take Questions.” As …
This came in from author Kaaron Warren (Slights), at the Mind Meld section of SF Signal yesterday, wherein she and other authors of note were asked to pick their favourite things of 2009: Best short story collection: Monstrous Affections by David Nickle. The cover is creepy, tapping into that visceral reaction we have when the …
Monstrous Affections has been getting face-time, as it were, at some pretty high-traffic spots lately. Just last night, I was reliably informed that io9, the sf/f/h news spot, featured a portion of the cover in this posting right here, about the success of independent sf publishers at the end of the publishing world. And earlier …
… is on the cover of my collection! Actually, I have no firm evidence that the strange monster that artist Erik Mohr found to model for Monstrous Affections filched my hell skull (see previous post). But I’m hoping he’ll scare a couple of you into considering adding my first-ever horror collection to your shopping cart …
… and pals, Brett Savory and Sandra Kasturi at Chizine Press. We know the economy’s in the pot and you’re either afraid of being laid off or already laid off. You’ve blown all your money on that last, perfect Christmas where you can pretend nothing is wrong, and are starting to feel buyer’s-remorse about that …