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CZP Relaunching ChiZine Magazine
Posted by: | CommentsToronto-based ChiZine Publications will be re-launching their online speculative fiction ‘zine, The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com, as well as creating the ChiHub, an online navigation page from which all things ChiZine will originate. The project will institute an upgraded, streamlined design for both ChiZine.com and the hub page, courtesy of CZP designer Erik Mohr and coder Barry King.
“We’ve been toiling at this behind the curtain for some time now,” remarks CZP Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “As both the magazine and publishing house grow — and they are, more and more every day — fine tuning our online presence and making everything more accessible becomes key. Thankfully we have an epic team to make it possible.”
The Chiaroscuro/ChiZine.com was first launched in 1997 by editor and published author Brett Alexander Savory, joined in 1999 by poet and editor Sandra Kasturi, in an effort to expand what Kasturi calls “the ever-shrinking world of Canadian dark literature.” The online ‘zine thrived with Savory and Kasturi at the helm, garnering a prodigious following for its unique content and free distribution model. It was in 2008, after considering the publication of a ChiZine anthology, that the pair decided to expand into print publishing with the launch of ChiZine Publications alongside the long-running ‘zine. “We’re pretty insufferable right now,” jokes Kasturi in the current issue of Rue Morgue. “We figured there’d be a small audience for what we’re trying to do, but the recognition has been a really great surprise. It’s like getting everything you ever wanted handed to you on a plate.”
Not only will this current launch set the groundwork for the future overhaul of ChiZinePub.com, what Savory is calling the “mega-issue” of ChiZine will feature heavily as well. The issue will contain nearly 200 short stories and poems from various spec-fic alumni, who have previously featured in the ‘zine, or were contest judges, including contributions from Neil Gaiman, Stewart O’Nan, Mike Carey, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Gary Braunbeck, Tom Piccirilli, Sarah Langan,Tim Lebbon, Bruce Boston, Marge Simon, and Robert J. Wiersema, just to name a few. It will also mark the start of ChiZine.com’s three-month donation drive, which aims to raise enough money for the magazine to continue publishing at its current rate of seven cents per word for short fiction and $10 per poem.
Subterranean Online Spring 2011
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Subterranean Press reports that the Spring 2011 issue of Subterranean Online is well underway, with three tales posted in recent weeks, including:
- “The Crawling Sky”, a fine bit of weird western storytelling by Joe R. Lansdale, which features the Reverend Jedediah Mercer from Deadman’s Road (where the story also appeared);
- “Show Trial”, a new, barely post-WWII fantasy novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch;
- “The Crane Method”, a short story whose charms are far more than academic by Ian R. MacLeod.
The issue kicked off with Tobias S. Buckell’s “The Fall of Alacan,” the return to the milieu of his novella, The Executioness, also the setting of Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula-nominated novella, The Alchemist.
Subterranean still has a long novelette by Mary Robinette Kowal and the Mike Resnick’s latest escapade featuring Lucifer Jones before the current issue has run its course. Then they’re on to their special YA issue, edited by Gwenda Bond.
You can catch it all here: Subterranean Online Spring 2011
Apex Magazine Issue 22
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The newest issue of Apex Magazine is out with original fiction from Darin Bradley and Kat Howard. Veronica Schanoes entertains readers with a morbidly creepy reprint. The poetry selections are by Jessica Wick and the trio of Mike Allen, Sonya Taaffe, and Nicole Kornher-Stace.
Apex Magazine is the process of signing with an independent vendor to better automate their subscription service. Apex is also looking into providing magazine subscriptions via Kindle and Nook.
For the readers that are writers, please note that Apex Magazine is closed to fiction submissions until May 1st. However, they are still accepting poetry. They pay 25 cents a line or $5, whichever is greater.
Catch the current issue here: Apex Magazine 22
Subterranean Online’s Latest
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The recent postings at Subterranean Online are an embarrassment of riches. First, they have a brand new Majipoor novelette by Robert Silverberg, “The Tomb of the Pontifex Dvorn.” You’ll also discover a new story by K. J. Parker, “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong,” released, cleverly enough, to coincide with publication of her twisty new novella, Blue and Gold, which is down to its last 30 copies. If that’s not timely enough, check the table of contents for “The Tricks of London” by Elizabeth Bear, an audio of a rare New Amsterdam novelette released to promote eBear’s lengthy new novella, The White City, of which 68 copies of the trade edition will remain once the initial orders are shipped.
It’s all happening here: Subterranean Online
Apex Magazine Issue 21 Released
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For Apex Magazine Issue 21 editor Catherynne M. Valente has put together an all-star line-up of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, featuring first-timers Cat Rambo, Forrest Aguirre, Nalo Hopkinson, and Nicole Kornher-Stace. Plus a welcome back to FJ Bergmann.
Issue 21 marks the second issue following their new distribution model. In short, they wanted to give a premium to those who subscribe digitally and/or purchase each issue by making the content available to them one month prior to its release on the Apex website. This means that full text of the stories and poetry will be available the first Monday of March right here, along with sneak peeks of this issue’s contents.
You can purchase this issue to get a taste of some great speculative fiction here: Apex Magazine Issue 21
Horror Anthology Dark Faith Sale
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Apex Book Company, a small press publisher specializing in the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres, has announced that Dark Faith, a horror anthology edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, is their best-selling title of 2010.
Published in May 2010, Dark Faith is a themed anthology designed by Maurice Broaddus that explores the concept of what faith means. Over two dozen authors in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres penned stories for this anthology including: Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar, Matt Cardin, Nick Mamatas, Jennifer Pelland, Richard Dansky, Mary Robinette Kowal, Chesya Burke, Lucien Soulban, Gary A. Braunbeck and others.
The line-up:
- “The Story of Belief-Non” by Linda D. Addison (poem)
- “Ghosts of New York” by Jennifer Pelland
- “I Sing a New Psalm” by Brian Keene
- “He Who Would Not Bow” by Wrath James White
- “Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch’s Damnation” by Douglas F. Warrick
- “Go and Tell It on the Mountain” by Kyle S. Johnson
- “Different from Other Nights” by Eliyanna Kaiser
- “Lilith” by Rain Graves (poem)
- “The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ” by Nick Mamatas
- “To the Jerusalem Crater” by Lavie Tidhar
- “Chimeras & Grotesqueries” by Matt Cardin
- “You Dream” by Ekaterina Sedia
- “Mother Urban’s Booke of Dayes” by Jay Lake
- “The Mad Eyes of the Heron King” by Richard Dansky
- “Paint Box, Puzzle Box” by D.T. Friedman
- “A Loss For Words” by J. C. Hay
- “Scrawl” by Tom Piccirilli
- “C{her}ry Carvings” by Jennifer Baumgartner (poem)
- “Good Enough” by Kelli Dunlap
- “First Communions” by Geoffrey Girard
- “The God of Last Moments” by Alethea Kontis
- “Ring Road” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “The Unremembered” by Chesya Burke
- “Desperata” by Lon Prater (poem)
- “The Choir” by Lucien Soulban
- “Days of Flaming Motorcycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
- “Miz Ruthie Pays Her Respects” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Paranoia” by Kurt Dinan (poem)
- “Hush” by Kelly Barnhill
- “Sandboys” by Richard Wright
- “For My Next Trick I’ll Need a Volunteer” by Gary A. Braunbeck
Maurice Broaddus, the co-editor for the anthology, said that: “My goal was to do something different with a themed horror anthology. I’m glad (and relieved!) to know that Dark Faith has found an audience.”
To celebrate the success of Dark Faith, Apex Book Company is offering the e-book on sale at DriveThruHorror.com for $1.99, which is over fifty percent off the cover price.
