Building on its deal with the Literary Press Group and LitDistCo, ChiZine Publications (CZP) has signed a deal with Diamond Book Distributors to have its books placed in U.S. and U.K. bookstores.

One of the U.S.’s leading distributors, Diamond distributes to booksellers like Barnes & Noble, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, WaldenBooks, and Borders. It represents a number of book and comic publishers, including Borderlands Press, Night Shade Books, Prime Books, Subterranean Press, and Random House UK.

“It’s another step forward, but a bigger risk,” says CZP Co-Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “Getting books on the shelves means getting those books printed. If they don’t sell, we eat that cost. But our experiment with the Literary Press Group worked. Some of our books sold out. So if we’re going to grow, we need to be in major markets like the U.S. and U.K.”

The announcement comes on the heels of a lengthy article about ChiZine Publications that appeared in The National Post’s Afterword literary blog. In the article, Brett, fellow Co-Publisher Sandra Kasturi, and authors David Nickle (Monstrous Affections) and Robert J. Wiersema (The World More Full of Weeping) discuss the origins of CZP and the challenges of being a “genre” publisher at a time when “genre” fiction is assumed to not be “literary” fiction.

Brett says the plan is for CZP titles to be in U.S. and U.K. bookstores by early 2010.

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