Category Archives: Shrapnel
This is how they hook you
My publisher ChiZine is giving away books for Family Literacy Day.
TORONTO, Ontario (January 26, 2015) — To celebrate Family Literacy Day, January 27, ChiZine Publications (CZP) will be giving away copies of its young adult books. Trade paperbacks will be distributed at select bookstores across Canada while PDF versions will be available for free for a limited time from the ChiZine website.
CZP will be giving out copies of its first two titles printed under its young adult ChiTeen imprint: Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly by P.T. Jones (a.k.a. Stephen Graham Jones and Paul Tremblay), and The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet. Giveaways or contests will take place at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, and BookShelf in Guelph.
In addition, PDF versions of titles with young adult themes will be available for free download from the CZP site for a limited time on January 27. Titles that will be available include:
Picking Up the Ghost by Tone Milazzo
The Choir Boats and The Indigo Pheasant by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy
a ChiTeen sampler of upcoming books: Dead Girls Don’t by Mags Storey, The Good Brother by E.L. (Elaine) Chen and The Flame in the Maze by Caitlin Sweet
“The love of reading is something that runs strong in everyone at ChiZine Publications,” says Sandra Kasturi, co-publisher. “And literacy is more than just enjoying books; it’s an essential skill for success in life. We’re hoping to help raise a new generation of readers and book lovers.”
Details of when and how to download the free ebooks will be posted to the social media channels of CZP and the dedicated ChiTeen Twitter and Facebook page a few days before the event.
Contact
Sandra Kasturi, Co-Publisher, ChiZine Publications
http://www.chizinepub.com
sandra@chizinepub.com
About ChiZine Publications
ChiZine Publications (CZP) is British Fantasy Award-winning and three-time World Fantasy Award-nominated independent publisher of surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by co-publishers Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors.
Day job linkage
The day job kept me busy today. First, I wrote a little piece about the Exploding Kittens Kickstarter blowing up the Internet. Seriously. For a while I just sat there, staring at my screen and watching the dollar figures multiply in real time. Clearly, I am working in the wrong business. I need to be getting drunk with friends and coming up with crazy card games.
Second, I wrote an article about the Canada Council, the arts funding agency in my little nation, deciding to completely overhaul its funding model. It’s a decision that will affect artists of all stripes in major ways, but no one yet knows what those major ways are. Yes, that plan of getting drunk and making games is looking more attractive by the minute.
Licence Expired
Here’s a piece of interesting news: my publisher ChiZine is publishing an unauthorized James Bond anthology. Ian Fleming’s work has hit the public domain in Canada (there’s a whole other post about copyright in regard to that), and ChiZine is looking for works of a certain flavour. Full press release follows. Read the rest of this entry
Change the category to non-fiction
Years back, I wrote a little book called The Warhol Gang. The narrator of the book goes to accident scenes and pretends to be a cop/paramedic/firefighter/etc. I got the idea after I read a news story about a guy going to accident scenes in Alberta pretending to be a first responder. Today, I read a story about a guy in Alberta pretending to be a cop, pulling people over, etc. Is it something in the oil in Alberta?
On Spec loses its Canada Council funding
This is a hard blow for the Canadian genre scene. On Spec, Canada’s leading sci-fi and fantasy magazine, has been denied funding by the Canada Council. The Canada Council said the jury assessing On Spec’s application called the quality of writing low and added there were production problems, including copy editing, layout and proofreading. So the jury really didn’t like it.
The world needs more Will Power
I talk to Vancouver writer, comedian and actor Charles Demers about his new comedy web series, Will Power. It’s a great series and only 20 minutes or so in length, so go check it out.
You are out of consciousness
I was reading an article about the fridges of the future, which will send orders to restock themselves when out of needed items, when my Starbucks app alerted me of my new balance. How long until the Starbucks app monitors our activities/blood/soul and tells us when our caffeine levels are too low and orders us to a nearby cafe to refuel?
And would that be any worse?
Idea for a story I will never write
The Martians from War of the Worlds actually defeated and enslaved us. We’re now living in a mass hallucination they’ve created for us, a la The Matrix, in which we think their invasion was only a story. But one writer knows the truth….
When will this beta end?
This world really needs an update, but I fear the developer’s abandoned the project.
Thank God Shatner didn't come up
So the site where Curiosity landed is called Bradbury Landing. Love it.
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