News from Greg Lamberson, Eric S. Brown, and ChiZine

Lamberson Announces SLIME CITY SURVIVOR Web Series
CONTACT: Greg Lamberson – glamberson@verizon.net

Filmmaker Greg Lamberson today announced that his SLIME CITY MASSACRE team is posting behind-the-scenes webisodes on the film’s production. The film commences shooting this Friday, July 10^th and the first two segments, focusing on the special make-up effects, are already live:

Episode #1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7LwCY_KG8

Episode #2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxmxCcQLO14

“These days it’s almost a necessity to shoot behind-the-scenes footage for marketing purposes,” Lamberson explains. “I thought, ‘Why wait until the film is finished and out on DVD for people to see what the cast and crew experience? It’s more interesting – and possibly more dramatic – for people to follow the production’s progress on-line almost as it happens, sort of like PROJECT GREENLIGHT did on cable TV.”

Each production episode will feature behind-the-scenes footage and cast and crew interviews. “I’m going to encourage the actors and production team to speak the truth to the camera, whatever they’re thinking. This will only be fun if it’s a warts and all look at the making of a low budget horror film – a real low budget horror film, not a $3 million flick.”

In another SCM news, Lamberson announced that Troma Team founder Lloyd Kaufman will have a cameo in the film. “This is a celebration of 1980s horror flicks, so I couldn’t leave Troma out of the mix. I was literally debating how to reference TOXIC AVENGER when Debbie Rochon told me Lloyd might be willing to do a cameo. What better reference is there than that? So I created a bit for him that his fans should find spectacular. We’re really pleased that he decided to give us some of his time.”

SLIME CITY MASSACRE stars Rochon, Lee Perkins, Kealan Patrick Burke, Jennifer Bihl, Robert Sabin. Brooke Lewis and Roy Frumkes. The film is being produced by Marc J. Makowski and executive produced by horror writer John Maclay. Production is scheduled to wrap on August 2^nd.

www.slimeguy.com

For Immediate Release

Season of Rot: A Collection of Five Zombie Novellas from Eric S Brown

Following hot on the heels of Mr. Brown’s latest release War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts, and Zombies, the master of the zombie short story unleashes five new longer tales of undead terror upon the world.

Included in the collection are the title novella, expanded versions of The Queen and The Wave, a novella of supernatural zombie terror entitled Rats, and Dead West. The novella Dead West is set in the days shortly following the American Civil War as the United States are once again divided, this time along the Mississippi River, as the dead began to rise and eat the flesh of the living in the Old West.

The Dead West novella was also picked up by Post Mortem Comics as an ongoing series which kicks off this October.

Advance blurbs of praise for the book:

“FAST, FURIOUS, AND STRAIGHT OUT OF YOUR WORST NIGHTMARES.” - Greg F. Gifune, author of Children of Chaos

“A whirlwind of talent, dedication, and good old fashioned scares.”- Brian Keene, author The Rising

“[These tales] would give even George Romero nightmares.”- Tony Smith, editor of Flashes in the Dark

Season of Rot is set to be published on July 15th, 2009.

For more on Season of Rot, please visit www.permutedpress.com

Images of the book's cover may be found here-

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Or a small one here:

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The World More Full of Weeping by Bestseller Robert J. Wiersema Caps Off ChiZine Publications’ Five-Book Rush

TORONTO, Ontario (July 6, 2009) – ChiZine Publications announces that Robert J. Wiersema’s The World More Full of Weeping, his first book since the bestseller Before I Wake, is now available for pre-order in limited edition hardcover.

When 11-year-old Brian Page disappears in the woods, the community rallies around his family, sending searchers into the forest. But things take an ominous turn when his father is reminded that he disappeared into the same woods a quarter century earlier, an incident of which he has no memory. What secrets lie in the mysterious forest? Will Brian follow in his father’s footsteps, and emerge shaking into the arms of his family, or will he be claimed by the eternal twilight of the trees?

The book also includes an essay by the author called “Places and Names,” and the short story “The Small Rain Down”, which also takes place in the novella’s setting of the town of Henderson, that will only be available in the hardcover edition. All hardcovers will be signed by the author and cover artist Erik Mohr.

The World More Full of Weeping caps off a five-book rush during 2009 to have books available prior to Anticipation, the World Science Fiction Convention, which will take place in Montreal in early August. In addition to The World More Full of Weeping, ChiZine Publications will be publishing:

• The Tel Aviv Dossier by Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv
• The Choir Boats by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
• Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière
• Monstrous Affections by David Nickle

The trade paperback editions of all five books will be officially launched at Anticipation during an event Saturday night (August 8). Though some of the trade paperbacks will not be publicly available until later in the fall, all five books will be available for sale (along with other CZP titles Filaria by Brent Hayward, and Horror Story and Other Horror Stories by Robert Boyczuk). Authors of all five books will be attending the launch and available to sign copies. Full details of the launch can be found at http://www.chizine.com/chizinepub/announcements/worldcon-launch-party.php.

Pre-orders for The World More Full of Weeping can be placed on the Horror Mall website at http://www.horror-mall.com/THE-WORLD-MORE-FULL-OF-WEEPING-by-Robert-J.-Wiersema-Limited-Edition-p-19363.html. The print run for the hardcover edition will be limited to those orders received. Orders must be placed by mid-August, 2009.

More information about The World More Full of Weeping can be found at: http://www.chizine.com/chizinepub/books/world-more-full-weeping.php.

A hi-res image of the cover for use in articles and posts can be downloaded from: http://www.imagebam.com/image/b4807839356023.

Contact
Brett Alexander Savory, Publisher
ChiZine Publications
http://chizinepub.com
savory@rogers.com

About ChiZine Publications
ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent, invite-only publisher of weird, subtle, surreal and disturbing dark fiction. It is the book-length, print version outgrowth of ChiZine (www.chizine.com), an online professional market in operation since 1997 focused on the same type of story material. All of CZP’s publications are hand-picked by Bram Stoker Award winners Brett Alexander Savory (Publisher) and Sandra Kasturi (Senior Editor). Erik Mohr serves as cover artist with publicity by Matthew Moore.