Horror fiction news from ChiZine, y/a vampire author Lucienne Diver, and Andre Duza

Press release:
From ChiZine Publications
Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière Available in Limited Edition Hardcover

TORONTO, Ontario (April 30, 2009) – Independent publisher ChiZine Publications has released a collection of twelve short stories by Montreal writer and editor Claude Lalumière titled Objects of Worship. This collection will be available in a special edition hardcover for a limited time.

Called “the debut of a highly original voice in fantastic fiction” by Jan Lars Jensen, this collections contains stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies such as On Spec, Year's Best SF, Interzone, Electric Velocipede, and Tesseracts Eleven as well as the previously unpublished “The Darkness at the Heart of the World” and “Roman Predator’s Chimeric Odyssey.” This volume also features interior illustrations by Rupert Bottenberg (Claude's Lost Myths collaborator), an introduction by World Fantasy Award-winning author James Morrow, and an afterword by the author.

In addition, the hardcover will contain two bonus stories of extreme horror/humour: Claude's tribute to Iggy Pop, “The World's Forgotten Boy and the Scorpions from Hell,” and its sequel, “Motherfucker.” Also unique to the hardcover edition is a mosaic of ‘Objects of Worship’ icons by illustrator Rupert Bottenberg on the back cover.

All copies of the hardcovers will be signed by the author, Bottenberg, and cover artist Erik Mohr.

Orders can be placed on the Horror Mall website at http://horror-mall.com/OBJECTS-OF-WORSHIP-by-Claude-Lalumiere-Limited-Edition-p-19228.html. The print run for this book will be limited to those orders received.

More information can be found at: http://www.chizine.com/chizinepub/books/objects-of-worship.php

A hi-res image of the cover for use in articles and posts can be downloaded from: http://www.imagebam.com/image/06ad2734093370/

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.



Press release
VAMPED by Lucienne Diver

May 1, 2009
Trade Paperback from Flux
ISBN: 9780738714745

Get VAMPED in 2009!
Local Author…

Lucienne Diver is a long-time book addict who went to work for Spectrum Literary Agency fifteen years ago to feed her habit. Recently, she traded in her high-rise for a lake view. She now lives in Florida and works for The Knight Agency (www.knightagency.net). Through various play-dates and in various coffee bars, on the backs of envelopes, carry-out bags and anything else within reach, including, sometimes, her checkbook, she's penned the serio-comic tale of what happens when a young fashionista goes from chic to eek.



Brief excerpt and description

From “Valley Vamp Rules for Surviving Your Senior Prom” by VAMPED heroine Gina Covello:

Rule #1: Do not get so loaded at the after prom party that you accidentally-on-purpose end up in the broom closet with the surprise hottie of the evening, say the class chess champ who’s somewhere lost his bottle-cap lenses and undergone an extreme makeover, especially if that makeover has anything to do with becoming one of the undead.

Gina Covello has a problem. Waking up a dead is just the beginning. There's very little she can't put up with for the sake of eternal youth and beauty. Blood-sucking and pointy stick phobias seem a small price to pay. But she draws the line when local vampire vixen Mellisande gets designs on her hot new boyfriend with his prophecied powers and hatches a plot to turn all of Gina’s fellow students into an undead army to be used to overthrow the vampire council.

Hey, if anyone's going to create an undead entourage, it should be Gina! Now she must unselfishly save her classmates from fashion disaster and her own fanged fate.



What people are saying:

"VAMPED is a total delight! Diver delivers a delightful cast of undead characters and a fresh, fast take on the vampire mythos. Next installment, please!" — Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series

"I really sunk my teeth into Lucienne Diver's VAMPED. A fun, frothy, teenage romp with lots of action, a little shopping, and a cute vampire guy. Who could ask for more?" — Marley Gibson, author of GHOST HUNTRESS: The Awakening

“This book rollicked along, full of humor, romance, and action. Gina is a smart-aleck heroine worth reading about, a sort of teenage Betsy Taylor (Undead and Unwed) with a lot of Cher Horowitz (Clueless) thrown in. Fans of Katie Maxwell will devour "Vamped." — Rosemary Clement-Moore, author of the Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil series

"Move over Buffy! Lucienne Diver tranfuses some fresh blood into the vampire genre. Fiesty, fashionable and fun--Vamped is a story readers will sink their teeth into and finish thirsty for more." —Mari Mancusi, author of The Blood Coven Vampires series

Websites:
Publisher: www.fluxnow.com
Author: www.luciennediver.com
Author blog: http://varkat.livejournal.com


News item:
Interview with Author Andre Duza on Ain’t it cool News

AICN Comics’ Ambush Bug interviews Duza about his new graphic novel, Hollow-Eyed Mary, and his ongoing battle with shady business partners who nearly derailed the project completely. Follow the link to check it out: AICN Interview

News from Angry Robot, Dark Discoveries, and Papercutz

From Angry Robot
J Robert King & Andy Remic sign to Angry Robot
ANGRY ROBOT have been busy signing more brilliant authors for its upcoming SF/F/WTF?!
imprint, due to launch in July 2009. No flannel, here they are...
Award-winning US author J ROBERT KING has been snapped up for two novels brimming with
wild creativity and extraordinary ideas. He calls his books “metaphysical suspense” – don’t
worry, that just means they blow your imagination apart while at the same time freezing your
blood.
Rob’s debut for Angry Robot, the fabulously named THE ANGEL OF DEATH, does exactly that.
The Grim Reaper becomes strangely fascinated with a human cop investigating the deaths
caused by a serial killer that Death has been following. But Death is a killer too, of course, and
is not above the law. It’ll be published in the UK, US and Australia in September 2009, as a
mass-market paperback.
This will be followed early next year by DEATH’S DISCIPLES. The sole survivor of a terrorist
attack on a plane starts to hear the voices of the dead passengers. But what they’re telling her
is far worse than what she’s suffered already.
King’s recent Sherlock Holmes novel for Tor, The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls, attracted a
mass of critical attention, as did his Mad Merlin trilogy for the same publisher. And he can ride a
unicycle, though maybe not while typing. Find out more at jrobertking.com
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From the UK, meanwhile, we’re delighted and just a little scared to welcome ANDY REMIC to
our ravening horde. His reputation as the hard man of British SF is well-deserved. Now he’s
taking the tough guy stylings of Quake, Spiral and his recent Combat-K novels into fantasy, for
a brand new trilogy that sees him, in one mighty bound, become the natural successor to the
much-missed David Gemmell.
KELL’S LEGEND, due September 2009 in mass-market paperback, introduces Kell, grizzled
veteran warrior much at odds with a civilised world where humanity has become soft. When a
new foe arises to threaten the city of Jalder, only Kell remembers that to live, you have to fight,
and fight dirty. But how can one man hold off against the Vachine, the terrifying clockwork
vampires of legend?
SF Signal said this about Remic’s books: “A roller-coaster of fun... fun and fast-paced @$$-
kicking action.”
Fantasy Book Critic agreed: ”Every once in a while a novel comes along that surprises the hell
out of you. That was the case with “War Machine” by Andy Remic. Imagine my surprise when
“War Machine” became my favorite science fiction novel of the year. Yes, you heard correctly.
Gary Gibson’s “Stealing Light”, Peter F Hamilton’s “The Dreaming Void”, Neal Asher’s
“Hilldiggers”, Josh Conviser’s “Empyre”, Richard K. Morgan’s “Black Man/Thirteen”, Matthew
Jarpe’s “Radio Freefall”; “War Machine” topped them all and no one is more shocked than I am!
...I loved every testosterone-fuelled second.”
Join the battle at andyremic.com
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More information on Angry Robot can be found at angryrobotbooks.com.
For answers to questions, review copies, interview and feature requests, please contact Lee
Harris at lee.harris@angryrobotbooks.com or +44 (0)115 845 6551.



From Dark Discoveries
So I've been a little bit quiet, but fear not as Dark Discoveries is still alive and kicking. Not only that, but we have been working like mad on a completely new face for Dark Discoveries magazine. So here it is!

To start off, we're adding color to the covers and increasing the scope to include a focus on movies, TV and comics. We've also got some of the biggest contributors we've ever have coming up in the pages of the next few issues. Topping it off, Dark Discoveries has a brand new website and a new newsletter to boot. There's the cover for issue #13, which is a special Tribute issue for Forrest J. Ackerman (with an interview with Ray Bradbury; tributes to Forry by John Landis, Joe Dante, Ray Harryhausen, William Nolan; and more!) and a new blog talking about upcoming ones. We'll be heading to the printer very soon on this one. Here's the link:
www.darkdiscoveries.com
Please scroll down and sign up for our newsletter. Anybody who does will receive a coupon for 10% off anything in the DD store as a special thank you.

Tales from the Crypt meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Taking aim at super-popular book series Tales from the Crypt meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid
TFTC #13 presents “Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid” and “Guitar Demon”
News from Papercutz publicist David Seidman (davidseidman@earthlink.net / 310-652-4369)
Tales from the Crypt #13, on the stands in July, digs into one of the most in-demand pop-culture
phenomena: the stunningly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid graphic novels.

The Stinky Dead Kid -- Tales’ version of the Wimpy Kid --appears in two stories. “Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid” explains exactly how he became a Stinky Dead Kid, and “Guitar Demon”
(a satire on the computer game Guitar Hero) pits him into battle with a popular musical toy possessed by an evil entity.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, featuring middle-school loser Greg Heffley, started as a Web series
that’s attracted more than 20 million viewers -- roughly 70,000 per day. The first Wimpy Kid
book hit #1 on the New York Times’ children’s best-seller list, and the other two in the series
have sold comparably well. Fox has announced that it is developing the books into a movie.
Tales from the Crypt #13 is written by Stefan Petrucha and Jim Salicrup and drawn by
Rick Parker. It’s a full-color, 48-page comic book, cover-priced at $3.95.
You can order Tales from the Crypt
through NBM Publishing at 800-886-1223.
SEE PREVIEWS AND MORE AT
WWW.PAPERCUTZ.COM
You can order through NBM Publishing at
800-886-1223.
Visit Papercutz’s web site
(http://www.papercutz.com),
blog (http://papercutz.com/blog/)
and MySpace page
(http://www.myspace.com/papercutzcomics).

From Angry Robot

Angry Robot Signs Dan Abnett
Angry Robot is HarperCollins’ upcoming imprint devoted to all that’s new in genre fiction – SF, F
and WTF?! Today, we are delighted to announce we’ve signed noted SF & Fantasy author DAN
ABNETT for three original novels, for a substantial five-figure advance.
Dan Abnett made his name in the tie-in SF and Fantasy fiction field, selling more than 1.2
million copies in English language of his Warhammer 40,000 novels. They’ve also been
translated into ten other languages. He’s also recently made the UK fiction charts with original
Torchwood and Doctor Who novels. His comicbook scripts, for major publishers such as Marvel,
DC Comics and the UK’s 2000 AD, have attracted critical plaudits and strong sales on both sides
of the Atlantic.
The three novels for Angry Robot will allow Abnett to play to all his strengths as a writer. His
penchant for wildly imaginative world-building and lovable characters comes to the fore in
TRIUMPH, a ribald historical fantasy set in a warped version of our present day … only with
Elizabeth the First on the throne. This will be published by Angry Robot, in both the UK and US,
in October 2009.
Next year will see two novels in a stunning new future-war setting. EMBEDDED sends a
journalist into the frontline of a distant planetary war… chipped inside the head of a combat
veteran. When the soldier is killed, the journo must use all his resourcefulness to get safely
home again, reporting on a live feed all the way. No one writes future war as well as Dan
Abnett, and fans of tie-in series such as “Gaunt’s Ghosts” and his “Horus Heresy” novels will be
blown away by this bold new move into original science fiction.
Dan Abnett’s bonkers website and popular blog can be found at www.danabnett.com.
More information on Angry Robot can be found at www.angryrobotbooks.com.
For answers to questions, review copies, interview and feature requests, please contact Lee
Harris at lee.harris@angryrobotbooks.com or +44 (0)115 845 6551.