ChiZine Publications (CZP) has announced their plans to publish five books this year: one novel, three collections, and two stand-alone novells. On the 2009 schedule are:
The Choir Boats by Daniel Rabuzzi (novel)
Monstrous Affections by David Nickle (collection)
Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière (collection)
an untitled collection by Douglas Smith
an untitled novella by Nick Kaufmann
an untitled novella by Robert Wiersema
“Our goal is to get three of these books—Claude’s, David’s, and Robert’s—out for WorldCon in Montreal this August,” says CZP Publisher Brett Alexander Savory. “At the same time, as an invite-only press, cover art, production quality, and thorough editing are our top concerns. We will never rush something out.” All the books will be released as signed, limited-edition hardcovers, with trade paperbacks to follow several months later.
David Nickle is a Bram Stoker Award winner who co-wrote his previous novel, The Claus Effect, with Karl Schroeder.
Nicholas Kaufmann is a Bram Stoker Award nominee and editor of the Shirley Jackson Awards’ fundraising anthology Jack Haringa Must Die!
Claude Lalumière is a Montreal writer and editor with eight anthologies to his credit, including Tesseracts Twelve.
Douglas Smith is an award-winning Toronto writer with over 100 short story credits in 28 languages and 22 countries. His first collection, Impossibilia, is available from PS Publishing. A short film based on his story “By Her Hand, She Draws You Down” is currently in post-production with TinyCore Pictures.
Daniel A. Rabuzzi studied folklore and mythology in college and graduate school, and keeps one foot firmly in the Other Realm. His fiction and poetry have appeared in Sybil’s Garage, Shimmer, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Scheherezade’s Bequest.
Robert J. Wiersema is a bookseller and reviewer, who contributes regularly to The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, and numerous other newspapers. Wiersema is also the events coordinator for Bolen Books. He lives in Victoria, B.C., with his wife, Cori Dusmann, and their son, Xander.