Some people have been asking "when will there be a new book, Rob?"
The following press release answers part of that question…
ChiZine Publications (CZP) has released the slate of books it will be looking to publish in 2009. They include the novel The Choir Boats by Daniel Rabuzzi, the collections Monstrous Affections by David Nickle, Objects of Worship by Claude Lalumière, and an untitled collection by Douglas Smith. Novellas by Nick Kaufmann and Robert Wiersema are also planned.
“Our goal is to get three of these books — Claude’s, David’s, and Robert’s — out for WorldCon in Montreal this August,” says Brett Alexander Savory, CZP Publisher and Bram Stoker Award winner. “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.”
As with CZP’s first three books — Brent Hayward’s Filaria, Robert Boyczuk’s Horror Story and Other Horror Stories, and Lavie Tidhar and Nir Yaniv’s The Tel Aviv Dossier — all will be released in signed, limited-edition hardcovers, with trade paperbacks to follow several months later.
Which makes me very happy indeed. I'm thrilled to be being published by CZP — a scrappy new indie publisher that believes in high quality from top to bottom — and delighted that the novella is making it out into the world in a lasting form…
The novella in question has been referred to in these pages as "Lost Boys", but that won't be the final title (apparently when people hear those two words, they're more inclined to think of Kiefer Sutherland and cheesy 80s vampires than … well, anything else).