Norilana Books

Rich Horton (ecbatan) gives a great thoughtful overview to various Norilana Books anthologies over at Fantasy Magazine:

"But perhaps most notable about Norilana's list is their support of short fiction. They are putting out no fewer than four annual anthology series..." —Rich Horton, Fantasy Magazine

Read the rest of the roundup . . .

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Teresa Howard.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Dave Smeds...

Read the previous interview with Helen E. Davis...

Read the previous interview with Melissa Mead...

Read the previous interview with Therese Arkenberg...

Read the previous interview with Michael H. Payne...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

At last!

It's coming in a matter of days from the Curiosities imprint of Norilana Books!

MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love,
and Other Dire Delights

by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Dave Smeds.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Helen E. Davis...

Read the previous interview with Melissa Mead...

Read the previous interview with Therese Arkenberg...

Read the previous interview with Michael H. Payne...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

. . .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Norilana Books presents The Captain's Witch, a stunning, erotic, dark epic fantasy by the acclaimed historical novelist Rosemary Hawley Jarman, newly revised and expanded, and detailing the complex story of true love and impossible evil.

"One of the greatest dark fantasies ever written -- in any genre." — Tanith Lee

The Captain's Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman




Her kiss can maim you
Her eyes can blind you
Her bed is shadows . . .

She is the dark of the moon
She is all that is dear
And she is death

Can you trust her?
Where will her lantern lead you?
To the bliss of death
Or the death of bliss

Know the most dangerous of all . . .

Rosemary Hawley Jarman was born in Worcester, England and came to fame in 1971 with her novel We Speak No Treason. Reprinted many times, the book's hero is the much maligned King Richard III. It sold 30,000 copies in its first week of publication, and gained her the prestigious Author's Club Silver Quill for best first novel, while in the U.S.A. she was nominated as a Daughter of Mark Twain. Further equally successful novels followed, also an illustrated account of the Battle of Agincourt. She lives in an antique stone cottage between sea and mountain in West Wales. The Captain's Witch is her first fantasy novel, and she is now working on a sequel.

Her website is: www.rosemaryhawleyjarman.com


The Captain's Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Norilana Books Fantasy
420 pages

Trade Hardcover (Revised and Excpanded Edition)
November 1, 2009
Retail Price: $27.95 USD - £20.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-045-7
ISBN-10: 1-60762-045-6

Trade Paperback (Revised and Excpanded Edition)
November 5, 2009
Retail Price: $14.95 USD - £10.50 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-046-4
ISBN-10: 1-60762-046-4

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Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

Publishers Weekly gives a great review to the upcoming fantasy anthology Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress XXIV edited by Elisabeth Waters coming November 15, 2009:

"Waters ably continues the feminist anthology series founded by Bradley (1930–1999) to showcase short-form fantasy with a wide variety of heroic female characters . . . fantasy fans looking for original stories will find much to enjoy." —Publishers Weekly

Read the rest of the review . . .

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Helen E. Davis.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Melissa Mead...

Read the previous interview with Therese Arkenberg...

Read the previous interview with Michael H. Payne...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

We're proud to announce another Norilana Books Starred Review from Publishers Weekly for one of our titles:

Night's Master by Tanith Lee

"Lush imagery, sensual language and erotic undertones age well in this reprinted classic—as complex, seductive, and daring now as when it first came out in 1978 . . . this fantasy continues to push boundaries and challenge expectations."

— Publishers Weekly Starred Review

CONGRATULATIONS to our ever-brilliant author Tanith Lee!

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Melissa Mead.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Therese Arkenberg...

Read the previous interview with Michael H. Payne...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

Vera Nazarian and Norilana Books are interviewed by Rebecca Buchanan over at Sequential Tart.

Here's a snippet from the interview:

. . .
Romantic fantasy is something in-between — in fact, it's kind of like real life: life is not a love story but a personal growth and struggle story, as most fantasy plots are. We all have major life goals, and obstacles to overcome, and somewhere along the way we might find people who we love and who love us, and who accompany us in our greater struggles and life journeys (the plot).

Thus, the best romantic fantasy recognizes the strength of love in our lives and rejoices in it, but not to the exclusion of other important personal / social / universal goals . . .

Read the rest of the interview . . .

Sneak Peek Cover...

The Captain's Witch by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

Coming November 1, 2009 from Norilana Books Fantasy.

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Trade paperback cover flat:



Hardcover wraparound jacket:

(Here is yet another unedited snippet from the work-in-progress, subject to revision in the final version...)

EXCERPT 4...

The butler cleared his throat.

“Begging pardon, Sir Thomas -- at this late hour, the Lady Bertram sends to inform -- there are -- baboons in the ballroom.”

Sir Thomas was somewhat weary of interruptions but duly unperturbed. “Baddeley -- be so kind as to remind Her Ladyship, every ballroom has its share of baboons. There is nothing one can do, when those of inferior breeding are allowed to mingle with the better set. One need but revise the regular invitation list to omit the undesirables next time. Do remind me on the morrow --”

“Begging pardon again, but one does not mean to speak in metaphor. There are actual baboons in the grand ballroom. Flesh and blood, simian. As early as this noon, perfectly inanimate and on display in this household, together with the other fruits of the Nile, as mummified objets d'art. At present, actively consuming the supper buffet spread. And tossing their own excrement at the serving staff.”


Sir Thomas became rather still.

“In addition,” Baddeley informed his master, “I am told there is a crocodile. A decidedly non-metaphorical one. Also initially mummified and hailing from the African Continent. Last seen in the drawing room, gnawing -- apparently something one would rather not venture to guess. But, I am told, the divan is in shambles.”

“What of -- the guests?”

“Bedlam, Sir.”
...

MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES:
Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses,
True Love, and Other Dire Delights
by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

Read additional excerpts here...

Forthcoming November 10, 2009 from the Curiosities imprint of Norilana Books.

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Therese Arkenberg.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Michael H. Payne...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

. . .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Norilana Books presents Under the Rose, a new cutting-edge anthology of contemporary stories of the fantastic, edited by Dave Hutchinson, featuring work from some of today's brightest literary talents.

"...a handful of real gems." — Publishers Weekly

Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson



From fantasy to dark fantasy and horror to science fiction and the hard-to-categorize works of the imagination that fall somewhere in-between, there is something here to appeal to the most curious reader.

This volume includes stories by:

Pauline E Dungate, Tim Lieder, William John Watkins, Mel Sterling, Jean Graham, Ken Rand, Teri Smith, Liza Granville, Ralan Conley, Stuart Jaffe, CL Russo, James Targett, Ren Holton, Donna Scott, Justin Stanchfield, Lou Anders and Chris Roberson, Ian Whates, Gaie Sebold, Jean Tschohl Quinn, Angel Arango, Ekaterina Sedia, Edwina Harvey, Sarah Totton, William R Eakin, Uncle River, and John Grant.

Dave Hutchinson was born in Sheffield in 1960. He's the author of the novel The Villages and the short-story collections Thumbprints, Fools Gold, Torn Air, The Paradise Equation and As The Crow Flies. He's the co-editor (with John Grant) of Strange Pleasures 2 and the editor of Strange Pleasures 3. His short stories have appeared in Interzone, SciFiction, Revolution SF, Infinity Plus, Live Without A Net (Lou Anders, ed.) Celebration (Ian Whates, ed.) and Subterfuge (Ian Whates, ed.)
He lives in London.


Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson
Norilana Books Fantasy
Trade Paperback (First Edition)
October 1, 2009
Retail Price: $16.95 USD - £12.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-042-6
ISBN-10: 1-60762-042-1
452 pages

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Order Your Copy:

- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Amazon UK
- Amazon CA
- Amazon FR
- Amazon DE
- Amazon JP

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Norilana Books has come to another seven-book agreement with the legendary British novelist Tanith Lee to reprint two of her classic high fantasy epic trilogies of novels, the Birthgrave Trilogy and The Wars of Vis sequence, plus one original.

This includes the novels THE BIRTHGRAVE, VAZKOR, SON OF VAZKOR, and QUEST FOR THE WHITE WITCH, and, in The Wars of Vis sequence, THE STORM LORD, ANACKIRE, and THE WHITE SERPENT, plus one new previously unpublished, untitled original sequel to conclude the Wars of Vis sequence. The books will be released starting in 2010, from the dedicated TaLeKa imprint.

Tanith Lee is the author of 77 novels, 14 collections, and almost 300 short stories, plus 4 radio plays (broadcast by the BBC) and 2 scripts for the TV cult UK SF series Blake's 7. Her work, which has been translated into over 17 languages, ranges through fantasy, SF, gothic, YA and children's books, contemporary, historical and detective novels, and horror. This year she was awarded the prestigious title of Grand Master of Horror 2009. Major awards include the August Derleth Award for DEATH'S MASTER, the second book in the Flat Earth series.

TaLeKa is a new dedicated imprint of Norilana Books, showcasing the works of Tanith Lee and the art of John Kaiine.

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 250 books in print, Norilana Books specializes in beautifully packaged hardcover and trade paperback classics of world literature, quality fantasy, science fiction, romance and women's fiction, and young adult titles. For more information visit http://www.norilana.com/

Contact:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service (at) norilana.com - http://www.norilana.com/
Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

In a regular series of annual interviews of the contributors to the classic Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress series of anthologies, Jonathan Moeller jonathanmoeller continues this year's interviews for volume 24 by interviewing Michael H. Payne hyniof.

Read this week's new interview here...

Read the previous interview with Deborah J. Ross...

Excellent author, artist, publisher, and editor Erzebet YellowBoy (erzebet) does a lovely review at Cabinet Des Fées of the debut collection Returning My Sister's Face by Eugie Foster (eugie):

"Lovers of fairy and folk tales who crave, as I do, stories from cultures not their own will delight in these deceptively simple tales. They are layered with tragedy and superstition, with spirituality and most importantly, with a fine sense of the marvelous..."

Read the rest of the review...

Listen to this very interesting podcast, The Sofanauts NO 24, where Clockwork Phoenix editor Mike Allen (time_shark) gets to chat at length about some wild and crazy things with Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremy Tolbert, and host Tony C Smith.

It's not to be missed. :-)

Publishers Weekly gives a mixed review to the upcoming speculative fiction anthology Under the Rose edited by Dave Hutchinson (hutch0) coming October 1, 2009:

"The quality of the 27 original short stories in this fantasy anthology is wildly inconsistent, but there are a handful of real gems..." —Publishers Weekly

Read the rest of the review...

Proudly presenting the stellar lineup...

This is the Table of Contents for Lace and Blade 3 edited by Deborah J. Ross deborahjross:

LACE AND BLADE 3

Table of Contents

Kari Sperring, "Featherweight"
Sean McMullen, "Culverelle"
Sheila Finch, "Fortune's Stepchild"
Judith Tarr, "The Horned King"
Jay Lake & Shannon Page, "Embers"
Tanith Lee, "Question a Stone"
Dave Smeds, "A Swain of Kneaded Moonlight"
Rosemary Hawley Jarman, "Fire and Frost and Burning Rose"
K. D. Wentworth, "The Garden of Swords"
Diana L. Paxson, "Blue Velvet"
Samantha Henderson, "Outlander"
Carol Berg, "The Heart's Coda"


Also, I realize we did not have a reading period for this anthology, and for that I sincerely apologize to all of you, mea culpa. The editor and I had a mis-communication, and it ended up being an invitational volume this year.

Next year should be different!