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PRESS RELEASE: Norilana Books Introduces TaLeKa, the Tanith Lee Imprint
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Norilana Books is proud to announce TaLeKa, a unique new imprint dedicated solely to the publication of the works of Tanith Lee, and showcasing the artistic design talents of artist John Kaiine.

TaLeKa titles will include both original and reprint works of the much-acclaimed and award winning British author, and various joint creative projects with her husband and artist John Kaiine. The debut title, classic reprint Night's Master, the first of the Flat Earth books, is scheduled for a September 2009 release.

Official website: http://www.tanithlee.com/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 150 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/


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[info]blogofstench
2008-05-22 01:52 pm UTC (link)
What a coup for Norilana! The Flat Earth books are a magisterial achievement, but sorely underappreciated. I hope you guys can get the word out to more readers.

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[info]norilanabooks
2008-05-22 06:52 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, and I am supremely excited and honored to be doing this with Tanith and John. Please do pass on the word to everyone you know, every bit of word of mouth helps! :-)

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[info]ethereal_lad
2008-05-22 02:36 pm UTC (link)
Wow!

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[info]norilanabooks
2008-05-22 06:53 pm UTC (link)
*grin*

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[info]avengangle
2008-05-22 03:04 pm UTC (link)
Awesome! What a win!

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[info]norilanabooks
2008-05-22 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! :-)

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[info]psycheinhell
2008-05-22 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh my, this is awesome ! You made my day on that one !

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[info]norilanabooks
2008-05-22 06:53 pm UTC (link)
Glad to make your day with this kind of news! :-) Mine too!

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[info]zhai
2008-05-22 06:10 pm UTC (link)
Very cool. I'm really looking forward to the work of hers that you're publishing -- the short story collection especially.

Having just found myself in possession of a Kindle, I was wondering, from a publisher standpoint, what's your view on Kindle editions? I'm finding that the bulk of available books is in the 'recent out of print' category, books from ~2003 that can safely be determined not to be sapping revenue from print sales -- there's hesitation on just about everything else in the modern market.

I noticed, though, that you have work available for Kindle download! Will the Norilana books (Clockwork Phoenix, Tanith Lee's work) be available for Kindle when they go into print publication? What are your thoughts on the cost/benefit of the Kindle downloads and potential revenue from them?

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[info]norilanabooks
2008-05-22 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Thanks and I look forward to many exciting projects ahead of us.

Now, as far as Kindle -- and other e-book venues and formats -- I do expect to start doing that eventually, but right now I am still getting the company growing and established with regular paper editions.

Not sure what you mean when you say I have work available for Kindle download. Hmm, do you mean my own books? Because I had nothing to do with that -- the Kindle editions of my own stuff are third party deals, probably (and here I am guessing) through Fictionwise.

One of these days when things slow down a bit I am going to do the e-books for all the original Norilana titles. It may be hard to imagine but for the moment Norilana Books is just... me. One person doing everything. *grin* (Though, I must say I have awesome anthology editors who do their thing very well!)

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[info]zhai
2008-05-22 10:09 pm UTC (link)
Ahh, yes, it must have been a deal through Fictionwise that put work of yours in the Kindle stores: http://www.amazon.com/I-Want-Paint-Sky/dp/B000FBJ9GU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1211494078&sr=1-1 .

That's an interesting insight into the Kindle process all by itself -- that that could happen without you, as the author, knowing about it. But I guess that's because Fictionwise already has those electronic rights. Still.

I can certainly understand it being too much overhead for right now. Chalk it up to my Kindle enthusiasm and resulting disinclination to purchase paper books. ;)

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[info]delage82
2008-05-22 11:50 pm UTC (link)
This is really, really good news, you really made my day with this, as Lee is a very underappreciated writer IMHO. The Flat Earth series is her masterpiece so it's good to see it re-released with new glorious cover art by John Kaiine. Hope to see new books from her too! Thanks a lot.

Waaay offtopic but, I just saw that you have a science fiction imprint, I was wondering if there was any way to acquire the rights to another of my favourite female writers, V. C. Andrews. She left an unpublished manuscript after her death called Gods Of Green Mountain, a science fiction novel, which was released as an ebook through simonsays.com years ago. As I hate reading ebooks and prefer much more the real deal, I never bought it. since there's a lot of fan interest in releasing the book on paper, could you try releasing that? That would make my day again!

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Thank you so much!!
[info]auliya_p
2008-05-23 11:39 am UTC (link)
This is the greatest news I've heard in a while. I've been a fan of Tanith Lee's for 15 years and the hardest thing is finding her older work. Two Things I'd like to see published that the fans have been waiting for: Greyglass, the 4th Scarabae novel.

She has a great following, I think you've made a great decision.

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