Norilana Books

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Norilana Books has acquired the exciting debut short fiction collection Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice by award-winning author Eugie Foster (eugie). The title is scheduled for a trade hardcover release from Norilana Books Fantasy in March, 2009.

Enchantment, peril and romance pervade the shadowy Far East, from the elegant throne room of the emperor's palace to the humble teahouse of a peasant village. In these dozen stories of adventure and magic from the Orient, a maiden encounters an oni demon in the forest, a bride discovers her mother-in-law is a fox woman, a samurai must appease his sister's angry ghost, strange luck is found in a jade locket, and dark and light are two sides of harmony.

Eugie Foster received the Phobos Award and been nominated for the British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Pushcart awards. Her publication credits number over 100 and include stories in Realms of Fantasy, The 3rd Alternative, Interzone, Cricket, Cicada, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Jim Baen's Universe, and anthologies Best New Fantasy (Wildside Press), Heroes in Training (DAW Books), Magic in the Mirrorstone (Wizards of the Coast/Mirrorstone Books), and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2 (Juno Books). Her articles and interviews have appeared in Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, Writing-World, and Absolute Write. Her fiction has been translated into Greek, Hungarian, Polish, and French. She is also the editor of the short fiction and poetry review magazine, The Fix, published by TTA Press.

After receiving her master's degree in Psychology, Foster retired from academia and became a corporate computer drone. When her company asked her to leave the phantoms and fairies in the South and return to the dead-cold lands of the Midwest, she said "no" and retreated to her library to pen flights of fancy. She now lives in a mildly haunted, fey-infested house in Metro Atlanta that she shares with her husband, Matthew, and her pet skunk, Hobkin.

Official website: http://www.eugiefoster.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
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Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

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Norilana Books has acquired a striking poetry collection The Memory Palace by critically acclaimed poet and author JoSelle Vanderhooft (upstart_crow), a poetic memoir dealing with the raw themes of adolescence, pain, and the challenges of growing up gay, structured around the Renaissance mnemonic device of a building with rooms populated by thoughts and objects. The title is scheduled for a trade hardcover release from the Curiosities imprint in January 2009.

JoSelle Vanderhooft is the author of poetry collections The Minotaur's Last Letter to His Mother (Ash Phoenix), the 2007 Stoker-nominated Ossuary (Sam's Dot Publishing), Desert Songs (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2008), Tales Twice Told (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008), Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts and Monsters (VanZeno Press, forthcoming) and Death Masks (Papaveria Press, 2008), the novels The Tale of the Miller's Daughter (Papaveria Press) and Owl Skin (Papaveria Press, 2008) and a collection of short stories from Drollerie Press to be released in 2008.

Her poetry and fiction has appeared online and in print in a number of publications, including Cabinet des Fees, Star*Line, Mythic Delirium, Mythic, Jabberwocky, Helix, The Seventh Quarry and several others. An assistant editor of a newspaper by day, she lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Official website: http://www.joselle-vanderhooft.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
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Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

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Norilana Books has acquired Leaving Fortusa, a mind-blowing dystopian novel in ten episodes of the future of humanity by award-winning author John Grant. The title is scheduled for trade hardcover release in the fall of 2008.

John Grant is author of some seventy books, of which about twenty-five are fiction, including novels such as The World, Albion, The Hundredfold Problem, The Far-Enough Window, and The Dragons Of Manhattan. His "book-length fiction" Dragonhenge, illustrated by Bob Eggleton, was shortlisted for a Hugo Award in 2003; its successor was The Stardragons. His first story collection, Take No Prisoners, appeared in 2004.

He is editor of New Writings In The Fantastic and co-editor with John Clute of The Encyclopedia Of Fantasy, and wrote in their entirety all three editions of The Encyclopedia Of Walt Disney's Animated Characters; both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. Among his latest nonfictions have been Discarded Science and Corrupted Science; he is currently working on their companion volume, Bogus Science, on a book about film noir, and on "a cute rhyming book for kids about a velociraptor."

As John Grant he has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. Under his real name, Paul Barnett, he has written the space operas Strider's Galaxy and Strider's Universe, and for a number of years ran the world-famous fantasy-artbook imprint Paper Tiger, for this work earning a Chesley Award and a nomination for the World Fantasy Award. He is currently Consultant Editor to the publisher AAPPL (Artists' & Photographers' Press Ltd.).

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

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 140 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
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Catalog of Books in Print: http://www.norilana.com/norilana-catalog.htm
Blog: http://norilanabooks.livejournal.com/

We have acquired THE JOURNEY TO KAILASH, a poetry collection by Rhysling award winning poet, writer, and editor Mike Allen to be released from the Curiosities Imprint in June 2008.

We have acquired A COLD DAY IN HELL by virtuoso humorist and author Ken Rand, a quirky mainstream novel of outrageous humor, dark satire, and a surprising amount of heart, scheduled for February 2009, to be released under the main Norilana Books imprint.

Norilana Books has come to a seven-book agreement with the legendary British novelist Tanith Lee to reprint her classic Flat Earth Series of books which includes NIGHT'S MASTER, DEATH'S MASTER, DELUSION'S MASTER, DELIRIUM'S MISTRESS, NIGHT'S MYSTERIES, plus two new previously unpublished originals continuing the series -- short story collection THE EARTH IS FLAT and novel EARTH'S MASTER. The books will be released approximately starting in 2009.

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Norilana Books has acquired reprint rights to the memorably titled novel "J." by award-winning author William Sanders.

J. is the first "purely science fiction" serious novel written by Sanders (as opposed to alternate history for which he is best known). J. is both a psychological paean and an adventure love story of three very unusual women of grit, passion, and madness, whose paths cross, defying space and, just possibly, time.

The volume will be published in trade hardcover as the lead title from the Science Fiction Imprint of Norilana Books, in October 2007, followed by a trade paperback edition in November 2007.

William Sanders is the critically acclaimed author of over 20 books and numerous works of short fiction and articles, including The Ballad Of Billy Badass And The Rose Of Turkestan, A Death On 66, The Next Victim, The Wild Blue And The Gray, Are We Having Fun Yet?, Journey To Fusang, Smoke, and award-winning stories "The Undiscovered" and "Empire". He is a two-time winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and a multiple finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award, the Nebula, the Hugo, the Theodore Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Award. He is the senior editor of speculative fiction magazine Helix ( http://www.helixsf.com ) and lives in Oklahoma.
Official website: http://www.sff.net/people/sanders/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 80 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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Norilana Books has acquired A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, a collection of poetry and poetic prose on mythological and folkloric themes from Tiptree Award-winning novelist and poet Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna).

The volume will be published in hardcover and trade paperback as the lead title from the Curiosities Imprint of Norilana Books, in December 2007, in time for the holiday season.

Catherynne M. Valente is the author of novels The Orphan's Tales for which she received the 2007 Tiptree Award, The Labyrinth, The Grass-Cutting Sword, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, scholarly criticism, and a number of volumes of poetry on classical themes such as Apocrypha and Oracles: a Pilgrimage. Official website: http://www.catherynnemvalente.com/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 80 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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Norilana Books is proud to announce a new annual anthology series of fiction of the fantastic, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, to be edited by Mike Allen, with the first volume to be published under the Norilana Books Fantasy imprint in trade paperback format, in 2008.

The anthology's literary focus is on the high end, and it is open to the full range of the speculative and fantastic genres.

Editor Mike Allen says:

"Clockwork Phoenix is a home for stories that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the ways they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment in storytelling techniques. But experimentation is not a requirement: the stories in the anthology must be more than gimmicks, and should appeal to genuine emotions, suspense, fear, sorrow, delight, wonder...."

For more information, including submission guidelines, see:

http://www.clockworkphoenix.com

Cover image:

http://www.norilana.com/clockworkphoenix-mockup.jpg

Mike Allen is editor of the critically-acclaimed Mythic anthologies and of the poetry journal Mythic Delirium. He's edited four anthologies and authored four collections; his latest collection of poetry and fiction, Strange Wisdoms of the Dead, was a Philadelphia Inquirer Editor's Choice selection. His personal website is http://www.descentintolight.com. He can be found on LiveJournal at http://time-shark.livejournal.com (time_shark) and MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/time_shark.

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 70 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:

Mike Allen, Editor
clockworkphoenix (at) gmail.com
http://www.clockworkphoenix.com

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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Norilana Books has acquired Senrid, an original YA fantasy by Sherwood Smith, a novel of high adventure and strange magic in the tradition of Lloyd Alexander's Westmark and Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief. The novel will appear under the new YA Angst imprint.

Senrid is the much anticipated story of swashbuckling boys and girls, royal stakes, mysterious villains and breathtaking wonder set in the much-beloved fantasy world of Crown Duel and Inda.

Sherwood Smith (sartorias) has been writing about this milieu since age eight. Her first foray there, Crown Duel, is in its ninth printing. Other work includes the popular Wren series and Exordium series (with Dave Trowbridge), altogether more than twenty-five books published and translated into numerous languages. Visit her website at: http://www.sff.net/people/Sherwood/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 50 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 @ 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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Norilana Books is proud to announce that it has come to an agreement with the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust to publish the next original book in the classic anthology series Sword and Sorceress.

Sword And Sorceress is the long-running popular series of annual anthologies from DAW Books featuring sword and sorcery stories of strong female protagonists, warrior women and sorceresses, edited by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley for over two decades and beloved by generations of readers. The roster of writers "discovered" or published in Sword and Sorceress over the years reads like the "Who's Who" of genre publishing. The series has featured the writing of such authors as Laurell K. Hamilton, Mercedes Lackey, C. J. Cherryh, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Moon, Jennifer Roberson, Diana L. Paxson, Lawrence Schimel, Esther M. Friesner, Josepha Sherman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Deborah J. Ross, Charles Saunders, Lois Tilton, Syne Mitchell, Laura J. Underwood, Lisa Silverthorne, Dave Smeds, Jo Clayton, Patricia Duffy Novak, Mary Soon Lee, Lee Martindale, Dorothy J, Heydt, Cynthia McQuillin, Terry McGarry, Selina Rosen, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Linda J. Dunn, Jenn Reese, Rosemary Edghill, Jim C. Hines, and countless others who have gone on to become household names.

The last volume of the series, #21 was published by DAW after Mrs. Bradley's death, and the series concluded despite continued reader demand.

Now, the series resumes, with a brand-new volume of original stories expected to be published by Norilana Books in November 2007 in trade paperback format, to be titled MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY'S SWORD AND SORCERESS #22. The anthology will be edited by Elisabeth Waters, and will be open to author submissions starting March 23, 2007.

For more information, including writers' guidelines, reading period, final submissions deadline, and format instructions, please see:

http://mzbworks.home.att.net/s22.htm

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 50 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/

Contacts:

Vera Nazarian, Publisher
Norilana Books, P.O. Box 2188, Winnetka, CA 91396
service @ 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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Norilana Books has acquired rights to reprint three of Modean Moon's award-winning novels set in "Pitchlyn County," EVERMORE, A LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET and THE COVENANT.

Modean Moon is the critically acclaimed author of works of quality women's fiction, regionally flavored and with a thrilling hint of the supernatural. Her novels have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Romance Writers of America's RITA, OKRWA's National Readers Choice, and Oklahoma Writers' Federation's Teepee Award, as well as being finalists or nominees for the Holt Medallion and Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award.

Somewhere in Oklahoma, Ms. Moon, a six-pound dog, and a twelve-pound cat share a reputedly haunted house in the heart of an area she has lovingly drawn upon for her fictionalized Pitchlyn County. Visit her website at http://www.sff.net/people/MMoon/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 50 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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