Norilana Books

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Norilana Books is proud to announce a new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women, Warrior Wisewoman, to be edited by Roby James. The first volume is scheduled to be published under the Norilana Books Science Fiction imprint, in trade paperback format, in 2008.

Warrior Wisewoman is intended as a sister volume to the Sword and Sorceress fantasy series, with the main difference being that the story themes will involve science fiction instead of fantasy, and will be intended for a more mature audience.

Editor Roby James says:

"I am looking for stories that shed light on the truth of what it means to be female, that illuminate the wisdom and the strength of a woman.... I love action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists.... The stories should contain the question of 'what if' on some level. And they should have a woman answer it."

For more information, including submission guidelines, see:

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-ww-guidelines.htm

Cover image:

http://www.norilana.com/WarriorWisewoman-mock.jpg

Roby James is the author of Commencement (Del Rey/Ballantine, 1996), and Commitment (Del Rey/Ballantine, 1997). In addition to these two books, she has written a number of nonfiction articles which have appeared in national newspapers, the most notable The Washington Post. Other books include The Soldier's Daughter, published by Wildside Press, 2001, and Beyond the Hedge, Juno Books, 2007. Official website: http://www.sff.net/people/robyj/

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 110 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:

Roby James, Editor roby.james (at) comcast.net
http://www.norilana.com/norilana-ww-guidelines.htm

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:

August 2007 marks the first anniversary of Norilana Books. It’s amazing that we've been in business for one year already, and our catalog has nearly 100 titles!

To mark this occasion, Norilana Books is proud to introduce a new imprint.

Leda -- our new Romantic Fantasy imprint.

Leda titles will feature genre-blending fantasy of all flavors, from adventure to literary, from urban modern to ancient worlds and myth, but the one unifying factor will be the presence of powerful love stories with plenty of erotic tension and sizzle, and soaring emotional impact.

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-leda.htm

The lead title of this exciting new imprint, debuting on Valentine's Day, 2008 is:

Lace and Blade edited by Deborah J. Ross

Lace and Blade is a new annual anthology series of sexy, elegant, swashbuckling romantic fantasy, where the sparkling wit of Oscar Wilde meets the manners of Jane Austen, the exotic sensual flair of Tanith Lee, and the deadly sharp blade of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Zorro, and D'Artagnan. The first-year author lineup is a stellar example of some of the best talent working in the industry today. More on this exciting series will be announced soon.

Lace and Blade cover image

Norilana Books is holding a logo contest.

Based on the story of Zeus and Leda in which the god Zeus disguised in the shape of a swan, comes to visit a young beautiful woman, we need a swan logo to represent the new imprint. Think: elegant, romantic, distinctive. And yes, it can (but doesn't have to) integrate the words "Leda."

The creator of the winning logo gets a FREE BOOK -- any Norilana Books title, any edition, of your choice.

The contest is open now, and will stay open until we get the right logo. Submit your image designs to: service (at) norilana.com

Norilana Books is a Los Angeles-based new independent publisher, owned and operated by Vera Nazarian since 2006. With over 90 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 is proud to present...

Evermore by Modean Moon




....An Oklahoma mansion built by a man mourning his beloved...

....A young woman's fever dreams of star-crossed lovers that may not be dreams at all....

The suspense of Rebecca, the richness of Gone With The Wind and the psychological complexity of The Turn Of The Scrw comes together in a wonderfully intense love story that mixes up history and mystery into a transcendent other.

"Beguiling...a story of choices, passion, and healing that spans two lifetimes."
-- Nora Roberts

A nominee for Romantic Times Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award.

A "Pitchlyn County" novel.

Evermore by Modean Moon
July 1, 2007
Norilana Books Women's Fiction
Trade Hardcover
$23.95 USD - £16.00 GBP
ISBN-13: 978-1-934169-92-6
ISBN-10: 1-934169-92-7

For more information:

http://www.norilana.com/norilana-romance.htm

Order Your Copy:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- Amazon UK
- Amazon CA
- Amazon FR
- Amazon DE
- Amazon JP


Modean Moon is the critically acclaimed author of works of quality women's fiction, regionally flavored and with a 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. Official website: 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 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/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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/

* * * * *

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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/

***************

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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/

==============

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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/

===========================

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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/

==============