I’m finally managing to get some time to repopulate the bookstore, and top of my list for companies to get back in right now is ChiZine Publications. Why? Because the Prix Aurora short lists have come out, and they have four of the six nominated novels.
The Prix Aurora are Canada’s fan-voted awards, so they are roughly equivalent to the BSFAs. Naturally Robert Sawyer has a novel on the short list, and there’s a book from EDGE, and other Canadian small press. The other four books from from ChiZine, and we have them all. Very interesting books they are too. Here they are:
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Enter Night by Michael Rowe |
Eutopia by David Nickle |
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Napier’s Bones by Derryl Murphy |
The Pattern Scars by Caitlin Sweet |
Erik Mohr, who designs the covers for all of the ChiZine books, is a nominee in the Artist category. Also on that list is Guy Gavriel Kay’s sometime collaborator, Martin Springett, who provided the interior art for The Pattern Scars.
Any chance of adding an “Awards” filter to the Wizard’s Tower Bookstore menu? Maybe under Search By? I have found that when I am deciding if I want to tackle a new-to-me author or publisher I really am influenced to give it a go if the book blurb says it’s won an award – even if it’s an award I’ve never heard of! Maybe some of your other customers are similarly shallow 😀
It is on my “to do” list, but I want to get all of the books back on sale first.