August 27, 2010
Burning Effigy Press is vending and hosting author signings at the FESTIVAL OF FEAR this weekend at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. You can find us along the edge of the Rue Morgue booth. See below for the full line-up of author signings. We hope to see you there!
Fan Expo/Festival of Fear
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule
SATURDAY, AUG 28, 2010
11:00am-1:00pm - TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K)
1:00pm-3:00pm - IAN ROGERS (Temporary Monsters)
3:00pm-5:00pm - MIKE BRYANT (Operation Dickhead)
5:00pm-7:00pm - LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
SUNDAY, AUG 29, 2010
1:00pm-3:00pm - RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
June 16, 2010 - Out this Saturday: LEE THOMAS' THE BLACK SUN SET
After a short publishing hiatus, we're back with a brand-new book in our horror line: Lee Thomas' The Black Sun Set.
Past and Future. Life and death. The pieces of the Black Sun are rumoured to act as bridges between extremes, erasing boundaries and offering their holders the ability to move freely from one state to the next. Time is fluid, and the dead won’t stay dead.
Buster is a simple man who works as muscle for a small-time syndicate. He’s getting too old to bust limbs and collect debts, and he thinks it might be time to put away his criminal past. One of the few jobs he still enjoys is watching his boss’s house. The work is easy. The threat is minimal, and it allows him to spend time with his boss’s beautiful wife. What Buster doesn’t know is that his boss has been collecting pieces of an ancient amulet, an amulet with tremendous power, and there are people who will do anything to possess it.
Deception, seduction, torture and murder are only the beginning of the atrocities performed in the name of The Black Sun. People have killed for a single piece of it. They have died for one. Now, the pieces are coming together and no act is too brutal, too bloody if it means completing The Black Sun Set.
The Black Sun Set will be retail for $8 and be released this Saturday at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, online pre-orders will begin tonight (stay tuned for announcement) and ship on Monday, June 21st.
November 11, 2009 - Burning Effigy Press Fall 2009 Launch Party this weekend!
Join us this Sunday, November 15th at 7:30pm at The Central (603 Markham Street in Toronto)
as we launch the new Fall 2009 Burning Effigy Press titles!
With feature readings from:
IAN ROGERS (Temporary Monsters)
and
MIKE BRYANT (Operation Dickhead)
Additional performances by:
RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K)
CYNTHIA GOULD (Some Words Spoken)
DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman)
And special guest:
Comedian CHRIS GIBBS
NO COVER. SHOW STARTS PROMPTLY AT 8pm.
September 26, 2009
Below you'll find the full schedule of author signings for tomorrow's WORD ON THE STREET Festival in Toronto. We will be there rain or shine, offering great deals on our titles and debuting some kick-ass new books. We are located at booth FB17 on Queen's Park Crescent East just south of St. Joseph Street. Come out and say hello!
Word On the Street
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule
11:00am-12:00pm - IAN ROGERS (Temporary Monsters)
12:00pm-1:00pm - DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman) & RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
1:00pm-2:00pm - DAVE ALEXANDER (Fresh Blood's "Growth Spurts")
2:00pm-3:00pm - LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
3:00pm-4:00pm - DANE SWAN (Narcotics//Flora)
4:00pm-5:00pm - MIKE BRYANT (Operation Dickhead)
5:00pm-6:00pm - BRETT ALEXANDER SAVORY (The Distance Travelled: A Little Slice of Heaven)
September 24th, 2009 - NEW TITLES TO DEBUT AT TORONTO'S WORD ON THE STREET
Burning Effigy Press is pleased to debut two new titles at this Sunday's Word on the Street Festival in Toronto. Our booth with be located in the micro-press section of the event and we will be having authors signing all day - stay tuned for a complete autograph schedule. Now, onto the new releases:
TEMPORARY MONSTERS
by: Ian Rogers
Felix Renn is a private investigator in a supernatural world, an alternate reality where a dark dimension called The Black Lands co-exists alongside our own. Travelling to and from The Black Lands is dangerous - and illegal - but that doesn't stop some of the creatures that reside there from crossing over into our world from time to time. After a man goes berserk in a posh Toronto restaurant, Felix suddenly finds himself torn between both worlds as he is drawn into a deadly game of movies, murder, and monsters.
OPERATION DICKHEAD
by: Mike Bryant
Mark Allread is angry. He is angry because he works in the tech support department of a major Internet provider. But not angry enough to do anything other than complain to his long-suffering girlfriend. That all changes when the President of the World passes a new law requiring anybody he dislikes to have their heads replaced with genitalia. Mark, in response, decides to build an army of the surgically altered in hopes of overthrowing the President and returning people's heads to their original, non-penisized state. They're here. They're Dickheads. Get used to it.
August 27, 2009
Burning Effigy Press will have a table at this weekend's RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR (part of the larger Fan Expo convention). The con runs from August 28-30 and we will be in attendance all three days. The event takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. Our table will be located at the main Rue Morgue booth. Throughout the weekend, several Burning Effigy authors will be on hand to meet fans and sign their respective titles. Please find a complete list of who's signing and when below (in addition FRESH BLOOD cover artist Justin Erickson will have a table next to ours and will be on hand all weekend). Hope to see you there!
Rue Morgue Festival of Fear
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule
Friday (Aug. 28) 5pm-7pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
Saturday (Aug. 29) 11am-2pm RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
Saturday (Aug. 29) 4pm-6pm DAVE ALEXANDER (Fresh Blood's "Growth Spurts")
Sunday (Aug. 30) 11am-1pm RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
Sunday (Aug. 30) 1pm-3pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
Sunday (Aug. 30) 3pm-6pm TIMOTHY CARTER (the sci-fi comedy Section K)
June 11, 2009
Burning Effigy Press will have a table at the TORONTO SMALL PRESS FAIR on Saturday, June 13, 2009. The Fair takes place at the TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY (789 Yonge St
Toronto) from 9am to 5pm. Several of our authors will be in attendance and signing at Burning Effigy table.
Toronto Small Press Fair
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule
9am-11am RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
11am-12pm DANE SWAN (Narcotics//Flora)
12pm-1pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
1pm-2pm TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K: The Demon Subway of North York)
2pm-3pm GEMMA FILES (Words Written Backwards)
3pm-4pm DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman)
May 30, 2009
The spring titles are now back from the printers, and available for order in the Burning Effigy online store. Get your copies of PRIMEVAL WOOD, FRESH BLOOD, NARCOTICS // FLORA and SECTION K: THE DEMON SUBWAY OF NORTH YORK.
Also, do not forget: the Burning Effigy Press 2009 Spring Launch Party takes place this Sunday! We hope to see you there!
BURNING EFFIGY PRESS' SPRING 2009 LAUNCH PARTY will take place at The Central (603 Markham St., Toronto) on Sunday, May 31st. Doors: 7:30pm. Readings/performances start promptly at 8:00pm. No cover.
Featuring readings and new titles from:
RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
DANE SWAN (Narcotics // Flora)
DAVE ALEXANDER (of the Fresh Blood anthology)
and
TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K: Kasefile 42 - The Demon Subway of North York)
With musical interludes courtesy of KIRSTEN SANDWICH (http://kirstensandwich.ca/) and additional performances from LIISA LADOUCEUR, GEMMA FILES, DANE SWAN and JEFF COTTRILL!
May 21, 2009
Hot on the heels of yesterday's cover art sneak peek, we have another. Check out the final artwork for Richard Gavin's PRIMEVAL WOOD, the latest addition to our horror chapbook line.
May 20, 2009
FRESH BLOOD cover unveiled! The horror collection will be available for order in just 9 days!
May 13, 2009
BURNING EFFIGY PRESS' SPRING 2009 LAUNCH PARTY will take place at The Central (603 Markham St., Toronto) on Sunday, May 31st. Doors: 7:30pm. Readings/performances start promptly at 8:00pm. No cover.
Featuring readings and new titles from:
RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
DANE SWAN (Narcotics // Flora)
DAVE ALEXANDER (of the Fresh Blood anthology)
and
TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K: Kasefile 42 - The Demon Subway of North York)
With musical interludes courtesy of KIRSTEN SANDWICH (http://kirstensandwich.ca/) and additional performances from LIISA LADOUCEUR, and more!
Please join us for an evening of great literature and fine entertainment!
May 10, 2009
And now our final chapbook announcement of Spring 2009. Last, but certainly not least... we visit some old friends.
SECTION K: KASEFILE 42 - THE DEMON SUBWAY OF NORTH YORK
Timothy Carter
Release date: May 29, 2009
There’s something weird going on in the Toronto subway system. Strange lights appearing in the Sheppard Avenue tunnels. People turning into living zombies with no personality. Rumours of a "ghost train." And when anything unexplained - possibly paranormal - turns up in any Canadian city, who ya gonna call? Howard Plank, of the RCMP’s Section K, that’s who. Too bad Howard is an alcoholic doofus who’s obsessed with the memory of his ex-wife.
How will he battle against an evil phantom subway driver and his soul-sucking demon, when he’s so hammered he doesn’t even remember why his superiors sent him there? Find out in this hilarious new spin-off story from Timothy Carter, based on characters from his sci-fi comedy novel Section K!
April 28, 2009
Burning Effigy is extremely thrilled to announce the launch of a new offshoot to our horror chapbook line. The series, titled FRESH BLOOD, features three terrifying tales by a talented trio of up-and-coming horror scribes. We hope to make FRESH BLOOD a new yearly tradition. Here's what the inaugural edition will be offering up:
FRESH BLOOD
Release date: May 29, 2009
Growth Spurts
(by Dave Alexander)
Twelve-year-old Kendall’s body is going through changes, and he’s not
happy about it. But when a very long, mysterious hair sprouts in the
middle of his chest, he discovers that there are much worse growing
pains than puberty. He’s about to meet the monster within...
Left for Dead
(by Kelli Dunlap)
When Susan's 8-year-old daughter is brutally attacked, she becomes
consumed by her need for revenge but mere punishment is not enough.
Susan learns that sometimes those being given the lessons are not
those doing the learning.
Mourn Not the Sleepless Children
(by Bob Freeman)
From the Highlands of Scotland comes a gothic tale of horror and
redemption, where the "Wickedest Man in the World" must stand face to
face against an unimaginable evil... an evil that hungers for human
flesh and blood.
April 22, 2009
Our second Spring 2009 publication announcement comes courtesy of our literary line, manned by Jeff Cottrill.
NARCOTICS // FLORA
Dane Swan
Release date: May 29, 2009
Narcotics // Flora, the first official poetry collection by Dane Swan, is centred around three series: A Dozen Roses,
Sweet Melancholy Toronto West and a collection of works loosely based on transit. With a truly urban style that borrows from slam poetry, lyrical poetry and form poetry, Swan introduces the reader to his unique brand of "post-slam" poetry. The Toronto-based Bermudian writer is predominately known as a spoken-word artist. He has performed spoken word in over a dozen cities throughout North America. Performances of his poetry have also been featured on CDs and vinyls that have been distributed across Canada and the Atlantic.
April 21, 2009
Burning Effigy Press is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of PRIMEVAL WOOD by RICHARD GAVIN. The title will be available for purchase May 29, 2009.
PRIMEVAL WOOD
Richard Gavin
Release date: May 29, 2009
When Neil Keller noticed the pale set of eyes staring out at him from the shaded tangles of hawthorn, he experienced what he believed to be a wholly new form of elation, one that crackled and thrummed well beyond the accepted human spectrum. He soon realized that what blinked at him were not eyes at all, but tiny white blossoms; flowers that nonetheless seemed to glare out from some ecstatic mask. Neil exhaled a blend of laughter and a sigh. Nature would never allow a thicket to sprout the perfectly-formed fetish of some leering daemonic child.Yet that was what Neil was seeing, truly seeing.
April 15, 2009
We are now completely sold out of the first printing of Weston Osche's REDEMPTION ROADSHOW! Thank you to everyone who ordered this Stoker-nominated chapbook. If you haven't yet got a copy, fear not, the second printing is back from the printers and ready to ship. To order, simply visit our online store.
February 26, 2009
Due to some ongoing issues with our former hosting company, BurningEffigy.com had to move into some brand new digs. That said, if you find any bugs or anything missing from the website, please drop us a line and let us know. Once we have the moving wrinkles ironed out, we hope to rework several areas of this website and bring you a much more multimedia BE experience - yes, we're talking video and audio! In the meantime, thank you for your continued support, especially through this transition period. We'd be nothing without you, the readers, after all.
April 3, 2009
Burning Effigy Press would like to congratulate WESTON OCHSE on his 2008 Bram Stoker Award nomination in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction category for REDEMPTION ROADSHOW. The awards will presented this coming June at the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend in Burbank, California.
In further REDEMPTION ROADSHOW news, the chapbook made Horror Mall's February best-seller list, and has also just entered its second printing. What this means is, if you are one of those book collectors to whom first editions are important and you haven't yet secured your copy, order now, as there are less than ten left in stock.
February 26, 2009
Due to some ongoing issues with our former hosting company, BurningEffigy.com had to move into some brand new digs. That said, if you find any bugs or anything missing from the website, please drop us a line and let us know. Once we have the moving wrinkles ironed out, we hope to rework several areas of this website and bring you a much more multimedia BE experience - yes, we're talking video and audio! In the meantime, thank you for your continued support, especially through this transition period. We'd be nothing without you, the readers, after all.
November 9, 2008
REMINDER: Our fall launch party takes place tonight! We've got a great line-up of performers and it promises to be an evening not to be missed. See you there!
September 1, 2008
Our second chapbook announcement for Fall 2008 marks the first time our literary and horror lines collide... in a poetry collection.
Presenting...
ON TENTERHOOKS
By Liisa Ladouceur
Release date: September 28, 2008
ON TENTERHOOKS is the first poetry collection from Liisa Ladouceur. Her work is a dance with death: girls drown in Texas floods, Mayan boys are massacred, body parts wash up on shore, and memories are ravaged by the cruel sands of time. Wandering treacherous territories, from America's Southern highways to the back alleys of Cairo, the poems are haunted by that which is found missing. Liisa weaves magic words plucked from prayers and pop music lyrics into restless free verse, sonnets and glosas that confront universal monstrosities and leave behind a few of their own -- a tentative balance of sanctuary and solicitude.
BIO:
Liisa Ladouceur is a poet and arts & entertainment reporter from Toronto who loves dead things and arcane words. She has performed spoken word across North America, been published in the IndiePolitik anthology Strong Words: Year One (2006) and is the editor of Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights (2007). On Tenterhooks is her first poetry collection. http://www.therss.com/liisa
September 1, 2008
Our second chapbook announcement for Fall 2008 marks the first time our literary and horror lines collide... in a poetry collection.
Presenting...
ON TENTERHOOKS
By Liisa Ladouceur
Release date: September 28, 2008
ON TENTERHOOKS is the first poetry collection from Liisa Ladouceur. Her work is a dance with death: girls drown in Texas floods, Mayan boys are massacred, body parts wash up on shore, and memories are ravaged by the cruel sands of time. Wandering treacherous territories, from America's Southern highways to the back alleys of Cairo, the poems are haunted by that which is found missing. Liisa weaves magic words plucked from prayers and pop music lyrics into restless free verse, sonnets and glosas that confront universal monstrosities and leave behind a few of their own -- a tentative balance of sanctuary and solicitude.
BIO:
Liisa Ladouceur is a poet and arts & entertainment reporter from Toronto who loves dead things and arcane words. She has performed spoken word across North America, been published in the IndiePolitik anthology Strong Words: Year One (2006) and is the editor of Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights (2007). On Tenterhooks is her first poetry collection. http://www.therss.com/liisa
August 30, 2008
We're a little late announcing our Fall 2008 titles, but the wait is finally over...
Our first of three announcements sees a new title join our horror chapbook line:
(rough cover)
Release date: Oct. 18, 2008
Dolan Gibb has driven the same section of Arizona desert highway for years, where crosses and shrines litter the side of the highway like confetti for the dead. He’s passed them thousands of times and never given them a second’s glance. To him, like everyone else, they are places of remembering, places to mourn. But when the Long Cool Woman and El Hombre Quemado (The Burned Man) suddenly appear with the Redemption Roadshow, Dolan’s entire world is spun on end as he learns that his whole life may have been a waste and that the shrines aren’t what they appear to be and, in fact, they never were.
More about Weston Ochse:
Weston is the author of the novels Scarecrow Gods, Recalled to Life, The Golden Thread, Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way and a slew of short stories and articles that have appeared in comic books, professional writing guides, magazines and anthologies. He won the Bram Stoker award for Superior Achievement in First Novel in 2005 for Scarecrow Gods and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Fiction in 2003. He lives in Southern Arizona with his wife, Yvonne Navarro, and Great Danes, Pester Ghost Palm Eater and Goblin Monster Dog. For entertainment he races tarantula wasps, wrestles rattlesnakes, and watches Border Patrol Death Race 2000.
March 2008
Burning Effigy Press is pleased to announce its first horror chapbook title of 2008:
A revised and updated edition of Steve Vernon's untraditional and irreverent superhero collection Nothing to Lose.
More about Nothing to Lose:
So you think you know all about superheroes? Those guys in the capes and the lightly starched spandex speedoes. Leaping tall buildings and always getting the girl.
You don't know nothing.
Join Steve Vernon, Nova Scotia's hardest working horror writer, as he takes you into the world of Captain Nothing. It's a world without hope, a world that is as cold and dark as a landlord's heart, three days after the rent is due. It's a world that could give the Batman a case of the squirming night fears. NOTHING TO LOSE is a collection of stories that will show you the darker side of courage. It will show you the shadows in a hero's heart. Go on. I dare you to take a closer look.
You've got nothing to lose.
More about Steve Vernon:
Steve Vernon has been writing dark fiction for a lot of years. You'll find his work in the pages of Cemetery Dance, Tor's Year's Best Horror, The Horror Show, Flesh & Blood, Hot Blood, Horror Garage and many other tastefully titled markets and magazines. Steve's ghost story collections Wicked Woods and Haunted Harbours (Nimbus) are available in many Maritime bookstores. Steve's first full length novel, Gypsy Blood, will be released in the Summer of 2008 from Five Star Press. Steve was born and raised in the woods of Northern Ontario and has lived most of his grown life in Halifax, Nova Scotia. If you enjoy this work hunt up Steve's novellas Plague Monkey Spam (Bad Moon Books) and Long Horn, Big Shaggy: a tale of wild west terror and reanimated buffalo.
January 2008
In recent news...
Burning Effigy Press gets love from horror ezine Fearzone.com who are not only featuring an interview with Burning Effigy Editor-in-Chief Monica S. Kuebler, but also voted Nicholas Kaufmann's General Slocum's Gold the Best Short Story of 2007. Thanks Fearzone, and congratulations Nick!
Stoker Award-winning author Brian Keene also voted Nicholas Kaufmann's General Slocum's Gold one of his ten ten books of the year. Visit Brian's blog and scroll to the entry for Dec. 6, 2007.
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