News and Events
Apparitions
On Wednesday 21st May at 3.00pm, Chaz will be giving a talk / reading / Q&A about the Writer's Life at Macclesfield College.
And looking ahead, he will be a guest at NewCon4 in Northampton, Saturday October 11th and Sunday October 12th, 2008 (Guests of Honour Iain M. Banks, Storm Constantine and Ken MacLeod). Further ahead still, he will be at Phoenix Convention VI in Dublin from 27th - 29th March 2009 (GoH Paul Cornell) - and so will Softly!
Time, considered as a helix of semi-precious stories
Chaz has written an introduction to Another SAntana Morning, a collection of short stories by Mike Dolan originally published in 1970 and now reissued by Elastic Press. Mike Dolan was once lauded by the likes of Ray Bradbury, but slipped back into obscurity, resurfacing over thirty-five years later to put a new spin on these tales.
Chaz says: "These are a young man's stories, fresh and untried and interrogative. Also, they date from when the genre itself was still young: before the founding fathers could call themselves grandfathers, as it were. They don't all work, perhaps, on their own terms; some of them don't necessarily work on our terms, because both the genre and its readership have grown more sophisticated in the intervening years. No matter. If anything, that works to their advantage: the occasional failure serving as a reminder that they come to us from another time, as alien to us now as any world of the imagination."
River of the World
River of the World, the second and final volume of Chaz'z Selling Water by the River fantasy sequence, is now available in paperback. Order it now from Amazon.com or watch this space for news of how to order this US-only publication in the UK.
It is also available from Amazon as a Kindle text (downloadable e-text).
Seeing in Tongues
Visionary Tongue - a magazine of "Dark Fantasy for the Millennium" - publishes prose and poetry, pictures and reviews, and, in its current issue, a wide-ranging interview with Chaz by co-editor Donna Scott. The novels, the short stories, the comic book, the blog - and of course the Library - it's a comprehensive round-up of all things Chaz at the beginning of 2008.
A single issue of Visionary Tongue costs £2.50, including postage and packing, from:
Visionary Tongue Magazine,
649 London Road,
Hadleigh,
Benfleet,
Essex,
SS7 2EB
For more information, e-mail or visit their web site.