Tag Archive: chapbook
« Previous EntriesI Believe in Father Christmas
Posted by Chris on December 23, 2011 at 20:31
Posted in: Awards, Book News
Just a shameless plug to link to my all-time favourite Christmassy-song, and the only one I can realistically listen to:
Just one snippet of news before closing-down for the Christmas weekend: two chapbooks ("Angel of Silences" and "Legend of False Dreaming") have been nominated in the chapbook category in the This is Horror Awards. Splendid!
And that's it, for now. I hope you all have a great time with your family and friends this weekend.
Take care.
Posted in: Awards, Book News
Tagged with: Awards | Bestwick | chapbook | finley | legend of false dreaming
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
Born Free
Posted by Chris on November 29, 2011 at 14:23
Posted in: Book News, General
What has the 60s film with the lovely Matt Monro song got to do with Pendragon Press? Nothing really…
2011 is drawing to a close… a month left and it must be said that this year has been full of ups and downs: unfortunately more downs. Probably my least favourite year in this ten years of publishing madness – again, in awe at fellow indie presses who have families, and the occasional folk who do this for a living: it has been tough.
As a consequence of this, I cannot afford to attend the British Fantasy Society Open Night in London in two weeks – which also means Visions Fading Fast (Volume One) won't be launched at this event. It is though winging its way to the printer for a delivery date in the New Year. Initially it was decided that all 100 hardback copies would be signed by Gary McMahon (the editor) but unbeknownst to me the printer no longer inserts signing sheets (which makes things much easier on a purely logistical level for me). Therefore, only *pre-ordered* copies will be flat-signed by Gary – though all copies will be numbered.
Since I have many patient pre-orderers already (but still copies left…) of which I am extremely grateful, as I thank you to them I will post a copy of the next Pendragon chapbook free of charge.
The schedule for 2012 is yet to be finalised (yes, this may have been my least favourable year but I'm still hanging on in there… I told you this publishing lark is madness, but addictive!) but I will be posting it to the website before the year is actually out.
In other news, chapbook subscriptions are progressing well – and again very welcome – and the number of acceptances for Nasty Snips II is quite low. In fact, the number of submissions have been quite limited: remember, the closing date is end of January 2012 but if we don't receive an influx soon then it may well be extended… I'm looking at an e-anthology of thirty-something stories.
As always, a big thank you to all past and present customers – it is because of good honest folk such has yourself (who don't scream and shout asking where their book is…) that I continue onwards trying to get good writers out there into the open. I've now written that line, and this has crept into my mind: Matt Monro – Born Free.
Before I descend into more schmultz, hope you all have a happy Christmas/holiday and remember: a book is for life, not just an electronic file.
Posted in: Book News, General
Tagged with: bfs | chapbook | McMahon
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
EBooks
Posted by Chris on November 7, 2011 at 20:01
Posted in: Book News
Well, I suppose it was inevitable that Pendragon would need to embrace the new publishing revolution that is electronic books… though at the moment we're only talking PDFs – in time, these will become full-blown and proper formatted mobi publications.
Just two chapbooks are available at the moment – with permission from the authors – and priced at the very reasonable £1 each.
More will be added in due course, all depending on whether or not the respective author wishes to pursue their own e-publishing deal of course.
Once the forthcoming e-only sequel to Nasty Snips is ready, then it will reside here.
Posted in: Book News
Tagged with: Bestwick | chapbook
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
Chapbooks
Posted by Chris on October 31, 2011 at 16:59
Posted in: Book News, General
In all honesty I have been thinking about this for some time, wondering whether or not anyone would be interested, but since I started producing these I have been pleasantly surprised at how popular they are, therefore I have decided to offer subscriptions at £10 for 4 issues.
Of course, a subscription displays a great deal of faith on your part – which is why to entice more of you, the first fifty to subscribe will receive a fifth chapbook free of charge!
If this interests you – and I sincerely hope it does, since it not only will give a much needed boost to the coffers to pay the authors and artist a little more for their hard-work – then pop along to the CHAPBOOKS page and press the button.
Posted in: Book News, General
Tagged with: chapbook | subscription
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
The Joy of Isabel!
Posted by Chris on September 13, 2011 at 13:37
Posted in: Book News, Conventions
This morning, proof copies arrived for the two chapbooks launched at FantasyCon – and rather lovely they look too!
Both Roy and Catherine will be in attendance at the Convention, and the launch event on Saturday afternoon!
EDIT: Due to the vagaries of book production, it turns out that Isabel Jane – though a chapbook – is a little thin to feed through the printer's binder, therefore it will also include an original story from Catherine called "Teething".
Posted in: Book News, Conventions
Tagged with: chapbook | dale | gray | isabel jane | joy of technology
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
From Kingston to Updates
Posted by Chris on July 29, 2011 at 19:53
Posted in: Book News, General, Reviews
With a ludicrously kick turnaround – I only accepted the proof copy on Wednesday – I have now taken delivery of Gary Greenwood's Kingston to Cable. Pre-ordered copies will be posted henceforth and forthwith – though of course there are plenty more copies available for sale! :)
In other news, I am looking at my schedule for FantasyCon and decided to push-back the publication of Visions Fading Fast to December to coincide with the annual Open Night in London – in the meantime, I will be readying three more chapbooks for publication in Brighton: The Joy of Technology by Roy Gray, Isabel Jane by Catherine Dale and Allegro by Clifford Royal Johns.
Lastly, David has pointed me in the direction of a rather welcome review of popCult! by Paul Magrs:
I’ll just urge you to seek it out from Pendragon press. It’s like anthony Burgess teaming up with the Mighty Boosh to write a science fiction thriller.
Posted in: Book News, General, Reviews
Tagged with: bfs | chapbook | Fantasycon | greenwood | Kingston to Cable | launch | McMahon | popcult! | Visions Fading Fast
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
BFA 2011 Long-List Nominations
Posted by Chris on April 15, 2011 at 19:41
Posted in: Awards, Book News
The following titles have been nominated the novella categorically, and via Issuu you can read them online and until voting ends:
Sparrowhawk by Paul Finch
The Places Between by Terry Grimwood
The Red House by David J Thacker
Thanks to the authors for their permission, and you can naturally purchase the paperback version of these tales. As always, please respect their copyright.
Happy reading!
Posted in: Awards, Book News
Tagged with: Awards | bfs | chapbook | Fantasycon | FCon | Finch | grimwood | sparrowhawk | thacker | the read house
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
Some good news….
Posted by Chris on April 6, 2011 at 15:27
Posted in: Awards, General
… which I cannot tell you about, just yet, but it's made a rather glorious day!
EDIT: the British Fantasy Awards 2011 long-list has been announced… with three nominations in the Best Novella category, plus two artists in the Artist list and a personal one for Best Small Press, which I'm always pleased to see but pretty much know that someone else will win it – just hoping either Paul, Terry or David pick up the Novella gong.
If any BFS members are reading this, then contact me for a free PDF reading copy of any of the nominated titles.
Posted in: Awards, General
Tagged with: Awards | chapbook | Finch | grimwood | sparrowhawk
Comments: 2 Comments to-date
Print This Post
Electronic Editions
Posted by Chris on February 12, 2011 at 22:50
Posted in: Book News, General
Well, after some thought and a few comments online and offline, I've decided to offer the first two chapbooks – The Red House by David J Thacker and Angels of the Silences by Simon Bestwick – available has PDF electronic editions for the princely sum of £1.
Essentially, this will work thus: you purchase and then I will personally e-mail the PDF to you. At the moment it isn't automatic, though if I am online when your order comes through then you will pretty much receive the document within minutes.
Of course, you don't need an e-reader to view these e-books since being a PDF file then they can be read on any PC with the right software installed (and the official Adobe reader is free of charge).
Needless to say, please do not e-mail your copy of the PDF to your friends, family or colleagues: these are still protected by copyright, and to be quite frank, a pound will not break the bank.
Posted in: Book News, General
Tagged with: Bestwick | chapbook
Comments: No comments yet
Print This Post
Quick Query
Posted by Chris on February 9, 2011 at 20:53
Posted in: Book News, General
With one interested customer, I am currently gauging interest: Pendragon Press does not publish ebooks per se, but how do you – the loyal reader of this site – feel on the issue of paying for standard PDFs? If I were, for example, to offer a PDF edition of the Pendragon Chapbooks for say £1/$1 would you be interested?
Your comments and feedback would be very helpful.
Posted in: Book News, General
Tagged with: chapbook
Comments: 3 Comments to-date
Print This Post
