We at McNally Robinson are thrilled to host one of the most unique new voices in dark fantasy fiction here at the store this evening. Michael Rowe is an award-winning journalist, and literary nonfiction writer whose essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in many publications including the Globe & Mail, The Advocate, and The Huffington Post, as well as CFQ, The Scream Factory, All-Hallows, among many others. For 17 years he was the first-tier Canadian correspondent for Fangoria.
He has won the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award, and the Spectrum Award, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the Associated Church Press Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. As the creator and editor of the critically acclaimed horror anthologies Queer Fear and Queer Fear 2, he was hailed by Clive Barker in 2002 as having "changed forever the shape of horror fiction." He is married and lives in Toronto.
His first novel, Enter, Night is another triumph from independent publisher ChiZine Publications and is being launched in Winnipeg tonight at 7:30 pm at an event hosted by Winnipeg's own horror maestra Susie Moloney. This event is a homecoming of sorts, as Rowe attended St. John's Cathedral Boys' School in Selkirk from 1977 to 1981. More coverage of his time here and the book itself can be found in articles at the Winnipeg Free Press ("Enter, Anti-Twilight) and Outwords ("A vampire story from the heart").
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' outstanding debut, the Aztec myth tinged weird western A Book of Tongues has garnered her a Bram Stoker Award nomination for Superior Achievement in a first novel. A Rope of Thorns, Book 2 in Files' Hexslinger series will be on shelves soon. Gemma was kind enough to answer some questions in an email interview.
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Congratulations to Brandon's for being shortlisted for the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Novel. We've been fortunate at McNally Robinson in Winnipeg to have hosted four of the five nominees in this year's novel category.
The Prix Auroras will be awarded the weekend of November 18-20 at the Canadian national science fiction and fantasy convention, this year hosted by SFContario.Best English Novel:
- Black Bottle Man by , Great Plains Publications
- Destiny's Blood by , Dragon Moon Press
- Stealing Home by , Bundoran Press
- Under Heaven by , Viking Canada
- Watch, by , Penguin Canada
Two nominated anthologies feature stories by Manitobans: Tesseracts Fourteen, edited by and , includes "Heat Death, or Answering the Ouroboros Question" by Brandon's and "Chrysalis" by Winnipeg's appears in Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, edited by . There are also two new categories this year: Poetry or Song Lyric and Graphic Novel.
A complete list of 2011 nominees
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW Books)
On my night table at the moment is The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. It's the first installment of The Kingkiller Chronicles, with the second book of the fantasy trilogy due out in August. The protagonist is Kvothe (pronounced "Quothe"), and we first meet him as the owner of a middle-of-nowhere tavern. He is, it transpires, a legend, trying to live out his days quietly. Tracked down by a historian, he reluctantly agrees to tell his story, and the bulk of the novel then consists of his narration, beginning with his childhood as part of family of travelling players, and moving to his life at University, now a student Arcanist of precocious talent.
My bare-bones synopsis here cannot possibly do justice to the richness of Rothfuss' novel. His world-building is meticulous, with every detail in place, from the monetary system to the names of the days of the ten-day week, and he unveils this bustling, living, breathing world so naturally to the reader that one's first encounter with it feels like a journey home. His prose, meanwhile, is elegant and literate without being pretentious, and his storytelling moving and grave without forgetting to be funny. The book is a triumph, and the wait for the next two volumes is going to be a long one.
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The Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in Horror have announced their shortlists in all categories. The Stokers are awarded for Superior Achievement rather than "best of year" and its rules are deliberately designed to make ties probable. Gemma Files is the lone Canadian represented in the novel categories for A Book of Tongues (reviewed here).
Winners will be announced at the Stoker Weekend in Long Island NY, June 16-19, 2011.
The nominees for Superior Achievement in a Novel:
- Horns by
- Rot and Ruin by
- Dead Love by
- Apocalypse of the Dead by
- Dweller by
- A Dark Matter by
The Nominees for Superior Achievement in a First Novel:
- Black and Orange by
- A Book of Tongues by
- Castle of Los Angeles by
- Spellbent by
A list of the complete final ballot.
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