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ISBN: 1-59224-823-3
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In the publishing industry I wear two hats:
THE PUBLISHER . . .
Note -- update (3-10-08) below in green and blue. For other project offerings, please scroll down.
As the publisher of Norilana Books I am happy to announce that Senrid by Sherwood Smith, our first original title from the YA Angst imprint is now available.
And now, another title, the first of three reprint works, Evermore by multiple award-winning novelist Modean Moon is now available.
The second of three award-winning and nominated reprints, A Little Peace and Quiet by Modean Moon is now available.
The third and final of three award-winning and nominated reprints, The Covenant by Modean Moon is now available.
October marks the trade hardcover and trade paperback reprint release of the apocalyptic stunner J. by award-winning author William Sanders.
November marks the continuation of a classic and popular anthology series, and a first-time release in both trade hardcover and trade paperback, of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword And Sorceress XXII, edited by Elisabeth Waters.
December's YA Angst release is Over the Sea: CJ'S First Notebook, a very special illustrated holiday chapbook by Sherwood Smith which serves as a great introduction to her popular milieu Sartorias-deles, and includes nearly a dozen illustrations, vintage drawings by the author of her beloved characters, the magical girl gang that's the female answer to Peter Pan.
February 14, 2008, Valentine's Day is the release of the romantic fantasy anthology Lace and Blade edited by Deborah J. Ross.
March brings the charming YA fantasy of manners A Posse of Princesses by Sherwood Smith.
THE WRITER . . .
NEWSFLASH!
I am a Nebula Award Finalist! My work "The Story of Love" has been nominated in the short story category. See the 2007 Nebula Awards Final Ballot.
See this new offering in the project offerings section of Publishers Marketplace database.
"The world is shaped by two things -- stories told and the memories they leave behind." -- from DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE
Listen to 5-minute audio-excerpt of the author reading from DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE.
Vera Nazarian left the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War as a refugee at the age of eight and arrived in the United States a month before her 10th birthday by way of Lebanon, Greece, and Italy.
Native speaker of Russian and Armenian, fluent in English and Spanish and a student of Mandarin Chinese and German, she sold her first short story in the English language at the age of 17 and since then has published numerous works of speculative short fiction in anthologies and magazines such as the Sword and Sorceress and Darkover series edited by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, MZBFM, Talebones, OUTSIDE THE BOX, On-Spec, THE AGE OF REASON, Fictionwise.com, BEYOND THE LAST STAR, Fantasy Magazine, Jabberwocky, BEST NEW ROMANTIC FANTASY #2, and has seen her work on Nebula Awards(R) Preliminary Ballots, honorably mentioned in Gardner Dozois' YEAR'S BEST SF and Datlow, Grant and Link's YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR volumes, and translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Czech, Hebrew, and Hungarian.
She is an active SFWA member, and made her novelist debut in 2002 with the critically acclaimed mythic fantasy DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE (ISBN: 1-58715-584-2, Wildside Press, May 2002). Her second novel, epic fantasy LORDS OF RAINBOW (ISBN: 1-59224-823-3, Betancourt & Company, March 2003) about a world without color, is available now.
Her novella The Clock King And The Queen Of The Hourglass has been acquired by editor Nick Gevers for the PS Publishing novella specialty line, with an Introduction by Charles de Lint, appeared in a signed limited edition in October 2005 and was on the 2005 Locus Recommended Reading List.
A debut short fiction collection SALT OF THE AIR, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe, and edited by Sean Wallace, appeared from Prime Books / Wildside in September 2006. The collection, spanning 20 years of her writing career, from 1985 to 2005, contains 14 previously published stories and two originals.
Publishers Weekly says, about SALT OF THE AIR:
"Sixteen cautionary, sensual stories of love, reversal and revenge upend fairy tale conventions in Nazarian's lush collection.... Sumptuous detail, twisty plots and surprising endings lift these extravagant tales."
Locus says:
"These are beautiful, haunting confections, reminiscent of Tanith Lee's erotically charged tales in Red as Blood and elsewhere.... And while Nazarian thus strikes fresh notes off old vessels, she provides the template of sword-and-sorcery with new glitter, new power.... Fine shades of emotion, mythic grandeur, crystalline prose, sharp revisionist intelligence: these are Vera Nazarian's hallmarks, signs of a strong emerging talent. Salt of the Air is her best, most representative book so far."
SELECTED WORKS IN PRINT:
Hardcover and trade paperback edition of SALT OF THE AIR with an introduction by Gene Wolfe.
Trade paperback edition of LORDS OF RAINBOW. (See new offering above.)
Trade paperback edition of DREAMS OF THE COMPASS ROSE.
For the most recent updates (in blue and green) please scroll up to the top.
This writer is looking for an agent.