Tag: canada
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Literary Fantasy Novel Of Shapeshifting And Life After Death In Medieval France Now Out
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 13, 2023 – Thirteenth-century France gets magic and a touch of the divine in new novel The Nightingale’s Tooth by Sally McBride, out today from publisher Brain Lag. The book centres on Vara, an upper-class teen girl haunted by visions and destined to life after death and enslavement to the person who…
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Owner Of Rising SFF Publisher Brain Lag To Release Final Book Of Epic Fantasy Trilogy
MILTON, ONTARIO, January 6, 2023 – A woman touched by the Goddess of Chaos is the only thing standing in between a war of the gods in the upcoming epic fantasy book Elderra’s Champion by Catherine Fitzsimmons. The final installment of Fitzsimmons’ Sisters of Chaos trilogy concludes the story of Damian Sires and her allies…
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Book Release And Launch Party For Third Installment Of Epic Space Opera Adventure Series
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 9, 2022 – Today marks the release of Freedom’s Myth, the third book in Hamilton, Ontario author Stephen B. Pearl’s Freedom Saga. Pearl’s third book release of the year continues the story started in Cloning Freedom (2020) and Freedom’s Law (2021), telling the tale of cloned protagonists Ryan and Rowan in their…
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Canadian Author Keeps New Books Coming With Upcoming Twist On Vampire Tale
MILTON, ONTARIO, December 5, 2022 – A Toronto film studio plays host to a tale of alien vampires and assassination attempts in the upcoming novel The Earthborn by Arlene F. Marks. The book centres on Bilyash, a Nash’terel born after his people were exiled to Earth. After spending centuries in hiding among humans like the…
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Cozy Mystery Novel Featuring A Grieving Firefighter And A Crime Fiction Convention Organizer Now Out
MILTON, ONTARIO, November 11, 2022 – A haunted house, a crime fiction convention, and murder mystery theatre make for “a fun read that was hard to put down” (reader David Penney) in Weekends Can Be Murder by Arlene F. Marks, out today from Brain Lag. The book has received critical acclaim from advance reviewers: Weekends…
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Gentle Science Fiction Novel Showing a Green Version of Near-Future Toronto Gets Cover Art
MILTON, ONTARIO, October 21, 2022 – The cover art was revealed today for upcoming solarpunk novel Unseen by Ontario author Cathy Hird. The cover features a stylized painting of a city skyline in shades of green, grey, and yellow. Unseen takes place in the Toronto of the future, in which artificial intelligence and green technology…
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Crowdfunding Campaign Starting For Anthology Of Young Transgender Authors
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 30, 2022 – On Monday, October 3, Milton, Ontario-based science fiction and fantasy publisher Brain Lag will be launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund the production of True Reflections, an anthology of short stories and poetry by young transgender authors. The pre-launch page is already active and interested parties can…
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Cover Art and Preorders Available For Novel of Magic and Gods in Medieval France by Aurora Award-Winning Author
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 23, 2022 – Today, the cover art was revealed for upcoming literary fantasy novel The Nightingale’s Tooth by Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated author Sally McBride. The artwork features a painting of a nighttime scene at a river with mountains in the distance, bright stars in the sky, and bold orange and navy…
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New Solarpunk Novel Focuses On Green Technology, AI, Diversity And Extrasensory Abilities
MILTON, ONTARIO, September 2, 2022 – AIs maintain the infrastructure and control the transit of the Toronto of the future. But when technology fails, a group of people with extrasensory gifts may be the city’s only hope. This is the premise behind new science fiction novel Unseen by Cathy Hird. In classic solarpunk fashion, the…
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Third Book In Fast-Releasing, Ongoing Space Opera Saga Gets Cover Art And Preorders
MILTON, ONTARIO, August 19, 2022 – A mere two years after the first book in the series was released, the third book of author Stephen B. Pearl’s Freedom Saga comes this December. Freedom’s Myth continues the story of runaway clones in a far future galactic republic and the humanity-spanning ramifications of their flight for liberty.…