Tag: literary

  • Literary Fantasy Novel Of Shapeshifting And Life After Death In Medieval France Now Out

    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…

  • Cover Art and Preorders Available For Novel of Magic and Gods in Medieval France by Aurora Award-Winning Author

    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…

  • Release Day And Launch Party For Story of Afghan Girl Rebelling Against U.S. Surveillance Machine

    Release Day And Launch Party For Story of Afghan Girl Rebelling Against U.S. Surveillance Machine

    MILTON, ONTARIO, August 12, 2022 – New literary science fiction novel The Afghan Wedding by Gary Girod is now available in bookstores everywhere. Part contemporary scifi, part spy thriller, and part coming-of-age story, The Afghan Wedding takes a young woman from rural Afghanistan to a top-secret military base in Antarctica in a version of modern-day…

  • Upcoming Literary Fantasy Novel Soars Into Multicultural World of Medieval France

    Upcoming Literary Fantasy Novel Soars Into Multicultural World of Medieval France

    MILTON, ONTARIO, August 5, 2022 – Publisher Brain Lag’s first release of 2023 will be literary fantasy novel The Nightingale’s Tooth by Sally McBride, Aurora Award-winning and Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated author of dozens of short stories and novellas. Featuring the daughter of an Arabian man and a Viking woman, along with a cast including…

  • SFContario and Enduring Chaos launch events

    We will be at SFContario at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Toronto at 300 Jarvis St. next weekend, November 29-December 1. Brain Lag will be in the dealers room all weekend and authors Simon McNeil and Catherine Fitzsimmons will be hosting panels and workshops throughout the convention. Also, the official launch party for Enduring Chaos,…

  • Submissions open

    Thank you to everyone who came to see us at Ad Astra in the dealers room and for helping us make the launch party for Brain Lag a success. We spoke with a lot of great authors about their books and look forward to taking Brain Lag to the next level. Submissions are now open.…

  • Ad Astra!

    Ad Astra starts tomorrow! Look for Brain Lag in the dealers room and join us at the launch party on Saturday evening, and look for author Catherine Fitzsimmons at any of her panels or take in an advance reading from her next book on Sunday! See the event calendar for full details. See you there!

  • Catherine Fitzsimmons to host panels with Jim Butcher at Ad Astra

    Author Catherine Fitzsimmons will be involved with several panels and other events at Ad Astra, Toronto’s original scifi/fantasy literary convention, in two weeks, including two panels with convention guest of honor and New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher. Join her at any of the events where she will be participating: Friday, April 5 10:00…

  • Brain Lag authors featured on Fan Expo Canada website

    Authors J. R. Dwornik and Catherine Fitzsimmons have been listed as featured scifi authors on the website for Fan Expo, the largest convention of its kind in Canada. Fan Expo is taking place in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Building August 23-26 in Toronto, Ontario. Brain Lag will be at table A79 in the…