Tag: toronto

  • Genre-Bending Twist On Vampire Tale Gets Cover Art And Preorders Ahead Of May Release

    Genre-Bending Twist On Vampire Tale Gets Cover Art And Preorders Ahead Of May Release

    MILTON, ONTARIO, January 27, 2023 – A large fireball gives a hint of the excitement to come in the cover art of The Earthborn by Arlene F. Marks, coming this May from Brain Lag. The cover was revealed today for this first novel in the Nash’terel series, books about alien vampires living in exile on…

  • Canadian Author Keeps New Books Coming With Upcoming Twist On Vampire Tale

    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…

  • Gentle Science Fiction Novel Showing a Green Version of Near-Future Toronto Gets Cover Art

    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…

  • Cover reveal: SINS & SCIENCE

    Cover reveal: SINS & SCIENCE

    Presenting the cover art for Sins & Science, the science fantasy comedy debut from Natasha Tremblay! The book is now available for preorder on our web store and will soon be making its way into other online stores. Coming this October! You can also now read a sample of Sins & Science on the book…

  • BLACKOUT ODYSSEY cover reveal!

    BLACKOUT ODYSSEY cover reveal!

    Presenting the cover art for Blackout Odyssey! With big thanks to Victoria Feistner for the beautiful artwork/design. The book is now available for preorder through our webstore, and will soon also be available through your favourite book store.

  • Announcing BLACKOUT ODYSSEY!

    Announcing BLACKOUT ODYSSEY!

    Our twenty-fifth title is coming this August: Blackout Odyssey by debut author Victoria Feistner! Our first book to stretch into magic realism, Blackout Odyssey is a genderbent retelling of Homer’s Odyssey during the 2003 Northeastern Blackout, with a lot more standing in Mallory’s way to getting home than nonfunctional subway lines and overcrowded shuttle buses.…

  • 2018 events

    Convention season is coming up fast for Brain Lag! We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events: June 1-3: Niagara Falls Comic Con June 17: Brampton ComiCon July 13-15: Ad Astra August 2-5: Gen Con September 22: Forest City Comicon As always, keep an eye on our event calendar for new events…

  • 2017 update

    Thanks to you, our readers and authors, 2016 was the biggest year yet for Brain Lag. The addition of our fifth author, Stephen B. Pearl, and his Tinker books, along with Hugh A. D. Spencer’s Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals and J. R. Dwornik’s Green Light to Paradise expanded the Brain Lag…

  • Ad Astra schedule and double launch party!

    If you’ve been following the Brain Lag social media, you’ve seen that we’ve now posted four parts of Alan Gordon’s five-part interview with Hugh A. D. Spencer about Why I Hunt Flying Saucers And Other Fantasticals, along with a dramatic production of a scene from one of the stories and a complete radio play of…

  • Ad Astra

    Brain Lag’s next confirmed appearance is at Ad Astra in Richmond Hill, Ontario (just outside Toronto) April 10-12. We will be in the dealers room all weekend with all of our titles and authors Catherine Fitzsimmons and Simon McNeil will be hosting panels and readings at the convention. We will also be giving presentations on…