MICROSOFT love Hertzan Chimera
In a unique twist of fate, Hertzan Chimera finds that three of his ebooks SZMONHFU, UNITED STATES and ANIMAL INSTINCTS are available through the corporate site of MICROSOFT.
Hertzan Chimera's ebooks are published by Double Dragon Publishing. Now they are distributed by the largest (all format) ebook distributor, Fictionwise. Due to a partnership deal where what Fictionwise distributes in Microsoft Reader format is openly available from Microsoft itself through it's corporate reader site, you can officially pick up Hertzan Chimera's sordid un-novels and whore collections via this shiny green route.
Microsoft LOVE Chimera, not LIKE, Love!
Tombstone Award-winning writer of various extreme short story collections, collaborations and thirteen novels.
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
SENSATIONAL NEW BFGS REVIEW GOES LIVE
Here is an illustrative section from a new 5* review of the Chimera Severin co-written short story collection BFGS:
"BFGS (available in paperback from Massacre Publishing) is arranged like a menu, light hors d 'oeuvres before, meaty main courses followed by fruity desserts of appalling, and appealing, texture and taste.
"Chimera and Severin deftly play the reader, simultaneously tugging at both the viscera and the gonads, attracting and repelling with each tale, involving the reader’s lizard hindbrain intimately with characters far more fully developed than the Sims who so often inhabit short stories these days.
"In the process, Chimera and Severin’s individual talents merge into seamless poetic prose that is reminiscent of the Marquis De Sade at his most extreme channeled through Jack Kerouac at his most obliquely direct, with one notable (and deliberate) exception. These are truly dangerous visions, and if Ellison ever does compile the third volume of the trilogy of anthologies he began over thirty years ago, he could do much worse than to seek out these authors for inclusion.
Many thanks to Mark Orr. Click the link (above) to take you to Double Dragon Publishing.
Here is an illustrative section from a new 5* review of the Chimera Severin co-written short story collection BFGS:
"BFGS (available in paperback from Massacre Publishing) is arranged like a menu, light hors d 'oeuvres before, meaty main courses followed by fruity desserts of appalling, and appealing, texture and taste.
"Chimera and Severin deftly play the reader, simultaneously tugging at both the viscera and the gonads, attracting and repelling with each tale, involving the reader’s lizard hindbrain intimately with characters far more fully developed than the Sims who so often inhabit short stories these days.
"In the process, Chimera and Severin’s individual talents merge into seamless poetic prose that is reminiscent of the Marquis De Sade at his most extreme channeled through Jack Kerouac at his most obliquely direct, with one notable (and deliberate) exception. These are truly dangerous visions, and if Ellison ever does compile the third volume of the trilogy of anthologies he began over thirty years ago, he could do much worse than to seek out these authors for inclusion.
Many thanks to Mark Orr. Click the link (above) to take you to Double Dragon Publishing.
THE SECRET PROJECT
Yoroppa, Hertzan Chimera's third full length novel, has been in progress now for three years and is still only half finished.
Damn, why do books take so long to write?
Well, in my defense, I did also complete BFGS, Chim&Her and Chim&Him (95%) in that same time period. I recently had a sweet Japanese vacation in Kyoto. Very sweet place. Great people. Great sites to see. Food to eat. I bought myself a special notebook to write down all the inspirational thoughts that could fill Yoroppa. Nada. The notebook remained empty the whole ten days.
I recently took the notebook to France where I was the Godfather of my sister-in-law's son and the words flowed. Nearly ten thousand of them. In summary, Yoroppa is back on the rails. And the fire is burning in its belly.
toot toot!
Yoroppa, Hertzan Chimera's third full length novel, has been in progress now for three years and is still only half finished.
Damn, why do books take so long to write?
Well, in my defense, I did also complete BFGS, Chim&Her and Chim&Him (95%) in that same time period. I recently had a sweet Japanese vacation in Kyoto. Very sweet place. Great people. Great sites to see. Food to eat. I bought myself a special notebook to write down all the inspirational thoughts that could fill Yoroppa. Nada. The notebook remained empty the whole ten days.
I recently took the notebook to France where I was the Godfather of my sister-in-law's son and the words flowed. Nearly ten thousand of them. In summary, Yoroppa is back on the rails. And the fire is burning in its belly.
toot toot!
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
FICTIONWISE FEATURES SZMONHFU IN THEIR ARMADILLOcon PROMOTION
They have it categorised as Erotic/DarkFantasy but what the hell.... Fictionwise, the biggest epublisher in the world (if you discount Palm's monopoly in their specific PalmReader format) has recommended Hertzan Chimera's SZMONHFU ebook in their ArmadilloCon Promotion.
"ArmadilloCon is a science fiction convention held annually in Austin, with several hundred attendees. The primary focus of ArmadilloCon is literary science fiction, but that's not all we do -- we also pay attention to art, media sf, and gaming. Every year dozens of professional writers, artists and editors attend the convention. Sometimes they come to make deals but more often they come to have fun!" as it says on their website.
SZMONHFU [MultiFormat]
by Hertzan Chimera
Regular Club
You Pay: $4.99 $4.24
Category: Erotica/Dark Fantasy
Description: Jane Templeton Rice is the highest paid fashion model in her industry. Her whole life stretches out in front of her like extravagant courses in a Chinese banquet. The night of the Gaultier show why did Jane go 'walkabout'? We follow this delicate young redhead on a blistering erotic adventure of discovery. But we soon find out that Jane has a problem. Her ability to dredge up the very deepest fantasies from her lovers is both an erotic firestorm and a millstone around her slender neck. How pure the intentions of her lovers must be. How honourable. For one small slip of conscience will result in a filthy bloodbath of man-raped sexual identity unwoven. And what of the SZMONHFU, the alien race of super beings, what is their part in Jane's illustrious future? SZMONHFU in many ways tells the tale of Pinocchio--but in the biogenetic horrotica world of Hertzan Chimera that impending maturity takes on a haunted inevitability stripped from the original kids' story.
First Published: 2003 DDP
Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing
Pick up a copy now!
They have it categorised as Erotic/DarkFantasy but what the hell.... Fictionwise, the biggest epublisher in the world (if you discount Palm's monopoly in their specific PalmReader format) has recommended Hertzan Chimera's SZMONHFU ebook in their ArmadilloCon Promotion.
"ArmadilloCon is a science fiction convention held annually in Austin, with several hundred attendees. The primary focus of ArmadilloCon is literary science fiction, but that's not all we do -- we also pay attention to art, media sf, and gaming. Every year dozens of professional writers, artists and editors attend the convention. Sometimes they come to make deals but more often they come to have fun!" as it says on their website.
SZMONHFU [MultiFormat]
by Hertzan Chimera
Regular Club
You Pay: $4.99 $4.24
Category: Erotica/Dark Fantasy
Description: Jane Templeton Rice is the highest paid fashion model in her industry. Her whole life stretches out in front of her like extravagant courses in a Chinese banquet. The night of the Gaultier show why did Jane go 'walkabout'? We follow this delicate young redhead on a blistering erotic adventure of discovery. But we soon find out that Jane has a problem. Her ability to dredge up the very deepest fantasies from her lovers is both an erotic firestorm and a millstone around her slender neck. How pure the intentions of her lovers must be. How honourable. For one small slip of conscience will result in a filthy bloodbath of man-raped sexual identity unwoven. And what of the SZMONHFU, the alien race of super beings, what is their part in Jane's illustrious future? SZMONHFU in many ways tells the tale of Pinocchio--but in the biogenetic horrotica world of Hertzan Chimera that impending maturity takes on a haunted inevitability stripped from the original kids' story.
First Published: 2003 DDP
Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing
Pick up a copy now!
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
FICTION, THE DREAM PEOPLE
Surreal and bizarre literature and poetry site The Dream People will feature a story be Hertzan Chimera called THE GETAWAY GIRL - there is a photomontage-style illustration for this by artist Mike Philbin.
Deliciously wild and probably all quite wrong in the best possible way.
Surreal and bizarre literature and poetry site The Dream People will feature a story be Hertzan Chimera called THE GETAWAY GIRL - there is a photomontage-style illustration for this by artist Mike Philbin.
Deliciously wild and probably all quite wrong in the best possible way.
Friday, July 25, 2003
CHIMERAWORLD ANTHOLOGY ANNOUNCED BY CYBER PULP
In another swift acquisition, Cyber Pulp will publish the Hertzan Chimera conceived and edited anthology CHIMERAWORLD. There is already talk of making this an annual series. It's gonna be a stunner, here's the pitch:
CHIMERAWORLD
it's a dark place your mind will never escape.
A collection of the most ferocious, the most relentless, the most wonderfully rendered nightmare landscapes ever witnessed in literary history. This is not horror. This is not sci-fi. This is not mystery. This is not thriller. CHIMERAWORLD exceeds all boundaries of taste and narrative.
You will journey through CHIMERAWORLD in the company of 23 of today's greatest authors.
Word limit 2000-4000 words strict. Deadline for submissions is End October, 2003. No reprints. Downloadable .pdf eBook, enhanced CD, and P.O.D. Contributors receive equal share of royalties.
Hertzan Chimera, editor - coming Summer 2004.
send submissions to chimeraworld@hertzanchimera.com
In another swift acquisition, Cyber Pulp will publish the Hertzan Chimera conceived and edited anthology CHIMERAWORLD. There is already talk of making this an annual series. It's gonna be a stunner, here's the pitch:
CHIMERAWORLD
it's a dark place your mind will never escape.
A collection of the most ferocious, the most relentless, the most wonderfully rendered nightmare landscapes ever witnessed in literary history. This is not horror. This is not sci-fi. This is not mystery. This is not thriller. CHIMERAWORLD exceeds all boundaries of taste and narrative.
You will journey through CHIMERAWORLD in the company of 23 of today's greatest authors.
Word limit 2000-4000 words strict. Deadline for submissions is End October, 2003. No reprints. Downloadable .pdf eBook, enhanced CD, and P.O.D. Contributors receive equal share of royalties.
Hertzan Chimera, editor - coming Summer 2004.
send submissions to chimeraworld@hertzanchimera.com
CHIM & HER EBOOK TO BE PUBLISHED BY CYBERPULP
Well, this is quick news but Bob Gunner has snapped up the ebooks rights to Hertzan Chimera's CHIM & HER collaborative for a November 2003 release.
Wow, that WAS fast!
Well, this is quick news but Bob Gunner has snapped up the ebooks rights to Hertzan Chimera's CHIM & HER collaborative for a November 2003 release.
Wow, that WAS fast!
Sunday, July 20, 2003
CHIM & HER ebook IS FINISHED
It is with great joy that I can today announce that the ebook version of CHIM & HER is finished. The ebook version contains 24 stories, that's 63,000 words of purest CULTURE SHOCK fiction. Eight of today's most thought provoking (and twisted) female authors in full collaboration with Chimera, that's me.
Not bad going considering that I have a fulltime 3D artist&animator dayjob in the computer games industry and the collection was only started in January of 2003, that's 7 months ago. I picked up a book at Horrorfind 2002 in Baltimore called DREAD IN THE BEAST by WHC GrossOut Winner and mass-market horror writer (Leisure Books) Charlee Jacob, mailed her about the Chim&Her collaborative collection asking if she'd be interested in being a part of it, and she was.
There are a couple of bonus items that will make it into the paperback version of Chim & Her, publisher to be announced. A Tricephallic is a story written by a three-lobed brain, basically Chim + two of the authors - there will be four of these in the paperback version and there will be one group story to finish off the book.
In other double-candle-burning news: Vincent Sakowski has just come on board as the eighth and final male author in the Chim & Her follow up book, CHIM & HIM. This follow-up collection is looking like being finished by Xmas 2003.
I have uploaded both covers to the site and have activated relevant links.
It is with great joy that I can today announce that the ebook version of CHIM & HER is finished. The ebook version contains 24 stories, that's 63,000 words of purest CULTURE SHOCK fiction. Eight of today's most thought provoking (and twisted) female authors in full collaboration with Chimera, that's me.
Not bad going considering that I have a fulltime 3D artist&animator dayjob in the computer games industry and the collection was only started in January of 2003, that's 7 months ago. I picked up a book at Horrorfind 2002 in Baltimore called DREAD IN THE BEAST by WHC GrossOut Winner and mass-market horror writer (Leisure Books) Charlee Jacob, mailed her about the Chim&Her collaborative collection asking if she'd be interested in being a part of it, and she was.
There are a couple of bonus items that will make it into the paperback version of Chim & Her, publisher to be announced. A Tricephallic is a story written by a three-lobed brain, basically Chim + two of the authors - there will be four of these in the paperback version and there will be one group story to finish off the book.
In other double-candle-burning news: Vincent Sakowski has just come on board as the eighth and final male author in the Chim & Her follow up book, CHIM & HIM. This follow-up collection is looking like being finished by Xmas 2003.
I have uploaded both covers to the site and have activated relevant links.
Monday, July 07, 2003
QUEENIE TIRONE ON CHIM & HER
I was thumbing through the virtual pages of Nevermore Magazine and there found that this quarter's featured author is Queenie Tirone (who I have interviewed before for Terror Tales and there she was shootin' her sexy li'l mouth off about our collaborative short story collection Chim & Her.
and I quote:
NM: So tell me about what you are working on now?
Queenie: Right now? Oh that's the Chim and Her collection for sure.
Nine Ladies and one Chimera. It's bound to be a scream.
NM: hmmm... tell me more...
Queenie: Well, Chimera writes with each lady. Me and him have three
stories. To each one he adds his touch to it, making the story turn
in strange ways. When two people come together to write something it
can really become wild. I have seen the first draft already, its
wild. The women involved have great imaginations.
NM: When can we expect to see it?
Queenie: Hmm... not sure but probably sometime next year. It will
definitely be E-book format. Hertzan is still looking for a print
publisher.
Many thanks go out to Queenie for the advance publicity on this title.
I was thumbing through the virtual pages of Nevermore Magazine and there found that this quarter's featured author is Queenie Tirone (who I have interviewed before for Terror Tales and there she was shootin' her sexy li'l mouth off about our collaborative short story collection Chim & Her.
and I quote:
NM: So tell me about what you are working on now?
Queenie: Right now? Oh that's the Chim and Her collection for sure.
Nine Ladies and one Chimera. It's bound to be a scream.
NM: hmmm... tell me more...
Queenie: Well, Chimera writes with each lady. Me and him have three
stories. To each one he adds his touch to it, making the story turn
in strange ways. When two people come together to write something it
can really become wild. I have seen the first draft already, its
wild. The women involved have great imaginations.
NM: When can we expect to see it?
Queenie: Hmm... not sure but probably sometime next year. It will
definitely be E-book format. Hertzan is still looking for a print
publisher.
Many thanks go out to Queenie for the advance publicity on this title.
Friday, July 04, 2003
FICTION, NEVERMORE
A surreal new horror story BERT'S EARLY LIGHT by Hertzan Chimera has hit the web like a glob of grease, site by the name of Nevermore Mag.
This one's so wild, even I don't know what the Hell's going on.
A surreal new horror story BERT'S EARLY LIGHT by Hertzan Chimera has hit the web like a glob of grease, site by the name of Nevermore Mag.
This one's so wild, even I don't know what the Hell's going on.
Monday, June 30, 2003
THE BONNIE & CLYDE OF SEX-HORROR FICTION
A brand new interview with those bad boys of sex-horror fiction Hertzan Chimera and Alex Severin, the co-authors of BFGS, goes online at DARK FIRE.
For those of you who know your movies - the similarity was intentional.
A brand new interview with those bad boys of sex-horror fiction Hertzan Chimera and Alex Severin, the co-authors of BFGS, goes online at DARK FIRE.
For those of you who know your movies - the similarity was intentional.
Thursday, June 26, 2003
MORE HERTZAN CHIMERA BOOK REVIEWS
Not content with reviewing just one book for Feo Amante, Hertzan Chimera has recently submitted another book review, this time DEAD SLEEP by Greg Iles. A great book and a strong recommendation. The review should be live on Feo Amante's website my mid July. Hopefully this spells the start of a new phase of Chimera's output.
I'll update the review link some time in July - the above live link takes you direct to Feo Amante.
Not content with reviewing just one book for Feo Amante, Hertzan Chimera has recently submitted another book review, this time DEAD SLEEP by Greg Iles. A great book and a strong recommendation. The review should be live on Feo Amante's website my mid July. Hopefully this spells the start of a new phase of Chimera's output.
I'll update the review link some time in July - the above live link takes you direct to Feo Amante.
Monday, June 23, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA REVIEWS FOR FEO AMANTE
It was sorta done in an arse over tit fashion but in effect where the review was written as a 'commission' from the publisher and then a home found for it, but ... in effect have reviewed the female fiction collection FEMMES DE LA BRUME from Double Dragon Publishing for the (400,000 reader a month) horror site Feo Amante - which looks kinda nice on the C.V.
check it out by clicking on the title link.
It was sorta done in an arse over tit fashion but in effect where the review was written as a 'commission' from the publisher and then a home found for it, but ... in effect have reviewed the female fiction collection FEMMES DE LA BRUME from Double Dragon Publishing for the (400,000 reader a month) horror site Feo Amante - which looks kinda nice on the C.V.
check it out by clicking on the title link.
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