SPIDERED WEB - freaky interviews to take into the bath
Here's a scoop. Hertzan Chimera has interviewed (in his unique style) such horror luminaries as Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccirilli, Edward Lee, Charlee Jacob, DF Lewis and a plethora of others. Cyber Pulp will very soon be bringing out all these interviews in a single collection called SPIDERED WEB. Included in the collection are some rare interivews with Chimera himself, and some classic pieces of Chimera/Severin BFGS polemic too.
Cyber Pulp LOVE Hertzan Chimera, it would seem
Tombstone Award-winning writer of various extreme short story collections, collaborations and thirteen novels.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
GET 'EM NOW - WHILE YOU STILL CAN
When I first started using the Hertzan Chimera diet, I was putting away several big fat genre novels a WEEK, you should have seen the size of my book shelves!
Available in three original flavours, the Hertzan Chimera diet is designed so that you can dip into it when it suits you and unlike other sorts of pulp formulae, it comes in non-bleached Palm Reader format. It has changed my commuting life.
read the rest of the plan, here
When I first started using the Hertzan Chimera diet, I was putting away several big fat genre novels a WEEK, you should have seen the size of my book shelves!
Available in three original flavours, the Hertzan Chimera diet is designed so that you can dip into it when it suits you and unlike other sorts of pulp formulae, it comes in non-bleached Palm Reader format. It has changed my commuting life.
read the rest of the plan, here
Wednesday, September 17, 2003
CYBERPULP TO PUBLISH CHIMERA PAPERBACKS
Cyber Pulp publishing, run by Bob Gunner, who recently agreed to bring out ebook versions of forthcoming Hertzan Chimera titles CHIM&HER (collaborative collection), CHIM&HIM (collaborative collection) and CHIMERAWORLD (anthology, H.C. editor) have upgraded the publication deal on these three titles to include trade paperback.
This is great news especially for CHIM&HER and CHIM&HIM as Chimera was holding back special Tricephallic (three writers as one brain) and Group stories for the paperback versions - they will become Collector's Items.
Cyber Pulp publishing, run by Bob Gunner, who recently agreed to bring out ebook versions of forthcoming Hertzan Chimera titles CHIM&HER (collaborative collection), CHIM&HIM (collaborative collection) and CHIMERAWORLD (anthology, H.C. editor) have upgraded the publication deal on these three titles to include trade paperback.
This is great news especially for CHIM&HER and CHIM&HIM as Chimera was holding back special Tricephallic (three writers as one brain) and Group stories for the paperback versions - they will become Collector's Items.
Friday, September 12, 2003
REVIEW + ABSURDISM
Hertzan Chimera's review of Greg Iles "artistic" thriller novel DEAD SLEEP has just surfaced on FeoAmante.com - hit the link.
Hertzan Chimera has five stories on THE ABSURDIST website - you can vote for them, as it would seem.
That's all for now.... more as it comes in.
Hertzan Chimera's review of Greg Iles "artistic" thriller novel DEAD SLEEP has just surfaced on FeoAmante.com - hit the link.
Hertzan Chimera has five stories on THE ABSURDIST website - you can vote for them, as it would seem.
That's all for now.... more as it comes in.
Sunday, September 07, 2003
PURPLE IS NOT A LETTER
It was a crisp day in September when Hertzan Chimera met polycarp kusch (a fellow capricorn) in some pub near Paddington Station in West London.
The founder and administrator of both Absurdist World and BIZARReBOOKS and author of tremendous ebooks GOTT MILK, MACABRE and DECLINE IN THE HUMAN LIFE CYCLE turned out to be an absolute riot. He was lively, he was zany, he was totally uncontrolable. Yes, he lived up to his reputation as the bad-boy of avante garde lit, kicking up a fuss all down the Praed Road. I interviewed pk via the internet for Terror Tales way back in some warped out time and space and to meet him in person is to know that he is not only a unique writing talent, but he is a true charmer, he is, after all, polycarp.
Nice one, pk, that was a great day of international schmooze-skin-shinin'
It was a crisp day in September when Hertzan Chimera met polycarp kusch (a fellow capricorn) in some pub near Paddington Station in West London.
The founder and administrator of both Absurdist World and BIZARReBOOKS and author of tremendous ebooks GOTT MILK, MACABRE and DECLINE IN THE HUMAN LIFE CYCLE turned out to be an absolute riot. He was lively, he was zany, he was totally uncontrolable. Yes, he lived up to his reputation as the bad-boy of avante garde lit, kicking up a fuss all down the Praed Road. I interviewed pk via the internet for Terror Tales way back in some warped out time and space and to meet him in person is to know that he is not only a unique writing talent, but he is a true charmer, he is, after all, polycarp.
Nice one, pk, that was a great day of international schmooze-skin-shinin'
Saturday, September 06, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA HAS GONE EBOOK CRAZY
Double Dragon Publishing has agreed to bring out both his novels-- SZMONHFU and UNITED STATES--in e-book format. In the latest spate of e-book sale mania, Hertzan Chimera's collaborative culture shock collections, CHIM & HER (co-written with Charlee Jacob, Alex Severin, Amy Grech, Destiny West, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Queenie Tirone and Christina Sng), CHIM & HIM (co-written with DF Lewis, MF Korn, Mark McLaughlin, Simon Logan, Greg Wharton, Marc Sanchez, John Lawson and Vincent Sakowski), and CHIMERWORLD (Hertzan as editor, with the submission deadline by the end of October 2003) have all been snapped up by Cyber Pulp for e-book release in 2004.
Hertzan's new story up at The Dream People (a reprint from Redsine in 1990) called "The Getaway Girl" features a brand new photo-montage piece of sleaze art from Mike Philbin his-self!
Double Dragon Publishing has agreed to bring out both his novels-- SZMONHFU and UNITED STATES--in e-book format. In the latest spate of e-book sale mania, Hertzan Chimera's collaborative culture shock collections, CHIM & HER (co-written with Charlee Jacob, Alex Severin, Amy Grech, Destiny West, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Queenie Tirone and Christina Sng), CHIM & HIM (co-written with DF Lewis, MF Korn, Mark McLaughlin, Simon Logan, Greg Wharton, Marc Sanchez, John Lawson and Vincent Sakowski), and CHIMERWORLD (Hertzan as editor, with the submission deadline by the end of October 2003) have all been snapped up by Cyber Pulp for e-book release in 2004.
Hertzan's new story up at The Dream People (a reprint from Redsine in 1990) called "The Getaway Girl" features a brand new photo-montage piece of sleaze art from Mike Philbin his-self!
Tuesday, August 26, 2003
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!
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!
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!
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