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.
Tombstone Award-winning writer of various extreme short story collections, collaborations and thirteen novels.
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
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.
Friday, June 20, 2003
THE HERTZAN CHIMERA NEWSLETTER
Good morning from sunny Oxford.
Yes, I am English, and dropping out of my winter depressive hibernation I can only say that the rays are good. Oh, yes.
Had another busy batch of writing and editing and promoting: but first of all.
A big thank you to all you news-hungry devils - this Hertzan Chimera Newsletter list has fair exploded with subscribers in recent times. Gives one a good feeling inside. Hey now that the ball's rolling, we gotta evangelise Hertzan Chimera's ass all over the Western and Eastern worlds. Let the world know that the genre barriers to creative fiction are coming down, guys.
News 1: BFGS to be relaunched.
Due to the obvious potential (thanks in general to the #1 Bestseller position last week on Shocklines) the Chimera/Severin collaborative fiction collection available in trade paperback from Shocklines.com and www.boyfistgirlsuck.co.uk and in ebook version from www.double-dragon-ebooks.com is being relaunched with a brand new cover (art by Mike Philbin) and remarketed to a whole new mass market audience by both publishers.
News 2: another banning for BFGS.
BFGS was due to be reviewed on a site called The Muse Apprentice Guild. Got a terse mail from the editor saying "Due to financial concerns" we can no longer support work of this nature. This after they published THREE of my stories just last issue.
News 3: Chim & Her is in first draft.
Last night, I completed the first draft of the collaborative extreme horror and psychological fiction collection Chim & Her. Basically, it's Hertzan Chimera collaborating with 8 of today's hardest ladies of words on 24 short stories. And boy, it's grown to quite a project since its inception (conception?) in January this year. The prose is of a quality and ferocity that (frankly) stunned me. Watch out for this one soon.
Good morning from sunny Oxford.
Yes, I am English, and dropping out of my winter depressive hibernation I can only say that the rays are good. Oh, yes.
Had another busy batch of writing and editing and promoting: but first of all.
A big thank you to all you news-hungry devils - this Hertzan Chimera Newsletter list has fair exploded with subscribers in recent times. Gives one a good feeling inside. Hey now that the ball's rolling, we gotta evangelise Hertzan Chimera's ass all over the Western and Eastern worlds. Let the world know that the genre barriers to creative fiction are coming down, guys.
News 1: BFGS to be relaunched.
Due to the obvious potential (thanks in general to the #1 Bestseller position last week on Shocklines) the Chimera/Severin collaborative fiction collection available in trade paperback from Shocklines.com and www.boyfistgirlsuck.co.uk and in ebook version from www.double-dragon-ebooks.com is being relaunched with a brand new cover (art by Mike Philbin) and remarketed to a whole new mass market audience by both publishers.
News 2: another banning for BFGS.
BFGS was due to be reviewed on a site called The Muse Apprentice Guild. Got a terse mail from the editor saying "Due to financial concerns" we can no longer support work of this nature. This after they published THREE of my stories just last issue.
News 3: Chim & Her is in first draft.
Last night, I completed the first draft of the collaborative extreme horror and psychological fiction collection Chim & Her. Basically, it's Hertzan Chimera collaborating with 8 of today's hardest ladies of words on 24 short stories. And boy, it's grown to quite a project since its inception (conception?) in January this year. The prose is of a quality and ferocity that (frankly) stunned me. Watch out for this one soon.
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
HERTZAN CHIMERA AND ERASERHEAD PRESS PART COMPANY
Well, it's been on the cards for like six months now but finally, Hertzan Chimera woke up and smelled the coffee. Eraserhead Press is (and maybe always has been) merely the publishing vehicle for it's owner Carlton Mellick III and anyone else published by them runs the risk of not being sufficiently promoted or marketed as a writer.
All rights (other than ebook rights which DDP are actively exercising for a contractual period) to Hertzan Chimera novels SZMONHFU (100, 000 words - published in 2001 as a trade paperback) and UNITED STATES (80,000 words - never released) revert to the author with this announcement.
You know, you can only plug your own material so far then you gotta stand back and say, "Wait a minute, shouldn't the publisher be getting his hands dirty, too?"
When you realise that, you can only back out and look elsewhere for representation.
Well, it's been on the cards for like six months now but finally, Hertzan Chimera woke up and smelled the coffee. Eraserhead Press is (and maybe always has been) merely the publishing vehicle for it's owner Carlton Mellick III and anyone else published by them runs the risk of not being sufficiently promoted or marketed as a writer.
All rights (other than ebook rights which DDP are actively exercising for a contractual period) to Hertzan Chimera novels SZMONHFU (100, 000 words - published in 2001 as a trade paperback) and UNITED STATES (80,000 words - never released) revert to the author with this announcement.
You know, you can only plug your own material so far then you gotta stand back and say, "Wait a minute, shouldn't the publisher be getting his hands dirty, too?"
When you realise that, you can only back out and look elsewhere for representation.
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
BOYFISTGIRLSUCK #1 BESTSELLER @ SHOCKLINES
As of the week beginning the 8th of June, Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin have struck gold with pole position on SHOCKLINES DISTRIBUTION bestseller in-stock list for their extreme sex-horror collection BOYFISTGIRLSUCK.
Number one!
As of the week beginning the 8th of June, Hertzan Chimera & Alex Severin have struck gold with pole position on SHOCKLINES DISTRIBUTION bestseller in-stock list for their extreme sex-horror collection BOYFISTGIRLSUCK.
Number one!
Sunday, June 08, 2003
PEER APPROVAL FOR CHIMERA'S "UNITED STATES"
As Hertzan Chimera's second Eraserhead Press trade paperback "United States" races for the printing press, here's a list of the superstars of horror who have cover-quoted it's ass all over this bee-atch!
"Hertzan Chimera is both monster rant and taboo heat. His primal work clutches me in both G-spot and brain--and everywhere else in between." --Charlee Jacob, author of THIS SYMBIOTIC FASCINATION and HAUNTER.
"When I say that Hertzan Chimera's writings make me want to throw up, I mean that only in a good way. He's a major contender in the gross-out arena; his work is a hallmark of creative outrage." --Edward Lee, author of CITY INFERNAL and MONSTROSITY.
"Hertzan Chimera is the Henry Miller of Our Time. He has remortgaged the Horror/SF ghetto, replacing it with a Garrethouse of the Psycho-Erotic on the Left Bank of the Seine." --MF Korn, author of RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST and CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL.
"As a longtime fan of the outre and fiction of the abject, I can say that very little of what I read anymore shocks, revolts, scares, or disturbs me. But Hertzan Chimera manages to do it every time. UNITED STATES is a romp through the dark lands of the free mind. Fans of William Burroughs and should rejoice -- he's been reincarnated for the new century in Hertzan Chimera. This is Naked Lunch on nuclear acid. Rated X for Xtra demented." --Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of GRAVE MARKINGS and FREAKCIDENTS.
This is a wonderful ego-shine and hopefully a pointer to millions of sales.
As Hertzan Chimera's second Eraserhead Press trade paperback "United States" races for the printing press, here's a list of the superstars of horror who have cover-quoted it's ass all over this bee-atch!
"Hertzan Chimera is both monster rant and taboo heat. His primal work clutches me in both G-spot and brain--and everywhere else in between." --Charlee Jacob, author of THIS SYMBIOTIC FASCINATION and HAUNTER.
"When I say that Hertzan Chimera's writings make me want to throw up, I mean that only in a good way. He's a major contender in the gross-out arena; his work is a hallmark of creative outrage." --Edward Lee, author of CITY INFERNAL and MONSTROSITY.
"Hertzan Chimera is the Henry Miller of Our Time. He has remortgaged the Horror/SF ghetto, replacing it with a Garrethouse of the Psycho-Erotic on the Left Bank of the Seine." --MF Korn, author of RACHMANINOFF'S GHOST and CONFESSIONS OF A GHOUL.
"As a longtime fan of the outre and fiction of the abject, I can say that very little of what I read anymore shocks, revolts, scares, or disturbs me. But Hertzan Chimera manages to do it every time. UNITED STATES is a romp through the dark lands of the free mind. Fans of William Burroughs and should rejoice -- he's been reincarnated for the new century in Hertzan Chimera. This is Naked Lunch on nuclear acid. Rated X for Xtra demented." --Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of GRAVE MARKINGS and FREAKCIDENTS.
This is a wonderful ego-shine and hopefully a pointer to millions of sales.
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