Below you'll find the full schedule of author signings for tomorrow's WORD ON THE STREET Festival in Toronto. We will be there rain or shine, offering great deals on our titles and debuting some kick-ass new books. We are located at booth FB17 on Queen's Park Crescent East just south of St. Joseph Street. Come out and say hello!

Word On the Street
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule

11:00am-12:00pm - IAN ROGERS (Temporary Monsters)
12:00pm-1:00pm - DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman) & RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
1:00pm-2:00pm - DAVE ALEXANDER (Fresh Blood's "Growth Spurts")
2:00pm-3:00pm - LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
3:00pm-4:00pm - DANE SWAN (Narcotics//Flora)
4:00pm-5:00pm - MIKE BRYANT (Operation Dickhead)
5:00pm-6:00pm - BRETT ALEXANDER SAVORY (The Distance Travelled: A Little Slice of Heaven)

Burning Effigy Press is pleased to debut two new titles at this Sunday's Word on the Street Festival in Toronto. Our booth with be located in the micro-press section of the event and we will be having authors signing all day - stay tuned for a complete autograph schedule. Now, onto the new releases:

TEMPORARY MONSTERS
by: Ian Rogers


Felix Renn is a private investigator in a supernatural world, an alternate reality where a dark dimension called The Black Lands co-exists alongside our own. Travelling to and from The Black Lands is dangerous - and illegal - but that doesn't stop some of the creatures that reside there from crossing over into our world from time to time. After a man goes berserk in a posh Toronto restaurant, Felix suddenly finds himself torn between both worlds as he is drawn into a deadly game of movies, murder, and monsters.

OPERATION DICKHEAD
by: Mike Bryant


Mark Allread is angry. He is angry because he works in the tech support department of a major Internet provider. But not angry enough to do anything other than complain to his long-suffering girlfriend. That all changes when the President of the World passes a new law requiring anybody he dislikes to have their heads replaced with genitalia. Mark, in response, decides to build an army of the surgically altered in hopes of overthrowing the President and returning people's heads to their original, non-penisized state. They're here. They're Dickheads. Get used to it.



 

Burning Effigy Press will have a table at this weekend's RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR (part of the larger Fan Expo convention). The con runs from August 28-30 and we will be in attendance all three days. The event takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building. Our table will be located at the main Rue Morgue booth. Throughout the weekend, several Burning Effigy authors will be on hand to meet fans and sign their respective titles. Please find a complete list of who's signing and when below (in addition FRESH BLOOD cover artist Justin Erickson will have a table next to ours and will be on hand all weekend). Hope to see you there!

Rue Morgue Festival of Fear
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule

Friday (Aug. 28) 5pm-7pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
Saturday (Aug. 29) 11am-2pm RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
Saturday (Aug. 29) 4pm-6pm DAVE ALEXANDER (Fresh Blood's "Growth Spurts")
Sunday (Aug. 30) 11am-1pm RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
Sunday (Aug. 30) 1pm-3pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
Sunday (Aug. 30) 3pm-6pm TIMOTHY CARTER (the sci-fi comedy Section K)

Burning Effigy Press will have a table at the TORONTO SMALL PRESS FAIR on Saturday, June 13, 2009. The Fair takes place at the TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY (789 Yonge St Toronto) from 9am to 5pm. Several of our authors will be in attendance and signing at Burning Effigy table.

Toronto Small Press Fair
Burning Effigy Press
Author Signing Schedule

9am-11am RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
11am-12pm DANE SWAN (Narcotics//Flora)
12pm-1pm LIISA LADOUCEUR (On Tenterhooks)
1pm-2pm TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K: The Demon Subway of North York)
2pm-3pm GEMMA FILES (Words Written Backwards)
3pm-4pm DALE PERCY (Everyone's Everyman)

Hot on the heels of yesterday's cover art sneak peek, we have another. Check out the final artwork for Richard Gavin's PRIMEVAL WOOD, the latest addition to our horror chapbook line.

BURNING EFFIGY PRESS' SPRING 2009 LAUNCH PARTY will take place at The Central (603 Markham St., Toronto) on Sunday, May 31st. Doors: 7:30pm. Readings/performances start promptly at 8:00pm. No cover.

Featuring readings and new titles from:
RICHARD GAVIN (Primeval Wood)
DANE SWAN (Narcotics // Flora)
DAVE ALEXANDER (of the Fresh Blood anthology)
and
TIMOTHY CARTER (Section K: Kasefile 42 - The Demon Subway of North York)

With musical interludes courtesy of KIRSTEN SANDWICH (http://kirstensandwich.ca/) and additional performances from LIISA LADOUCEUR, and more!

Please join us for an evening of great literature and fine entertainment!

And now our final chapbook announcement of Spring 2009. Last, but certainly not least... we visit some old friends.

SECTION K: KASEFILE 42 - THE DEMON SUBWAY OF NORTH YORK
Timothy Carter
Release date: May 29, 2009
There’s something weird going on in the Toronto subway system. Strange lights appearing in the Sheppard Avenue tunnels. People turning into living zombies with no personality. Rumours of a "ghost train." And when anything unexplained - possibly paranormal - turns up in any Canadian city, who ya gonna call? Howard Plank, of the RCMP’s Section K, that’s who. Too bad Howard is an alcoholic doofus who’s obsessed with the memory of his ex-wife. How will he battle against an evil phantom subway driver and his soul-sucking demon, when he’s so hammered he doesn’t even remember why his superiors sent him there? Find out in this hilarious new spin-off story from Timothy Carter, based on characters from his sci-fi comedy novel Section K!

Burning Effigy is extremely thrilled to announce the launch of a new offshoot to our horror chapbook line. The series, titled FRESH BLOOD, features three terrifying tales by a talented trio of up-and-coming horror scribes. We hope to make FRESH BLOOD a new yearly tradition. Here's what the inaugural edition will be offering up:

FRESH BLOOD
Release date: May 29, 2009

Growth Spurts
(by Dave Alexander)
Twelve-year-old Kendall’s body is going through changes, and he’s not
happy about it. But when a very long, mysterious hair sprouts in the
middle of his chest, he discovers that there are much worse growing
pains than puberty. He’s about to meet the monster within...

Left for Dead
(by Kelli Dunlap)
When Susan's 8-year-old daughter is brutally attacked, she becomes
consumed by her need for revenge but mere punishment is not enough.
Susan learns that sometimes those being given the lessons are not
those doing the learning.

Mourn Not the Sleepless Children
(by Bob Freeman)
From the Highlands of Scotland comes a gothic tale of horror and
redemption, where the "Wickedest Man in the World" must stand face to
face against an unimaginable evil... an evil that hungers for human
flesh and blood.

Our second Spring 2009 publication announcement comes courtesy of our literary line, manned by Jeff Cottrill.

NARCOTICS // FLORA
Dane Swan
Release date: May 29, 2009
Narcotics // Flora, the first official poetry collection by Dane Swan, is centred around three series: A Dozen Roses, Sweet Melancholy Toronto West and a collection of works loosely based on transit. With a truly urban style that borrows from slam poetry, lyrical poetry and form poetry, Swan introduces the reader to his unique brand of "post-slam" poetry. The Toronto-based Bermudian writer is predominately known as a spoken-word artist. He has performed spoken word in over a dozen cities throughout North America. Performances of his poetry have also been featured on CDs and vinyls that have been distributed across Canada and the Atlantic.

Burning Effigy Press is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of PRIMEVAL WOOD by RICHARD GAVIN.

PRIMEVAL WOOD
Richard Gavin
Release date: May 29, 2009
When Neil Keller noticed the pale set of eyes staring out at him from
the shaded tangles of hawthorn, he experienced what he believed to be a
wholly new form of elation, one that crackled and thrummed well beyond
the accepted human spectrum. He soon realized that what blinked at him
were not eyes at all, but tiny white blossoms; flowers that nonetheless
seemed to glare out from some ecstatic mask. Neil exhaled a blend of
laughter and a sigh. Nature would never allow a thicket to sprout the
perfectly-formed fetish of some leering daemonic child.Yet that was
what Neil was seeing, truly seeing.

Some of you may have heard some rumblings about FRESH BLOOD. A new (hopefully annual) addition to Burning Effigy Press' horror chapbook line that will feature a trio of short stories by up-and-coming genre scribes. Spring 2009 will mark the release of Volume One... but we're still one story short. That's where you come in...

Burning Effigy is currently seeking a 5000-8000 word horror story to round out this inaugural edition. There are no thematic restrictions, and more importantly, we pay! The plan is to launch the collection (and series) next spring at the World Horror Convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

For more info, or to submit your tale for consideration, please email burningeffigy @ sympatico.ca.

Just a quick note to announce that Weston Ochse's REDEMPTION ROADSHOW is now available for direct order from the Burning Effigy Press online store. It's also worth noting that we only have about 20 copies of the first printing left in stock, so if that's something that matters to you. Get 'em quick, because they are almost gone.

Burning Effigy Press is pleased to announce that Liisa's Ladouceur's ON TENTERHOOKS and Dale Percy's EVERYONE'S EVERYMAN are now available for order online at http://www.burningeffigy.com/store.shtml. Buy a great read today!

Burning Effigy Press will once again be hosting author signings at its booth at Toronto's Word on the Street festival this Sunday. The complete autograph schedule is as follows:

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Dale Percy (launching Everyone's Everyman)
1:00pm - 2:00pm - Liisa Ladouceur (launching On Tenterhooks)
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Gemma Files (Words Written Backwards)
3:00pm - 4:00pm - Timothy Carter (Section K)
4:00pm - 5:00pm - Jeff Cottrill (Guilt Pasta)

Hope to see you there!

Our second chapbook announcement for Fall 2008 marks the first time our literary and horror lines collide... in a poetry collection.

Presenting...

ON TENTERHOOKS
By Liisa Ladouceur
Release date: September 28, 2008

ON TENTERHOOKS is the first poetry collection from Liisa Ladouceur. Her work is a dance with death: girls drown in Texas floods, Mayan boys are massacred, body parts wash up on shore, and memories are ravaged by the cruel sands of time. Wandering treacherous territories, from America's Southern highways to the back alleys of Cairo, the poems are haunted by that which is found missing. Liisa weaves magic words plucked from prayers and pop music lyrics into restless free verse, sonnets and glosas that confront universal monstrosities and leave behind a few of their own -- a tentative balance of sanctuary and solicitude.

BIO:
Liisa Ladouceur is a poet and arts & entertainment reporter from Toronto who loves dead things and arcane words. She has performed spoken word across North America, been published in the IndiePolitik anthology Strong Words: Year One (2006) and is the editor of Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights (2007). ON TENTERHOOKS is her first poetry collection. http://www.therss.com/liisa

We're a little late announcing our Fall 2008 titles, but the wait is finally over...

Our first of three announcements sees a new title join our horror chapbook line:


(rough cover)
Release date: Oct. 18, 2008

Dolan Gibb has driven the same section of Arizona desert highway for years, where crosses and shrines litter the side of the highway like confetti for the dead. He’s passed them thousands of times and never given them a second’s glance. To him, like everyone else, they are places of remembering, places to mourn. But when the Long Cool Woman and El Hombre Quemado (The Burned Man) suddenly appear with the Redemption Roadshow, Dolan’s entire world is spun on end as he learns that his whole life may have been a waste and that the shrines aren’t what they appear to be and, in fact, they never were.

More about Weston Ochse:
Weston is the author of the novels Scarecrow Gods, Recalled to Life, The Golden Thread, Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way and a slew of short stories and articles that have appeared in comic books, professional writing guides, magazines and anthologies. He won the Bram Stoker award for Superior Achievement in First Novel in 2005 for Scarecrow Gods and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for Fiction in 2003. He lives in Southern Arizona with his wife, Yvonne Navarro, and Great Danes, Pester Ghost Palm Eater and Goblin Monster Dog. For entertainment he races tarantula wasps, wrestles rattlesnakes, and watches Border Patrol Death Race 2000.

We've been in a submission reading period here at Burning Effigy Press for the last several weeks, and are proud to announce that our Fall 2008 roster is now completely full! Big announcement concerning ALL our Fall 2008 titles coming in just over two weeks. Stay tuned.

All remaining submissions are now being considered for our 2009 release schedule.

Thank you again to everyone who has submitted stories to our humble little press!

Fearzone.com has reviewed Burning Effigy Press' reissue of Steve Vernon's NOTHING TO LOSE. Check it out at: http://www.fearzone.com/blog/nothing-captain. Enjoy!

And as always, all BE titles are available for order at the Burning Effigy Online Store and at Horror-Mall.com.