One of the people I got to meet for the first time at Alt.Fiction last weekend was Helen Marshall who is an editor for ChiZine Publications. They are a Canadian small press, and Helen is Canadian, but chance has relocated her to England and hence to conventions.
I’m always pleased to make personal contact with people whose books I sell, but ChiZine is particularly notable right now because the company has two shiny new award nominees.
Firstly The Thief of Broken Toys, a novella by Tim Lebbon, is a finalist in the British Fantasy Awards.
In addition Chimerascope by Douglas Smith is a finalist in the Sunburst Awards (Canada’s answer to the Arthur C. Clarke Award).
I don’t have time to read every book I stock, so I’m always pleased to find that other people have decided the books I am selling are really good.
Hei Cheryl,
Not sure how else to get this to you, but: ms_cataclysm (on LJ)who is a tax consultant and who is also a friend of Kari Sperrings has a post today about Tax issues and Trans Filers, that I thought you might be interested in. This is the link:
http://ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com/140878.html?style=mine
Thanks, but it looks like it is friend-locked.
Ah… I’ll ask her about that.
M.