News and Events
News from Overseas...
The Wizard's Tower definitive edition of the Books of Outremer has reached volume five: Hand of the King's Evil: Julianne has married again, and once more she has been whisked away on her wedding night, this time very much against her will. Clearly she must be rescued, but is she just the bait in a trap for someone else?
Meanwhile a renegade preacher is performing miracles and gathering an army of the poor and needy about him. All of the warring factions in Outremer would love to know who is he working for, and doubtless suspect each other. But the preacher is clear in his intent. He means to lead his ragged army against Surayon ...
Puzzled? New readers, don't start here: the story to date is available from Wizard's Press. But for those who have been keeping up and are impatient for the next instalment, the good news is that Hand of the King's Evil is available now (published on April 9th).
And in news from Mars via Japan, Chaz'z short story The Station of the Twelfth has been translated into Japanese! More information about Chaz'z short fiction here.
News from Feremendas...
Out now from Wizard's Tower Press. "a thrilling (and very sapphic) new series from Chaz Brenchley". Of The Emperor's Kindness was launched at World Fantasy, 30th October 2025.
"Of The Emperor's Kindness left me breathless. An utterly gorgeous book!"
Melissa Scott
More about Of the Emperor's Kindness
Mars Imperial: Two New Books
"I won't go. I won't, I won't!"
Radhika Harvey does not want to go to the Crater School, but her father offers her no choice. Radhika's beloved mother is deathly ill in the Sanatorium across the Lowell Crater from the school; it's the obvious place to send her. And how can a disgraced father care properly for a young girl on his own?
The Crater School has taken in children from all across the province, which means from many different cultures and creeds, but never yet a half-Indian army brat who absolutely doesn't want to be there. Her arrival - and her temper - will challenge both staff and pupils, throughout an explosive Martian summer...
"No fear of Brenchley's inventiveness flagging. A new arrival sets a test that lays bare the school's hitherto hidden flaws for the reader. If the Cratereans cannot see this for themselves, they risk failing their latest pupil."
Juliet E McKenna
Radhika Rages at the Crater School was published by Wizard's Tower Press on June 26th 2025; find purchasing links on their website.
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"My name is Rowany de Vere, and I'm with the Colonial Service."
A graduate of the Crater School and of Oxford, Rowany has newly taken up service. As a spy. Her first mission requires her to escort a prominent defector, whose backstory encompasses both Russia and the opaque colony of Venus. Pursued by Russian agents intent on killing them both, she must see her charge safely across the hostile surface of Mars. Success will require every ounce of her wits and her training, but if she can't outsmart strangers who know nothing of her people nor her land, she doesn't deserve the title on her calling card: Rowany de Vere. Of the Colonial Office.
Multiple award-winning independent publisher NewCon Press announce the relaunch of their NP Novella series: and how better to celebrate the launch of any enterprise than with a book by Chaz?
Rowany de Vere and a Fair Degree of Frost is available now from NewCon Press as a compact paperback (114 pages), an ebook, and a special A5 hardback edition (90 pages), limited to just 50 copies, each individually numbered and signed by the author.
Mars Imperial home page.
The Best of Chaz
Everything in All the Wrong Order, the Best Of collection of Chaz'z short stories, was published by Subterranean Press on 31st August 2021, and has been gathering rave reviews.
The Table of Contents has now been announced - thirty two brilliant stories of all lengths, plus an introduction by Elizabeth Bear. Publishers Weekly calls Chaz "gifted, prolific" and, in a starred review, says "Every entry enhances creative plots and plausible characterizations with outstanding writing."
Included in the 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List.