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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 Schoolwill be 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.
News from Outremer
Chaz'z newest book is the return of an old book, in an irresistible shiny new edition: the Wizard's Tower Press reissue of Chaz'z fantasy classic The Books of Outremer has reached its fourth volume, Feast of the King's Shadow. This is a single novel in six volumes, so if you have not read its predecessors, don't start here: go back to the beginning. You'll find ordering details on the publisher's website for The Devil in the Dust (and more besides). But if you are up to date with the story so far, now you can find out what happens next (after the bombshell revelation which closes book 3); and if you have already read to the end of the tale, now you can re-immerse yourself in the world of Outremer, in a text completely revised by the author.
Our heroes have arrived at the desert city of Rhabat, where they will be guests of the Sharai leader, Hasan. Whether they will be safe there is another matter. Morakh, the leader of the Sand Dancers, is still on the lose. And then there is the matter of what the 'Ifrit are up to in the Dead Waters.
Marron may be coming to terms with becoming the legendary Ghost Walker, but many Sharai are still resentful of a Patric having that honour. Meanwhile Marron still has his relationship with Jemel to sort out. As for Julianne, she has to decide what to do about Hasan's offer of marriage, given that in theory she is married already.
Publisher Cheryl Morgan says: "I read the Outremer series in 2004. At the time, Crusader imagery was regularly utilised in support of the war in Iraq, and depiction of queer relationships in fantasy was still a rarity. Consequently the series was a breath of fresh air in a world just starting to go mad. I'm delighted to be able to bring these books back to the reading public."
News of an old friend
Chaz announces on FaceBook that "You can now grab an e-book of my first acknowledged novel, The Samaritan, on Kindle! This is also the first of my serial-killer thrillers, written and published pre-Silence of the Lambs and thus ahead of the market, which is why it of course vanished without trace. (I do of course have reasons for why every single one of my books vanished without trace; it's kinda fun, honestly.)
Anyway: go forth and buy from from Amazon.com and from from Amazon UK), gimme a slightly early birthday present or something. It's fun; did I mention a serial killer?
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.