The Rifter is coming to an end
Tags: Ginn Hale, The Rifter
What a year it’s been! When we talked to Blind Eye Books about this last year, I had no idea how The Rifter would go.
A huge novel about, what, 400,000 words long, delivered in 10 parts? Sure! We can do that, right? But thanks to Ginn Hale and Blind Eye hitting every deadline and Michael building a delivery system, we did. Woohoo! And there’s even a Goodreads group about it (I knew we didn’t need forums on this site!): What Will Happen Next in The Rifter.
That was fun. Maybe we’ll do another some day. Maybe! In the meantime, there will be an online party (with giveaways) to celebrate the release of the final part, His Holy Bones, on December 13. More on that TK as we get closer to that long awaited date.
2nd to last Rifter, more Aqueduct, new Valente, Nook Tablet
Tags: Aqueduct Press, Catherynne M. Valente, Ginn Hale, The RifterWow, we are getting down to the wire with the Year of Ginn Hale. We just released the ninth installment, The Iron Temple. Next month when the last one goes out there will be a wailing and a gnashing of teeth!
Also this week, Wyrm Publishing’s latest title, Myths of Origin by New York Times best-seller Catherynne M. Valente which collects four of her early short novels which “deconstruct, and ultimately explode the seminal myths of both East and West, casting them in ways you”ve never read before and may never read again.”
We also have seven new titles from our friends at Aqueduct Press and soon we’re expecting to add a whole passel of titles from Circlet Press—whose Sense and Sensuality: Erotic Fantasies in the World of Jane Austen is proving very popular.
And don’t forget the Apex Magazine subscription drive: besides the discount on the annual subscription, the 2 free books, and the prize drawings for more books, they just upgraded the top prize: if they reach 200 new subscriptions Apex will award one random subscriber a new and shiny B&N Nook Tablet.
Part 9: The Iron Temple
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected, The RifterThe Rifter is a ten-part serialized novel by award-winning author, Ginn Hale. The first episode, The Shattered Gates, was published on March 8, 2011. Further installments will be published on the second Tuesday of each month.
Part 9, The Iron Temple, was published on Tuesday, November 8th.
When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.
“The true sorcery here is in Ginn Hale’s writing, which is by turns funny, fierce and lyrical. I can’t say enough good things about her work. Rifter is an astonishing story: terrifying and yet romantic. I was bewitched from the first sentence.”
—Josh Lanyon
Rifter 6, Kindle Emails
Tags: Kindle, The RifterThe Rifter is past the halfway point! How time flies. I don’t know what we’re going to do around here when it’s all over.
Also new this week: we can now email files direct to your Kindle, or to any other portable device that can open attachments and has its own email address. We are perhaps irrationally excited about this. Please try it out! First sign up for an account if you haven’t already, then go to your profile, scroll down to the bottom and put in your device’s email address. Then whenever you buy a new book or a new issue of a magazine you’re subscribed to is released, the site will send your book files straight to your device. Let us know how you like it!
Part 5, The Holy Road
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected, The RifterThe Rifter is a ten-part serialized novel by award-winning author, Ginn Hale. The first episode, The Shattered Gates, was published on March 8, 2011. Further installments will be published on the second Tuesday of each month.
Part 5, The Holy Road, was published on Tuesday, June 14th.
When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle—to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.
“The true sorcery here is in Ginn Hale’s writing, which is by turns funny, fierce and lyrical. I can’t say enough good things about her work. Rifter is an astonishing story: terrifying and yet romantic. I was bewitched from the first sentence.”
—Josh Lanyon
Read an Excerpt:
Chapter Forty-Four
Despite the heavy canvas walls of the taverner’s tent, the noise and perfumes of the surrounding Harvest Fair infiltrated the air. John easily picked out the musical calls of taye sellers and salt vendors. He could smell frying dumplings and freshly cut onions. The laughter of men and children drifted past, as did the soft murmurs of women’s conversations.
Inside, his surroundings felt far more subdued. The muscular, bearded proprietor and his serving women gathered around the stacked barrels of beer, wine, and liquor. They spoke quietly among themselves as they filled flagons and rough clay pitchers. One girl tended a small charcoal fire where kettles of daru’sira stood heating.
The majority of the men seated around the tables spoke in lowered voices and wore expressions that struck John as somber if not solemn. He supposed it wasn’t the joyous men of the world who needed to drink themselves into oblivion before noon. Though, the dampening presence of both an ushiri and an ushman among their company could also have been responsible for the oddly sober atmosphere.
“Such a serious expression, Jahn.” Ravishan swayed on the bench seat beside him. A flush colored his pale cheeks and his eyes were both dark and glistening beneath the shadows of his sharp black brows. “You should have a drink.” He held up his small glass and the strong floral tang of potent flower liqueur drifted from it.
“I promise you there is no point in attempting to lure Jahn,” Hann’yu commented from across the table. He cupped a mead glass gently between his tanned hands but drank little from it. “Nothing tempts him.”
“I’m sure something does.” Ravishan’s speculative stare was only interrupted by the arrival of a plump young woman with thick black bands tattooed around her tanned fingers. She placed another steaming pot of daru’sira down on the table in front of John. He thanked her and she smiled in a long-suffering manner. Her livelihood was not made by plying men with inexpensive daru’sira. However, her expression lit up as she noted the nearly empty pitcher of flower liqueur in front of Ravishan. But Hann’yu caught her attention and requested a plate of cutlets before she could offer Ravishan a second round of the liqueur.
New Rifter, New DeNiro, New TK, too
Tags: Alan DeNiro, Apex Publications, Ginn Hale, Something Wicked, The Rifter
What a week we had! I sent off the latest part of The Rifter, only to get a lovely polite note from a reader pointing out that somehow I had just sent out Part 3 labeled as Part 4. Oops. Fixed. Part 4, Witches’ Blood is now available. And, if you’re enjoying The Rifter, you can go say hello to Ginn Hale in the Goodreads What will happen next in The Rifter? group.
This week we’re also proud to release an exclusive short story by one of my favorite writers: Alan DeNiro’s Moonlight is Bulletproof. It’s got a cover by Alan and is only 99 cents. Best buck you will spend this week.
“Moonlight Is Bulletproof”
On the first day of spring, Dispatch awakens me with a case.
“This is a good one,” she says.
We also have two fab new ebooks from Apex:
Starve Better
Nick Mamatas
Starve Better makes no promises of making you a bestselling author. It won’t feed aspiring writers’ dreams of fame and fortune.
Let’s Play White
Chesya Burke
White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a human being. It’s the one thing Walter will never be.
and nice news for those who love their monthly subscriptions: I’m happy to introduce our latest subscription, all the way from Canada:
Something Wicked Magazine “a monthly Horror and Science Fiction short story magazine publishing some of the great new voices in the horror and science fiction genre.”
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And: we’re hugely excited about one of the new publishers we have lined up to come on board asap: Jeff and Ann VanderMeer’s new line, Cheeky Frawg Books.
Jeff sent us an initial list of authors and titles and this stuff is going to blow your mind. There are new books, old books, new editions, new art, new is the new is the news. Just wait!
Sure is nice to have something like this coming down the pike.
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A huge week!
Tags: Apex Magazine, Chelsea Station Editions, Fantasy Magazine, Ginn Hale, Invisible Publishing, The RifterAll around the world Ginn Hale fans are reading the first installment of her massive new serial The Rifter. You too can join the legions of subscribers here. Or, if you’re more the single-issue type of reader (I know you’re out there), here are links to the first installment, The Shattered Gates, as well as to preorders for the next couple, Servants of the Crossed Arrows and Black Blades. And if you’re of the speculative (or nail-bitey) kind, there’s a handy Goodreads group, What Will Happen Next in The Rifter?
The Rifter isn’t the only subscription we have going. You know how I’m always saying we have more sekrit good stuff coming? Here’s some of that stuff! This month we’re very proud to announce we’re adding two more fantastic monthly magazines, Fantasy Magazine and Apex Magazine.
Fantasy Magazine, which just underwent a redesign, is edited by that superstar editor guy John Joseph Adams and the March 2011 issue features George R. R. Martin, Holly Black, Genevieve Valentine, and Tanith Lee. Not a bad set of names to kick off with!
Apex Magazine has the stars, too and Issue 22, edited by award-winning writer Catherynne M. Valente, features fiction and poetry from Darin Bradley, Jessica Wick, Kat Howard, Mike Allen, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Sonya Taaffe, and Veronica Schanoes.
We should be adding back issues of both these fine zines later in spring. Just wait, more zines they are a-coming. Alt.Indie.Fabby.Mags.R.Us.
This week we also added two publishers: Chelsea Station Editions and Invisible Publishing. For the former, we launch with three fascinating titles:
True Stories by Felice Picano
From the co-founder of the path breaking Violet Quill Club, comes a new collection of memoirs . . . Throughout are his delightful encounters and surprising relationships with the one-of-a-kind and the famous—including Tennessee Williams, W.H. Auden, Charles Henri Ford, Bette Midler, and Diana Vreeland.
The Wolf at the Door by Jameson Currier
From the award-winning author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy.
Bob the Book by David Pratt
Meet Bob the Book, a gay book for sale in a Greenwich Village bookstore, where he falls in love with another book, Moishe.
and from Invisible, a neat indie press from that lovely place just north of here (Canada!), we have a magic realist novel and a zine anthology:
L (and things come apart) Ian Orti
A small flat sits unoccupied above Henry’s café. When a woman comes to rent the room, Henry’s world begins an unusual transformation. As they grow closer the city itself is affected, changed, and slowly dismantled. Unsure if he is a victim of his own senility, the chaos inches closer and Henry suspects it may have something to do with the woman upstairs and the stranger she is hiding from.
Ghost Pine: All Stories True Jeff Miller
Miller has published the zine Ghost Pine (originally Otaku) since 1996. Ghost Pine: All Stories True collects the best stories from the zine’s first thirteen years as well as over fifty pages of new and previously unpublished material.
And that is it! There’s enough here even for our biggest readers—Doug!—so much so that I’m not sure what we’ll have next week. Actually, that’s a half-truth at best, sorry. We have some lovely news coming about who and what we’ll be adding.
As ever, thanks for choosing Weightless! This little site only exists because readers choose to fill their readers with books and zines from indie presses and we all very much appreciate it.