ZP Author and Artist News for April 2016

AprilΒ 2016

News

 

(writing as K.D. Hays) will be featured in Southern Writers Magazine’s “What’s the Story” section explaining the inspiration for her latest book, Roped In. Since Kate was a jump rope coach for eight years and Roped In is a mystery surrounding a jump rope competition, the story behind the story could have easily stretched to novel length all by itself.

Stephen Tiano – who works as a book designer, Page Compositor and Layour Artist – has been quite busy recently. He’s currently working on three book interiors, one of which is a sort of retelling of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with a transgender twist!

See some of what he’s been working on below.

Author has signed a contract with Leadstart Publishing Corp. for his upcoming non-fiction work Life After Life; Lifting the veil on Death. Congrats!

has a short story titled “It’s…Complicated” in the anthology Lightships and Sabers which should see release 4/18/16.

 

 

 

Appearances

 

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  • ArmadilloCon 2018

    ArmadilloCon 2018

    14:00 -16:00
    2018-08-03-2018-08-05
    4140 Governors Row, Austin Texas 78744

    ArmadilloCon 40 – Austin’s Convention for SFF Readers and Writers!

    ZP Authors attending – Elizabeth K. Burton, Gloria Oliver, and Rie Sheridan Rose

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  • ArmadilloCon 2018

    ArmadilloCon 2018

    10:00 -00:00
    2018-08-04-2018-08-05
    4140 Governors Row, Austin Texas 78744

    ArmadilloCon 40 – Austin’s Convention for SFF Readers and Writers!

    ZP Authors attending – Elizabeth K. Burton, Gloria Oliver, and Rie Sheridan Rose

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  • ArmadilloCon 2018

    ArmadilloCon 2018

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-08-05
    4140 Governors Row, Austin Texas 78744

    ArmadilloCon 40 – Austin’s Convention for SFF Readers and Writers!

    ZP Authors attending – Elizabeth K. Burton, Gloria Oliver, and Rie Sheridan Rose

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  • Deadly Ink 2018

    Deadly Ink 2018

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-08-10-2018-08-12
    515 US Highway 1 South Iselin, NJ 08830

    Workshops, Panels, and Fun for Writers and Readers

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow

     

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  • Deadly Ink 2018

    Deadly Ink 2018

    All day
    2018-08-11
    515 US Highway 1 South Iselin, NJ 08830

    Workshops, Panels, and Fun for Writers and Readers

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow

     

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  • Deadly Ink 2018

    Deadly Ink 2018

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-08-12
    515 US Highway 1 South Iselin, NJ 08830

    Workshops, Panels, and Fun for Writers and Readers

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow

     

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  • WorldCon 2018

    WorldCon 2018

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-08-16-2018-08-20
    150 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95113

    Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention) is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators, first held in New York City in 1939. Worldcon is held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. Worldcon 76 will be held in San Jose, California, in August 2018. It’s being organized by a committee sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California public benefit corporation.

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow and Kathryn Sullivan

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  • WorldCon 2018

    WorldCon 2018

    All day
    2018-08-17
    150 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95113

    Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention) is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators, first held in New York City in 1939. Worldcon is held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. Worldcon 76 will be held in San Jose, California, in August 2018. It’s being organized by a committee sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California public benefit corporation.

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow and Kathryn Sullivan

  • Animefest 2018

    Animefest 2018

    10:11 -16:00
    2018-08-17-2018-08-20
    400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201

    AnimeFest is a convention for fans of anime, manga, games and other forms of pop-culture. We are a charity organization which relies on membership fees from members to host our annual event.

    ZP Authors in Attendance: Gloria Oliver

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  • WorldCon 2018

    WorldCon 2018

    All day
    2018-08-18
    150 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95113

    Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention) is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators, first held in New York City in 1939. Worldcon is held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. Worldcon 76 will be held in San Jose, California, in August 2018. It’s being organized by a committee sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California public benefit corporation.

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow and Kathryn Sullivan

  • Animefest 2018

    Animefest 2018

    All day
    2018-08-18
    400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201

    AnimeFest is a convention for fans of anime, manga, games and other forms of pop-culture. We are a charity organization which relies on membership fees from members to host our annual event.

    ZP Authors in Attendance: Gloria Oliver

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  • WorldCon 2018

    WorldCon 2018

    All day
    2018-08-19
    150 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95113

    Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention) is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators, first held in New York City in 1939. Worldcon is held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. Worldcon 76 will be held in San Jose, California, in August 2018. It’s being organized by a committee sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California public benefit corporation.

     

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow and Kathryn Sullivan

  • Animefest 2018

    Animefest 2018

    All day
    2018-08-19
    400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201

    AnimeFest is a convention for fans of anime, manga, games and other forms of pop-culture. We are a charity organization which relies on membership fees from members to host our annual event.

    ZP Authors in Attendance: Gloria Oliver

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  • WorldCon 2018

    WorldCon 2018

    All day
    2018-08-20
    150 W San Carlos St San Jose, CA 95113

    Worldcon (the World Science Fiction Convention) is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators, first held in New York City in 1939. Worldcon is held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. Worldcon 76 will be held in San Jose, California, in August 2018. It’s being organized by a committee sponsored by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a California public benefit corporation.

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow and Kathryn Sullivan

  • Animefest 2018

    Animefest 2018

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-08-20
    400 N. Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201

    AnimeFest is a convention for fans of anime, manga, games and other forms of pop-culture. We are a charity organization which relies on membership fees from members to host our annual event.

    ZP Authors in Attendance: Gloria Oliver

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Book Trailers

 

This month’s book trailer is for novel – Always Ali!

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ZP AUTHOR AND ARTIST NEWS FOR SEPTEMBER 2015

News

ALWAYS ALI!, the fourth book in the Ali Caldwell series, by Christine Marciniak will be released soon. Ali finally thinks she has her life together, when a new girl at school sends everything topsy-turvy.
If you prefer getting your ebooks from iTunes – some of our more recent titles can now be found there! If you check for your favorite title here at the ZP site, there’ll be a new iTunes/iBook icon on the book page.

Yet another way to find our titles for your enjoyment! πŸ™‚

We keep adding more venues as ties go by and we’ll keep you informed of developments.
One of our artists, Tamian Wood, was chosen by the publisher of Pope Francis to do the cover for his Encyclical Letter Landato Si. How cool is that? Congrats, Tamian!


Rie Sheridan Rose will be celebrating the release of Bruce and Roxanne: From Start to Finnish from Yard Dog Press at FenCon in Sept 2015.
Lyndi Alexander participated in the First Annual Book Sale on the Mercer County Courthouse grounds, July 25, 2015, sponsored by the West Pennsylvania authors. The event, held in conjunction with the Saturday Farmer’s Market, was well attended and very successful.

**This month we got some not so great news and our second loss to our roster**

“It’s with deep sadness that I report our fellow Zumayan, James Choron, died of pneumonia and complications of asthma in Moscow, Russia, on July 23 of this year. Jim and I were in the process of developing a new, updated version of his excellent collection of paranormal investigations, Footprints in the Snow: True Tales of Haunted Russia. He was a delightful person to talk with and will be very much missed.”

He will be missed.

 

Appearances

Sep 4-7, 2015 – Author Gloria Oliver is on the Emergency Waiting List for Animefest 2015 in Dallas, TX. What this means is if a table frees up at the last minute, she’ll have to drop everything that Friday and GO! Wish her luck! πŸ™‚
Sep 25-27, 2015 – Will see several Zumayans at Fencon 12 in Dallas, TX. Attending will be Gloria Oliver Rie Sheridan Rose and Elizabeth K. Burton – This year they’ll be at a new venue, so should be exciting!

 

Book Trailers

This month is a book trailer is for K.D. Hays and Meg Weidman from the Thresholds Imprint called – Toto’s Tale

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