Aurora Award Nominations

Posted by Absolute XPress on January 4, 2010 with Comments Comments

auroraLogoIt’s time to nominate your favourite Canadian stories for the Aurora Awards, and AXP has several works we would love for you to vote for.

To nominate, you must be a Canadian citizen (not necessarily living in Canada), or a permanent resident.

Best Long-Form Work In English – 2009
- Bilodeau, Marie. Heirs of a Broken Land Series Book 1: Princess of Light. Absolute XPress
- Bilodeau, Marie. Heirs of a Broken Land Series Book 2: Warrior of Darkness. Absolute XPress

Best Short-Form Work In English – 2009

- Any stories listed under the anthologies “Seven Deadly Sins” or “Creatures of the Night”
- Any stories listed under the novella collection “Woman of the Apocalypse”.

Best Work In English (Other) – 2009

- Collaborative collection of Novellas “Woman of the Apocalypse” Absolute Xpress, October 2009, ISBN 978-1770530003.

Artistic Achievement – 2009
- Lau, Herman. Covers: “Seven Deadly Sins”, “Creatures of the Night” & “Women of the Apocalypse”, Absolute Xpress, 2009

A full list of all eligible publications by Canadian Citizen’s are listed here: http://www.canadiansf.com/wiki/SF_Wiki. And if you have room on your ballot, don’t forget to nominate some of the works from our sister press, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.

To nominate your favourites, please go to the official Aurora Awards Website: http://www.prix-aurora-awards.ca

AXP has done remarkably well for our first (official) year in print. We even have an amazing Aurora recommendation from Robert J. Sawyer (author of Flash Forward and Wake) for “Women of the Apocalypse”. You can check out his recommendation on his blog.

Thank you to everyone for being a part of such a wonderful 1st year for us. 2010 promises to be even better.

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Warrior of Darkness Book Launch News

Posted by Absolute XPress on August 21, 2009 with Comments Comments

Marie Bilodeau’s book launch in Ottawa, Ontario, for her second book “Warrior of Darkness” was a great success. Check out this article from SNAP Ottawa Downtown, a free monthly local newspaper.

Copy of the Article:

Following the breakthrough success of Princess of Light, Absolute XPress went to print early with book 2 of the Heirs of a Broken Land series and even came to Ottawa for this special event.

Fans of the series had a chance to meet the author and members of the team of Canada’s biggest genre publisher while showing their support for the series at a special Ottawa launch party for the second instalment.

SNAP Ottawa Downtown missed this event, but fortunately some photos were supplied to us. We’ll be sure to attend the launch party for the already anticipated third novel… which is probably just around the corner knowing how hard Marie works!

Book three of Marie’s series, “Sorceress of Shadows”, is due out in March of 2010.

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Warrior of Darkness Released

Posted by Absolute XPress on July 21, 2009 with Comments Comments

Today we released “Warrior of Darkness” by Marie Bilodeau. It’s the second book in her “Heirs of a Broken Land” trilogy.

There will also be an two official book launches for this book. One at WorldCon on August 7th, and one on August 14th in Ottawa (5 to 7 pm at Maxwell’s on 340 Elgin Street). I hope you can make it out to one of these events to congratulate her.

Warrior of Darkness From the back of the book:

The Wall of Loss separating the lands of light and darkness has been breached…

After leaving her home in pursuit of marauding Eloms, Avarielle Grayloft found allies in a grieving princess and a sorceress with a hidden agenda. As dark powers poisoned the land, the three fought their enemies and each other, until faced with a foe they could not defeat.

Betrayed and wounded, Avarielle is held captive in the fiery depths of a dangerous and deadly prison. Seeking vengeance, she escapes only to find herself trapped in the savage Land of Darkness. And, as she discovers the truth behind the Eloms, she is forced to question everything she believes in.

With her homeland on the verge of destruction, her powerful sword about to fall into the clutches of evil and the Eloms growing in strength and number, Avarielle must take the greatest gamble of all, forging an alliance with the leader of the Land of Darkness and betraying all she has ever known.

(Want a sneak peek inside the book? Click here!)

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