We’re hoping that these will be irregular (but not too irregular) updates on all the news and happenings around Telos Towers, plus news of things coming soon.
Welcome to everyone who has joined this list from the invitation that went out some weeks back, and thanks for your interest in what Telos is up to.
First of all, a quick roundup of the recent News items:
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TELOS GOES DIGITAL – E-BOOKS
We’re pleased to announce that Telos Publishing Ltd has joined forces with Andrews UK Ltd to bring many of our books out on a variety of Digital and download formats, including for the popular iPhone, iPad and Kindle devices.
‘This is a great opportunity for customers to discover Telos’ impressive range of titles,’ said David J Howe, Publishing Director at Telos. ‘We have a selection of superb science fiction/fantasy/horror novellas set in the universe of BBC TV’s Doctor Who, as well as some terrifying stand-alone horror novels and novellas. It’s great to expand their readership in this way, and hopefully to bring them to more people.’
‘Telos is a great partner for us,’ explained Andrews UK’s CEO Paul Andrews. ‘We like to work with presses small and large to select the very best content for Digital availability, and I was impressed with the quality and scope that Telos had to offer.’
For full details of which titles Telos has available digitally, please check their newsfeed at www.telos.co.uk. Telos hope to be adding a ‘Digital Editions’ page to the site shortly to help customers to locate the Editions they want.
For more information on Telos Publishing: www.telos.co.uk or on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Telos-Publishing/22343509719
For more information on Andrews UK: http://www.andrewsuk.com/
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TELOS DIGITAL EDITIONS
The following Telos titles are now available as Digital Download Editions for a number of formats:
TIME HUNTER
A range of high-quality original paperback novellas featuring the adventures in time of Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish.
Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction … these books are guaranteed to enthrall fans of good fiction everywhere, and are in the spirit of our acclaimed range of Doctor Who Novellas.
Time Hunter has been described by Jon Miller as “a range that puts the willies up people, but from behind the sofa, that this is the story of an enigmatic and distant figure, his allies and friends, and a world where you never know what’s going to happen next or where the characters journey will take you.
“Mix that with the character development that made the Virgin NAs so successful and kept Doctor Who alive in the 90s and you have the spirit and essential attraction of Doctor Who whilst still being a fresh, 21st century looking, self-sufficient, bold and innovative imaginative fiction range.”
TIME HUNTER 1 – THE WINNING SIDE by Lance Parkin
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/time-hunter-1-the-winning-side/id349280466?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-winning-side-time-hunter/id375946326?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Winning-Side-ebook/dp/B0039UUR06/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-1
TIME HUNTER 2 – TUNNEL AT THE END OF THE LIGHT by Stefan Petrucha
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/time-hunter-2-the-tunnel-at/id352268875?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-tunnel-at-end-light-time/id375945254?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Tunnel-Light-ebook/dp/B0039UURE2/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-6
TIME HUNTER 3 – THE CLOCKWORK WOMAN by Claire Bott
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-clockwork-woman-time-hunter/id373074658?mt=8
iPad: TBA
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Clockwork-Woman-ebook/dp/B0039UUTM2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-7
TIME HUNTER 4 – KITSUNE by John Paul Catton
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kitsune-time-hunter-4/id373064544?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kitsune-time-hunter/id375294217?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Kitsune-ebook/dp/B0039UUR74/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-9
TIME HUNTER 5 – THE SEVERED MAN by George Mann
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-severed-man-time-hunter-5/id373061910?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-severed-man-time-hunter/id375295577?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Severed-Man-ebook/dp/B0039UUSQY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-3
TIME HUNTER 6 – ECHOES by Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/echoes-time-hunter-6/id373065708?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/echoes-time-hunter/id375293116?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Echoes-ebook/dp/B0039UURFQ/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-8
TIME HUNTER 7 – PECULIAR LIVES by Philip Purser-Hallard
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/peculiar-lives-time-hunter-7/id373306825?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/peculiar-lives-time-hunter/id375941724?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Peculiar-Lives-ebook/dp/B0039UUR8S/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-12
TIME HUNTER 8 – DEUS LE VOLT by Jon de Burgh Miller
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/deus-le-volt-time-hunter-8/id373066420?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/deus-le-volt-time-hunter/id375292758?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Deus-Volt-ebook/dp/B0039UURHE/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-11
TIME HUNTER 9 – THE ALBINO’S DANCER by Dale Smith
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-albinos-dancer-time-hunter/id373066911?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-albinos-dancer-time-hunter/id374882487?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Albinos-Dancer-ebook/dp/B0039UURM4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-5
TIME HUNTER 10 – THE SIDEWAYS DOOR by R J Carter and Troy Riser
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-sideways-door-time-hunter/id373067920?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-sideways-door-time-hunter/id375942413?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Sideways-Door-ebook/dp/B0039UUR24/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-10
TIME HUNTER 11 – CHILD OF TIME by George Mann and David J Howe
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/child-of-time-time-hunter-11/id373060470?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/child-of-time-time-hunter/id375291431?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Hunter-Child-ebook/dp/B003CIOQDE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155129&sr=1-4
HORROR NOVELS AND NOVELLAS
BLACK TIDE by Del Stone Jr
Miller, a university professor, and two of his students take a trip out to a spoil island in the middle of Santa Rosa Sound in the Florida Keys to study the effects of pollution on the flora and fauna. While they are there, a tide of black microbes is released into the river, and floods down and around them. They escape by burying themselves in the sand, but when they emerge, it is to a world which is strangely silent and changed.
Before long, burning figures are glimpsed along the distant banks, dragging themselves into the water. Then the attacks start. With daylight their only weapon, Miller realises that time is running out as an army of the living dead, intent on feasting on their flesh, is gathering in the surrounding waters.
A classic tale of horror in the great tradition of ‘Night of the Living Dead’.
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/black-tide/id373311754?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/black-tide-by-del-stone-jr/id374459329?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Telos-Horror-Novellas-ebook/dp/B003P2VESW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155329&sr=1-3
BREATHE by Christopher Fowler
Winner of the 2005 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella
An original and horrific slice of urban terror from one of the masters of the genre.
All is not well at SymaxCorp.
The work is piled high, people are toiling overnight to meet deadlines, and the supervisors are keeping their beady eyes on everyone. But staff are complaining of feeling sick, and the last health and safety officer disappeared one evening never to be seen again.
It’s down to new boy Ben, together with temp Miranda, kick-boxing Meera and overweight June to try and get to the bottom of the problem.
As colleagues are progressively transformed into mindless, blood crazed zombies, Ben and his friends discover that there really is something in the air…
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/breathe-christopher-fowler/id373329779?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/breathe-everyone-has-to-do-it/id374460602?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Everyone-Original-Fiction-ebook/dp/B003AYEL3A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155361&sr=1-1
CAPE WRATH by Paul Finch
Craeghatir: a lonely rock, far out on the northernmost tip of Britain; the closest point of land to it, the wild, storm-ravaged Cape Wrath.
To call this place bleak is the understatement of a lifetime. Huge cliffs dominate its shores, but within there are green tracks linking secret valleys where tumuli can be found, ancient megaliths and the bones of prehistoric mammals long grown over with moss.
The island is now uninhabited and in terms of this beauty and silence, it is an outstanding locale – though few sightseers ever venture there willingly, for Craeghatir has an evil reputation.
Professor Jo Mercy of Warwick University’s elite archaeological unit doesn’t believe the rumours and is keen to investigate a newly-discovered barrow on the island which might contain the remains of Ivar Ragnarsson, perhaps the most infamous of all Viking chieftains.
Ragnarsson was reputed to be berserkir – a warrior possessed with the wolf-spirit, whose madness carried him past all pain and reason in the heat of battle, and whose victims were deemed offerings to the wolf-god Fenrir. But Mercy and her team will find themselves faced with more than just the inhospitable environment on Craeghatir, as the spirit of Ragnarsson is disturbed and death and madness come to the island.
iPhone: TBA
iPad: TBA
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Cape-Wrath-Original-Fiction-ebook/dp/B003BEEA5I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155376&sr=1-1
FORCE MAJEURE by Daniel O’Mahony
Somewhere in the Andes, in a nebulous border zone never claimed by any nation, is the last of the free cities. Candida is a blank on the map. Here there are dragons.
Kay travels across the Atlantic to Candida on business. She soon finds herself lost in an unfamiliar city without a job or a home. She’s taken in by the oldest house in the city and put to work by its inscrutable chatelaine. She may have lost control of her life but she knows that Prospero is coming to open the hidden city to the outside world.
While she waits, she makes new contacts, allies, even friends: the exgunrunner, blinded by the light; the soldier-poet, loyal to dreams of the dead; the courier who wants to become a bird; and Xan fascinating Xan who may be all of Kay’s dreams come true.
They all have stories of the city, its history and its powers. Some of them might even be true.
Here there are dragons.
An incredible fantasy from a major new talent.
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/force-majeure/id373308177?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/force-majeure-by-daniel-omahony/id374462247?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Force-Majeure-Original-Fiction-ebook/dp/B003B3O2DY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155391&sr=1-2
KING OF ALL THE DEAD bu Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis
TOMBSTONE AWARD NOMINEE
Lisa Morgan is in trouble.
She prevents a stranger, Ben, from committing suicide; but then her sister is suddenly and violently killed by an unseen and malevolent force.
Lisa and Ben run but they cannot hide. Attacked by the reanimated dead wherever they go, Lisa’s life is about to be turned upside down as the King of all the dead will have what is rightfully his …
From the authors of The Ragchild, King of all the Dead is a terrifying and nail biting ride into the unknown.
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/king-of-all-the-dead/id373310651?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/king-all-dead-by-steve-lockley/id374464012?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/King-Dead-Original-Fiction-ebook/dp/B003B3NYTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155405&sr=1-1
PRETTY YOUNG THINGS by Dominic McDonagh
What’s a girl to do these days? If she’s not worrying about her makeup or her dropdead outfit, it’s the total lack of anyone hot to pick up at the local nightclub. Someone strong and silent, someone good looking … someone who might not mind a bit of rough and tumble. And if he ends up being hung in the cellar with the other bloodcalves then that’s too bad … after all, a girl’s gotta drink.
Chelsea is a vampire, one of a nest of lesbian rave-bunny vampires, but when the nest picks her exboyfriend as their newest food source, she takes matters into her own hands …
A novella featuring sexy vampire girls, blood, horror, and enough catfights to sate even the most jaded of vampire lovers.
A debut novella from an impressive new talent.
iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pretty-young-things/id373331098?mt=8
iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pretty-young-things-by-dominic/id374465051?mt=8
Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Things-Original-Fiction-ebook/dp/B003B3O09A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&s=digital-text&qid=1278155420&sr=1-1
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FORTHCOMING BOOKS
We will shortly be adding to the site the new hardback cover for End of Ten, our guide to the Doctor Who Specials, and also details of a new book all about the destruction and recovery of Doctor Who episodes from the sixties and seventies. This title, called Wiped! is written by Richard Molesworth and lifts the lid on all the rumours and misinformation about this topic. Not to be missed.
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IT LIVES AGAIN! AWARDS
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that Telos Publishing scooped the Silver Award in the Performing Arts category at ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, announced at BookExpo America in New York in April. The winning title was Axelle Carolyn’s It Lives Again!, an analysis of the modern horror film.
ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses.
Telos Publishing’s David J Howe commented on the award, saying, ‘We’re delighted that Axelle Carolyn’s book was considered worthy by the judges of this award. We tried to ensure that textually and visually it presented the best overview of the subject that it could, and it’s great that all the hard work has been recognised in this way.’
ForeWord’s founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, spoke at the awards ceremony: ‘This year more than ever before, we heard from the judges how great the finalist books were and how difficult it was to make their decisions,’ she said. ‘Despite this tough economy, independent publishers are producing some of the best books out there, and we are happy to honour them today.’
The award process brings readers, librarians, and booksellers together to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions are based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book, and the value the book adds to its genre.
ForeWord named 201 Book of the Year Award winners in 60 categories. These books, representing the best independently published works from 2009, were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges.
The winners in the Performing Arts category can be found here:http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/winners/2009/category/performing-arts-drama/
For more information on ForeWord Magazine:http://www.facebook.com/forewordmag
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It Lives Again! by Axelle Carolyn has now made the final shortlist for the British Fantasy Awards.
These awards are voted on by members of the British Fantasy Society. From an initial longlist, members choose the top five titles which then go forward to the shortlist. This is voted on again by members, and the winners are announced at the annual FantasyCon event, this year taking place in Nottingham in September.
Details of all the shortlisted titles can be found here:http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/
We at Telos are also delighted to be shortlisted in the Best Small Press category, alongside such marvellous presses as Screaming Dreams and Newcon Press. It’s always a privilege to make these Award lists, so we offer our contratulations to everyone listed, and look forward to September when we will learn who the winners are.
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TELOS SIGNED COPIES
We currently have a few copies of It Lives Again! signed by both the author, Axelle Carolyn, and by film director Neil Marshall, available direct from Telos. Order from the website as per usual and you’ll be sent a signed copy while stocks last.
Order Link: http://74.54.78.50/~telosco/culttv/ctv-main.php#itlivesagain
We also have signed copies of the following titles available. Again, just order direct from Telos and you’ll receive a signed copy while stocks last:
Humpty’s Bones – signed by both the author, Simon Clark, and the cover artist. Vincent Chong: http://74.54.78.50/~telosco/ocfic/ocfic-main.htm#humpty
Fall Out: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner – signed by the authors Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore:http://74.54.78.50/~telosco/culttv/ctv-main.php#fallout
Don’t forget that all our limited edition hardbacks are also signed by the authors, as well as being bound in special cloths, or with illustrated self-covers, with a ribbon and coloured endpapers.
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LAST CHANCE TO BUY
We have a number of titles listed in the LAST CHANCE TO BUY section of the Telos website. These are titles which we have only a handful of copies remaining, and which we are not planning to reprint when they are gone. The current list is:
Cult TV & Film:
Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake’s Sevenby Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore
Original and Classic Fiction:
Aspects of a Psychopath by Alastair Langston
Black Tide by Del Stone Jr
Breathe (paperback) by Christopher Fowler
Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips edited by David J Howe
Urban Gothic features fiction from Graham Masterton, Christopher Fowler, Simon Clark, Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, Paul Finch, Debbie Bennett and an introduction by Richard O’Brien, two factual pieces by journalist David Miller about the show and interviews with show writer Tom deVille and producer Steve Matthews.
We also have some of our special signed and numbered limited edition hardbacks available for reduced prices while stocks last. Those currently available are:
A SPECIAL FINAL OFFER OF £20 for each hardback below:
Breathe by Christopher Fowler
Alice’s Journey Beyond the Moon by R J Carter
Approaching Omega by Eric Brown
Valley of Lights by Stephen Gallagher
A SPECIAL FINAL OFFER OF £30 for each hardback below:
Shrouded by Darkness edited by Alison L R Davies
Shrouded by Darkness features original and reprint fiction by: Debbie Bennett, Poppy Z Brite, Simon Clark, Storm Constantine, Peter Crowther, Alison L R Davies, Paul Finch, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Gary Greenwood, David J Howe, Dawn Knox, Tim Lebbon, Charles de Lint, Steven Lockley & Paul Lewis, James Lovegrove, Graham Masterton, Richard Christian Matheson, Justina Robson, Mark Samuels, Darren Shan and Michael Marshall Smith. With a frontispiece by Clive Barker and a foreword by Stephen Jones.
The hardback edition is originally signed by ALL contributors (including Barker and Gaiman) with the exception of Poppy Z Brite (who is represented with a facsimile signature).
Please visit the LAST CHANCE TO BUY page for click through details to order: http://74.54.78.50/~telosco/lastchance.htm
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TELOS ON FACEBOOK
If you’re on Facebook and fancy ‘Liking’ Telos publishing, then we can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Telos-Publishing/22343509719
Please join and let us know what you think of the books, chat about the covers … anything that takes your fancy really. Often new covers are premiered on the Facebook group, and news and details of reviews and other items of interest across the Web are also shared there.