ZP Author and Artist News for June 2016

June 2016

News

Artist/Designer Tamian Wood has unveilied a shiny new website! You can check it out at www.BeyondDesignInternational.com

She’s also shared a neat spread of pages from a children’s book she recently finished designing and laying out.

 

Author Ann Curtin won an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival for her ZP published Novel – Dreamcatcher. Congrats Ann!

Author Kate Dolan has joined the guys at the Jump Rope Jam as a guest on their podcast. Kate has recently published the novel “Roped In”, which deals with competitive jump roping.

Gloria oliver – recently received an Honorable Mention for her fantasy short story “The Queen Lorellai” for Q1 2016 from the Writers of the Future.

 

Appearances

Gloria Oliver will be at Fan Expo Dallas June 3-5, 2016.

Then on June 24-26, she will also be at Sooner Con!

ZP Author and Artist News for April 2016

April 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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  • Archon 42

    Archon 42

    14:00 -22:00
    2018-10-12
    1 Gateway Dr. Collinsville, IL 62234

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    The Midwest’s Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Event
    A Celebration of the Imagination

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    Archon 42

    10:00 -22:00
    2018-10-13
    1 Gateway Dr. Collinsville, IL 62234

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    The Midwest’s Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Event
    A Celebration of the Imagination

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  • Archon 42

    Archon 42

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-10-14
    1 Gateway Dr. Collinsville, IL 62234

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    The Midwest’s Premier Science Fiction and Fantasy Event
    A Celebration of the Imagination

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  • ValleyCon 44

    ValleyCon 44

    14:00 -22:00
    2018-10-19
    3333 13th Avenue South Fargo, ND 58103

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    ValleyCon is the longest-running, most attended, and the largest festival of popular culture – featuring sci-fi, fantasy, comics, anime, horror, gaming, and film & TV – from Minneapolis to Seattle!

    ValleyCon also produces Fargo-Moorhead ComiCon, the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, Eustace J. McGonigle’s TOYS, COLLECTIBLES & CURIOSITIES EXPOSITION, and other events throughout the year!

    Join us at all our events for fun for all ages!

  • Dallas FanDays 2018

    Dallas FanDays 2018

    16:00 -20:00
    2018-10-19
    Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX, United States

    ZP Authors Attending: Gloria Oliver

    Multimedia event in Irving, TX.

    Guests: Bret Hart, Matt Smith, Karl Urban, and more!

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  • Dallas FanDays 2018

    Dallas FanDays 2018

    10:00 -19:00
    2018-10-20
    Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX, United States

    ZP Authors Attending: Gloria Oliver

    Multimedia event in Irving, TX.

    Guests: Bret Hart, Matt Smith, Karl Urban, and more!

  • ValleyCon 44

    ValleyCon 44

    10:00 -22:00
    2018-10-20
    3333 13th Avenue South Fargo, ND 58103

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    ValleyCon is the longest-running, most attended, and the largest festival of popular culture – featuring sci-fi, fantasy, comics, anime, horror, gaming, and film & TV – from Minneapolis to Seattle!

    ValleyCon also produces Fargo-Moorhead ComiCon, the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, Eustace J. McGonigle’s TOYS, COLLECTIBLES & CURIOSITIES EXPOSITION, and other events throughout the year!

    Join us at all our events for fun for all ages!

  • Jamesburg Fall Festival

    Jamesburg Fall Festival

    12:00 -17:00
    2018-10-20

    ZP Authors Attending: Roberta Rogow

    Join us for our Annual Fall Festival! West Railroad Avenue will be closed and filled with all types of food, craft, local business, and direct sales vendors. It is a great day for families and people of all ages and is usually very well attended!

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  • Dallas FanDays 2018

    Dallas FanDays 2018

    10:00 -17:00
    2018-10-21
    Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX, United States

    ZP Authors Attending: Gloria Oliver

    Multimedia event in Irving, TX.

    Guests: Bret Hart, Matt Smith, Karl Urban, and more!

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    ValleyCon 44

    10:00 -16:00
    2018-10-21
    3333 13th Avenue South Fargo, ND 58103

    ZP Authors Attending: Kathryn Sullivan

    ValleyCon is the longest-running, most attended, and the largest festival of popular culture – featuring sci-fi, fantasy, comics, anime, horror, gaming, and film & TV – from Minneapolis to Seattle!

    ValleyCon also produces Fargo-Moorhead ComiCon, the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, Eustace J. McGonigle’s TOYS, COLLECTIBLES & CURIOSITIES EXPOSITION, and other events throughout the year!

    Join us at all our events for fun for all ages!

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Book Trailers

 

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

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ZP Author and Artists News for Feb 2016

News

We at Zumaya mourn deeply the loss of Roger Margason, better known as Dorien Grey, and Joan Blacher, two well-respected and talented mystery writers. Both were a joy to work with, I will miss being able to spend time with them, even if only virtually, more than I can say.

 

Award-winning author Dr. Joan Blacher, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice for the past twenty years, was a former university professor and director of a counseling and guidance graduate program. She was the author of the mystery novels Murder Canyon, Lethal Lake, and Death on the Run, and co-author of Difficult Teens: A Parents Guide for Coping.

Her works were published in counseling and educational journals, mystery publications, magazines, newspapers, and she was a former member of a counseling journal’s editorial board. In 2003, the California Association of Marriage Family Therapists awarded her its Carl Vincent Award for her literary contribution to mental health with the publication of Difficult Teens.

She is survived by her husband of 42 years, Norman, who has requested her mystery series featuring forensic psychologist Ardis Jensen remain available to readers.

 

When long-time book and magazine editor Roger Margason chose the pseudonym “Dorien Grey” for his first novel, it set off a chain of circumstances that led to a comfortable division of labor and responsibility. Roger had charge of day-to-day existence, freeing Dorien (with the help of Roger’s fingers) to write. Both Roger and Dorien died in November after a minor surgical procedure resulted in fatal complications.

Two years into college, Roger left to join the Naval Aviation Cadet program. Washing out after a year, he spent the rest of his brief military career on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean at the height of the Cold War. Returning to Northern Illinois University after service, he graduated with a BA in English and embarked on a series of jobs that worked him into the editing field.

While working for a Los Angeles publishing house, he was instrumental in establishing a division exclusively for the publication of gay paperbacks and magazines, of which he became editor. He moved on to edit a leading LA-based international gay men’s magazine. Then, tiring of earthquakes, brush fires, mud slides, and riots, he returned to the Midwest, where Dorien emerged, full-blown, like Venus from the sea. They were inseparable (and interchangeable) from that point on.

Roger—and Dorien, of course—moved back to Chicago in 2006, where they devoted time to writing and travel. Both Dorien’s excellent mystery series—Elliott Smith and John and Dick Hardest—will remain available to readers, as he requested. His popular blog will also remain available with the able assistance of his good friend Gary Brown.

Rajendra Kher’s non-fiction book Empire of the Gods has been released.

 

One of our artists, April Martinez, has just published a lovely coloring book called Patterns.

 

 

Gloria Oliver has received a contract for a historical/alternate-history novelette entitled Charity and Sacrifice which should see release in October 2016.

 

 

Appearances

Zumaya will have a table a ConDFW on February 12-14, 2016 in Dallas, TX. Come meet some of our writers and editors!
Author Gloria Oliver will also have a table and will participate in panels at ConDFW as well. Come on by and say “Howdy!”

 

 

Book Trailers

This month’s book trailer is for Kate Dolan’s novel – Avery’s Treasure

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