Romanian Anthology: Călătorii în timp

According to SRSFF, Nemira has this time travel anthology in store for us. When you grew up reading sci fi books published by Nemira, being published by them feels a little surreal at first, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Edited by Antuza Genescu and with stories by Liviu Radu, George Lazar, Cristian-Mihai Teodorescu, Aurel Carasel, Ioana Visan, Stefana Czeller, Sergiu Somesan, Daniel Haiduc, Mircea Liviu Goga, and Silviu Genescu, this is one book you don't want to miss!

Pre-order it here.

Romanian Anthology: Zombii: Cartea morţilor vii

Cu moarte pe moarte călcând…

Acolo unde viaţa se termină începe moartea. Şi regulile se inversează definitiv. Noua orânduire aduce domnia morţilor-vii. Nimeni nu mai e în siguranţă. Vânătoarea poate să înceapă. Acum, speranţa înseamnă doar amânarea vieţii de după moarte. Într-o Românie trecută, prezentă sau viitoare, nouăsprezece autori români imaginează apocalipsa zombilor. Douăzeci de viziuni originale, înfricoşătoare, credibile, care aduc România pe harta literaturii universale cu zombi.

Cu o moarte suntem toţi datori.

I'm not even going to try to translate the book description. All you need to know is that it's about zombies!

Published by Millennium Books, edited by Mircea Pricajean, and including stories by Laura Sorin, Răzvan T. Coloja, Ioana Vişan, A.R. Deleanu, Tudor Călin Zarojanu, Narcisa Stoica, Liviu Radu, Cristina Nemerovschi, Oliviu Crâznic, Florian Nan, Antuza Genescu, Florin Irimia, George Lazăr, Tiberiu-Virgil Popescu, Ciprian Mitoceanu, Roxana Brânceanu, Felix Tzele, Andrei Gaceff, and Diana Alzner, this book has been in the making for almost two years so I'm quite happy it finally sees the light of day.

The official book launch will be on March 23 at 1 PM, at Final Frontier book fair in Bucharest.

Pre-order it here.

Blue Moon Cafe Series Excerpt

My Wattpad experiment continues this time with and excerpt from my paranormal short story collection Blue Moon Cafe Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks. The Amazon sample ends abruptly somewhere in the middle of the Black Stripes story, so I chose this text to have it fully featured on my wattpad account. You can read it here.

Blue Moon Cafe Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks is available through Amazon, Amazon.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.jp, iTunes, Kobo and Smashwords, for only $0.99 for a short period of time.

Book: Efectul de nautil

 

EFECTUL DE NAUTIL

by

Ioana Visan

Să cumperi Timp, să traversezi spaţiul, să faci curat după extraterestrul pe care l-ai avut drept musafir. Să uiţi să respiri în timp ce o doamnă din lumea bună îţi povesteşte despre clone, să te plimbi între două lumi paralele în căutarea unei fugare, să iei cina cu Lucifer şi să nu ţi se mai pară grav, să imortalizezi pe retină aura tristă a unui djinn nomad…

Vocea personajelor Ioanei Vişan răzbate dincolo de vălul realităţii, invitîndu-ne să trăim scene fantastice din vieţile lor pline de un neprevăzut ce se insinuează cu obstinaţie printre fantome şi îngeri, asasini din viitor, mutanţi post-apocaliptici, nebuni şi genii deopotrivă. Şi dacă am fi în locul lor noi ce am face?

 In English, the book description sounds something like this:

To buy Time, to travel through space, to clean after an alien guest. To forget to breathe while an upper class lady tells you about clones, to walk between parallel universes in search of a fugitive, to dine with Lucifer and not find it strange, to see the sad aura of a nomad Djinn...

The voice of Ioana Visan's characters goes beyond the reality's veil, inviting us to witness fantastic scenes in their full of unexpected lives that creeps stubbornly between ghosts and angels, assassins from the future, post-apocalyptic mutants, madmen and geniuses alike. If we were in their place, what we would do?

Bottom of line, it's a book! 352 pages, 20 short stories, published by Millennium Book.  

Efectul de nautil (The Nautilus Effect) will be launched at Final Frontier book fair in Bucharest, on March 23 at 1 PM.

So mark down the date, add the book to your to-read list on GoodReads, pre-order it here, and show up to get an autograph at Final Frontier.

New Story in Argos Magazine

A new Romanian sci fi and fantasy magazine has been launched: Argos Magazine. Published by Texarom LLC and Media-Tech, and edited by Michael Haulica, Argos will have bi-monthly digital issues with part of the content available for free on the magazine's website as well as exclusive ebook content.

What does Argos bring beside a strong team and a kick ass cover art? Argos actually pays the writers for their work. I think it's the first Romanian sci fi and fantasy magazine that does that.

And to make it even better, the first Argos issue (April 2013) includes my short story "Un zambet de milioane" (A Smile Worth Millions). Now this story won an AtelierKult contest in 2012 so I'm quite proud of it. It's part of the exclusive content, which means you can read it starting with March 22 when the ebook becomes available.

Enjoy! :)

Librex International Book Fair 2013

I'm forced to skip Librex this year thanks to a bad cold. I'm blaming the organizers for moving it so early in the spring when it's more likely for me to have a cold. Don't worry, I'll have the books brought to me. But I'm still miffed I'm missing the book fair.

Tell-Tale (NSFW)

To all the women out there, an artsy movie from 2010 with great script, acting, filming, lightning, sound effects, and, well... the rest. :) We should all start the morning with this to... umm... be inspired for the rest of the day. :)

Happy Woman's Day!

Human Instincts on Wattpad

Starting a little experiment here... trying Wattpad for the first time in hope it will bring a higher exposure to readers. So for the next three days, I'll post one part of my apocalyptic novella Human Instincts. Next week, there will be a story from my short story collection Blue Moon Cafe Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks. And the week after that, if you're good, you'll get the beginning of The Impaler's Revenge.

But for now, here's the first part of Human Instincts.

If you can't wait for the rest, Human Instincts is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, iTunes, Sony, Smashwords.

Update: Part two of Human Instincts added.
2nd Update: Part two of Human Instincts added. 

Final Frontier III, March 23-24, 2013

According to this announcement from Galileo Online, I'm invited to a book launch at Final Frontier Sci Fi & Fantasy Book Fair, on March 23, at 1 PM, in Bucharest.

Guess why? :)

Cover Reveal: The Impaler's Revenge by Ioana Visan

 The Impaler's Revenge
(The Impaler Legacy #1)
by Ioana Visan

In a world crawling with vampires, Romania is the safest place left on earth. Thanks to the Little Council, there hasn't been a vampire on Romanian ground in over five centuries. But one day, Liana Cantacuzino, also a member of the Little Council and a descendant of one of the old noble families, is ordered to bring one in, covertly. Enter Maximilien Hess, a thousand years old vampire determined to ruin the existing order of things.

Suddenly, Liana finds herself forced to protect Hess, instead of having the pandurs kill him. With the help from her trustful friends, Rodica Ghica and Ştefan Sturdza, and that of an innocent bystander, Dr. Jesse Carver, Liana has to find out what is going on and what the President is hiding from her. When all is revealed, Hess's secret changes everything.

The first novella in The Impaler Legacy series, a vampire saga like no other.

Coming to your ereaders this spring!