[press-announce] [PRESS RELEASE] NESFA Now Selling ISFiC Press Books

Thu Feb 21 09:14:17 EST 2019

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*PRESS RELEASE*

February 21, 2019

NESFA Press (a publishing pseudopod of)

New England Science Fiction Association, Inc.

http://nesfapress.com

NESFA Press is pleased to announce that we have concluded an agreement with
ISFiC Press to sell their titles through our store. At the moment we have
the three Seanan McGuire Velveteen books available for sale, but we will
shortly have all available ISFiC titles.

The three Velveteen books are:

*Velveteen vs. the Junior Super Patriots** by Seanan McGuire $25*
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"How dare you? I never asked for you to hunt me down!" No, Velma Martinez
hadn't. But when you had once been Velveteen, child super-heroine and one
of The Junior Super Patriots, West Coast Division, you were never going to
be free, even if your only power was to bring toys to life. The Marketing
Department would be sure of that.

So it all came down to this. One young woman and an army of misfit toys vs.
the assembled might of the nine members of The Junior Super Patriots, West
Coast Division who had come to take her down.

They never had a chance.

Velveteen lives in a world of superheroes and magic, where men can fly and
where young girls can be abducted to the Autumn Land to save Halloween.
Velma lives from paycheck to paycheck and copes with her broken-down car as
she tries to escape from her old life.

It's all the same world. It's all real. And figuring out how to be both
Velveteen and Velma is the biggest challenge of her life, because being
superhuman means you're still human in the end.

Join us as award-winning author Seanan McGuire takes us through the first
volume of Velveteen's—and Velma's—adventure.

*Velveteen vs. the Multiverse** by Seanan McGuire $30*
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He was the last great hero of his generation. Velma Martinez—Velveteen—had
never intended to be a great hero, but she was out of choices.

“Hello, Jolly Roger.”

“Hello, bunny-eared girl who’s taken over my ship. Have you come to collect
the bounty on my head?”

“I’ve come because Dame Fortuna told me how to find you, and we need your
help.” Velveteen crossed her arms. “The Super Patriots are corrupt, and I
think Marketing is evil, and they have my best friend, and we want her
back.”

Jolly Roger blinked, several times, before turning to the Princess. “Is she
for real?”

“She is,” said the Princess, sounding smug. “She would have been happy
stayin’ out of the way for her entire life, but The Super Patriots forgot
the first rule of rabbits. Don’t follow them into their dens. They’re
meaner than they look.”

*Velveteen vs. the Seasons** by Seanan McGuire $30*
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A doorway opens in mid-air. The body of a woman falls to the ground and
lies there unmoving as the door slams shut behind her, dissolving like
confetti into the wind.

As the grass beneath her slowly dies, Velma Martinez–Velveteen–once
architect of the downfall of The Super Patriots, Inc., most recently the
servant of the Seasons, has come home.

But ah; we are getting ahead of ourselves. That is the difficulty, once
holidays become involved. They want everything to be a fairy tale, and
nothing to be true. Perhaps this would not hurt so much, except that they
remember the meaning of fairy tales, before we sanded off their edges and
called them suitable for children.

The holidays remember how to bleed.

So, much as it hurts, we must leave the body in the grass, alone and
untended, with no one to confirm whether she will live or whether she has
already died. For all things must begin at their beginnings, and the
beginning of this tale is far, far behind us…

Join us as award-winning author Seanan McGuire returns to the story of
Velveteen, where the choices that a superheroine makes always have
consequences.

*The (Not So) Fine Print*

Due to contractual obligations, no discounts or review copies are
available. Also, for the moment, these titles are exclusively available
through our online store.

*More Titles*

By the end of February 2019 we will have the following ISFiC Press titles
available through our website:

*Assassin and Other Stories* by Steven Barnes

*Aurora in Four Voices* by Catherine Asaro

*Bimbo On the Cover* by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

*Every Inch a King* by Harry Turtledove

*Finding Magic* by Tanya Huff

*Harvest Season* by the SF Squeecast

*Relativity *by Robert J. Sawyer

*The Cunning Blood* by Jeff Duntemann

*The Goblin Master’s Grimoire* by Jim C. Hines

*The Shadow on the Doorstep* by James P. Blaylock

*When Diplomacy Fails* ed. by Flint and Resnick
*Win Some. Lose Some* by Mike Resnick

*Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches* ed. By Resnick and Siclari

*More Info*

For more information, please visit our website: *http://nesfapress.com*
<http://nesfapress.com/> or email *sales at nesfa.org* <sales at nesfa.org>.

NESFA®, Boskone®, and NESFA Press® are registered service marks of the New
England Science Fiction Association, inc.
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