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The Elephant and Macaw Banner on TV

The Elephant and Macaw Banner was featured on Brazilian national news last week.  It appeared on “Leitura Dinâmica”,  a program which passes every night on RedeTV!, one of Brazil’s largest television networks.  This marks the first time the series has made an appearance on television.

You can watch the video below or see it in full size at the new Elephant and Macaw Banner YouTube channel.

For those who don’t speak Portuguese, everything past the first twelve seconds shows images from the series.

And for fans of the series, more good news is coming soon!  Please stay tuned.

Fantasticon this weekend

I’ll be at Fantasticon 2010 this weekend.

Now in its fourth edition, Fantasticon is known as the “Symposium of Fantastic Literature” and is Brazil’s primary conference dedicated entirely to speculative fiction.  It gathers an impressive number of Brazil’s top writers and editors.

I’ll be there Saturday and Sunday, and I’ll participate in a panel discussion on Sunday about using different media to publicize speculative literature, a subject I’ve learned a lot about through my work here at The Elephant and Macaw Banner.

If you’re there, please drop by and say hello!

PDF version of April 2010 Realms of Fantasy on sale

Great news for those unable to purchase a paper copy of Realms of Fantasy!  The April 2010 issue, the one containing my novelette “The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara”, is now on sale as a downloadable PDF.  The PDF version costs US$3.99, while the Kindle version is still available for US$5.99.  The instructions for purchasing either version can be found here.

Brazilian Press Release – August 2010

The first ever Elephant and Macaw Banner press release went out today in Brazil.

Douglas Cohen gave me this amazing quote for the release:

“Truly memorable characters within sword & sorcery literature are rare.  As numerous authors have learned over the years, it is a Herculean task to step out of the shadows of Robert E. Howard’s Conan, Michael Moorcock’s Elric, and Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser.  Perhaps a handful of others can be added to this list, no more.  With Gerard van Oost and Oludara, Christopher Kastensmidt has given me reason to hope this exclusive club has just admitted its two latest members.  This duo is fresh and different–as is the setting of a magical colonial Brazil–yet at same time their adventures hearken back to everything that makes me love this field.  It is a merger of old and new, and I look forward to the next installment in this universe.”

It’s a quote that is impossible to live up to–but Douglas has read multiple stories from the series and I’m extremely appreciative of his continued support.  Thanks, Doug!

For those who speak Portuguese, you can read the release in its entirety here:

2010_08_17 Press Release – Brasil Colonial Faz Sucesso nos EUA

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