{"id":3708,"date":"2015-01-26T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T23:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2015-01-26T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T23:12:53","slug":"chizine-publications-giveaways-to-promote-family-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/chizine-publications-giveaways-to-promote-family-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"ChiZine Publications Giveaways To Promote Family Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that shows just how awesome independent presses can be, ChiZine Publications has announced that to celebrate Family Literacy Day (January 27&#8211; that&#8217;s tomorrow) they will be giving away copies of books from their new YA imprint, ChiTeen. Trade paperbacks will be available in Canada, and PDF copies will be available as well. ChiZine suggests that for more information, you check out the social media channels for both ChiZine and ChiTeen as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I love it when people (and presses) celebrate literacy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>ChiZine Publications to Give Away Books as Part of Family Literacy Day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TORONTO<\/strong>, Ontario (January 26, 2015) \u2014 To celebrate Family Literacy Day, January 27, ChiZine Publications (CZP) will be giving away copies of its young adult books. Trade paperbacks will be distributed at select bookstores across Canada while PDF versions will be available for free for a limited time from the ChiZine website (<a href=\"http:\/\/chizinepub.com\">chizinepub.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CZP will be giving out copies of its first two titles printed under its young adult ChiTeen imprint: <em>Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn&#8217;t Fly<\/em> by P.T. Jones (a.k.a. Stephen Graham Jones and Paul Tremblay), and <em>The Door in the Mountain<\/em> by Caitlin Sweet. Giveaways or contests will take place at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, and BookShelf in Guelph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, PDF versions of titles with young adult themes will be available for free download from the CZP site for a limited time on January 27. Titles that will be available include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Picking Up the Ghost <\/em>by Tone Milazzo<\/li>\n<li><em>The Choir Boats <\/em>and <em>The Indigo Pheasant <\/em>by Daniel A Rabuzzi<\/li>\n<li><em>Westlake Soul <\/em>by Rio Youers<\/li>\n<li><em>Napier&#8217;s Bones <\/em>by Derryl Murphy<\/li>\n<li>a ChiTeen sampler of upcoming books: <em>Dead Girls Don\u2019t<\/em> by Mags Storey, <em>The Good Brother<\/em> by E.L. Chen and <em>The Flame in the Maze<\/em> by Caitlin Sweet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe love of reading is something that runs strong in everyone at ChiZine Publications,\u201d says Sandra Kasturi, co-publisher. \u201cAnd literacy is more than just enjoying books; it\u2019s an essential skill for success in life. We\u2019re hoping to help raise a new generation of readers and book lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details of when and how to download the free ebooks will be posted to the social media channels of CZP and the dedicated ChiTeen Twitter and Facebook page a few days before the event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Kasturi, Co-Publisher<\/p>\n<p>ChiZine Publications<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chizinepub.com\/\">http:\/\/www.chizinepub.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:sandra@chizinepub.com\">sandra@chizinepub.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About ChiZine Publications<\/strong><br \/>\nChiZine Publications (CZP) is British Fantasy Award-winning and three-time World Fantasy Award-nominated independent publisher of surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by co-publishers Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In news that shows just how awesome independent presses can be, ChiZine Publications has announced that to celebrate Family Literacy Day (January 27&#8211; that&#8217;s tomorrow) they will be giving away copies of books from their new YA imprint, ChiTeen. Trade paperbacks will be available in Canada, and PDF copies will be available as well. ChiZine<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/chizine-publications-giveaways-to-promote-family-literacy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2385,2381,2379,493,2380,2382,481,168,2384,2383,1422],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-caitlin-sweet","tag-chiteen","tag-chizine-publications","tag-family-literacy","tag-family-literacy-day","tag-floating-boy","tag-giveaways","tag-literacy","tag-p-t-jones","tag-the-door-in-the-mountain","tag-young-adult-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}