Submissions open

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at Ad Astra in the dealers room and for helping us make the launch party for Brain Lag a success. We spoke with a lot of great authors about their books and look forward to taking Brain Lag to the next level.

Submissions are now open. If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration, please read the new guidelines page. We would be very interested in hearing from you.

We have also started up a mailing list for news about upcoming events, promotions, new titles, and more. You can find the link to register for the mailing list in the sidebar to the left and get all the latest news on Brain Lag sent directly to your inbox.

 

Ad Astra!

Ad Astra starts tomorrow! Look for Brain Lag in the dealers room and join us at the launch party on Saturday evening, and look for author Catherine Fitzsimmons at any of her panels or take in an advance reading from her next book on Sunday! See the event calendar for full details.

See you there!

 

Owner Catherine Fitzsimmons opens up about starting Brain Lag

Just a few days before its official launch party and opening for submissions, Brain Lag owner Catherine Fitzsimmons has shared on her blog what made her start the company in the first place.

We hope to see you at Ad Astra in Toronto this weekend for the launch party!

 

Catherine Fitzsimmons to host panels with Jim Butcher at Ad Astra

Author Catherine Fitzsimmons will be involved with several panels and other events at Ad Astra, Toronto’s original scifi/fantasy literary convention, in two weeks, including two panels with convention guest of honor and New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher. Join her at any of the events where she will be participating:

Friday, April 5

10:00 p.m. – Franklin – I Love to Hate You – Ed Greenwood (m), Jim Butcher, Fiona Patton, Gregory A. Wilson, Catherine Fitzsimmons

Saturday, April 6

11:00 a.m. – Berczy A – Is the Stand-Alone Novel an Endangered Format? – Julie Czerneda (m), Robert J. Sawyer, Catherine Fitzsimmons, Jim Butcher

4:30 p.m. – Berczy B – Autograph session

6:30 p.m. – the penthouse (room 1401) – Brain Lag launch party

Sunday, April 7

10:00 a.m. – Ellesmere East – Writing High Fantasy – Marie Bilodeau (m), Catherine Fitzsimmons, K.W. Ramsey, Gregory A. Wilson

2:00 p.m. – Floor 2 Suite 2 – Author reading: Catherine Fitzsimmons
More information on these events can be found in our event calendar or on the Ad Astra website. We hope to see you there.

 

Ad Astra and Brain Lag official launch party

We hope to see you at Ad Astra, Toronto’s original scifi/fantasy literary convention, April 5-7 at the Markham Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, where we will have a booth in the dealers room with all of our current titles.

We will also be celebrating the official opening of Brain Lag with a launch party on Saturday evening. Come join us in the penthouse, room 1401, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on April 6. We will have refreshments, goodies, free samples of each of our current titles, a prize giveaway, an advance reading of an upcoming title, and more.

Also, we will be officially opening for submissions at that time, and to celebrate, we will be hosting an open pitch session during the party. Come prepared to pitch us your novel and you could be one of the first authors to join Brain Lag’s lineup.

Hope to see you there!

 

Toronto Comicon

We will be in the artist’s alley at Comicon at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this coming Saturday and Sunday. Hope to see you there!

 

Con-G a success; more events coming

Thank you to everyone who came out to see us at Con-G last weekend. It was a fantastic event and we will certainly be going back again.

Our next appearance is in two weeks’ time. We will be at Comicon at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre March 9-10. We are also currently looking into several other events this year, including the Faery Festival in Guelph in June, the Pirate Festival in Milton in August, and the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival in September.

Another major event has also been added to our event calendar: during Ad Astra in Toronto in April, we will be hosting an official Brain Lag launch party. More details will be added as we get closer to the event. We hope to see you at one of our events in the near future.