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December 14, 2014
News, Publications

Yes, we’re having a sale. Because we’re renegades, it’s not about Black Friday deals, and we didn’t want to wait till January to cut up to 50% off a selection of titles.

Here they are.

 

Clinical, Brutal 2 – with 40% off

 

Clinical, Brutal 2: Incisive Writing with Guts

http://www.lulu.com/shop/christopher-nosnibor/clinical-brutal-2-incisive-writing-with-guts/paperback/product-21784876.html

 

The 2010 anthology, containing 200 pages of unstinting brutality,also with 40% off

 

Clinical, Brutal... An Anthology of Writing with Guts

http://www.lulu.com/shop/christopher-nosnibor-editor/clinical-brutal-an-anthology-of-writing-with-guts/paperback/product-17814648.html

 

30% off The Bastardizer by Bill Thunder

 

The Bastardizer

http://www.lulu.com/shop/bill-thunder/the-bastardizer/paperback/product-20177080.html

 

This Book is Fucking Stupid – and with 25% off it’s also fucking cheap

 

This Book is Fucking Stupid

http://www.lulu.com/shop/christopher-nosnibor/this-book-is-fucking-stupid/paperback/product-20740563.html

 

Hack by James Wells has 30% off

 

Hack

http://www.lulu.com/shop/james-wells/hack/paperback/product-21951456.html

 

There’s also a whopping 50% off C.N.N., the 2008 collaboration between Christopher Nosnibor and Stuart Bateman

 

C.N.N.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/christopher-nosnibor-and-stuart-bateman/cnn/paperback/product-2998720.html

The Rebirth of Brutality: Big News at Clinicality Press

July 22, 2014
News, Publications

It’s been four years since the first Clinical, Brutal anthology was unleashed to an unsuspecting public. It would be an overstatement to say the world has never been quite the same since, but it was no small achievement for a zero-budget publisher established barely two years. The fact we’re still here is an achievement in itself, and what better way to reassert the vision of Clinicality Press than with a follow-up that’s even more sharply-focused in its clinicality and its brutality?

Clinical brutal 2, edited by Christopher Nosnibor will hit the virtual shelves this Autumn, and will be preceded by our first official book launch event, which will take place at our spiritual home The Woolpack in York on Monday 8th September 2014. A number of the featured authors will perform. There will be music. There will be copies of the new book available for purchase, before it hits Amazon or anywhere else, and at a discounted launch-night price. Other Clinicality Press titles will also be available.

There’s much work to do, not least of all in terms of formatting, editing and proof-reading, but it’s shaping up to be a truly killer collection.

It has a cover already. It looks like this.

Cover with text 2 copy

 

We can also confirm the list of contributing authors. That looks like this: Nicola Burgess  / Michael Hann / D M Mitchell / A.D. Hitchin / Karl van Cleave / Dale Prudent / Niall Rasputin / James Wells / A.B. Johnson / Johnny Webster / Christopher Nosnibor /  Mistress Rosie / Dyke Van Dick / Andy Rigley / James J. Osman / Pete Miller  / Mark Wynn / Díre McCain / Cal Leckie / Michael McAloran / Jock Drummond / Vincent Clasper/ Dave Howden / Lee Kwo / Stuart Bateman

Watch this space and the Clinicality Facebook page for further updates.

Enjoy the Silence

November 19, 2013
News

Clinicality have been keeping a low profile of late, but that doesn’t mean we’ve not been hatching plans for new publications. The silence of recent months won’t last! Coming in the next couple of months, we have a paperback edition of Karl Van Cleave’s spectacularly brutal collection of short stories, Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions.

It will be followed by a collaborative work by Van Cleave and Stuart Bateman, which will be a limited, print-only multimedia headfuck.

Finally, we’re also planning to publish Christopher Nosnibor’s previously unseen novel Exiled In Domestic Life.

Keep watching this space, and meanwhile, keep it brutal.

Worth the wait

May 26, 2013
News, Publications

We make no bones about the fact Clinicality Press is a zero-budget operation run by a couple of guys with regular jobs. Rebellion and revolution isn’t about being bankrolled or even hitting a mass audience (and most ‘viral’ Internet phenomena achieve their status with silent financial backing). We’re all about keeping it real and doing it the hard way: no sell-out. That’s sticking it to the man.

Unfortunately, remaining true to the punk ethic means that sometimes things take longer than we’d like or necessarily anticipate. So when we announced our publishing schedule for the first half of 2013,we knew it was going to be a challenge, and sadly we couldn’t quite manage it. However, we’re not far off.

Christopher Nosnibor’s This Book is Fucking Stupid, set to appear in print in March, hit the shelves on 11th April 2013.  It looks great and contains material not in either of the ebook editions.

The print edition of James Wells’ Hack, scheduled for publication in March, is now set to appear in June. After some hellish difficulties with the pagination and formatting, we’re finally there. It will be available to order via Amazon shortly. We will be stocking it in our own shop in due course, just as soon as we can afford to carry new stock again.

We also said we’d  be publishing Christopher Nosnibor’s latest work,  a collection of essays entitled The Changing Face of Consumerism in April. It’s now good to go, and will be published as an eBook via Amazon on May 31st. The cover will look like this:

 

Changing Face Cover 2 copy

 

The print edition of Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions by Karl van Cleave has been put back from May to July / August, but we will be putting out another couple of short stories by different Clinicality authors as standalone free e-books in thee meantime, and we’ve got some more really exciting titles lined up for the Autumn, so keep watching this space.

Physical Stupidity: This Book is Fucking Stupid hits the Fucking Shelves

April 1, 2013
News, Publications

After an epic-build-up and some frantic checking of proofs and the distribution of review copies, Clinicality Press can now proudly announce the release of Christopher Nosnibor’s far-out genre-smashing anti-novel This Book is Fucking Stupid in paperback.

On the one hand, This Book is a story of two friends whose lives have taken different paths, a tale of frustration and the social pressure to conform and to succeed. On the other, it’s a social critique and an analysis of reader reviews and the changing face of literary criticism, all with annotations and reflections on both the creative process and the story itself. Confused? You will be.

At the heart of this radical novel that dismantles the very notion of ‘the novel’ lies a thought-provoking work that challenges notions of authorship and the distinctions that separate theory, criticism, fiction and memoir. This Book forges a touching tale of midlife anxiety in the postmodern age of late capitalism and information overload through an ambitous and ingenius synergy of form and content.

Containing additional material not included in either the original Smashwords e-book version or the 50 Shades of Shit Kindle exclusive second edition, the print edition sees Nosnibor really ratchets up the audacious polemic and smashes every aspect of contemporary (pseudo) literary and mainstream fiction and the publishing industry with brain-bending results.

This Book is priced £8.99. It can be purchased via this link, and will be available globally through Amazon in due course.

TBIFS Cover 2 copy

Ultra-Clinical, Ultra-Brutal: Karl van Cleave’s Aborted Missions

February 28, 2013
News, Publications

Karl van Cleave’s biography perhaps speaks for itself:

Swedish-born Karl van Cleave has lived and worked in many cities around Europe, in jobs ranging from police work to journalism. He is fascinated by emerging technologies, developing methods of communication, telepathy, pornography, philosophy, avant-gardism and the Marquis de Sade. His work is featured in ‘Clinical, Brutal… An Anthology of Writing With Guts’ (Clinicality Press 2010). He currently lives at home in London with his mother’s mutilated corpse.

His first solo collection of fiction, entitled Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions is everything you would expect from such a writer when paired with a publisher like this one: clinical, brutal and cutting edge.

Incisions Cover copy

 

Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions is published today (28 February 2013) exclusively on Amazon Kindle. Other platform editions will follow later in the year.

To purchase from Amazon.com go here, and to purchase from Amazon.co.uk, go here.

Karl van Cleave at the Kutting Edge: ‘Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions’ out on Amazon Kindle 28th February 2013

February 25, 2013
News, Publications

 

With the six stories contained in ‘Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions’, Karl van Cleave proves himself to be a leading exponent of clinical brutality. Rendering the horrors of the every day in agonising, medical detail, van Cleave cuts through literary niceties to expose the core – and the gore – of the human condition. It isn’t pretty, but it is real. Very real.

 

Links to follow: watch this space.