July 2010 (Update)

Clinicality Press may be a small no-budget publisher, but that doesn’t mean we lack ambition or a roster of work that we have total faith in. To this end, we’re going all-out on bringing new titles to the market in the next six months, as well as exploring new avenues (for us) for the circulation of our existing titles.

As of next week, Christopher Nosnibor’s ground-shredding anti-novel, THE PLAGIARIST will be available for Amazon Kindle in the US, and we’re also now selling copies of the physical version directly through the ‘New and Used’ section of Amazon in the UK. We intend to expand the range of Clinicality publications available through both of these channels in the coming weeks and months.

In other Nosnibor-related news, we will be publishing his ‘lost’ novella, From Destinations Set on Monday, August 2nd. Extending the experimentation of THE PLAGIARIST, From Destinations Set was written in 2008 and adopts the ‘simultaneous narrative’ that Christopher first incorporated in ‘Heading South’ (published in Neonbeam 4) and which was also a feature of the extremely limited 2008 pamphlet A Call for Submission. From Destinations Set tells the stories of two very different people in simultaneous real-time, and is both challenging and cerebral while also pushing the parameters of narrative convention to tackle the eternal problem of time / space and linearity. From Destinations Set will be available as a hardback with dust jacket, intended primarily for the US market (but available as an import to other territories) and globally as a .PDF download at a significantly lower price.

We will be following this on September 6th with a duo of hard-hitting booklets: The Gimp by Christopher Nosnibor and Kicks by Vincent Clasper.

The year will be rounded off with the publication of a rollercoaster of a novel entitled Hack by James Wells. A book about sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, Hack comes on like John Niven’s Kill Your Friends if it had been written as a collaboration between Chuck Palanhiuk and Richard Blandford. Dymanic, perverse and musically obsessed, Hack has all the hallmarks of a contemporary classic. It will be available first as an ebook via Smashwords, and will be followed by a physical publication in 2011.

Promotion will be relatively low-key, due to financial limitations, but we’re committed to getting these quality works out there. Your support is always hugely appreciated, and if you like what we’re doing, spread the word!

You want more? Time and money permitting, there will be a second anthology, a follow-up to Clinical Brutal... An Anthology of Writing with Guts toward the end of 2011, as well as a second novel by Bill Thunder.

Keep watching for more updates.


July 2010

Following the immense promotional blitz that surrounded the publication of Clinical, Brutal... An Anthology of Writing with Guts, the ripples of which continue to spread some six months after its emergence to an unsuspecting literary world, Clinicality are going back underground with the remaining publications planned for 2010. No fanfare, no review copies, limited press releases. Call it anti-promotion, from the publisher that began its life with an anti-novel and has made a name for itself (albeit a small one) as a specialist in anti-literature.

The Autumn will see two booklets unveiled: ‘Kicks’ by Vincent Clasper, who previously featured in Clinical, Brutal..., and ‘The Gimp’ by Christopher Nosnibor.

Clasper’s tome is a collection of short stories and prose pieces that aren’t so much erotic fiction a literary porn, while Nosnibor’s gathers together some hard-to-find stories previously published elsewhere alongside a wealth of brand new and previously unseen work that represents his darkest and most hard-edged work to date. ‘The Gimp’ will also feature an introduction by Lucius Rofocale. Together, they mark a new level of abrasion from Clinicality Press, a publishing house that knows no fear and cares not for fashion or taste.

In short, these staunchly uncommercial works are harsh, seedy and brutal. Controversial? Perhaps. Examples of intensely powerful and provocative writing? Certainly.

These booklets will be available directly from Clinicality Press, and through Amazon and other outlets some time after. They will be published simultaneously on September 6th.

There are also plans for two further books to be unleashed before the end of the year: watch this space for more details.


May 2010

May 25th marks 120 days since the publication of Clinical, Brutal.... To celebrate the occasion, we're hosting '120 Days of Brutality.' It's a virtual event, on line and on this website.

You don't have to go anywhere or do anything to participate... (although buying and reading the book would be a brilliant way to mark the event)... just be brutal, in your own small way.

March 2010

Clinical, Brutal... charted on Amazon.co.uk with a sales ranking of 46,580. It also received a 4-star review from Christopher Willard on Amazon.com.  Willard writes, '...at its best this clinical, brutal writing can in many instances be cynical, beautiful writing.' Read the full review here.

February 2010

Clinical, Brutal... An Anthology of Writing with Guts is finally available via Amazon: .com and .co.uk.


January 2010

Clinical, Brutal... An Anthology of Writing with Guts is out on January 25th.

To promote the book, anthology editor Christopher Nosnibor has been interviewing some of the contributing authors. These interviews are being published simultaneously on this website - here - and on the Clinicality Press MySpace page. Why not join us on MySpace?



December 2009

Clinicality are pleased to confirm the full line-up for our forthcoming anthology, and to unveil the cover, too. There is now a new page on this website devoted to this, our fourth and most ambitous publication to date, which can be found here, and contains all of the details. In the coming weeks there will be a link added for pre-orders, as well as exclusive interviews with some of the contributing authors.

November 2009

Clinicality Press is delighted to announce that it will be publishing its most ambitious and wide-ranging book to date early in 2010.

Edited by Christopher Nosnibor, author of THE PLAGIARIST, our first ever release, Clinical, Brutal: An Anthology of Writing with Guts is an anthology of works in both poetry and prose that encapsulates the ethos of Clinicality Press and the essence of Clinical Brutality as a mode of writing.

As Christopher writes in his introduction, ‘Excessive gore is not a prerequisite, but nor is it frowned upon. It’s all about those small, everyday random acts of violence, not all of which are physical or even necessarily entirely tangible, that are common to us all. Those little psychological pains we inflict on one another, the words that resonate long after they've cut deep, the behaviours we exhibit that make others uncomfortable or act in a certain way because we seek to manipulate a situation or an individual, or sometimes simply because we're pissed off or because we can... those are equally brutal, and so often clinical in their calculated execution.’ As such, the collection cuts to the core of human existence and combines brutality with beauty, in the form of some of the most devastating and precise, razor-sharp writing you’re likely to find.

The book will feature some truly stunning works – many of which are previously unpublished – by writers including D M Mitchell, Christopher Nosnibor, Stewart Home, Constance Stadler, Jim Lopez, Radcliff Gregory, Díre McCain, Pablo Vision, Maria Gornell and A.D. Hitchin.

The book will be available as a trade paperback via Amazon, Barnes and Noble and most other on-line book stores, as well as direct from Clinicality Press.

The official publication date, price and full line-up will be confirmed nearer the time. Keep an eye on the Clinicality Press website (http://clinicalitypress.co.uk) for updates and a few samples ahead of the book’s release.


August 2009

Bill Thunder's debut novel, THE BASTARDIZER will be unleashed on 17th August. The first edition will also be the first 'Clinicality Press Pocket Edition' measuring 4.25" x 6.88". Weighing in at 187 pages, it will be priced at an affordable £4.99.

A trade paperback with global distribution through Amazon and all of the usual retail channels will follow in early 2010.

Before that, however, will be Clinicality Press' anthology of clinical, brutal, cutting edge writing. originally scheduled for around September, it's looking more likely to be early October now. More details to follow.

In the meantime, we give you THE BASTARDIZER. For a taster, go here. To read Christopher Nosnibor's (pr)review, go here.


July 2009

Due to unfoerseen cicumstances, the release date of THE BASTARDISER has been brought forward. The book will be available sometime in August. The following press release will be issued shortly:

The Delicate Sound of Thunder

This Autumn sees the publication of ‘The Bastardizer,’ a hard-hitting detective novel by Bill Thunder on Clinicality Press.

Thunder is your average disaffected, world-weary misanthropic PI. He’s been there, done that, seen it all and got it remembered in the minutest, most obsessive detail. But this is a case that sees him tested to his limits.

There’s nothing unusual about a missing man... but things are a little more complicated when the missing person happens to share a name with the world’s most famous recently-deceased celebrity. While on the hunt for Michael Jackson – a wealthy businessman – Thunder risks life and limb as he trawls the violent underworld of shady dealings and Internet pornography.

 ‘The Bastardizer’ is a truly unique novel. Combining ultraviolence more brutal than ‘A Clockwork Orange’ with the surgical detail of ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ the misanthropic narrative of ‘The Bastardizer’ ploughs a new groove against the well-worn furrows of genre fiction.

Packed with fast-paced action and sharp dialogue, it’s dark, abrasive and comical, often all at the same time.  Are you ready for the roll of Thunder?

For more info and a short excerpt, go to the dedicated BASTARDIZER page.