The Life And Death Of Hertzan Chimera

September 2005 - Chimericana Books reveal the secrets behind the invented psycho-erotic writing persona Hertzan Chimera.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HERTZAN CHIMERA
the official biography of an invented persona
Chimericana Books 2005

It took Oxford, Uk resident artist/author Mike Philbin fourteen years to give birth to, nurture, allow to grow and then kill off his 'bizarro' writing persona Hertzan Chimera.

Hertzan Chimera R.I.P.
April 1 1990 - August 5 2004

Mike had learned to live with Hertzan's craziness as his writing persona's literary perversity and online confidence grew. He had accepted Hertzan's whacked-out control over his fingertips at the expense of some literary understanding on the part of the reader. After all, he was purposefully trying to make the readers life more difficult. Trying to get the reader to think a little more about the shit he was reading, the sheer crap publishers throw onto the shelves these days. Trying to challenge 'accepted standards of what was sellable fiction, format, narrative.

In this fifteen year spell of disconnected insanity, Hertzan Chimera penned the extreme books Szmonhfu (novel), United States (novel), Animal Instincts (collection), Spidered Web (horror writer interviews), Broken (collaboration with Wrath James White and Alex Severin), BoyFistGirlSuck (collaboration with Alex Severin), Skin (collaboration with Star Jewel Smith), Chim+Her (collection with 8 female collaborators) and Chim+Him (collection with 7 male collaborators).

This is the official biography of one of horror fiction's most extreme creative writing talents. It gives the story of the 'Hertzan' writing persona and its control over his writing life.

Mike Philbin's new novel Yôroppa (under the name Mike Philbin) is due from Hellbound Books in early 2006. He remains the editor of the annual Chimeraworld anthology, also released through Chimericana Books.

The Life and Death of Hertzan Chimera will be available now in paperback from Chimericana Books.
Direct link is http://www.lulu.com/content/163828

All Chimericana Books will be available through Amazon and other good distributors.

Mike Philbin, author/editor/bizarro-ite
http://www.mikephilbin.com - website
http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com - blog

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