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Archive for December, 2007
Out Now: new titles from Bradbury, Clarke, Hughes, Coney, plus: Postscripts #13!
Posted by Darren on December 21st, 2007 at 14:26
We're absolutely delighted to announce that no fewer than six brand new titles have now come back from the printers and will start shipping at the end of next week, for delivery in early January.
And those titles are:
- Dandelion Wine, 50th Anniversary Edition by Ray Bradbury - hardcover edition
- Tales From the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke - hardcover edition
- Crystal Cosmos by Rhys Hughes - hardcover and jacketed hardcover editions
- Hello Summer Goodbye by Michael Coney - hardcover edition
- I Remember Pallahaxi by Michael Coney - hardcover edition
- Postscripts Magazine #13 ed. by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers - paperback and limited hardcover editions
- Hardcover (500 copies) at £20 ($40 approx.) unsigned.
- Slipcased Hardcover (200 copies) at £50 ($100 approx.) signed by Ray Bradbury.
- Deluxe, Two-Volume Hardcover (100 copies) at £375 ($750 approx.) signed by Ray Bradbury and introducer Stephen King, and featuring a second volume of Ray Bradbury's collected Greentown stories, Summer Morning, Summer Night.
Please note: we're still waiting on slipcases (where applicable) for all these titles. We're expecting them to arrive by mid-January: if you've pre-ordered a slipcased edition of any of these titles, please accept our apologies for the delay, and we promise to get them to you at the earliest possible opportunity!
And don't forget: if you're a current Postscripts subscriber (or if you take out a Postscripts subscription between now and the publication of the next issue...) you'll also receive a free copy of this year's PS Holiday Chapbook: 'The Saved' by Joe Hill, previously published only in the extremely limited (and now incredibly rare and valuable) slipcased hardcover edition of 20th Century Ghosts...
New Artwork by Edward Miller for Ian C. Esslemont’s ‘Return of the Crimson Guard’
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 16:30
Mr Esslemont's second novel - which is once again set in the same milieu as Stephen Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen - is an absolute monster of a book, weighing in at over 250,000 words. Which is why, instead of trying to cram them all into a single volume, we're releasing our first edition of Return of the Crimson Guard in a special two-volume set, slipcased and signed and priced at just £75 ($150 approx.) and we're aiming to publish in spring next year.
Plus, you get to own these two fabulous pieces of artwork on the covers of the two volumes, which have been created for us by the one and only Edward Miller (who sometimes answers to Les Edwards, if pressed on the issue...)
Finished Cover: ‘The City in These Pages’ by John Grant
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 16:11
Another piece of finished cover artwork for you to feat your eyes on: this time it's John Grant's novella-length homage to the late, great Ed McBain, The City in These Pages and the artwork in question is by Vincent Chong.
Finished Cover: ‘Tales from the White Hart’ by Arthur C. Clarke
Posted by Darren on December 14th, 2007 at 15:55
Here's J.K. Potter's finished front cover artwork for our forthcoming collection of Arthur C. Clarke's Tales From the White Hart, which also features a brand new 'White Hart' story by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
‘Dandelion Wine’ is Lisa Tuttle’s Christmas Choice in The Times
Posted by Darren on December 13th, 2007 at 15:53
A great, big, Christmas "thank you!" to Lisa Tuttle, who picked our forthcoming (indeed, imminent!) 50th anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's wonderful coming-of-age tale Dandelion Wine as her Christmas Choice in the London Times last Friday.
Lisa says (and quite rightly): "Reading [Dandelion Wine] is like sipping a glass of that beverage, golden and warm, an old-fashioned summer captured in a bottle."
We're publishing in three states:
Lisa says: "Boys and girls who have been especially good may want to ask Santa for the deluxe edition..." and who are we to argue with that? Although with the book not back from the printers quite yet, and Christmas last delivery dates being what they are, you might find Santa delivering sometime into the New Year... but the fat old elf will get there eventually!
‘Lilies Awards’ outed as a scam…
Posted by Darren on December 13th, 2007 at 15:53
We're sorry to have to report that the mystery 'Lilies' that PS Publishing apparently won back in November have turned out to be fakes after all.
Alas, we rather suspected as much. Our man Robert Wexler noted that the book that apparently won the majority of categories was only published in October, but was already picking up these "awards" in November.
Then we received an email from David Herter, author of On the Overgrown Path, which "won" one of the awards. He told us: "By the way, that bit of news about the mysterious Lilies award. I managed to track down the guy and tell him what a let-down it was to win a fake award. Turns out (according to the guy, at least), his two girlfriends put up the fake webpage to promote his novels."
So, there you have it. A fake award, the main "beneficiary" of which was someone whose name unfortunately escapes me now and can't be double-checked, because the www.thelilies.org web-page has been taken down since. So at least someone had the decency to do that.
But still, a salutory lesson for would-be self-promoters in this age of Google Alerts and the global village gossip vine: even a large dose of chutzpah is worthless without an added measure of integrity.
We’re back! (well, almost…) and congrats to our man Robert Wexler!
Posted by Darren on December 12th, 2007 at 17:15
Hello Everyone -
The PS Office officially re-opens tomorrow. Rumour has it that Pete and Nicky are back in the saddle already and working hard to catch up with the last fortnight's email backlog mountain. So if you've had cause to get in touch over the past couple of weeks while the office was closed, then please do be patient just a little while longer, and you should be hearing back from them shortly.
In the meantime, I'm going to be posting a few blog items over the next couple of days to get the ball rolling again. We've got some brand new artwork for you to feast your eyes upon, a selection of reviews of PS Titles from the blogosphere and sundry other murky corners of the Interweb, and a round-up of general feedback from here and there. All sorts of good stuff.
But before I go, everyone here at PS would like to send hearty congratulations to our head honcho designer Robert Wexler and his wife Rebecca on the birth of their daughter Merida Serena Kuder-Wexler. Cute as a button she is, too!