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Out Now: ‘The Situation’ by Jeff VanderMeer
Posted by Darren on March 19th, 2008 at 19:20
Our limited edition of Jeff VanderMeer‘s brand new chapbook novelette, The Situation is back from the printers, in-stock at our despatch warehouse and is shipping now to pre-order customers.
As you will probably have heard, we recently teamed up with Wired.com’s GeekDad blog to give away a pdf copy of the entire text of The Situation and if you’re interested in trying before you buy, that download is still available over at blog.wired.com/geekdad.
As a result of the coverage, the book has been selling very strongly indeed, particularly the 200-copy only signed, numbered, jacketed hardcover edition, so we’re really not kidding when we say that if you want to secure a copy you’ll need to get your order in fast!
And now, a quick note from our publisher, Peter Crowther:
It’s mea culpa time, folks. We’ve just noticed, with a fair degree of embarrassment, that the signing sheet for the limited edition of The Situation states that there will be ’200 slipcased signed hardcovers of this book, plus 500 unsigned hardcovers’. Well, the truth is that we mixed up the text from a signing sheet for a different PS title, and the signed hardcovers will not be slipcased… just as it has said all along on the website.
Of course, right now, everyone is happy with that – nobody is expecting a slipcase – but, of course, as soon as the pre-ordered books start plopping onto hallway mats and into creaky old tin rfd mailboxes, everywhere from here (just a couple of streets away is a brand-new regular customer), to all over the USA, to Australia, to North Korea (I kid you not! PS straddles the globe…) then people are going to be phoning wondering where their darn slipcase is.
Well, now you know: there weren’t any. Looks like I ducked out of too many lectures on that ‘Publishing 101′ course! Note to self: must do better in future. Apologies for any confusion caused!
Best wishes
Contrite Crowther