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Tenth anniversary special offers from PS Publishing for 2009
Posted by Peter Crowther on December 18th, 2008 at 12:00
Hi everyone!
2009 is a bit of a milestone for PS Publishing inasmuch as it’ll mark our tenth anniversary. We’re excited — and we’re still planning a few new touches — but we’ve already got lots of celebratory deals in the offing.
Just for a start, all books added to the ordering pages of the website from 1 January 2009 onwards will be free of any postage and packing charges when you order and pay for them prior to publication. The postage charges will be applied to the titles as soon as they’re received from the printers.
Anniversary Gift Boxes
We’re also giving folks a grand opportunity to get their hands on some of our back catalogue for a special 10th anniversary knock-down price. We’re offering 10 trade-edition novellas at £40 (instead of £100) plus postage* or 10 of the jacketed-hardcover editions for £100 (usually £250) plus postage*.
On our bigger books (collections, novels etc.), we’re offering 10 of the trade editions at £100 (they were originally published at £20, £25 and £35 each) or 10 of the slipcased editions at £200 (these first saw the light of day at £50 and £60)… both plus postage* to be added. Please note that orders for specific titles cannot be considered — we’ll pick them, but they’ll all be different.
This Anniversary Gift Box offer applies only to PS titles published before January 2008 and it’ll be available all year long throughout 2009… or while stocks last. All remaining copies of pre-2008 titles will revert to full price on 1 January 2010, but you can order a Gift Box right away using the links below!
- Anniversary Gift Box: 10 trade novellas – £40 [ $60 approx. ]
- Anniversary Gift Box: 10 jacketed hardcover novellas – £100 [ $150 approx. ]
- Anniversary Gift Box: 10 trade novels – £100 [ $150 approx. ]
- Anniversary Gift Box: 10 slipcased novels – £200 [ $300 approx. ]
(*Postage will be a flat £15 for UK customers and £25 for anyone ordering from outside the UK.)
New titles for Christmas
Today PS will be taking delivery of Joe Hill‘s Gunpowder, Terry Bisson‘s Planet of Mystery, the latest winter chapbook for Postscripts subscribers (Ramsey Campbell‘s The Long Way), the paperback edition of Postscripts #17, and the special three-book gift set of Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree, The October Country and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
We aim to get as many copies as we can out to customers before Christmas hits us but, particularly with a proposed strike in the offing by Royal Mail, I’m doubtful that we’ll manage more than those customers who live in the UK. But let’s see how we get on.
(The hardcover editions of both Postscripts #16 and #17 are still delayed as we await signing sheets. They’re well on their way now, after a couple of delays, so those will be going out in January.)
The Land at the End of the Working Day
PS Publishing always espouses an air of rivalry with our competitors but, without exception, it’s good-natured — so we took no satisfaction whatsoever when the lovely folks at Humdrumming closed their doors.
In an attempt to help their somewhat debilitated cashflow, we bought the remaining copies of my own The Land at the End of the Working Day quartet of novelettes (all of them signed and numbered by me and featuring individual introductions from Elizabeth Hand, Joe Hill, Ian McDonald and Lucius Shepard) and, as a one-off, we’re offering these on the PS website at just £12 (less than half the original list price). Post and packing will be charged extra as usual. There aren’t many left, so move fast!
- The Land at the End of the Working Day by Pete Crowther: signed and numbered hardcover – £12 [ $18 approx. ]
Apologia – Crowther screws up again!
Keen followers of the now almost traditional PS typographical goof-up may already have noticed I dropped the ball once again with our editions of The Day it Rained Forever and A Medicine for Melancholy in the sumptuous deluxe two-book set from Ray Bradbury.
The plain fact is that the artist for … Melancholy is Chris Roberts (who produced the cover for The Pilo Family Circus and the upcoming The Babylonian Trilogy) — we credited the work to PS-fave Tomislav Tikulin, who did the illustration for The Day it Rained Forever. Chris, our sincere apologies for omitting your name from the copyrights page — the fault is, alas, mine entirely. Back to solitary for another few weeks…
More developments on Secret Histories
And talking of cover artists, the kudos for Powers: Secret Histories goes to John Berlyne and Dirk Berger (sorry for dropping you, Dirk).
Still on the subject of Secret Histories, John Berlyne’s charm and persuasive personality have done it again. The rascal has persuaded Tim to produce a brand-new face doodle for each of the 26 copies of our super-deluxe three-volume edition, meaning that each of the cases will carry a unique and original piece of artwork! Now… how cool is that! Not many of these unreserved, so pre-order now while you still can:
- Powers: Secret Histories super-deluxe edition – £495 [ $742.50 approx. ]
Who is this who is coming…
And finally, what would Christmas be without a spooky story? And what’s a spooky story without the incomparable M. R. James? And of James’s work, his remarkable “Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad” is, for me, one of the field’s most chilling pieces. Well, the good news for anyone who’s likely to find themselves around London between now and 4 January is that Robert Lloyd Parry (see photo) is bringing a seasonal shiver to London, with his retelling of that very tale… plus the author’s “The Ash Tree”.
We haven’t seen the production ourselves — yet! — but Parry’s background gives us cause for excitement (his last one-man show picked up The Dracula Society’s prestigious Hamilton Deane Award) so we felt we should pass on the details.
The show started a couple of weeks ago and runs until Sunday 4 January 2009, with a daily performance at 8pm (but do note that there are no performances on 22, 25, 26, 29 and 31 December or 1 January). The venue is Barons Court’s Theatre, The Curtain’s Up Pub, 28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London W14 9HP. The box office number is 020 8932 4747, or you can e-mail them at londontheatre@gmail.com … or just check the website at www.nunkie.co.uk
Maybe I’ll see you there!
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That’s it for this time — have a fab Christmas… and may the new year bring you all the health, happiness and success you could possibly wish for. Look after each other… and happy reading!
Seasonal best wishes
Pete
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I’m interested in a lifetime membership in Postscripts magazine (softcover), but would also be interested in pricing for the hardcovers too. I would like the pricing broken down in payments as far apart as possible, so that I would still be able to obtain the Stephen King book being offered.
I have been a Stephen King collector since 1974 and have every book or Novella he has ever written and quite a bit a memoribilia too. I would hate to miss out on an opportunity like this. I do realize he is not signing the book, but that doesn’t matter.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
(I do know this wasn’t where I was suppose to ask about the offer, but I couldn’t locate where they wanted me to email my question, so I had to be creative.)