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Midsummer madness! 60% off pre-2008 titles!
Posted by Peter Crowther on August 3rd, 2009 at 15:00
Hi folks!
Midsummer madness! 60% off pre-2008 titles!
Call me a big softie… call me crazy… heck, you can even call me Ishmael… but we’ve been tidying up our storage facilities and we’re hell-bent on freeing up some space: so, up until Hallowe’en – that’s a full three months – we’re reducing all pre-2008 titles by 60%. Yes, sixty per cent!
The usual postage charges will apply, of course, but this’ll mean that our £50 slipcased hardcovers will be just £20; our regular trade hardcovers (£20 and £25) will be only £8 or £10; jacketed novellas (£25) will be £10; and all paperback and unjacketed hardcover novellas will be a low £4 apiece.
There’ll be the following exceptions to this:
- anything by Zoran Zivkovic (because we have something completely different planned for Zoran – more on this next time!);
- the last few remaining copies of Joe Hill’s Gunpowder, which will remain at £12;
- all issues of Postscripts, which will stay at full-price; and…
- copies of Ramsey Campbell’s wonderful The Grin of the Dark – signed and numbered hardcovers, no less – which will now be reduced to just £5 (a 75% mark-down) . . . which means the book will cost less than the mass-market paperback edition.
So don’t delay – click through and place your orders now to avoid disappointment!
New acquisitions – Gene Wolfe, Steven Erikson and more
We’ve been busy as usual with new purchases, including a limited edition of Gene Wolfe’s new novel, The Sorcerer’s House, due out next March. Told entirely in a series of letters, the result is a bona fide page-turner. Based on the wonderful response to our Very Best Of collection for Gene’s shorter work, we’re expecting demand to be high on this… so watch out for ordering details.
(And while we’re talking about Gene’s Very Best Of, we’ve had some problems with the slipcase on that title, in that many of them were just too small. So we’ve sent them all back to be re-done, which means there’ll be a slight delay in filling new orders. Please bear with us! And if you’ve already received your copy and you’re having problems getting the book in and out then just send it back and we’ll sort it out… and we’ll send a little extra something to make up for the hassle.)
Also just in is a first draft of the first hundred typed pages of Steven Erikson’s brand new Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, Crack’d Pot Trail. Believe me when I tell you that this one is absolutely awesome. Again, we’ll have ordering details posted up on the site as soon as possible.
Add to all of this new purchases that include – novella-wise – Rotten Row, a new SF tale from Chaz Brenchley (which will include a reprint of Chaz’s “Terminal” story set in the same world, which was shortlisted for the BSFA Award) and A Princess of the Linear Jungle, the long-awaited sequel to Paul Di Filippo’s A Year In The Linear City… plus collections promised from Kathleen Ann Goonan and Andy Duncan, and a reprint of Darkness, Darkness, the long-since-sold-out first novella-length episode of my own SF/horror cycle, Forever Twilight which we’re putting out (to tie in with Subterranean’s recent issuing of volume 2, Windows To The Soul) under our brand new subsidiary imprint, Drugstore Indian Press.
Now shipping – The Language Of Dying, Billy’s Book, Blue Canoe
But enough of what’s coming, what’s actually newly arrived? As I type this, we’ve received finished copies of Sarah Pinborough’s heart-wrenching The Language of Dying and Terry Bisson’s truly charming mini-collection, Billy’s Book. Plus we’re expecting T.M.Wright’s Blue Canoe by the end of the week. They’re all novellas and thus priced at the usual £12 (around $20) for unsigned hardcovers or £25 ($40) for signed editions in dust-jackets.
Gift Boxes upgraded with new novellas and Secret Histories
Meanwhile, don’t let all this talk of new titles make you forget our Anniversary Gift Boxes. This month, as usual, we’re adding two new titles as our giftbox upgrades. The novella sets will come with the appropriate edition of either The Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe (just let us know which you’d prefer when you place your order), and the two novel sets will include the signed trade edition of Powers: Secret Histories. As ever, it’s a fantastic way to grab ten quality books at a knockdown price.
- Ten trade novellas, including one of either Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe - £40 [US$64 approx.]
- Ten jacketed hardcover novellas, including one of either Language of Dying, Billy’s Book or Blue Canoe - £100 [US$160 approx ]
- Ten trade novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £100 [US$160 approx.]
- Ten slipcased novels, including Powers: Secret Histories – £200 [US$320 approx.]
Newsletter give-aways roll over again
In this month’s newletter give-away, one lucky subscriber will receive the two Michael Coney books, Hello Summer, Goodbye and I Remember Pallahaxi. And as we had no response to either of last month’s winning email addresses, the two ARCs of Spook City roll over to this month as well. That’s three chances of winning for anyone signed up to our newsletter – make sure you keep an eye on your inbox!
So stick with us, because we’re really building up a head of steam here! And watch out for the next newsletter in about four weeks’ time. Until then…
Look after each other… and happy reading!
Pete