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New Gene Wolfe novel for pre-order, Secret Histories price-cut, postage rates capped, and much more!
Posted by Peter Crowther on February 3rd, 2010 at 13:00
Hi gang;
First of all, a belated happy new year one and all. May 2010 be filled with good health, happiness and prosperity for you and yours… and may it leave you in such a state of near lysergically-enhanced merriment and bonhomie that all you crave is to buy more and more books (particularly those with the little PS logo on the spine!).
New Gene Wolfe novel The Sorcerer’s House; available for postage-free pre-order now!
In fact, perhaps the first such purchase could be Gene Wolfe’s remarkable new novel The Sorcerer’s House, intro’d by Tim Powers and boasting magnificent cover art from the incomparable Dirk Berger?
There are just 400 copies available (300 signed by Gene @ £37.50, and 100 signed by both Gene and Tim @ £75) and then they’re gone so don’t delay — and as a special incentive, we’re reducing those prices to £30 and £65 respectively (and offering free postage!) until actual publication (first week of March).
- The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe, signed hardcover – £30 pre-order
- The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe, signed traycased hardcover – £65 pre-order
Bargain bibliography; prices slashed on Powers: Secret Histories
And talking of Tim Powers, we’d like to free up some storage space… so for those folks who have not yet availed themselves of John Berlyne’s magnificent Secret Histories opus (which is to bibliographies what World War II was to schoolyard disagreements) we’re offering the trade edition (signed by Tim) and the two-book slipcased set (signed by all contributors) for the special prices of £25 (instead of £40) and £99 (instead of £195) plus postage. Buy now, before we change our minds!
- Powers: Secret Histories by John Berlyne, signed trade edition – £25 special offer
- Powers: Secret Histories by John Berlyne, signed 2-volume slipcased set – £99 special offer
We’re looking to come up with a special offer that’s available only to newsletter subscribers, so watch this space.
Special editions – production update
It’s now time is to thank customers awaiting the deluxe editions of various recent titles for their fortitude and perseverance — they’ve shown almost biblical patience, for which many thanks are due.
I’m pleased to say that the traycased edition of Steve Erikson’s Crack’d Pot Trail is now in, as is Uncle River’s Counting Tadpoles. We’re expecting the top states for John Gribbin’s Timeswitch and Lucius Shepard’s Viator Plus this week… and I just heard that the final two signing sheets (out of 6!) for Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein are winging their way to our printers. So it’s probably fair to say that all orders will be with customers well before the end of the month.
New titles to launch at World Horror Con
Right now, we’re chin-deep in preparations for the upcoming World Horror Convention in Brighton, where we should have (please, God!) copies of the following titles for your delight… but they can all be pre-ordered now, and all pre-orders go post-free until the end of February!
- Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Complete Macabre Short Fiction of Basil Copper, two massive volumes lovingly edited by Stephen Jones;
- Pelican Cay and Other Disquieting Tales by David Case (also edited by Stephen Jones);
- Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror edited by S. T. Joshi;
- Darkness on the Edge: Stories Inspired by the Work of Bruce Springsteen edited by Harrison Howe;
- What Will Come After, the complete zombie stories of Scott Edelman;
- Literary Remains, a collection of moody supernatural stories from R. B. Russell; and
- Escher’s Loops, another collection of off-the-wall tales from the Master of the Strange, Zoran Zivkovic.
Also, we’ll be launching the first titles from our new poetry imprint, Stanza Press, kicking off with Off the Coastal Path: Dark Poems from the Seaside, edited by Jo Fletcher and illustrated by Ben Baldwin, featuring contributions from Ray Bradbury, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Neil Gaiman, John Gordon, Ursula K. LeGuin, John Kaiine, Joel Lane, Tanith Lee, Brian Lumley, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, T.M. Wright, Dana Gioia, Weldon Kees and many others.
There’ll also be two new Weird Tales poetry books by H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, both of them edited by Stephen Jones, and Not Quite Atlantis: A Selection of Poems by Donald Sidney-Fryer with cover artwork by Les Edwards.
Before then, of course, we’ll have Joe Hill’s Horns (just waiting for the signing sheets now) and Stephen King’s long-awaited One For The Road ready for shipping.
Postal rates capped – maximum £6 UK, £12 international
One housekeeping message: we’ve made some changes to our postage charging system, with the new rates ensuring that UK customers will pay a maximum of £6 while our chums outside the UK will pay a maximum of £12. Here’s how it’s going to work:
- If you live in the UK, postage on the first book will be £2.49. It’s the same on the second book — so if you order two books, it’ll cost you £4.98. But if you choose a third book, it’ll be just another £1.02 . . . because the maximum postage charge on an order is now £6. So that goes for any number of books above three. The most you’ll pay is £6.
- It works exactly the same with non-UK customers. Postage for the first book will be £4.99. And £4.99 again for the second book — so two books will set you back £9.98. A third book will be a further £2.02 bringing the total to £12. And that’s the maximum. Even if you order 20 books (please… look into my eyes… ), the postage charge will be just £12.
But we’re also maintaining the system we’ve had in operation this past few weeks of making all pre-orders for the top state (note: not the ‘trade’ state) of each title completely post-free… no matter *where* you live.
And better yet, until the end of February, all pre-orders — for all states and editions — will be post-free.
Newletter giveaway winner for December
Congratulations to Tomás Sánchez Tejero of Spain, a self-described bibliophile and sf book collector who should by now be in receipt of his copy of Eric Brown’s Gilbert & Edgar on Mars; December’s other randomly-picked email address wasn’t responded to, sadly,
And there are no more roll-overs – we’ll pick a new prize every month, whether they get claimed or not! All you have to do to qualify for our free draw is be signed up for the email versions of these newsletters… and this month’s lucky winner could be getting their hands on a super-rare proof copy of Black Wings, our forthcoming anthology of Lovecraftian horror, edited by Lovecraft scholar supreme S T Joshi. We’ll pick the winning address on Monday 15th February, so keep an eye on your inbox!
And that’s about it. We’ve bought some new titles (as always) but we’ll hold off on those for another time.
There’s still damn snow on the ground here at the seaside so let’s all of us be careful walking as well as driving. Until next time, look after each other… and happy reading.
Best
Pete
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
“I’m pleased to say that the traycased edition of Steve Erikson’s Crack’d Pot Trail is now in, as is Uncle River’s Counting Tadpoles. We’re expecting the top states for John Gribbin’s Timeswitch and Lucius Shepard’s Viator Plus this week… and I just heard that the final two signing sheets (out of 6!) for Postscripts 20/21: Edison’s Frankenstein are winging their way to our printers. So it’s probably fair to say that all orders will be with customers well before the end of the month.”
Does the delay mean that these now have to be called ‘first edition. second state’?
February 5th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Hi James; as far as I understand it, they’re still first editions (as they have yet to be published by anyone else), and the “top state” refers to the quality of the edition rather than the order in which they arrive. There’s lots of logistical trickery involved in getting signing sheets from authors overseas and sending them to the printers for the final binding, and sometimes the timing doesn’t always works out – so we try to focus on getting the requested editions to the customer as soon as we can, rather than hold back on delivering the trade editions until the top states are ready. :)