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More Cemetery Dance titles at PS, and free samples in the next newsletter…
Posted by Peter Crowther on August 24th, 2010 at 15:06
Hi all;
Two things, both important. (You can tell they’re important cos Paul doesn’t usually let me within a country mile of the website!) [Indeed - I'm quite capable of breaking it without Pete's help... - PGR]
First off, following the success of our first three Cemetery Dance titles, Mike has just put up a new batch… all of them crackers.
There’s titles from Kealan Patrick Burke, Simon Clark, James Newman, F. Paul Wilson, Ronald Kelly, Tom Piccirilli and, from Hans-Ake Lilja, The World Of Stephen King. For over a decade now, Lilja has been one of the leading voices on the internet when it comes to covering and reporting on Steve’s books and movies. His website, Lilja’s Library, is the die-hard fan’s source for information about new King projects and breaking news, but Lilja has also featured his own in-depth reviews and interviews with the most important people in King’s world, including the Big Guy himself.
As before, we have a limited supply of each and I’m not sure how easy it’ll be to get extras… so check them out now without delay.
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Secondly, it’s coming up to FantasyCon time again (Hurrah!), and PS will be there in force this year with Mike popping in on the Saturday to strong-arm ditherers into buying books. Which is a fine idea, seeing as how we’ll be launching the following titles… with all authors (except for Nick Gevers) present, alongside many of the contributors to Catastrophia, Cinema Futura and The Company He Keeps — and we’ll be tying them to a signing table with a drink… just for you.
- Catastrophia edited by Allen Ashley
- The Seven Days Of Cain by Ramsey Campbell
- The Company He Keeps edited by Crowther & Gevers
- The House Of Canted Steps by Gary Fry [order page pending!]
- Tales From The Fragrant Harbour by Garry Kilworth
- Cinema Futura edited by Mark Morris
- End Times by Rio Youers
And get this! Anyone fancying finding out in advance whether they’re going to like the new titles needs only to look out for the next PS email newsletter (due next week, so that slavedriver Paul tells me), which will be carrying samples from all seven books.
What’s that? You don’t get the newsletter? You are so missing out, Chauncy…
So sign up pronto — aside from the samples, it’s, like, totally free (and we never spam you or sell your addresses or anything nasty like that)! Plus you get entered into a prize draw every newsletter… to win books, simply by receiving an email once a month or so. Hey, what’s not to like?
Gee whiz… some people!
Pete
Scott Edelman reading from What Will Come After at Readercon
Posted by Paul Raven on July 12th, 2010 at 12:33
If there’s one convention on the yearly calendar that makes me wish I lived in the US, it’s Readercon. Much as I like the pot-luck lunacy of more general conventions, the idea of a weekend devoted purely to geeking out over books in the company of other book-geeks is my idea of paradise.
Readercon took place this weekend just gone in Burlington, Massachusetts, and there were a handful of PS people there: Robert Freeman Wexler, Beth Bernobich and Paul Di Filippo, for instance. And also Scott Edelman, who got someone to video him reading the story “Tell Me Like You Done Before” from his collection of zombie tales, What Will Come After:
Scott (canny devil that he is) skipped a few pages in the middle… so if you want to know the whole story, I guess you’ll just have to buy yourself a copy! But given you get another eight critically-aclaimed stories into the bargain, presented in a luxurious and handsome limited edition binding, we like to think that’s a pretty good deal. :)
Zoran Živković added as GoH at World Fantasy 2009!
Posted by Paul Raven on September 8th, 2009 at 12:25
Great news for those attending this year’s World Fantasy Convention in San Jose at the end of October - the incomparable Serbian maestro of metafiction, Zoran Živković, has been added to the list of Guests of Honour.
So, if you’re a fan already, it’s the perfect excuse to take advantage of our Živković Zeptember offer – order a copy of the latest collection, Impossible Stories II, and you’ll receive a 50% credit on any other PS titles by Zoran which are purchased in the same transaction*.
And if you’re not a fan already, maybe now’s the time to give him a try and see what all the fuss is about? :)
[ * Due to the way our webstore works, we have to do the credit after the initial transaction has gone through; sadly, the system doesn't quite have the flexibility to work it all out in advance.
However, if you're at all concerned about making an order, please drop a line to 'enquiries [at] pspublishing [dot] co [dot] uk’ and we’ll take you through the process to assure you that everything is legitimate. ]
Horror of Horrors: Forbidden Planet vs. PS Publishing horror fiction signing spectacular!
Posted by Paul Raven on August 20th, 2009 at 9:00
Fancy meeting some of the big names of horror fiction and getting them to sign some of our luxurious books?
Well, sure you do – and thanks to the awesome folk at the Forbidden Planet megastore in London, PS Publishing is very proud to announce Horror of Horrors, a special signing event which will feature such luminaries as:
- Ramsey Campbell
- Bryan Talbot
- Doug “Pinhead” Bradley (yes, the chap from Hellraiser);
- Angus Mackenzie
- James Hannah
- Rio Youers, and
- PS head honcho Peter Crowther himself!
This unique event will take place at the Forbidden Planet store on Shaftesbury Avenue (here’s a map for finding your way there) at 1pm on Saturday 26th September 2009.
Taking pride of place is the official launch of Creatures of the Pool, the new book from Ramsey Campbell and Bryan Talbot, but there’ll be plenty of other PS titles on offer at one-off special prices.
Add the opportunity to meet and chat with these doyens of horror fiction in the relaxed environment of Forbidden Planet, and you’ve got an event that promises to become a legend in its own right.
And the best bit? It’s free to attend, leaving you more money to spend on the important things in life – books!
We hope you’ll come along and join in the fun – there’s more than likely to be some time spent in a local drinking den after the signing, too, and we’d love to meet you all.
And if you fancy doing us a little favour, please feel free to copy the poster image above and repost it on your own blog or website – we want the world to know!
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #20 to launch at Fantasycon, featuring many PS alumi
Posted by Paul Raven on July 30th, 2009 at 12:12
Hey there – going to FantasyCon this September? Fan of great horror fiction? The folk from Constable & Robinson Publishing have got your back, then – the twentieth anniversary issue of their annual anthology The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror will be launched on the Saturday afternoon at FantasyCon.
Better still, a number of the contributing authors will be there to sign copies of the book and generally mingle and schmooze. Among those authors are a handful of folk we’ve published ourselves – the inimitable Ramsey Campbell, Tim beer-lovin’ Lebbon and the lovely Miss Sarah Pinborough – and PS Publishing head honcho Pete Crowther himself. Even Vinnie Chong, one of our favourite cover artists, will be there.
Still not convinced? Well, apparently there’s a free glass of wine with every copy of the book you buy…
… yeah, I thought that might raise your interest. ;) You can download and print out this PDF flyer for the event to remind you nearer the time.
Encuentro Fractal 09 – Columbian science fiction and futurist conference
Posted by Paul Raven on February 25th, 2009 at 13:02
We had an email from Hernan Ortiz, one of the people behind Encuentro Fractal 09, a futurist conference in Columbia that will cover genre literature alongside new technologies and other artforms, in an effort to show how science fiction has the possibility to help reshape the future of Latin America.
They’ve got some proper big name speakers lined up, including James Patrick Kelly, Lucius Shepard and Bruce Sterling, but they ran into a bit of trouble when one of their sponsors pulled out on them at very short notice.
Obviously we’re a bit restricted in what we could do to help (it’s a long old swim to Columbia from the UK, after all, much as we’d all appreciate a holiday somewhere warm), but we’ve sent them one of our anniversary gift-boxes of ten trade novels or collections to auction off for funds. All of us at PS believe in the transformative power of literature – it’s why we do what we do – and we were pleased for a chance to help out those in less fortunate circumstances than ourselves.
The Encuentro Fractal website has a PayPal button, just in case you’d like to give them a helping hand yourself. Bear in mind that while times are hard for everyone, a couple of pounds or dollars is a pretty small dent in your pocket… but it could be of great assistance to Fractal’s organisers.
Or you could just pass the word on using your own blog – I’m sure they’ll be grateful for any help you’d care to give.
“What I Did On My Summer Holidays” by Peter Crowther
Posted by Peter Crowther on August 27th, 2008 at 11:57
Our summertime trip to the US was the usual mix of business and pleasure… mainly caused by the fact that our business is our pleasure.
An overnight stop in Hyannis just hours after landing was followed by another in Sandwich before settling down for three nights in Ogunquit, where we were really able to unwind. Then it was up to Northern midcoast Maine to spend a few days with Liz Hand in the magical setting of her lakeside cottage.
She made us feel wonderfully welcome and, among the many pleasurable events she lined up, introduced me to a barn the size of a car-production factory that was filled to the rafters with books. It took me around a half-hour just to stop shaking.
(From left to right: Christopher Golden, Nicky Crowther, Joe Hill, Connie Golden and Peter Crowther)
From Liz’s place it was back to Ogunquit for another three days of beach-’n'-books (and food! my goodness!!) with the second night seeing us drive down to Portsmouth NH to meet up with Connie and Chris Golden and Joe Hill for dinner. We were barely out of the cars when we all managed to buy books… which, to be fair, seemed about par for the entire holiday.
As many of you probably know already, Chris is one of the Guests of Honour at this year’s FantasyCon and we’ve commissioned a special story from him (“The Hiss of Escaping Air”… and, believe me, it’s every bit as delightful as the title suggests) for PS Publishing‘s first small chapbook — the book will be priced at £6/$12 and it’ll be available at the convention (as well as, of course, by mail order in the usual way). We also have a Joe Hill-related announcement to make but, for the moment, you’re going to have to wait. Watch out for full details, maybe next month.
We made it to our second NeCon, joining up with Mike Marshall Smith (one of this year’s Guests of Honor) and touching base with many friends including PS authors Darrell Schweitzer (watch out for his upcoming Living With The Dead), Rick Hautala (whose Reunion is due out from us in 2010) and Chris Golden again (in addition to the chapbook I mentioned above, watch out for a special PS Publishing edition of Chris’s wonderful time-travel novel, The Boys Are Back In Town) plus many many more friends, new and old.
The four days were chock-full of highlights but the one which truly stands out (aside from a team of paramedics from the local fire service being called out to cut off my wedding ring because my mosquito-bitten finger had swollen to twice its normal size and looked about ready to drop off — I kid you not!) is a small-but-perfectly formed (a few seconds over eight minutes) movie called Peekers.
Based on a short story by Kealan Patrick Burke, adapted by Rick Hautala and directed by Mark Steensland, Peekers is a pure joy and I recommend it to you without reservation. Zero special effects and 100% unsettling, it restores my confidence in an industry which seems increasingly hell-bent on excess. The film has now been included in the visual entertainments scheduled for FantasyCon, so there’s yet another reason to attend.
It seems wholly appropriate here to pay tribute to Dan Booth and the rest of the NeCon Crew — and the attendees themselves, as crazy and as loveable a bunch of people you could ever wish to meet — for putting on another fantastic event. NeCon really is unlike any other convention I’ve ever attended and Nicky and I are already looking forward to another visit… maybe in a couple of years.
It was but a short drive from the NeCon site to downtown Providence to catch up again with our good friends Paul Di Filippo and Deborah Newton for a few more fun-filled days of eating, drinking, swimming and, of course, book-buying… kicking off with a visit to the splendid Wes’s Ribs eating emporium, where we met up with Scott Edelman. (Paul, incidentally, is about ready to begin work on the sequel to his award-winning novella A Year In The Linear City, so watch this space.)
(Left to right: Paul Di Filippo, Nicky Crowther, Deborah Newton, Scott Edelman and Pete Crowther outside Wes’s Ribs, Providence)
But now, of course, the dust is all just about settled on our summer adventures and we’re thinking about turning on the central heating again for the start of the long autumn/winter chill. I guess the good thing — if you can call it that — is that we’ve got so much work scheduled and under negotiation (well through into 2010 now, with a couple of projects already earmarked for 2011!) that we’re likely to be kept so busy that we just won’t feel the cold. That’s the plan, anyhow!
- Pete Crowther
PostScripts at WorldCon with Scott Edelman
Posted by Paul Raven on August 18th, 2008 at 9:12
Unfortunately for me, the PS Publishing budget doesn’t extend to being able to pack me onto an international flight for a week of gallivanting around at WorldCon, no matter how vital to our public profile I insist such a move would be. :(
But other PS personnel were there, as was some of our product – here’s a very happy Scott Edelman with a copy of PostScripts #15:
Edelman’s pretty stoked to be a part of the magazine, too:
“… on being handed a copy of the latest PostScripts, well, I was thrilled. I’m honored to be alongside writers I love, and I’m tickled that the whole thing is gift-wrapped in Al Feldstein‘s painted reproduction of one of my favorite EC comic-book covers. Everyone I showed this to in Denver was impressed with the quality…
I’m also grateful that being published in this particular issue of PostScripts meant that I was able to do more than just go all fanboy over Al Feldstein when we chatted at the San Diego Comic-Con two weeks earlier, as you can see here:
What a magnificent issue of PostScripts this is! You should send money for your own copy (hey, why stop there, make it multiple copies) right now!”
You heard the man – click through below right away to snare a copy of PostScripts #15, and help ensure that more writers will get to meet their idols on an equal footing in the future!
- Postscripts #15 – multi-autograph slipcased hardcover [£75 / US$150 approx.]
- Postscripts #15 – signed hardcover [£30 / US$60 approx.]
- Postscripts #15 – hardcover [£15 / US$30 approx.]
[All images © Scott Edelman; used with permission and thanks.]
Out Now: ‘Basil Copper a Life in Books’ by Stephen Jones
Posted by Darren on February 29th, 2008 at 18:09
Last Saturday saw the official launch of our bilio-biography of one of the living legends of British horror writing.
In Basil Copper: A Life in Books, horror editor and anthologist extraordinaire Stephen Jones had been granted unprecedented access to Basil Copper’s notes and source material, and the result is a truly unique and in-depth study of the author and his works.
The book is in stock and shipping now (pre-order customers may already have received their copies) in two editions:
- Jacketed Hardcover – £25.00 / $50.00 (approx.) signed by Basil Copper and Stephen Jones.
- Hardcover – £15.00 / $30.00 (approx.) unsigned
And a great time was had by all at the launch event; we’ll have a write-up for you (complete with photos, courtesy of master-snapper Peter Coleborn) just as soon as we’ve had chance to gather our notes together…
‘Basil Copper: A Life in Books’ launch event, London, February 23rd
Posted by Darren on January 18th, 2008 at 17:20
Hosted by the British Fantasy Society and PS Publishing, the bio/bibliography Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones, will be launched on Saturday, February 23rd at The Upstairs Bar, Ye Olde Cock Tavern, 22 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1AA from 6.00 p.m. onwards.
Among those signing copies will be Basil Copper, editor/co-designer Stephen Jones, artists Randy Broecker and Les Edwards, co-designer Michael Marshall Smith and publisher Peter Crowther. Special Guests (subject to commitment) include legendary anthology editors Hugh Lamb, Michel Parry and David A. Sutton.
About the Author:
Basil Copper became a full-time writer in 1970. His first story in the horror field, ‘The Spider’, was published in 1964 in The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories, since when his short fiction has appeared in numerous collections and anthologies, and been extensively adapted for radio and television.
Along with two non-fiction studies of the vampire and werewolf legends, his other books include the novels The Great White Space, The Curse of the Fleers, Necropolis, The Black Death and The House of the Wolf.
Copper has also written more than fifty hardboiled thrillers about Los Angeles private detective Mike Faraday, and has continued the adventures of August Derleth’s Sherlock Holmes-like consulting detective Solar Pons in several volumes of short stories and the novel Solar Pons Versus the Devil’s Claw.
About the Book:
Concluding three years’ extensive research, multiple award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones was given unprecedented and unrestricted access to the books and papers of renowned British macabre and crime writer Basil Copper.
The result is Basil Copper: A Life in Books, a unique and in-depth study of the author and his works. Not only does this volume contain the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Copper’s productive output – including Macabre and Supernatural Novels and Collections, the ‘Solar Pons’ series, the ‘Mike Faraday’ series, Short Fiction and Novellas, Media Adaptations, Unpublished Works and much more, enhanced with commentary by the author himself – but it also features several rare and obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula.
There are also a number of short stories, most of them original to this volume, ranging from his very first published work back in 1938 to a brand-new “Mike Faraday” detective adventure, along with a complete television script based on M.R. James’ classic horror story ‘Count Magnus’.
With an in-depth look at the author’s life and career by acclaimed ghost story editor Richard Dalby, and Basil Copper’s inspirational Guest of Honour speech from the 1977 British Fantasy Convention, Basil Copper: A Life in Books is illustrated with numerous cover reproductions, artwork and unique personal photographs.
The book will be published in two editions:
- Jacketed Hardcover – £25.00 / $50.00 (approx.) signed by Basil Copper and Stephen Jones.
- Hardcover – £15.00 / $30.00 (approx.) unsigned
Special Offers:
If you cannot make it to the signing, but still want to pre-purchase a personally-signed copy (or copies) please contact us for details of how to place your order. Dealer’s enquiries welcome – trade discounts available.
BFS BONUS!!! On the night, a number of specially-priced copies of the PS hardcover anthology Don’t Turn Out the Light will be available on a first-come basis. Edited by Stephen Jones, this third volume in the acclaimed new ‘Not at Night’ series features work by Basil Copper, Paul McAuley, Mark Samuels, Jay Russell, Randy Broecker, Les Edwards and many others (including Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles L. Grant and Hugh B. Cave…)
Eurocon 2007: SF Authors take Copenhagen!
Posted by Darren on October 9th, 2007 at 12:07
PS author Zoran Zivkovic sent us a few photos taken at Eurocon 2007, which took place in the lovely Danish capital city of Copenhagen over the weekend of September 21st – 23rd (the same weekend as Fantasycon, which is why none of us were able to attend) and where Zoran was one of the Guests of Honour.
L to R, above: Harry Harrison, Zoran Zivkovic, Klaus Mogensen, Anne McCaffrey and Stephen Baxter. Cheryl Morgan (who was in attendance) says, via the comments, below: “It isn’t a GoH panel [correcting my earlier mis-captioning - Ariel]. I think it is the Saturday morning ‘why do we go to conventions’ panel.”
PS is proud to be the UK publisher of the following titles by Zoran Živković:
- Impossible Stories
- Twelve Collections and the Teashop
- The Last Book (forthcoming, 2008)
- The Bridge (forthcoming, 2008)
- The Book, The Writer, The Reader (forthcoming, 2008)
And we’re equally proud to have published three Stephen Baxter novellas to-date:
The Largesse of the Gentleman Publisher…
Posted by Darren on October 8th, 2007 at 11:08
There is a Gentleman Publisher
And he stoppeth one of three
“By thy short grey beard and glittering eye,
Are those free books for me?”*
The photo above was sent in by Peter Coleborn – publisher, photographer, editor of the BFS magazine Dark Horizons – and shows our very own Peter C demonstrating his generosity during the British Fantasy Awards ceremony at this year’s Fantasycon in Nottingham.
You see, there were a few PS titles left in the dealer’s room at the end of the weekend and so our Mr Crowther – rather than cart them all back to PS HQ – decided to give them away to any Fantasycon ‘virgins’ who were brave enough to stand up and be so-identified at the start of the ceremony. A certain scoundrel of the Lebbon clan, who we suspected of being far from virginal, had to be sent packing with a flea in his ear, ’tis true, but otherwise the operation was a great success.
One lucky recipient actually went away with a particularly rare item – a slipcased (no less!) copy of the original (mis-)printing of Ramsey Campbell’s (according to the spine, anyhow) The Darkest Part of the Wods [sic] (dammit, Pete told me he’d had all of those pulped… he must have missed one!)
And a couple of weeks later, we received a very nice thank-you email from one such virgin, by the name of Kelvin, who said: “I would just like to say a very big thank you for the copy of Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales by Garry Kilworth that you gave me, after the banquet, at FantasyCon ’07 … A most excellent compilation of diverse and different long (short) stories; each one delivering a point, through differing characters, in wonderfully diverse settings. Mr Kilworth’s imagination is a treasure to behold.”
There’s nothing we at PS like more than a happy customer, and we reckon they probably don’t come much happier!
*With sincere apologies to the the shade of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who must be approaching at least 200 r.p.m. after that one…
Looking forward to Fantasycon… and a PS special offer for attendees
Posted by Darren on September 20th, 2007 at 14:10
It’s that time of year again, when the miscellaneous members of the British Fantasy Society, crawling from their foetid dens and dank cellars, make their lurching, shambling way to the appointed place of congregation for the annual festival of book-talk, beer-consumption, acquaintance-renewal, prize-giving, human sacrifice and general merriment* that is Fantasycon … which, for the second year running takes place in the Brittania Hotel, Nottingham, this coming weekend, September 21st – 23rd.
Here at PS Publishing we always look forward to this once-a-year opportunity to undo the rusty ankle-shackles, swing wide the dungeon door and creep forth into the blessed daylight – blinking myopically and shrieking in consternation at roar of the passing horseless-carriages – and wend our way to gather with others of a similar ilk and persuasion. It’s always a special occasion for us, particularly as for five out of the past six years we’ve been honoured to win the British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press. And as we’ve been shortlisted again this year, there’s a damn good chance you’ll find us in attendance at the annual BFS Awards banquet, with assorted appendages firmly crossed…
Well, Pete will definitely be there, because he’s been press-ganged accepted an invitation to act as the Master of Ceremonies for the event (so I hope if you’re attending that you’ve warmed up your heckling muscles). And yours-truly will be lurking in the vicinity as well, quite possibly acting in some sort of hosting capacity for the PS table. And of course, prior to that we’ll both be around and about pretty much all weekend, just in case you want to ask either of us anything about PS Publishing, or the News Room, or the new website, or what we think of the new Arcade Fire album, or what our favourite single malt is (a double one, thanks, wahey!), or the state of the economy, or global warming, or… well, anything, really.
But the main point to this post (and there is one, I assure you, despite evidence to the contrary) is to tell you that if you’re at Fantasycon this weekend, you should definitely bring your pennies along with you (or even better, your plastic!) because we’ll be making a very special offer via our table in the dealer’s room… we’ll not spoil the surprise here, but suffice to say it’s a bit of a stonker… brace yourselves!
*Human sacrifice optional (additional charge may apply), general merriment all-but guaranteed!
PS Publishing scoops five BFS Award 2007 shortlist nominations
Posted by Darren on August 7th, 2007 at 14:06
Here at PS Publishing we’re extremely pleased and proud to have heard – just this morning – that we have been nominated in no fewer than five categories of the British Fantasy Awards for 2007.
Our nominations this year include:
Best Novel
The Face of Twilight by Mark Samuels
Best Short Fiction
‘The Veteran’ by Conrad Williams, published in Postscripts #6
Best Small Press
Peter Crowther, PS PUBLISHING
Best Artist
Les Edwards*
Best Non-Fiction
Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris
Pete is, naturally, chuffed to bits, and had the following to say on the subject: “The announcement of this year’s BFS Awards shortlists prompted the usual run of good-natured badinage about PS being up for the Best Small Press Award for the umpteenth year (Tim Lebbon even quipped that there were moves afoot to change it to the PS Publishing Award! What a fine idea!)
“But all such banter aside, I’d just like to say this: Award nominations put forward by the great book-buying public – and the BFS Awards are exemplary in this respect – are the only measure by which a publisher – or, indeed, a writer, an editor or an artist – can guage the esteem in which his or her work is held and the entertainment quotient that such work promotes. Of course I want for PS and PS books and stories to win, but I have to say that looking through recent years’ shortlists (and this year’s is a particularly fine example), it really is enough just to be nominated.
“For instance, in the actual Best Small Press category, we’re up against Andy Cox’s TTA, Andrew Hook’s Elastic, David Howe’s Telos and Chris Teague’s Pendragon. I’m honoured for PS to be considered an equal of those imprints.
“And whoever picks up the Award on the day, there’ll be drinks to be had and old friends (as well as new ones!) to spend some time with. Maybe we’ll see you there…”
Looking forward to it immensely, meself…
*Okay, we might be stretching it a bit to claim Les Edwards as a fifth PS-specific nomination, but we do like to think of him as most definitely one of ours. In fact, it’s not particularly widely-known, but Les actually resides in a dank cellar here at PS-HQ, where we keep him chained to a radiator with little more than a sketch pad and easel within arm’s reach; only occasionally letting him out (suitably electronically tagged, obviously) to do bits and bobs for other publishers… :)
Close encounters of the Readercon kind
Posted by Darren on July 10th, 2007 at 15:31
PS’s chief book designer, Robert Wexler, was an attendee at the recent Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts, and sent back the following photographic evidence of his experiences:
Robert says: “Apparently, Paul Witcover took a picture of Scott Edelman attacking me and Elizabeth Hand [Illyria, Bibliomancy]. I think we survived.”
Steve Aylett reading, London, July 22nd
Posted by Darren on July 9th, 2007 at 10:16
PS Author Steve Aylett (Fain the Sorcerer) tells us he’ll be “doing a reading / performance on July 22nd at stand-up venue the Troy Club – CROBAR, 17 Manette Street, London W1D 4AS [Google Maps], just next to Foyles Bookstore – which starts around 7.30pm.
“Other performers are Toby Hadoke, Liam Mullone, Eric’s Tales Of The Sea. MC is Andrew O’Neill (Saxondale etc).”