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Robert Wexler interviewed at BookSpot Central
Posted by Paul Raven on July 9th, 2010 at 15:11
PS Publishing’s very own Robert Freeman Wexler is interviewed over at BookSpot Central, spilling the beans on the writing of his acclaimed novel The Painting & The City; go take a look. Here’s a snippet:
Brendan Connell: I was impressed by the tone of the book. Many passages have a very lyric quality, while others have a succinct, almost journalistic feel to them. None of this is jarring in the least, but it does give the book a sense of almost competing voices, or voices drifting one into the next. I am curious how you achieved this or if it is something that just came about organically.
Robert Freeman Wexler: Thanks, I’m glad you like that. The tonal shifts come out organically, as focused free-writing, sometimes in the process of writing whatever passage I’m working on, sometimes in going back over it, sometimes in my head while I’m doing something else. Using the metaphor of driving a stick-shift: I’m going along through normal terrain, seeing what’s along the way, and then I switch into my reality-bending gear, which is out of phase with our normal reality and must be used sparingly. Too much of it would create a rift in the reader’s consciousness, allowing their subconscious to leak out into conscious space. Using just the correct amount allows me to give the reader a subconscious jolt from time to time, which increases their appreciation for the narrative.
Copies of The Painting & The City are still available, by the way… click here to snag yourself one of ‘em. :)
Robert Freeman Wexler interviewed by Genreville
Posted by Paul Raven on September 7th, 2009 at 15:11
In case you’ve not heard already, Rose Fox and compatriots are in the process of rebooting the Publishers Weekly genre fiction blog – so if you want to keep up to date on what’s going down in sf, fantasy, horror and all their hybrids, you should think about adding Genreville to your list of must-read sites.
They’re also starting to do videos, the first of which is of an interview with Kaaron Warren and our very own Robert Freeman Wexler after their recent appearance at a KGB Fantastic Fiction reading event in New York City. The sound isn’t too great, but they’ve captioned the video to make up for it. Take a look:
For those who prefer old-school text, there’s a transcript at Genreville, too.
Meet the Boss, redux: Charles Tan interviews Peter Crowther
Posted by Paul Raven on February 24th, 2009 at 12:21
Here’s another interview with PS Publishing‘s head honcho, Peter Crowther. Charles Tan quizzes Pete about PS and his ‘other’ career as a writer and anthologist, which has been held somewhat in abeyance by the former:
What’s the biggest challenge in running PS Publishing?
Oh… the fact that there’s just not enough time, I suppose. It intrudes massively on any attempts I make to keep up with my own writing. But we’re now slowly getting out from under – thanks to a lot of hard work put in by my wife Nicky, Nick Gevers and Robert Wexler – and I’m now being able to write a little almost every day.
I can exclusively reveal that Pete gets time to write by forgoing sleep with the use of arcane technologies whose origins are best left not speculated upon…
OK, so he hasn’t really made a pact with Cthulhu… but in all seriousness, I’m not entirely sure he doesn’t have some sort of time machine. I’m just looking forward to the day I’ve been with the company long enough that I get to use it myself! ;)
Paul Di Filippo interviewed at The Fix
Posted by Paul Raven on February 20th, 2009 at 12:19
In addition to their insightful reviewing work, the staff of The Fix Online knock out a good number of interviews with the great and the good of the short fiction scene. One of their latest conquests is none other than Paul Di Filippo, whose Harsh Oases collection will be ready to ship from PS HQ in the very near future.
Here’s Di Filippo talking about the genesis of the collection’s title story:
After the muted success of Ribofunk the story collection, I always wanted to do a ribofunk novel, and so had been accumulating notes towards something vaguely known to myself alone as Harsh Oases. It was to be organized around a succession of strange terrestrial environments made possible by bioengineering. It occurred to me that one way of plausibly visiting all these environments was by having the protagonist being chased from one to another. But why? After I answered that question, the story fell into focus.
But I kept putting off the writing until I was asked to contribute an original work of fiction for my keynote speech at the Monstruous Bodies Symposium at Georgia Tech. At that point, I said, “Let’s be generous and work up all these ideas into novella form.” This type of ultra-concentrated, jam-packed idea story had always impressed me when Bruce Sterling or Rudy Rucker pulled it off, and I wanted a go at the mode. It does require more focus and invention than single-idea stories, though.
But having done a credible job, I think, of getting the rudiments of this scenario into fictional form, I don’t now feel motivated to expand it to novel-length, so the novel version of Harsh Oases will probably never come to be.
I’ve bumped into a few of Di Filippo’s ribofunk pieces (including a collaboration with Sterling), and as such I’m very much looking forward to my copy of Harsh Oases turning up! You can partake in the expectation as well – just click through below to pre-order a copy for yourself:
- Harsh Oases by Paul Di Filippo – slipcased hardcover - £50 [$75 approx. ]
- Harsh Oases by Paul Di Filippo – hardcover – £20 [$30 approx. ]
Quentin S Crisp interviewed at Bibliophile Stalker
Posted by Paul Raven on February 10th, 2009 at 13:59
Charles Tan has an intriguing in-depth interview with the delightfully self-effacing Quentin S Crisp, whose new novella Shrike will be shipping imminently from the PS Publishing warehouse.
Tan’s question range far and wide, quizzing Crisp on his abiding love affair with Japanese literature, the inspiration behind Shrike, the writerly mind-set and much much more. Just as a taster, here’s Crisp’s advice to aspiring writers:
First of all, give up. If you really can’t give up, then keep writing. That is, don’t worry about the fate of the stories you’ve sent out to publishers and so on. Follow them up, of course, but don’t spend your energy in worrying. If you’re rejected or you get a bad review, don’t worry. Keep writing. You’re always a beginner. There’s this tremendous need to know that you’ve accomplished something, that you’re a real writer. I don’t know if that moment ever comes, although good moments may come and go. The real writers are, in the end, those who start again and again and keep writing.
It’s a fascinating look into the mind of a very complex yet surprisingly modest man – quite the eye-opener, in fact. Go and read the whole thing.
To order yourself a copy of Shrike, click through below to jump straight to the PS webstore:
- Shrike – signed, jacketed hardcover – £25.00 [ US$37.50 approx. ]
- Shrike – hardcover – £10.00 [ US$15 approx. ]
Meet the boss: Pete Crowther interviewed at Concept Sci-fi
Posted by Paul Raven on January 13th, 2009 at 11:09
They say that if you want to know how an organisation really thinks, you need to go to the head honcho… well, here’s your opportunity! Sf webzine Concept Sci-fi winged a bunch of questions at PS Publishing’s very own Peter Crowther, and you can see the full interview online right now.
Just as a teaser, here’s Pete explaining how he thinks a writer can best get themselves noticed by agents and publishers:
I reckon the real way forward on this is, as I’ve already said, to write short stories. Get yourself noticed. Not only will you hone your craft but also, if the stories are good and you create a bit of a hoo-hah, then both agents and publishers will be sympathetic or even downright interested in looking at a longer work from you.
Lucius Shepard interviewed
Posted by Paul Raven on November 14th, 2008 at 9:51
Few genre authors have quite the reputation of Lucius Shepard, a strong writer with a unique voice which has earned him plenty of awards and plaudits over the years – including an International Horror Guild Award for Dagger Key and Other Stories, which we published last year.
Dagger Key included the novella “Stars Seen Through Stone”, which was one of my favourites (as I vainly consider myself a musician of sorts). It was also nominated for a 2007 Nebula Award, and as a result the Nebula Awards website has an interview with Lucius where he discusses the story and his writing in general:
All writing is sleight of hand, making the reader believe he’s seen something or knows something about the story that he truly does not. You can’t put a person down on a sheet of paper; you have to evoke them. A crucial part of that evocation comes from knowing how your characters speak, the rhythms of their speech, their use of colloquialisms, profanity, etc, and being able to reduce that to a credible shorthand. Settings are easier. The first paragraph of “Stars Seen Through Stone” is a writerly trick in which I attempted to focus the reader’s attention on a minor event, a strange gust of wind witnessed by someone who’s smoking a joint; by doing that, I hoped to make them comfortable with the narrator, to rely on his witness and believe he was showing them the town of Black William, even though he’s only giving them tiny pieces of a reality.
Sleight of hand it may be, but Lucius Shepard comes across as a proper wizard when you read his work, because you never see the wires and trapdoors… unless he wants you to, of course! We’ve still got a last few copies of Dagger Key and Other Stories lurking around in the PS warehouse, so grab yourself a copy of this award-winning collection while there’s still a chance:
- Dagger Key and Other Stories (slipcased hardcover) – [£50 / $92.50 approx]
- Dagger Key and Other Stories (jacketed hardcover) – [£25 / $46.25 approx]
And a check of the catalogue reveals that there’s also one or two remaining copies of our earlier Lucius Shepard collection, Trujillo – they’re the slipcased version, at £50.
The Crimson Guard returns to Blogcritics
Posted by Paul Raven on October 27th, 2008 at 10:28
Self-described Canadian iconoclast Richard Marcus has reviewed Ian C Esslemont‘s latest Malazan offering, Return of the Crimson Guard, over at Blogcritics.org. Marcus enjoys the different focus and themes that Esslemont’s books have by comparison to Erikson’s, but it’s the synergy of the two writers creating a shared world that he appreciates the most:
It’s through characters like Kyle, the people he meets up with, and others in various camps with the different armies, that Esslemont is able to paint a picture of what life in the heart of Malazan Empire is like. While Erikson’s books have mainly dealt with events occurring in the furthest reaches of the conquered territories, Esslemont takes us into the corridors of power and behind the scenes to expose some of the secrets in its heart and even more of the corruption that has been festering in its veins.
[snip]
Epic fiction is probably some of the hardest to write as you not only have to write a story that will hold your reader’s attention but you have to create the world that the story takes place in. It’s like creating an extra character who doesn’t do or say anything, but without whom the story is pointless. Ian C. Esslemont and Steven Erikson have done what I would have previously considered impossible – they have created a fictional epic that is on a par with those epics that were created to honour real people and real civilizations.
That’s a weighty accolade, for sure; and as an added internet bonus, there’s an interview with Ian C Esslemont over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist where he gets grilled by not just one but four Malazan fanatics! Plenty of extra geek points available there…
And don’t forget that due to the proofreading problems with Return of the Crimson Guard, our offer still stands – if you still want to buy a copy of Esslemont’s latest, we’ll sweeten the deal with one free book from our pre-2008 catalogue. Yes, that’s any book at all from before 2008, for nothing. Pop back to the original announcement for details on how to claim the offer, then click through below to buy your copy of RotCG:
- Return of the Crimson Guard – slipcased two-volume hardcover – [ £75 / $138.75 approx. ]
Lavie Tidhar interviewed at Apex online
Posted by Paul Raven on October 14th, 2008 at 8:46
Some time next year PS Publishing will be putting out a novella by Lavie Tidhar, rising star of the short fiction field and one of genre’s more adventurous eccentrics. Entitled Cloud Permutations, Tidhar describes the novella as “a sort of a South Pacific-flavoured planetary romance”, no doubt inspired by him spending the majority of 2007 on one of the remotest islands on the planet. I have a particular admiration for him because, as far as I know, he’s the only other white guy with dreadlocks in the genre fiction scene… :)
You can find out more about Tidhar’s fiction (and his wanderlust) over at the website of another fine small genre publisher; Apex Online has an interview with the man:
Apex: And you describe yourself as someone who “writes weird fiction.”
Lavie: Yes. I can’t really pinpoint it any more than that. I love all kinds of genres, both to read and to write – it seems silly to restrict myself to just one. Weird seems to sort of cover it though… you know, the kind of stuff that, if you describe it to people, they sort of go bug-eyed and say, ‘Ha, that’s a bit weird.’ One of my favourite stories to write was a clown western (“High Noon in Clown Town”, Postscripts 9). And Postscripts recently bought a new story from me called “The Love Craft”, which is essentially a Women-in-Prison / Alien Abduction story. Now that was fun!
They’ve got one of his recent stories available to read for free, too – “Blakenjel” is also full of South Pacific flavour, so it should act as a nice teaser for Cloud Permutations.
Matthew Hughes Interviewed by Charles Tan
Posted by Paul Raven on August 22nd, 2008 at 8:51
If you’ve been over to the swish new Nebula Awards website recently, you might have noticed an interview with Matthew Hughes – author of numerous science fiction novels, the most recently published of which is Template from us here at PS Publishing.
In the interview, Matt explains how he originally came to create the Archonate universe in which Template takes place:
“I came up with it entirely on the spur of the moment. In 1982, I heard about a novel-in-a-weekend contest run in Vancouver over the Labor Day weekend. I had just got myself a brand new IBM Selectric correctable and I thought, “What the hell, I’ll write a novel.” With not much forethought (I only heard about the contest on the Thursday afternooon before the weekend), I set out to write a text that was something like a collaboration between Jack Vance and P.G. Wodehouse producing an update of Gulliver’s Travels
…
The funny thing is, I set out to be a crime writer. The flukey sale to Jaime Levine has set me on a course that has led to my becoming a midlist science-fantasy author. But I’m not complaining.”
Write a novel in a weekend? Crikey – no shortage of ambition, then! Serendipitous for us that it sold, too, because Hughes’ science fiction novels are rich and strange creatures, and the scene is all the better for having him in it.
You can see what I mean when you grab yourself a copy of Template by clicking through on the links below:
- Template (slipcased hardcover) – £50.00 ($100.00 approx.)
- Template (hardcover) - £20.00 ($40.00 approx.)
Interview with Mark Samuels at Southern Literary Messenger
Posted by Paul Raven on August 19th, 2008 at 7:57
Thanks to the magical properties of the intertubes, I hear that the Southern Literary Messenger blog has an interview with Mark Samuels, whose PS Publishing Showcase collection, Glyphotech, is due to be launched at FantasyCon in September.
Here’s a snippet from the interview, wherein Samuels pooh-poohs literary movements in general:
SLM: The past century has seen realism, modernism, post-modernism, and fiction’s division into and partial re-integration from genre and literary work. But where on earth is literature headed now?
Mark Samuels: I have to confess that I don’t know. Moreover, I don’t care. I believe a writer only has an obligation to be true to his own vision, and schools of critical theory don’t interest me except as idle diversions. Writers should just write and let critics make of the result what they will. I’ve not been a part of any movement in writing. I’m quite happy to call myself a “horror writer” though, especially since it’s the most disreputable of genres and, as an eminent Latin American author put it, a gentleman only ever fights for lost causes.
You too can get your hands dirty with an example of the most disreputable of literary genres – if you’re not going to be at FantasyCon, the quickest way to get yourself a copy of Glyphotech is to click through below and place a pre-order:
- Glyphotech – hardcover [£10 / $20 approx.]
- Glyphotech – jacketed hardcover [£25 / $50 approx.]
Ray Bradbury interviewed by Steve Wasserman
Posted by Paul Raven on July 30th, 2008 at 7:07
Via the ever-vigilant Ed Ashby (and the Forbidden Planet blog) comes news of a video interview with Ray Bradbury on the TruthDig website.
Bradbury has never been short of things to say, and it’s good to see that’s still true. Here are his thoughts about reading book reviews:
“… as a writer, I’ve always ignored the reviews, because they’re always wrong. And even the right ones are wrong. They love you for the wrong reasons. So you mustn’t read them. So I turned down 200 reviews in the last 40 years, because I knew they couldn’t help me. It’s too late. I’m already me! The book’s out—you can’t change that book by criticizing it. It’s too late! You’re too late for me. If you could help by looking over my shoulder when I’m throwing up, you could teach me to throw up better. But those reviews can’t help me throw up, you see?
There’s a full-length transcript available below the four video players, for those who prefer to read instead of watch, but here’s the first quarter as a taster:
If that’s left you feeling that there aren’t enough books by Ray Bradbury sat on your shelves, feel free to remedy the situation by browsing through a selection of his titles in the PS Publishing catalogue!
Sarah Pinborough interviewed by Dark Scribe Magazine
Posted by Paul Raven on July 29th, 2008 at 7:26
Over at Dark Scribe Magazine they’re running an interview with the very lovely Sarah Pinborough, whose novella The Language Of Dying will be published by PS Publishing early next year – a book she describes as being “definitely a bold departure” from her current body of work.
In this little snippet Sarah – who is also a full-time teacher – discusses how much hard work is involved in writing for a living:
“I think I’m now very aware of what hard work it is, and that for most writers in this market, you need a second income or you have to be very, very prolific. I’ve met very talented writers who’ve had huge advances for a book then couldn’t sell one for years. If you’re in this business for the money then get out – there are easier ways to earn a living. I think you just have to write the stories you want to write and hope for the best.
But I’ll always watch other people’s careers and see what’s working and what’s not and keep pushing myself in order to reach a place where I can write full-time. If I was married, I think that would be easier, but as a single person, where you can only rely on your own income, you have to work very hard to be at that level. However, I can’t imagine not writing. My brain doesn’t get the concept, so I’ll just keep on producing and hopefully the hard work will pay off one day.”
We don’t have a catalogue page for The Language Of Dying yet, but rest assured we’ll let you know when we do. In the mean time, you can find out more about Sarah Pinborough and her books on her website.
Full disclosure: in addition to being a PS author-in-waiting, Sarah Pinborough is also one of my clients.
Jeffrey Ford interview excerpts at Locus Online
Posted by Paul Raven on July 3rd, 2008 at 7:27
For those of us who aren’t full subscribers to the print magazine, Locus Magazine likes to chum the waters a little with online teaser snippets of their content. This month’s offering includes some excerpts from a much longer interview with Jeffrey Ford, whose quasi-mythological talking-animal novella The Cosmology of the Wider World was published here at PS Publishing back in 2005.
Here’s Ford talking about the writing process, revealing that he breaks a lot of the rules and guideline that those teach-yourself-writing manuals will try to instil in you:
“I never take notes, never write outlines, none of that. I like it to mix in my head. I’m working when I’m at the grocery store picking out melons. It’s all up there, and I figure if I forget about it, it probably wasn’t worth remembering anyway. That’s the way I work. I don’t think things like journals are bad; I just don’t use ‘em. Some people have special little notebooks and pens — whatever works for you.”
Sounds like a much more liberated way to work, doesn’t it? Personally I find I need rigid discipline to get anything done… maybe that’s what separates the pros from the rank amateurs, eh?
We still have a few copies of The Cosmology of the Wider World ferreted away (arf!) in the PS Publishing warehouse, by the way – click on through to pick one up:
- The Cosmology of the Wider World (jacketed hardcover) – £25 (US$50 approx)
- The Cosmology of the Wider World (paperback) – £10 (US$20 approx)
Peter Crowther interviewed by Gareth D Jones
Posted by Paul Raven on July 2nd, 2008 at 6:39
Short-story author Gareth D Jones has been running a series of posts on his blog wherein he talks to the editors of short fiction venues to get a feel for how they do their job … and what they look for in a story!
Gareth had some questions for PS Publishing‘s very own Peter Crowther, and the results appeared yesterday. Here’s Gareth asking Pete about whether Postscripts is an an attempt to compete against ‘The Big Three’:
GDJ: Do you think you could eventually compete with the big-selling professional mags, or would you even want to?
PC: I didn’t and still don’t set out to compete with anyone, either as a publisher or as a magazine. I set out to publish exactly what I wanted to publish. Let’s not forget that we’re small fry next to the likes of F&SF, Asimov’s and Analog but yes, we’d like to build our reputation so that some of the readers of those fine titles decided to try our wares. But I don’t want any success for us to result in a reduction in take-up for them — we need more mags not fewer, and there’s room for all of us. We need to get back to the halcyon days of many, many venues for the short-form.
On that point, I’m sure most Newsroom regulars can agree! If you feel the urge to support a bespoke short fiction market and acquire a highly collectable item in the process (not to mention a huge selection of quality science fiction stories), you could do far worse than pre-order a copy of Postscripts #15:
- Postscripts #15 (multi-autograph slipcased hardcover) – £75 (US$150 approx) – 100 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (signed hardcover) – £30 (US$60 approx) – 300 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (hardcover) – £15 (US$30 approx) – 600 copies only
Or take out a subscription, and receive four issues of Postscripts in a year plus the bonus end-of-year chapbook – a plan with no drawbacks!
Jay Lake interviewed at Fantasy Book Critic
Posted by Paul Raven on June 25th, 2008 at 9:19
The ceaseless flow of reviews and interviews from Fantasy Book Critic continues apace. Here’s an interview with hirsute and prolific short fiction maestro Jay Lake, who fondly remembers his appearance in the first issue of Postscripts:
“Picking a favorite short story is a bit like picking a favorite child. Nonetheless, as I mentioned above, I’d have to say that “American, Such as She Is” is probably my strongest work to date in short fiction. As for being a part of things, my proudest moment was being included in Postscripts issue 1, alongside Brian Aldiss, Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe and a handful of other big names. Getting the signature sheets in the mail for the limited edition back in the spring of 2004 was the moment when I realized I was a real writer.”
How fast things move – four years since that appearance in Postscripts, and Jay Lake is well on his way to becoming one of those big names in his own right!
Jay also has a story in the forthcoming fifteenth issue of Postscripts, alongside an awesome line-up of other contributors – pre-order your copy now:
- Postscripts #15 (multi-autograph slipcased hardcover) – £75 (US$150 approx) – 100 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (signed hardcover) – £30 (US$60 approx) – 300 copies only
- Postscripts #15 (hardcover) – £15 (US$30 approx) – 200 copies only
And I’ll just take this opportunity to say how glad I was that Jay Lake‘s recent brush with cancer was solved successfully; I’ve never met the man, but I’ve followed his blogging for quite a while and it paints a picture of a thoroughly decent bloke. Good luck and good health, Jay!
PS Publishing’s Peter Crowther in the interview hotseat
Posted by Paul Raven on June 19th, 2008 at 10:22
If you’ve been wanting an insight into the mastermind behind PS Publishing, you should hop on over to the Shirley Jackson Awards blog, where Charles Tan puts our very own head honcho Peter Crowther to the question about the raison d’etre of PS Publishing.
Here’s a snippet of Peter explaining why he loves publishing novellas:
“The novella (20,000 to 40,000 words) is, for me, the perfect length with which to develop characters. It’s not as brief as the short story but it can still be read easily in one sitting. [...] I still consider the novella to be our ‘bread-and-butter’ work.”
You can pop back to a previous post to see the flatteringly lengthy list of PS Publishing titles in the running for a Shirley Jackson Award – more news as we have it!
Steven Erikson interviewed
Posted by Paul Raven on June 15th, 2008 at 14:53
Fantasy Book Critic strikes again, with another lengthy in-depth interview – this time with acclaimed fantasy author Steven Erikson, who PS Publishing are proud to have published (and will be publishing again).
Amongst masses of other revelations, Erikson hints at the freedom that writing novellas allows him:
“Novellas are just long short stories busting out at the seams, really. F*ck epiphanies and denouement. Just clobber the structural confines and ramble all over the page.
I’m actually less deliberate in the novellas, as compared to the novels. This is the only change in my approach. I’m wilder with tangents and absurd sidelights. Looser.”
Indeed – Blood Follows was so popular that PS Publishing ran a second printing of the novella, and there are still a few copies left. Click through to complete your collection:
- Blood Follows – second print paperback – £10 (US$20 approx)
We also collected three novellas into one book in the shape of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach: The Collected Stories Volume One. There are still a handful of hardcover copies of this title available, too:
- Bauchelain and Korbal Broach: The Collected Stories Volume One – hardcover – £20 (US$40 approx)
And there’ll be more to come from Erikson and the Malazan Empire from PS Publishing in times to come … watch this space!
Ian C Esslemont interviewed at Fantasybookspot
Posted by Paul Raven on May 27th, 2008 at 13:42
Jay Tomio of Fantasybookspot has a very in-depth interview with Ian Esslemont, with plenty of detail about the Malazan Empire – the setting for his recently-released double-volume Return Of The Crimson Guard novel.
He has nice things to say about working with PS Publishing, too:
“Working with Peter at PS is great. It is very possible that Night of Knives may never have seen print had he not dared to take the chance. And there remain obvious reasons why Bantam, for example, was reluctant to take that chance. Its brevity for one thing, and – to be fair – it remains the work of a craftsperson coming to grips with his medium. Few publishing houses these days are willing to take on new untried names to watch them feel their way into the industry. That’s the older model where publishing houses used to nourish and develop authors rather than searching for that instant hit or ‘blockbuster’.”
That’s one of Peter’s missions for PS – finding the star writers of tomorrow! And the odds are good that Ian Cameron Esslemont will be one of them – grab yourself a copy of Return Of The Crimson Guard and find out why.
- Return of the Crimson Guard – slipcased two-volume hardcover – £75 ($150 approx.), 300 copies
Download Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘The Situation’, FREE, from Wired.com
Posted by Darren on March 5th, 2008 at 9:39
Canadian journalist Brad Moon has interviewed Jeff and Ann VanderMeer for Wired.com’s GeekDad blog and to mark the occasion, we’ve supplied a pdf copy of Jeff’s forthcoming chapbook / novelette, The Situation and made it available as a free download from the blog.wired.com/geekdad article.
That’s right folks, if you’d like to try before you buy, simply head on over and grab the pdf, then put the printer on or transfer the file to your e-reader of choice. Once you’re done, high-tail it over to the PS Webstore to place your pre-order; the book should be back from the printers and shipping at the end of the third week in March.
Quick word to the wise: we’re only printing 200 copies of the signed, numbered, jacketed hardcover edition and around a hundred of those are already accounted for by pre-order customers, so you may have to be quick to secure your copy.
Jeff VanderMeer podcast interview available from Adventures in Scifi Publishing
Posted by Darren on February 26th, 2008 at 14:47
Jeff VanderMeer, author of our forthcoming chapbook / novelette The Situation has been interviewed by Singularity Audio‘s Shaun Farrell and Sam Wynns for the latest episode of their Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast; talking about his work, The Situation, office life and politics.
The show is available as a direct MP3 download from the site, or via iTunes subscription.
Joe Hill interviewed by SeaCoastOnline.com
Posted by Darren on October 9th, 2007 at 11:36
There’s a good, mid-length interview with rising star Joe Hill over at www.seacoastonline.com, (The Source for Seacoast NH and Southeast ME).
The interviewer leads with some fairly predictable questions about the writer’s ‘secret’ identity – which we here at PS did our very best to keep under wraps throughout the publication of Joe’s debut collection 20th Century Ghosts – and then moves on to talk to Joe about the forthcoming US re-issue of 20th Century Ghosts, the Neil Jordan movie version of Joe’s debut novel Heart-Shaped Box and Joe’s current comics project:
“I’m writing Locke and Key … It’s a straight up comic book about three children who after tragedy move to a vast New England mansion. They discover there secret doors … Eventually the first six issues will be collected into a trade paperback graphic novel.”
Brian W. Aldiss interviewed by Del Rey Books
Posted by Darren on June 17th, 2007 at 10:57
Spotted this interview with Brian W. Aldiss (Sanity and the Lady) on the Del Rey website, in which he discusses his latest novel, Harm.