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New PS Publishing Website! And a 50% discount sale…
Posted by Darren on October 15th, 2007 at 10:45
Yes, folks, it's finally here! The all new, all-signing, all-dancing, e-commerce enabled PS Website is now live at http://store.pspublishing.co.uk!
The old site might be operational for a day or two yet while I check and fine-tune the new version, but once everything is in place you'll hardly notice that the URL has changed... although you're sure to notice the improved functionality and user-friendliness of the new site.
No more sending credit card details split across two emails, no more faxing orders through and sending a separate cheque... from now on, buying your books direct from PS is just a few mouse-clicks, a couple of personal details and a credit card number away.
Please do visit the new site, have a look around and let us know what you think, by sending any feedback via the Contact page. And of course, while you're there, you could always test the new e-commerce functionality by buying something... ;)
And to make that an even more tempting prospect for you:
SALE! SALE! SALE!
50% off all pre-2007 books, while stocks last!
We wanted to do something special to mark the launch of the new site, so we've decided to hold the first ever PS Publishing discount sale, and we've knocked a massive 50% off the price of all pre-2007 books (back-issues of Postscripts not included) in our Current Catalogue.
The discount will be applied automatically as you place the items into the shopping basket (please note that the usual postage costs will still apply).
The offer will run until the end of November 2007 (perfect for a spot of early Xmas shopping for the bibliophile in your life...) and will apply to individual titles only while stocks last. The stock levels of some of the titles included are running pretty low already, so if you're tempted to buy something at a bargain price, then you probably shouldn't hang around too long, because once a title is out of stock in a particular edition, it's gone; we're not planning on re-printing.
If you have any questions about the sale, please drop us a line via service [at] pspublishing.co.uk and we'll do our best to get back to you just as quickly as we can, although please do bear with us - we hope to be very busy in the mail room for the next few weeks!
Apologies for radio silence…
Posted by Darren on October 12th, 2007 at 12:32
Sorry folks, I know it's been a while since the last PS News Room post, but I've had my head down on finalising the brand new PS website (expect an announcement on that in the next few days) and haven't had much time for anything else for the past couple of weeks.
But now it's Friday afternoon, 99.9% of the work on the new site is finished, and I'm going to spend the next couple of hours posting a bunch of news items.
I'll probably back-date most of the articles to round about the time they were first sent through to us here at the News Room, just to keep the archive straight for posterity. So, if you're reading this post on the News Room homepage and time after 5 p.m. on Friday, do scroll on down to find all the latest updates. Alternatively, if you're reading this in your RSS reader as it happens, then stay tuned, because here is the news...
Major Schedule Update - Forthcoming Titles to December 2008
Posted by Darren on September 13th, 2007 at 13:33
We've just run a major update of the current main PS Publishing website (no, not the full e-commerce implementation, not quite yet, but that's definitely on the way) and have added a total of 32 new titles to the forthcoming titles page on the site.
Here's a full list - in approximate order of planned publication - of those 32 new titles, with links to the relevant catalogue pages. Click on the links to view full information on a particular title:
- PS Showcase #1: Sanity and Other Delusions, a six-story collection by Gary Fry
- Cage of Night, a novel by Ed Gorman
- Omega, a novel by Christopher Evans
- The Last Book, a novel by Zoran Živković
- Harsh Oases, a short fiction collection by Paul Di Filippo
- The Babylonian Trilogy, a novel by Sebastien Doubinsky
- The City in These Pages, a novella by John Grant
- Passing For Human, a short fiction anthology ed. By Michael Bishop & Steven Utley
- Planet of Mystery, a novella by Terry Bisson
- The Book, The Writer, The Reader, a novella by Zoran Živković
- The Bridge, a novella by Zoran Živković
- Living With the Dead, a novella by Darrell Schweitzer
- The Song of Time, a novel by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Collected Ed Gorman, Vol. #3, a short fiction collection by Ed Gorman
- Basil Copper: A Life in Books, a biography and bibliography by Steve Jones
- Return of the Crimson Guard, a novel by Ian Cameron Esslemont
- The Situation, a chapbook novelette by Jeff Vandermeer
- Camp Desolation and an Eschatology of Salt, a novella by Uncle River
- Blue Canoe, a novella by T.M. Wright
- The Enigma of Departure, a novella by Nick Royle
- The Witnesses Are Gone, a novella by Joel Lane
- Billy's Book, a short fiction collection by Terry Bisson
- Shrike, a novella by Quentin S. Crisp
- Counting Tadpoles, a short fiction collection by Uncle River
- Urbis Morpheos, a novel by Stephen Palmer
- Postscripts #16 ed. by Pete Crowther & Nick Gevers
- Everland and Other Stories, a short fiction collection by Paul Witcover
- Mystery Hill, a novella by Alex Irvine
- Postscripts #17 ed. by Pete Crowther & Nick Gevers
- Val / Orson, a novella by Marly Youmans
- The Painting and the City, a novel by Robert Freeman Wexler
The following titles have been on the forthcoming titles schedule for a while now, but here's a handy reminder-list for your browsing convenience...
- Dandelion Wine, 50th Anniversary Edition of the novel by Ray Bradbury
- Starship Summer, a novella by Eric Brown
- The City Beyond Play, a novella by Philip José Farmer & Danny Adams
- Dagger Key and Other Stories, a short fiction collection by Lucius Shepard
- The Crystal Cosmos, a novella by Rhys Hughes
- Dead Earth: The Green Dawn, a novella by Mark Justice & David T. Wilbanks
- Random Walk, a novel by Lawrence Block
- The Luminous Depths, a novella by David Herter
- Tales From the White Hart, a short fiction collection by Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
- Hello Summer, Goodbye, a novel by Michael Coney
- I Remember Pallahaxi, a novel by Michael Coney
- Template, a novel by Matthew Hughes
- Ellison Wonderland, a short fiction collection by Harlan Ellison
- The Day it Rained Forever, a short fiction collection by Ray Bradbury
- Long After Midnight, a short fiction collection by Ray Bradbury
- The Economy of Light, a novella by Jack Dann
- The Machineries of Joy, a short fiction collection by Ray Bradbury
And here are our previously-announced issues of Postscripts magazine, all edited by our very own Pete Crowther and Nick Gevers:
These titles are all available to pre-order now, direct from PS Publishing.
Special Offer - Free Postage on pre-orders before October 1st
Place (and complete) your pre-order for any of the forthcoming titles listed above by the end of September 2007 and we'll send your books post free by first class post or airmail (as applicable) as soon as they're published. See the how to order page of the website for further details.
Welcome to the PS Publishing News Room!
Posted by Darren on July 20th, 2007 at 12:00
Dear PS Friends and Readers -
Yes, a very warm welcome indeed to the new-look, Wordpress-blog-based PS Publishing News Room!
As our regular e-bulletin subscribers know, we're in the closing stages of re-developing the main PS website and the opening of our new News Room is the first phase of the launch of the new site.
We'll be using the News Room to keep you up-to-date with all the latest PS publication news and behind-the-scenes developments, point you in the direction of PS-related material elsewhere out there on the World Wide Web and, from time-to-time, bring you news and info from PS authors, artists and partners.
We've kick-started the process with a couple of months' worth of back-dated items to fill you in on what we've been up to - or have spotted elsewhere - recently; including the latest, June 2007 news bulletin from our highly esteemed (and, indeed, award-winning) publisher, Pete Crowther.
Pete will of course be dropping in to the News Room as often as he can to let us know what he's up to and he'll also be writing editorial pieces for the PS e-bulletins, which we'll continue to send out on a regular basis (subscription information here, if you haven't gotten around to joining the list just yet). But from now on, in order to let Pete concentrate on the business of actually publishing the ever-expanding range of top-quality PS titles, the main thrust of the News Room content output will be provided by yours-truly. Don't worry, I've driven these blog-things before: www.uksfbooknews.net for example, or www.thegenrefiles.com (if you'll excuse a bit of blatant and quite shameless self-pluggery for a moment there...)
Well, I think that's probably about all that needs to be said for now, except to extend an open invite to everyone to feel free to leave suitable comments on individual posts. Please note, your first comment will be held for moderation, so if it doesn't appear right away then please do bear with me. After your first comment has been passed, you should be able to comment to your heart's content (although posts with more than three links in them will automatically be held for checking, just in case a pesky spammer manages to spoof a valid email address by accident).
And of course, you should likewise feel free to contact us here at PS with any and all questions and suggestions you might have about the News Room, or the main site itself. All emails will be read, digested and acted upon as quickly as we can manage (in whatsover manner seems most appropriate), we promise.
All the best for now, and as Pete says: Happy Reading!
Ariel
PS Webguy