Peter Crowther of PS Publishing announces several updates, purchases, and potential changes.
First up: they’ve scheduled books by Richard Parks, Lucius Shepard, and Gene Wolfe, in addition to two by Avram Davidson.
They’re also planning some changes to their quarterly magazine, Postscripts, and considering other for which they’re seeking feedback. They’re considering changing the paperback edition to a hardcover and increasing the page-count from 144 to 160 (with occasional issues going to 176 or 192). That change will basically stop the special super-huge issues (like the current, 400-page, all SF issue #15). They won’t change the price of the limited signed edition (£25/$50), but will increase the price of the unsigned (now hardcover) edition to £12/$25. Let them know via e-mail or via comment on this page. Another change they’re considering is redesignating the quarterly magazine a “quarterly anthology.” If they do make the changes, they’ll be implemented with issue #18, the first of 2009. Already planned are #16 (a “special all-spook issue for Hallowe’en,” which is scheduled for October; and #17 will be their “specially commissioned subscribers-only novelette from Ramsey Campbell”, releasing in December. Issue #18 may be an all-crime special issue (“some of it noir, some of it futuristic and maybe even some of it out-and-out fantastical, but all of it ‘crime'”).
In addition to the magazine, they continue to publish collectible books in a variety of formats (hardcover, slipcased, jacketed, etc.). Publishing in the very near future will be Cage of Night by Ed Gorman; Vault of Deeds by James Barclay; Revolvo by Steve Erikson; Glyphotech by Mark Samuels; Living with the Dead by Darrell Schweitzer; The Song of Time by Ian MacLeod; and The Hiss of Escaping Air by Chris Golden. Farther out on their publishing horizon are books by Ray Bradbury, Gwyneth Jones, Robert Wexler, and Sebastien Doubinsky.