Peter Crowther writes with an update on PS Publishing, and the results of their big give-away from October (see this article).
First, he apologizes to US customers, noting “because of the US Homeland Security’s decision to ban packages from passenger planes (with extreme weather conditions on both sides of the Atlantic and smack-bang in the middle of the Holiday Season) items posted in November were still being chased by customers well into January.… Luckily, Royal Mail tells me that things are getting back onto an even keel and, within a week or maybe two, delivery times to the US from PS will return to 6-10 working days instead of the 6-10 working weeks we’ve been enduring of late.”
Regarding the October give-away, he writes: “Okay, you’ve been patient about the competition we ran around Hallowe’en and I’m betting there are a couple of folks out there who’re thinking it was just a ruse on my part to get you to shell out extra loot so I could afford to buy a few presents. Well, you were right. But the worrying part is that you could also have been forgiven for thinking we were never going to announce any winners because that would involve our having to pay out the prizes. In that instance, you were wrong. Here goes. In the customary reverse order, the person who spent the third-highest amount on our books is—pause for little trumpet-type fanfare (which you’ll have to provide yourselves)—Krystin Wilson. Well done, Krystin. We’ll be dropping you a note to let you know that you now have £250 to spend on PS items, post-free until your money runs out.
“The person who spent the second-highest amount was Matthew Faso. A hearty well-done to you, too, Matt. You have a credit of £500 to spend at your leisure with all items free of postage charges until you’re spent up.
“Which leaves us with just one prize to present: so, to the person who spent the most money during those seven days of comps and giveaways, we have great pleasure in awarding a Standard Lifetimer Account… which means that the lucky winner will never again have to pay for a PS book (sob! Nurse… my medication, please!). Okay: and the winner is… Richard Palmer. Well done, Richard, and many many thanks for all the business.”
Returning to standard business, he offers this list of forthcoming PS titles:
* Catherynne Valente’s remarkable collection, Ventriloquism
* Robert Edric’s riveting The Lives of the Savages
* Joe Lansdale’s strangely poetic (and surprisingly gentle, all things considered) Christmas with the Dead
* Paul DiFilippo’s Linear City follow-up, A Princess of the Linear Jungle
* Ramsey Campbell’s The Render of Veils, a specially produced super-limited pamphlet-taster for our upcoming re-issue of the Chillmaster’s first Arkham House collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake
* Jack Dann’s poignant memoir, Insinuations
* Tomorrow Revisited, Alastair Crompton’s bumper full-colour celebration of the work of Frank Hampson—and the very first PS ArtBook—which has very encouragingly been flying off the shelves