A press release from Pete Crowther at PS Publishing:
Mike showed up at PS Towers this blustery chilled morning announcing that the results are in for our first year of e-books and downloads… a new venture for PS which has proved very successful. One of the most popular of the titles we’ve made available so far has been S.T. Joshi’s remarkable Black Wings, which, of course, gives me an opportunity to say that the signing sheets for Black Wings II will be going out as soon as the new artwork comes in from Jason Van Hollander.
Meanwhile, signing sheets for Postscripts 28/29 (Exotic Gothic #4) guest edited by Danel Olsen have gone out to contributors… just as our printers let us know that the fully-signed sheets have turned up for Postscripts 26/27 (Unfit for Eden). And all the time this is going on, we’re working on Postscripts 30/31 (Memoryville Blues). It’s about time we caught up with ourselves where Postscripts is concerned and 2012 is starting to look like the year we might just do it… with some short stories that are like to blow pretty much most of your mind.
Blow what’s left of it with these babies, for which signing sheets are even now either getting printed or already winging their way through the elements to garret-living scribblers:
* Eric Brown’s Starship Winter
* Andy Duncan’s The Pottawatomie Giant
* Zoran Zivkovic’s The Ghostwriter
* Brendan O’Connell’s The Architect
* Kris Saknussemm’s Eat Jellied Eels, and
* Brian Lumley’s Ghoul Warning—just an hour or so ago, incidentally, we took delivery of Brian’s edits on this book and (heh) he thinks he’s done: well, Brian, rest your writing arm and watch out for the signing sheets (Bwah ha ha!)
One person who’s finished the dreaded sheets experience is Joe Lansdale whose Trapped in the Saturday Matinee will be going to print by the end of this month… so due out late February. And the printers told me a few days ago that the sheets are also in for Gutshot and A Book of Horrors. Boy, we’re sure starting to move on this stuff.
Of course, we’ve always got to keep an eye on new stuff, too… which is why I gave a little whoop of joy (hey, maybe you heard me…) when I discovered that Steven Erikson had delivered his new Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella, entitled The Wurms of Blearmouth. What’s it like? Well, I could say it’s amazing but, heck… why knowingly undersell a book, right? Forty-two thousand words, and every one of ’em a winner!
Also new in are Tim Lebbon’s new collection, Nothing as it Seems (which we’re aiming to get out to coincide with Tim’s Master of Cemeteries stint at this year’s FantasyCon in Brighton in September) and a short novel from newcomer Kate Farrell entitled My Name is Mary Sutherland for late 2013… living proof that there’s a wealth—and I do mean an embarrassment of absolute literary riches—of talent out there… writers who are fairly new to you. Well, let me tell you this: miss these people like Kate Farrell and Alison Littlewood or Brendan O’Connell and Kris Saknussemm at your absolute peril. You’ve been warned. Check ’em out. Try someone different this year—it’ll change your life.
Okay, I think that’s about it for this time. I wanted to get some housekeeping out of the way and I guess I’ve pretty much done that. I’ll sign off with a couple of dates for your diaries.
Ramsey Campbell, Paul Kane and I are appearing on a (very!) mini PS carnival tour of the cream of the northwest’s Waterstone’s outlets next weekend and we’d love to see you (especially if you buy some books). We’re at Liverpool on Friday 27 and Lancaster on Saturday 28, reading and talking and signing (and then drinking and laughing and eating which, as everyone surely knows by now, we’re rather good at).
Also, we’ll be at the London Super Comic Convention—http://www.londonsupercomicconvention.com—on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February, peddling our PS Artbooks line. Be nice to see you at that gig, too. Alas, we heard just last night from Roy Thomas, our newly appointed Series Consultant (and hoo, boy… does he have some ideas!) that he won’t be able to make it for the con. But we’re working on getting him over later, maybe to tie in with the publication of either our Planet or Black Magic comicbook reprint series.
And finally, check out this, ‘cos we’ve got a few copies of CD’s absolutely beautiful anniversary edition of Stephen King’s It. Hey, there’s not many so move fast.
And finally, finally… Mike asked me to remind you that the Traycase Offer you are all snapping up like there is no tomorrow, is still available. However, you need to know that we get to pick the 3 titles. But don’t worry, they will all be different and hey, at less than £17 a piece what’s not to like!
Okay, that’s me done. Look after each other… and happy reading.
—Pete