We’ve finally finished shipping all individual and retailer orders, and the signed numbered edition of A Storm of Swords is selling very well indeed. We have fewer than 25 sets left for order, and are reserving those for direct sale.

Remember, buying Storm now gives you the right of first refusal on the next book in the series, A Feast for Crows, which we’ll be announcing for preorder shortly.

Signed Limited:

$260

Accolades are piliing up for Missile Gap, the stunning novella by Charles Stross, featuring a cover and interior illustration by SubPress favorite, J.K. Potter. Look for it to be published in December.

It’s 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing — and the Earth is flat. It’s been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continents loom above tropical seas, offering a new start to colonists like newly-weds Maddy and Bob, and the hope of further glory to explorers like ex-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin: but nobody knows why they exist, and outside the circle of exploration the universe is inexplicably warped.

Gregor, in Washington DC, knows but isn’t talking. Colonel-General Gagarin, on a years-long mission to go where New Soviet Man has not gone before, is going to find out. And on the edge of an ancient desert, beneath the aged stars of another galaxy, Maddy is about to come face-to-face with humanity’s worst fear…

From Booklist:
“With the dazzling success of his last two novels, including the Hugo-nominated Accelerando (2005), Stross is rapidly establishing himself as one of the preeminent masters of hard sf. Here he takes a breather from weightier fare with a bizarre, nevertheless brilliant alternate-history novella featuring a protracted U.S.-Soviet cold war…Once again, Stross sets the bar high for his colleagues, should they be feeling competitive, in this mind-bending, intriguing yarn.”

From Publishers Weekly:
“The result is a blend of 1900s H.G. Wells and 1970s propaganda, updated for the 21st century in the clear, chilly and fashionably cynical style that lets Stross get away with premises that would be absurdly cheesy in anyone else’s hands.”

Limited: 1000 signed numbered copies: $35

Early word on David Schow’s newest collection, Havoc Swims Jaded, due in October, is quite good at making the publisher happy:

From Booklist (Starred Review):
“Aside from using sex well, Schow freights his work with world-weariness and graveyard humor that stops just this side of true tastelessness. “Obsequy,” “What Happened to Margaret” (both of which have their share of sex), and especially ‘Scoop vs. Leadman’ risk going over the top and down the drain but finally just knock your socks off. This is flat-out exhilarating reading, the kind that Robert Bloch, whom Schow admires, never wrote enough of. On the basis of these stories, if the pulps were still around, Schow would be their king.”

From Publishers Weekly:
“Like ‘The Narrative of Dr. Shackle and Mr. Lye,’ an invented tale of horror described in one of this book’s 13 stories, the contents of Schow’s latest collection (after Zombie Jam) seesaw between ‘elbow-jabbing one-liners and almost clinically detached slaughter and corpse disposal.’ Most unfold events that are grim and ghastly, but never so bad that Schow can’t tease a thread of graveyard humor out of their horrors… The darkly funny ‘Obsequy’ suggests that having lived a dead-end life is good preparation for returning from the grave as a zombie. In all, this is a solid and imaginatively varied outing from one of horror’s most dependable writers.”

Kealan Patrick Burke has just finished the final edits and turned in his 75,000 word horror novel, Currency of Souls. Look for the cover to be posted to our site soon, and the book itself in February.

Amber Benson and Christopher Golden turned in the final version of The Seven Whistlers, which we’ve got on schedule for a December release.

Tim Powers has turned in the final edits for his short illustrated book (80 pages), A Soul in a Bottle, which we’re also fast tracking for release this year.

Pete Crowther’s very dark collection, The Spaces Between the Lines, has just been shipped off to be designed. Look for it next March.

All but the lettered edition of our new PJF book is out of print on publication. Thanks to everyone for making this such a quick seller.

We just received a nice note from Mr. Farmer, and can’t resist sharing it:

“After a lifetime of writing it is a real joy to see a collection such as Pearls from Peoria in print. That it covers so many aspects of my work is especially gratifying. I’ve enjoyed revisiting this diverse collection of my work (some over fifty years old!) and am impressed with the thought that went into arranging the pieces into the order they appear. I do believe it gives a good overview of my whole catalog; I hope the reader will enjoy the collection and the access it affords to some of my rarer pieces. I had fun writing them, I hope the reader has fun reading them.”

Publishers Weekly has just graced Night Visions 12 with a coveted Starred Review: Night Visions 12. “The latest installment in the venerable Night Visions series, edited by relative newcomer Burke (Hides), matches the talent included in previous volumes with eight horror stories from three British writers. Simon Clark honors past masters of the genre with his three pieces; the best of which—”Frankenstein, Victor”—reimagines Mary Shelley’s classic and exemplifies Clark’s political commentary, vivid imagery and incisive characterization. Mark Morris’s contributions stand out in the volume, particularly “The Story of April and Her Colours,” narrated with eerie sweetness by the autistic protagonist, and the nightmarish “What Nature Abhors,” about one man’s descent into a very personal hell. P.D. Cacek rounds out this excellent anthology with “Forced Perspective,” a novella about a psychiatrist’s romances with his patient’s multiple personalities, and “Campfire Story,” about a boy who’d do almost anything for his best friend.”

Look for Night Visions 12 to be published, appropriately enough, in October.

We’re proud to announce hot new writer Cherie Priest’s hardcover debut, a mosaic novel, sixty thousand words long, Dreadful Skin, due in February, featuring numerous full-page black and white illustrations by Mark Geyer.

I ducked into a niche between a cabin and the pilot house and hiked my skirt up enough to reach down into my garter holster. I’ve heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.

We’d see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

* * * * *

Jack Gabert went to India to serve his Queen. He returned to London a violently changed man, infected with an unnatural sickness that altered his body and warped his mind.

Eileen Callaghan left an Irish convent with a revolver and a secret. She knows everything and nothing about Jack’s curse, but she cannot rest until he’s caught. His soul cannot be saved. It can only be returned to God.

In the years following the American Civil War, the nun and unnatural creature stalk one another across the United States. Their dangerous game of cat and mouse leads them along great rivers, across dusty plains, and into the no man’s land of the unmarked western territories.

Here are three tales of the hunt.

Reader, take this volume and follow these tormented souls. Learn what you can from their struggle—against each other, against God, and against themselves.

Limited: 1500 signed hardcover copies: $25

Important note: We’ll be serializing the first third of this penny dreadful, “The Wreck of the Mary Byrd,” on the SubPress site this October.