Shipping Update (3/1): We’ve now shipped nearly 90% of our individual and retail orders for this title, with the rest scheduled to go out no later than next Monday. We ask that everyone gives the USPS and UPS a couple of weeks before querying about their package.

It looks as though, when shipping done, we’ll have between 100-125 of the Gift Sets left available for sale.

In addition to the marathon Green Mile shipping, we have a few other titles waiting at our printer, ready to ship as soon as we have the time. They include Dreadful Skin (Cherie Priest); MirrorMask (Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean); the second printing of Saints (Orson Scott Card); and Lost Echoes (Joe R. Lansdale). We expect to pick some of these titles up late this week and begin shipping them even while The Green Mile Marathon continues.

A little further out, we have a relatively light schedule for March, with just two titles scheduled, one early (The Spaces Between the Lines by Peter Crowther on 3/5) and one in the middle (Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill on 3/15). All dates are tentative. If you haven’t already signed up for our newsletter, please do so, as it looks like we will have a very small handful of copies of Heart-Shaped Box left to sell when the shipping is done. We haven’t decided yet how we’re going to distribute them, but first word is likely to go out via the newsletter.

All subscriber copies of Subterranean #6 have gone out, so this issue should be in everyone’s hands in just a few short weeks. Retailer orders will ship later this week. As a reminder there are good and great stories this issue by Joe R. Lansdale, Mike Resnick, Caitlin R. Kiernan, William Browning Spencer, newer SubPress favorites Cherie Priest and Elizabeth Bear, and a first sale (with many more to come) by Livia Llewellyn. All this great reading for the lowly sum of $6. What’s not to like? If the $80 hardcover is more to your liking, it’s still a ways off, but will be signed by all the fiction contributors, and include an exclusive chapbook of Joe Hill’s modern classic, “Pop Art,” illustrated in two colors by Gahan Wilson.

While working on our major de Lint title for this fall, Promises to Keep, we’ll also be sneaking another smaller project onto our schedule, Old Man Crow, a brand new Newford tale. Look for it in just a couple of months.

Joey Creel needs to decide which he is: a man, dreaming he’s a crow, or a crow, dreaming he’s a man. Ruby McCaulay, the young musician he’s mentoring, is sure she knows the answer, but in Newford, things are never quite as they seem.

Timothy Truman has turned in a nasty bit of work for the cover of Joe R. Lansdale’s The God of the Razor, which contains the classic novel, The Nightrunners, as well as the assorted stories related to the deity with the blade. Head on over to the book’s page, click on the thumbnail, and experience The God in all his dark glory, standing in front of the house from The Nightrunners. The God of the Razor is being designed — with 20 full page Glenn Chadbourne b&w illustrations — as a companion volume to the anthology Lords of the Razor (we still have a handful of copies left), so you know your darkest of hearts is in for a bloody treat.

Up from the Bottomless Pit is the ultimate collection for Philip Jose Farmer fans, including 140,000 words (roughly 400 pages) of very obscure, never-before-collected short stories, a novel beginning, non-fiction, and a complete novel as well.

Most of these pieces have only seen publication in Farmerphile, a fanzine with a regular circulation well under two hundred copies per issue. Subterranean Press is proud to give these newly discovered gems a more permanent home, in an edition specifically geared toward Phil’s most ardent fans. In addition to the rarities, there will be copious introductions and numerous black and white illustrations.

Ted Chiang, one of the most acclaimed short story writers of the past two decades has graced us with an 11,500 word novelette, The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate, which we’ll be releasing as a small hardcover this summer.

In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph’s empire. It’s a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves, but also men haunted by their past and others trapped by their future; it includes not just a beloved wife and a veiled seductress, but also long journeys taken by caravan and even longer ones taken with a single step. Above all, it’s a story about recognizing the will of Allah and accepting it, no matter what form it takes.

We’ve just started shipping Stephen King’s masterpiece, The Green Mile. Our edition, published as six small hardcovers in a cloth slipcase, features more than 60 brand new black-and-white illustrations by original Green Mile illustrator Mark Geyer. It’s going to take us several weeks to ship the nearly 2000 orders we have for this title, so please be patient. We’ve brought in extra help just for this project, and are moving as fast as wel can!

Gift Edition:

$170

The coffee’s gone cold, I’m afraid. After shipping the initial orders for You’re Not Fooling Anyone… John Scalzi’s book on writing, we realized that the entire print run was spoken for, and that we turned away a few hundred orders from wholesalers. If you’ve got a favorite small dealer who carries our stuff, now might not be a bad time to track down a copy, as we’ve no current plans to reprint. (That could change of course, if we see heavy enough reorders, but for the moment, we’re content allowing only the 500 copies of the first printing out in the world.)

As you know, we keep a pretty busy schedule around here, aiming for 2-3 new releases each and every month. Since last November, the pace has quickened, to 5-6 new books per month. It’s been a while since we listed nearly everything in full that we’re slaving away on, so here goes:
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