Charles de Lint, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen Gallagher and Lucius Shepard Updates
We’ve just received our Advance Reading Copies of Charles de Lint’s short novel about Jilly Coppercorn’s early years, Promises to Keep, as well as those to Poppy Z. Brite’s 120 page collection, Antediluvian Tales. Reviewers, be watching your mailboxes for them. We’re especially proud of these two books. Thanks to both authors, who went above and beyond the usual amount of trouble to get their books to us.
Stephen Gallagher has just turned in (yesterday)”The Blackwood Oak,” the original novella for his collection Plots and Misadventures, and we’d love to tell you it’s wonderful, but the truth is we haven’t had the chance to read it yet! We’re planning to rectify that later today, as Steve’s one of our favorite writers of the dark stuff, and his collection promises to be one of the better ones released this year.
On the new book front, we’ve just signed a contract with Lucius Shepard to produce a 250k word career retrospective of his work, which took a lot of back-and-forthing and negotiations before Lucius and I could get a table of contents we were both happy with. In addition to the regular hardcover, current plans call for the limited edition to include a 200-300 page trade paperback of previously uncollected Shepard, including a stunning novella, Skull City, out of print for nearly two decades.