We’re making mondo progress on the limited edition of Neil Gaiman’s modern day classic, Coraline. The book itself has been completely laid out and sent to our proofer, the sig pages are en route to Dave McKean, and Mary Robinette Kowal is busy making the three Coraline dolls, one of which will be given away to someone who orders the book direct from SubPress. (Neil and Dave are getting the other two, in case you missed the initial announcement.)

Meanwhile, here are a few images showing the interior design:

Welcome to the limited edition of graphic novelist Warren Ellis’s debut novel, Crooked Little Vein, about which Publishers Weekly trumpets “The home of the free and the land of the brave has rarely looked so creepy in this snappily paced homage to William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch.”

The Subterranean Press edition of Crooked Little Vein will be printed in two colors throughout on 80# Finch, and feature a sewn binding for a lifetime of enjoyment. Our Edition will be signed by both author and artist, and is due to ship in Oct/Nov. The dust jacket art will be by Mr. Ellis’s hand-picked artist, Siege.

Limited: 500 signed numbered hardcover copies: $75
Lettered: 26 signed, specially bound copies, housed in a custom traycase: $400

Special Offer: Order Crooked Little Vein by the end of Tuesday, and the numbered edition is only $60. To take advantage of the special price, please mention it when checking out through our online store. The shopping cart and automatic email confirmation won’t reflect the sale price, but don’t worry, we’ll catch it when we process your order. Paypal Users: Do NOT go through our online store. To receive the special price, you must use the button in this newsletter or email us for a PayPal invoice.

As always, US Shipping on preorders is Free.

We’ve just started a host of Ebay auctions, including many brand new books by the likes of Neil Gaiman, Ted Chiang, Bruce Sterling, Charles de Lint, and more. To make our auctions even more attractive, each of the listings includes Free Shipping anywhere in the world. Head on over and have a look. We plan to add even more auctions as the week progresses.

Charles de Lint’s latest short (175 page) novel, Promises to Keep, focusing on the early years of fan favorite character Jilly Coppercorn, is in stock and shipping. Orders for this title have spiked in the past two weeks, and our print run was not as large as it has been for some other de Lint projects. We expect Promises will go out of print sometime in the next month. The signed limited and lettered editions will ship in another 8 weeks or so as the slipcases and traycases are manufactured.

Unsigned HC:

$35

Signed Limited:

$125

We’re shipping the hardcover of Subterranean #6, the issue with short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Mike Resnick, William Browning Spencer, and featuring the art of Edward Miller.

In addition to the signed hardcover of the magazine, each copy is accompanied by a nifty two-color softcover chapbook of Joe Hill’s modern classic story, Pop Art, as illustrated by the incomparable Gahan Wilson. Given Joe’s popularity, we don’t expect the hc issue to last forever, so get your order in soon!

Welcome to the fall issue of Subterranean Online. Contents are a little sparse for the moment — the only thing posted thus far is the audio book of the first five chapters of Charles de Lint’s new short novel, Promises to Keep. Later today or tomorrow we’ll have brand new columns by Joe R. Lansdale and Elizabeth Bear, and fiction soon by the likes of David Prill, Lewis Shiner, Patrick Rothfuss, and Livia Llewellyn.

With just a little luck, it looks as though the limited edition of Scott Lynch’s Red Seas Under Red Skies will come out prior to its projected November publication date. All of the art is in house, the completed signature pages are due in our offices today, and our crack proofer is two days away from turning in the final round of changes.

If that’s not enough good Lynch news, yesterday Scott emailed me the first chapter — so we can have Edward Miller tackle the cover — of The Mad Baron’s Mechanical Attic, the first of the 45,000 word short novels he’s penning for us.

Here’s a first taste of Anke Eissmann’s interior artwork for Naomi Novik’s Temeraire: His Majesty’s Dragon. Look for more examples of the artwork soon, including a showstopping aerial battle by Anke and the full-color cover by Dominic Harman. This book is right on schedule for publication very late this year or early next. Later this week we expect to approve the final design and begin proofreading.

Copies of the Ellen Datlow-edited issue of Subterranean Magazine have just finished shipping to retailers and subscribers. Among the highlights are a 28,000 word novella by Lucius Shepard, and short stories by Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, and Terry Bisson. With Ellen’s notorious good taste, you can’t go wrong.

The glowing reviews for Charles de Lint’s novel Promises to Keep and Bruce Sterling’s Ascendancies keep piling up — this time, from Library Journal.

On Promises to Keep:
“Returning to one of his most beloved characters, de Lint brings to light another tale of enchantment and mystery, one that explores the choices people make and the promises they choose to keep.”

On Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling:
“Always alive to the moment, always accepting the headlong rush of the future, Sterling’s short fiction deserves a place in every library’s sf or short story collection. Highly recommended.”