It’s a bit like flights lining up for runways around here the past few weeks, with titles already in hand and ready to ship, and en route to our offices. Here’s a brief recap of the flight plan:

Kull: Exile of Atlantis (Robert E. Howard): We’ve just finished shipping roughly 90% of the indiviudal orders (regular limited and deluxe) for our first Howard volume, and are plugging away at the bookstore and distributor orders. We’ve also started proofing the designed version of The Best of Robert E. Howard, volume one: Crimson Shadows, and should be releasing it late this year or early next. Look for it to go up for preorder soon.

The Jack Vance Reader (Jack Vance): The slipcases for the limited edition have arrived. This one’s next up in our shipping queue.

His Majesty’s Dragon (Naomi Novik): We’e just received the traycases for the lettered edition. HMD will ship as soon as The Jack Vance Reader is out the door.

Yellow Dog (Charles de Lint): The deluxe hardcovers have just arrived in our offices. Look for them to ship sometime next week.

Finally, next week, we should also be picking up the three Tim Powers novels that make up his Fisher King trilogy (Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather).

We’ll post more as the shipping progresses.

Posted on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 8:53 am.