Rose Fox of Publishers Weekly has just posted an in depth interview with J. K. Potter about his breathtaking work on James P. Blaylock’s steampunk omnibus, The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives. Head over to her blog, Genreville, and give it a read.

I should take a moment to thank Rose, Peter Cannon, and the other fine folks at PW, who’ve always been so generous in giving SubPress coverage. That we’re doing so well in today’s economy is in no small part due to the attention they shine on our books.

Along with its starred review in Publishers Weekly, and a glowing Booklist review, The Best of Michael Swanwick just picked up another starred review, this time from Library Journal: “Spanning more than a quarter-century, the 21 short stories, including five winners of the coveted Hugo Award, demonstrate the author’s breathtaking versatility and excellence of style.”

We’ll be shipping The Best of Michael Swanwick in another week or so, as it makes its way to the top of the shipping queue.

We just received another large wholesale order for Ray Bradbury’s new collection of stories set in Green Town, which brings the total well over the book’s 2000 copy print run.

Summer Morning, Summer Night gathers a total of 27 short stories and vignettes, 17 of them appearing for the first time. As we’re still receiving orders for Summer, which will ship in 2-3 weeks, if you want to be guaranteed a copy, you might want to order direct from SubPress.

Patrick Arrasmith just turned in this ultra-creepy illustration for the cover of Elizabeth Bear’s Seven for a Secret.

Coincidentally enough, Elizabeth also turned in the chapbook to accompany the signed limited edition of Seven. “The Tricks of London” is a long (11,000 words) tale from early (the 1870s) in Deputy Crown Inspector Abigail Irene Garrett’s career. You might remember that the novella proper, Seven for a Secret (30,000 words) is set in the late 1930s, at the other end of Abby’s long life of adventures.

Here’s the exclusive Vincent Chong dust jacket for our special edition of Locke & Key, Joe Hill’s hit comic series. Our edition — sold out the day it was announced in our newsletter — includes not only the comic proper, but also the 250 pages worth of Joe’s script that artist Gabriel Rodriguez had to work from, as well as endsheets created especially by Gabriel for our edition.

We’ve just finished proofreading L&K, so it will be sent to the printer in the next couple of weeks. As it contains both full-color and regular text sections, we don’t know yet what sort of turnaround time our printers will be able to give us, but we’ll pass along that info as soon as we have it.

Along with a glowing review from BOOKLIST (”Resnick creates, in short order, a complex and engaging consideration of building a new world that includes a fascinating redefinition of utopia.”), PUBLISHERS WEEKLY has received Mike Resnick’s companion to his landmark “Kirinyaga” tales most warmly. According to them, in Kilimanjaro “…Resnick works in plenty of intriguing detail about the culture and character of the settlers and the new world that they model as closely as possible after the one they are leaving behind. The juxtaposition of an ancient tribal society and a bucolic but futuristic setting will keep readers happily engaged.”

We’ve just received permission to announce that we’ll be publishing the limited edition of the major new novel by fantasist China Mieville, who’s been one of our favorite writers since his second novel, Perdido Street Station, took the book world by storm.

We’re not ready to start accepting preorders just yet — we need to discuss illustrators with China, among other things — but all of that should be tied up soon. Remember, those who take advantage of the special price on Richard Morgan’s new epic fantasy, The Steel Remains, will be eligible for an unbelievable deal when we announce The City & the City.

In the not too distant future, look for new book announcements by space opera master Peter Hamilton, hot fantasy writer, K. J. Parker, a new novel by one of today’s major fantasists we can’t name yet, an anthology edited by Joe R. Lansdale (along with a couple of other Lansdale projects), a very special illustrated collection by Ray Bradbury, the first hardcover edition of a classic Neal Stephenson novel, and much more!

We’ve just sent Alastair Reynolds’ first-rate novella, The Six Directions of Space, out for a final proofing. The signature pages are already in hand, so we’ll be sending this title to the printer in plenty of time for its December release date. Keep your eyes peeled, as we’ve reached agreement with Alastair for another, larger book next year.

We’re thrilled to continue our association with Richard Morgan, whose limited edition Altered Carbon was virtually sold out on publication until we uncovered a few copies many months later.

We have similar hopes for the first volume in his new fantasy trilogy, The Steel Remains, which caused quite a stir when it was released in the UK earlier this year. As with Richard’s other novels, you can expect a high energy tale, told with an unsparing eye and social conscience, unexpected plot twists, with heavy measures of violence and gore mixed in. This is most definitely not fantasy fare for the elves and fairies set.

Collectors Note: We have another huge fantasy novel announcement coming in the next few weeks, one which we haven’t even hinted at. Those who order The Steel Remains will be able to pick up this upcoming title at a very special price. (We did a similar promotion through our newsletter with Dan Simmons’ The Terror and Drood, and it was a huge hit.)