If you run a high traffic blog or website and aren’t on SubPress’ reviewer list, we’d like to hear from you. We have a huge new batch of Advance Reading Copies in, and printed up extras to reach out to new readers.

Titles on hand include…

– Songs of the Dying Earth (edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois);
– Purple and Black (K. J. Parker);
– Wild Thyme, Green Magic (Jack Vance);
– The Steel Remains (Richard K. Morgan);
– The Reality Dysfunction (Peter F. Hamilton).

…and a whole host of others.

Feel free to drop us an email at subpress@gmail.com to inquire about ARCs. Because of the volume of emails we receive whenever we make this sort of offer, we’re sorry to say that we can’t respond to each and every request. Thanks in advance for helping us let the world know about SubPress and its offerings.

We’ve just approved the printed but not yet bound copies of both Stephen King Goes to the Movies and Naomi Novik’s Black Powder War. This usually means we’re a week to ten days from receiving finished copies of the books.

Our shippers have now finished sending out all copies (limited and trade editions) of Elizabeth Bear’s Seven for a Secret and have turned their attention to Dan Simmons’s Muse of Fire. As soon as they’re done with those, they’ll move on to Drood, again by Dan Simmons, and then the much awaited A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin.

As if that’s not enough, done and waiting to be picked up at our printer are A Fantasy Medley (with stories by Robin Hobb, Kelley Armstrong, C.E. Murphy, and Kate Elliott) and Philip Jose Farmer’s The Other in the Mirror.

We’ll keep everyone up-to-date on our news page and via our email newsletter.

Those interested in a hillbilly horror extravaganza shouldn’t wait to pick up a copy of Cherie Priest’s Those Who Went Remain There Still. We’re down to the last 25 copies of the trade hardcover, which we expect to be snapped up in one of our next two wholesaler/large online retailer orders. The signed limited edition, with bonus chapbook, is still in good supply.

Dan Simmons’s mammoth novel of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and the spectre that may be the title character, Drood received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, a very rare trifecta.

Limited Edition:

$80

Elizabeth Bear’s latest Sebastien and Abby Irene adventure, Seven for a Secret, (after New Amsterdam) is in stock and shipping. As Booklist noted, “Bear again handles the combination of PI caper and vampire yarn with her usual unconventionality. Sebastien is a fascinating character, and the mysteries he becomes embroiled in are magnificent examples of alternate history.”

Limited Edition:

$45

Trade Edition:

$25

Lucius Shepard’s Vacancy & Ariel is the second in our series of volumes that celebrate the old Ace Doubles (Starlady and Fast-Friend by George R. R. Martin was the first). This volume collects two of Shepard’s signature novellas for the first time.

Trade Edition:

$35

SFSite has just posted a glowing review of Elizabeth Bear’s new novella, Seven for a Secret, which also takes a few lines to praise its predecessor, New Amsterdam. Here’s a taste of the comments on Secret: “I loved the depiction of Abby Irene as a very old woman, and of the undying Sebastien preparing to once again say farewell to loved ones… This could certainly have been a novel, but I think Bear does well to restrict it to its essence, this satisfying novella.”

Rick Kleffel over at The Agony Column had some kind things to say about SuPress in general, and Peter F. Hamilton’s mammoth (912 pages) space opera, The Reality Dysfunction, in specific: “Along with Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space, this book was for me a re-entry point into space opera science fiction. It’s a hell of a memorable read, and in the currently available mass-market paperbacks, very difficult to read. Subterranean’s new hardcover makes all the pain go away, and offers readers a chance to immerse in comfort at a bargain price.”

We’ve been remiss, of late, in highlighting additions to the current issue of Subterranean Online, so here’s a bit of catch up. The newest features include an interview with mega-best-selling writer Jim Butcher, plus two fine short stories, “Her Voice in a Bottle” by Tim Pratt and “The Dry Spell” by James P. Blaylock. Be forewarned, the latter tale includes weather.

Right now we’re working on the next issue of the online mag, edited by Gardner Dozois, with tales by Lucius Shepard, Joe R. Lansdale, Carrie Vaughn, and a 25,000 word novella by Paul McAuley, among others.

Looking a bit more to the future, we’ve recently bought novellas by Livia Llewellyn and Jay Lake, with Jay’s set in the world of his excellent novels, Mainspring and Escapement.

The good folks at Centipede Press have been filling in some gaps in my reading for the past couple of years, first publishing John Farris’s jungle adventure, Catacombs, then moving on to his twisty thriller, Sharp Practice, and his Nikola Tesla time-travel horror novel, Wildwood, the cover of which is pictured here.

If you’re unfamiliar with Farris’s body of work, as I was beyond his classic, Harrison High, these books are a great introduction to one of our most versatile practitioners of psychological horror. Each book is more than sturdily made. Each novel falls on the upper end of the good spectrum (or higher, as in Sharp Practice). And each features an illuminating introduction (by David J. Schow, Ed Gorman, and Stephen Gallagher, respectively).

You could do far worse than to spend some of your book budget on these nifty editions, or track down used paperbacks.