Seeing as Joe R. Lansdale’s God of the Razor gathering of novel and stories did so well for us, we’ve decided to offer up a similar book, this time featuring Reverend Jedediah Mercer, from Dead in the West.

Deadman’s Road will contain not only the seminal weird western novel, but four other tales of the ruthless preacher in a west that was certainly not covered in the history books. Included will be “Deadman’s Road,” “Gentleman’s Hotel,” the never collected “The Crawling Sky”, and a never-before-published novelette, “The Dark Down There.”

Look for more details and ordering information soon!

Here’s a first look at the cover to Cherie Priest’s long (50k word) novella Clementine, which picks up where her novel Boneshaker left off, with some different characters, and a new adventure. Rambles.net was first on the scene with a review, and it glows: “Boneshaker introduced readers to Priest’s steampunk America, a late 18th-century setting where the Civil War drags on and the path of technology runs a bit differently than it did in our own history books. But, while the first book focused on strange yellow gases and the science-spawned zombies that roam within the walled city of Seattle, Clementine takes us on a wild chase across the sky in hydrogen-powered airships…She throws cliches, formulaic writing and caution to the wind as her airships scream through the sky. From zombies to sky pirates — I can hardly wait to see where she takes us next.”

Elizabeth Bear’s steampunk fantasy novella Bone and Jewel Creatures continues to garner very strong reviews, the latest from the current issue of Booklist: “Into a slim volume Bear packs the kind of intrigue, detailed world building, and passionate characters found in her longer books… Because of the scale of the novella, many things are only hinted in it, so artfully that what are tantalizing glimpses of its world seem much, much larger than the page count would seem to allow.”

Peter Straub’s tour de force, The Skylark has just been sent to the printer, meaning we should have finished copies in six weeks or so. In the meantime, Jeff VanderMeer has penned an interesting and enlightening review of The Skylark and A Dark Matter, the latter being the 200 manuscript pages shorter version the former eventually turned into.

As a reminder, we have far more retail/wholesale orders than we’ll be able to fill, so your only way to guarantee a copy of The Skylark is by ordering direct.

We’ve just reached agreement to publish a 200,000 word collection of Stephen R. Donaldson’s best tales, taken from his two out-of-print collections, Daughter of Regals and Reave the Just. We’ll be reading all of his short fiction over the next month and then consulting with Mr. Donaldson to select the stories, the artwork, and design the book. He’ll be involved every step of the way, making this an essential volume for his legion of fans.

In addition to the Stephen R. Donaldson collection, we’ve reached agreement to publish a signed limited edition of The Neutronium Alchemist, the second volume of Peter F. Hamilton’s mammoth Night’s Dawn Trilogy. Look for more information on both titles soon.

We’re sending the limited edition of Connie Willis’s new WWII time travel novel, Blackout, to the printer today. The book will be there in preproduction until Connie’s able to set pen to the signature pages in the next week. Thanks to everyone for the early support on this novel, which is selling very well.

While we have you, take a gander at the now-designed J. K. Potter cover. Nifty, ain’t it?

As is usual with each issue of Subterranean Online, the latest features a Mike Resnick penned adventure narrated by the Honorable Right Reverend Lucifer Jones, who’s out to save souls, build a tabernacle, beguile the odd temptress or three, and line his pockets in the process.

Readers will find “Harboring Pearls” a welcome addition to the Jones cannon.

Here’s the first look at Richard Kirk’s cover for Caitlin R. Kiernan’s new collection, The Ammonite Violin & Others, which gathers twenty very obscure tales first printed as part of her ongoing subscription-only Sirenia Digest. In addition, we’ve just approved the signature pages, which are en route to Cait for signing, and she’s turned in a dark jewel of a tale, “Sanderlings”, which will be published as the chapbook that accompanies the limited edition of Ammonite.

The Ammonite Violin & Others is right on schedule for its June publication date.

Ray Bradbury’s new collection, A Pleasure to Burn, has just been named Pick of the Week by Publishers Weekly, and received a starred review. In its laudatory coverage of the book, PW writes that, in addition to the long novellas that led directly to Fahrenheit 451, “…the real gems are the shorter stand-alones, such as ‘The Reincarnate,’ in which a recently dead man experiences a harsh rebirth and desperately seeks out his own widow; in ‘The Mad Wizards of Mars,’ the red planet is inhabited by all the authors and characters from literature destroyed on Earth; and three intense interconnected pieces: ‘The Dragon Who Ate His Tail,’ ‘Sometime Before Dawn,’ and ‘To the Future.’ An essential addition to the bookshelf of every Bradbury fan, the collection is also accessible to curious readers with a taste for the dark, the strange, and the macabre.”

Editor Benjamin Szumskyj has lovingly assembled Strange Wonder, a gathering of more than seventy rare and unpublished works by the legendary Fritz Leiber, including a lengthy uncollected Fafhrd and Gray Mouser story beginning, two Gray Mouser poems, a number of complete stories, poetry, and a miscellany of fragments and writing exercises, many of them appearing for the first time, more than seventy years after being written. This book is truly a treasure trove for those who love Leiber’s work. Strange Wonders is already deep in production, currently with our designer, and right on schedule for release later this year.