Here’s a look at the dust jacket for the Signed Limited Edition of Joe R. Lansdale’s new Hap and Leonard novella, Hyenas, which also features the Hap Collins short story, “The Boy Who Became Invisible.”

The Limited Edition is now 75% sold out. We’re giving it one last proofing run this week, and will send it to the printer next week, just in time to hold to its projected January publication date. If that’s not incentive enough for you, Joe’s working on another Hap and Leonard novella for us, Dead Aim, as well as a few other projects, including a new 10,000 word novelette that will accompany our special edition of Act of Love. We’re also at work on Shadows West, a book containing three of Joe’s weird western screenplays, two of them previously unpublished.

We’re nearly there. The Signed Limited Edition of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Angel’s Game is nearly ready to be printed. The book proper is fully designed and proofed, and Vincent Chong’s section break and full-page illustrations are in hand. We’ve just shipped the signature pages to Carlos, so he can fit them into his hectic schedule. As soon as he’s had the chance to do so, The Angel’s Game will head straight to the printer.

The Signed Limited Edition of Harlan Ellison’s landmark collection, Deathbird Stories, is progressing nicely through the printing process. We had one small problem with an image in the production file, but it was quickly dealt with, and won’t hold up publication. We don’t have a firm date yet, but you can expect the trade hardcover to see publication in late December or early January, with the Limited and Lettered Editions to follow as quickly as the slipcases and traycases can be manufactured.

We’ve just seen the first advance copy of Joe R. Lansdale’s Huck Finn vs. Chthulhu novella, Dread Island. The rest of the copies should be en route to our warehouse in the next week or so. We’re down to our last ten copies of the slipcased version, and last twenty of just the hardcover.

While fans wait for our limited edition of Steven Erikson’s Deadhouse Gates (news coming soon), we’ve just received copies of the signed limited edition of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Stonewielder, which will ship as soon as Thanksgiving is in our rear-view.

Stonewielder is the usual nifty PS Publishing job, with two books (over 600 pages total) nestled comfortably in a custom slipcase, each volume sporting a different Edward Miller illustrated dust jacket. Better yet for collectors, there are only 300 signed numbered sets. We’re down to our last 20, and don’t expect them to last forever.

We also have more copies of Steven Erikson’s 180+ page Malazan hardcover novella, Crack’d Pot Trail. Again, quantities are limited.

We’ve just placed an order with PS Publishing for a number of their books, including some, such as Joe Hill’s Horns, that we haven’t stocked before.

Some are also being offered below their original price, such as Ray Bradbury’s Long After Midnight and The Machineries of Joy. As ever, US shipping on PS Publishing books is free.

Head over to our Other Publishers’ Books list and check them out.

China Mieville’s newest novel, Kraken, just made Library Journal’s short and prestigious list of Best Books of the Year. As they note: “Brilliant storytelling and doses of eccentric humor and eerily compelling horror call to mind the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells.”

A quick note up front: Our new Alastair Reynolds novella has the smallest signed edition of any of his titles we’ve published, and we expect it to sell out prepublication.

In novels such as Chasm City and Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds established himself as an indisputable master of the far-flung intergalactic epic. Reynolds brings that same deceptively effortless mastery to the shorter fictional forms, a fact that Troika, his elegant, compulsively readable new novella, amply demonstrates.

Troika tells the story of men and women confronting an enigma known as the Matryoshka, a vast alien construct whose periodic appearances have generated terror, wonder, and endless debate. During its third “apparition” in a remote corner of the galaxy, a trio of Russian cosmonauts approach this enigma and attempt to penetrate its mysteries. What they discover—and what they endure in the process—forms the centerpiece of an enthralling, constantly surprising narrative. Troika is at once a wholly original account of First Contact and a meditation on time, history, and the essentially fluid nature of identity itself. Suspenseful, erudite, and gracefully written, it is a significant accomplishment in its own right and a welcome addition to a remarkable body of work.

Limited: 350 signed numbered copies, bound in leather, with a different dust jacket and illustrations not in the trade edition

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

We’ve been working on our 2011 lineup all year, and have locked in a number of titles we can now share with you, including a couple by Robert Silverberg — Times Three, which will gather a trio of his prime time-travel novels (Hawksbill Station, Up the Line, Project Pendulum); and Multiples, the sixth volume of his collected stories. We also have a brand new Majipoor novelette in hand for Subterranean Online.

Another of our favorite writers, Neal Stephenson, has given us the go ahead to produce a limited edition of his masterpiece, Cryptonomicon. This book is so large (at roughly 400,000 words) that the trade hardcovers haven’t held together well, and a fine signed copy can set you back $300 or more. We aim to produce a volume (or possibly two) for the permanent shelf.

In addition, we expect to release new novels by Lewis Shiner (Dark Tangos), Steven R. Boyett (Mortality Bridge), novellas by Peter S. Beagle, Kelley Armstrong, Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Bear (tales that take place in both her New Amsterdan and Bone and Jewel Creature settings, respectively); and a very long Langdon St. Ives story by James P. Blaylock, featuring twenty illustrations by J. K. Potter.

On the limited edition front, look for nicely turned out volumes by Dan Simmons, Joe Abercrombie, and Peter F. Hamilton, among others.

That’s just a taste of what we have in store. As the time nears, we’ll also announce new projects by Peter Straub, Joe Hill, Michael Bishop, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.

We just approved the dust jacket proof and bluelines for Philip K. Dick’s The King of the Elves, volume one of his collected stories set. The first review is also in, from Publishers Weekly: “The included works are steeped in the paranoid, fearful zeitgeist of the 1950s… Completists who missed the earlier edition will be glad to pick this one up.”

The King of the Elves is one of those projects that had to come together rather quickly, but is turning out remarkably well nonetheless. Bill Sienkiewicz’s dust jacket art is spot on, and unlike any that’s graced previous Dick collections; Gail Cross came up with an elegant and readable design; and the publication of the volumes is a welcome excuse to reread classics and obscurities, while also providing an expanded set of story notes that previously spanned several collections and publishers. There are books we publish here at SubPress that jump out of the pack, as it were, and this is certainly one.