The NYT just graced Caitllin R. Kiernan and Tim Powers with utterly delightful coverage.

On Two Worlds and In Between (Caitlin R. Kiernan): “Ms. Kiernan is a cartographer of lost worlds and constantly writes about thresholds — those harsh spaces in between two realities that she relishes — being crossed, if not transgressed.”

On The Bible Repairman and Other Stories (Tim Powers): “Tim Powers, in The Bible Repairman, most of whose stories are set in Los Angeles, shows off his best West Coast chiaroscuro. There are ghosts to be ransomed and ghosts to fall in love with, and souls stoppered up in bottles. The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ would make a perfect soundtrack for this book.”

You can check out the full review here.

We’re pleased to announce four brand new titles, all of them already deep in production, that we’re working on for next year.

• Strange Embrace/69 Barrow Street (Lawrence Block) — Two early rough and tumble novels by the Mystery Grandmaster, in only the third Hard Case Crime hardcover yet published.
• Gods of Opar (Philip Jose Farmer and Christopher Paul Carey) — A huge omnibus that includes two classic Farmer novels, as well as the original The Song of Kwasin, that rounds out the trilogy.
• Indignities of the Flesh (Bentley Little) — A gathering of some of the horror legend’s most elusive stories, as well as one original. The Signed, Limited Edition includes Little’s first published story, unavailable for nearly thirty years.
• The Dragon Griaule (Lucius Shepard) — Includes all of the author’s novelettes and novellas about the miles-long dormant dragon, as well as a 40,000 word novel original to the collection.

One large plastic shipping container received, filled to the brim with foam and individually packed copies of the Signed Limited Edition of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. We’re opening the boxes and inspecting the books today. If all goes well, copies should be en route to customers next week.

Our supply of Anansi Boys is running low. Once we start shipping copies, we’re planning to increase the price as our supplies dwindle, so please consider getting in your order now.

Ordering info coming soon.

J. K. Potter has turned in the nifty cover you see here, as well as a number of small vignette illustrations for our new Connie Willis tale, All About Emily. The book itself is fully designed, fully proofed, and ready to be sent to the printer in time to make its December release.

Emily represents Connie in her screwball comedy mode, with movie references aplenty. It also builds to an absolutely perfect last line and image, one that will linger in your heart as well as your mind.

We’re more than pleased to let you know that Raymond Swanland has turned in the dust jacket and interior illustration for Brent Weeks’ highly anticipated novella, Perfect Shadow.

Shadow, as you may recall, concerns Durzo Blint, one of the central characters from Weeks’ best-selling series, The Night Angel trilogy.

Stock Update: We’re down to our last 200 copies available for preoder. We’re unlikely to have copies after the book is published.

Paul di Filippo recently chimed in with praise for Tim Powers’s upcoming collection, The Bible Repairman and Other Stories. We couldn’t be more pleased at the reception this title is receiving: “Powers’s subtle and beautiful prose is never flaunted, but always works in the service of his stories, which are marvels of ellipsis and concision. He captures venues and characters with just the right amount of description, and never belabors the events in his stories, always preferring to hold back when possible and let the reader’s imagination supply the special effects and motivations. Powers’s worldview is one where miracles exist just below the surface of the quotidian, revealed through random trapdoors. But open the wrong door, and you might receive a curse just as easily as a blessing. Contact with the gods can blind as well as enlighten.”

We’ve shipped all preorders for Charles Stross’ Hugo Award-winning novella, Palimpsest, and have 39 copies left to sell direct to customers. We’ve heard of copies already selling for above retail prices on the secondary market, and we have no plans to reprint the novella, so now’s a great time to acquire what we think will be a time travel classic.

It’s been out for a while now, both as a hardcover and ebook, but Robert McCammon’s remarkable rock and roll epic, The Five, continues to draw praise. From Locus: “The Five is Robert R. McCammon’s first novel outside of his recent series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett since Gone South. Do the math and that’s almost 20 years. It’s a nicely nostalgic return to form for a writer who was one of the most highly regarded novelists during horror’s boom years, and it will put readers familiar with his work very much in mind of earlier novels from that time, including Mine and Boy’s Life; its fantastic element is more suggested than evident, and it eschews the darker possibilities of its theme for an upbeat appraisal of the human spirit’s capacity to rise above adversity.”

Before we go, an important note about Rick’s new Michael Gallatin collection, Hunter from the Woods: As we expected, Hunter is pre-selling very well. So well, in fact, that we won’t be able to fill orders for large online retail and wholesale accounts. If you’d like a copy, a direct order is your best bet.

We’re prepping Caitlin R. Kiernan’s mammoth Two Worlds and in Between for shipping. It’s a 200,000 word gathering of stories from the first decade of her career, including a number of uncollected tales, as well as stories from her now-rare collection, From Weird and Distant Shores. The Signed Limited Edition is long sold out, and the trade edition will follow very shortly. We may not have enough copies to fill all the large online retail and wholesale orders that are coming in daily.