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We’ve been receiving a ton of requests that we run one of our 50% off sales, which we haven’t done in quite some time. Tim and I have carved a little time out of the SubPress schedule to handle the increased level of orders that usually accompanies one of these sales, so here goes. The rules are simple:

1. The special runs until the end of the day July 3, 2009.
2. You must buy at least 5 different titles to qualify for the sale prices. There is no the maximum number of titles you may order.
3. You may buy only one copy of a given title.
4. Your shopping cart total and automatic email confirmation won’t reflect the sale price. Don’t worry, we’ll apply the proper discount when processing your order.
5. If you’re using PayPal, do NOT go through our site. Please email us for an invoice.
6. Please note that only the titles listed below are part of the sale, and only editions with cover prices of $150 or less are included.
7. We’re not able to offer retroactive discounts on titles, or combine this special with any other coupons, specials, or savings certificates.
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Our shippers are finishing up James P. Blaylock’s Metamorphosis along with huge batch of distributor orders. Now it’s on to two brand new books, including the individual and bookstore orders for Wild Thyme, Green Magic, the brand new gathering of tales by Jack Vance; and The City and the City, China Mievielle’s masterful exploration of a clever fantasy milieu, as well as a riveting detective novel.

Like many people right now, author Tim Pratt has found himself in a tight spot. He and his family are down to one income at the moment–his. Not one to let life get him down, Tim is doing what he does best to support his family–write. His current project is a serialized, donation-funded urban fantasy novella starring his series protagonist Marla Mason – the star of Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, and other fine novels.

The first installment of the Bone Shop will be posted on June 29th, with weekly installments following. You’ll get a rare glimpse into Marla’s early life, before she became the chief sorcerer of Felport. We can easily say that Tim’s tales are worth reading as we’ve featured them in the past (“Her Voice in a Bottle”) and will in the future, with a fine comedic time travel novelette, “Troublesolving”.

Just announced — In Between, by R. A. MacAvoy, a fine fantasy writer too far gone from the publishing scene. Her previous novels included the beloved Tea with the Black Dragon and its sequel, Twisting the Rope, as well as A Trio for Lute, The Book of Kells, as well as a number of other fine novels.

Bertie returns to publshing with this delight novella, a storytelling gift to those who treasure her previous work, and a fine introduction to new readers. Look for In Between to appear late this summer.

Just an early head’s up — we’ve just reached agreement with Pyr books to publish a signed limited edition of Joe Abercrombie’s so good it’s off the charts epic fantasy debut, The Blade Itself. We’ll be talking to Joe soon about an illustrator, and announce ordering details as soon as everything is in place.

While we’re talking about epic fantasy, we should mention that we’re down to the last 40 copies of Richard K. Morgan’s The Steel Remains, one of the most talked about and controversial fantasy novels of the past few years. This one turned out especially well, with a full color dust jacket, full color endsheets, and a frontice by Vincent Chong, as well as a truly stunning interior design, printed in two colors throughout. When Richard’s done with volume two, we’ll definitely attempt to pick up the rights to that volume.

Update: All the found copies of Snow Crash are now spoken for.

While doing some rearranging in our warehouse, our shippers have turned up copies of the odd book or three that we thought long out of print. First up for sale are six copies of Neal Stephenson’s classic, Snow Crash. Copies are $150 apiece plus shipping (limit one copy per household or family). If you’re interested, please drop us an email with the following info: name, address, and preferred method of payment, and we’ll let you know how to proceed.

If you look at past titles published by SubPress, you’ll note we have a definite liking for some of Lawrence Block’s books that have gone rather far afield, such as Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man, Threesome, and Cinderella Sims. What most of Block’s many fans don’t know is that early in his career he wrote a trio of novels with the equally wonderful Donald E. Westlake. (An aside: Get to a bookstore and pick up Westlake’s The Ax, or any of the Parker novels he wrote as Richard Stark.)

Next year we’ll be publishing the trio of novels — Sin Hellcat, So Willing, and A Girl Called Honey — under the overall title of Hellcats and Honey Girls.

Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm. The limited edition of Christopher Golden’s zombie anthology, The New Dead, is sold out less than one week after being announced. Late this year, readers will be treated to new stories by Joe Hill, Kelley Armstrong, Max Brooks, Joe R. Lansdale, and a whole host of other shambling authors.

We’re already hard at work on the book — we’ve already approved the general design, while all of Glenn Chadbourne’s interior illustrations are already in hand. Next to arrive should be the full color illustrations by Stephen R. Bissette. Finally, within the week, we should have the signature pages at the printer, and start them circulating among the authors soon.

We’ve snagged a very limited quantity of Stephen Gallagher’s first short story collection from PS Publishing. Out of his Mind contains over twenty stories of the sort that made Steve’s SubPress collection, Plots and Misadventures, a quick sell out. If you’re of a mind, please get your order in, because once our stock in hand is gone, we won’t be reordering.

Our shippers have just finished sending out copies of Robert Silverberg’s Trips and Philip Jose Farmer’s The Other in the Mirror — the limited edition is sold out, by the way.

Next up in the shipping queue is Metamorphosis, the special collection of three collaborative stories by James P. Blaylock, with original illustrations by Tim Powers, and some necessary meddling by William Ashbless. You can check out one of the stories in the book, “Stone Eggs” over at Subterranean Online, where we also recently published a solo story by Jim, “The Dry Spell“.