This nifty, nasty bit of work is for a truly hellish weird western we have scheduled for next year, a collaboration called Hells Bounty by none other than hisownself, Joe R. Lansdale, collaborating for the first time with his brother, John L. Lansdale. Look for ordering info in the new year, but in the meantime, we wanted to share Timothy Truman’s spot on, pulpy cover.

Speaking of cover images, Siege has just turned in the dust jacket image to Warren Ellis’ Crooked Little Vein. As soon as it’s fully designed, and we have the sig pages in hand, the book will go to the printer, likely in the next 2-3 weeks. The image, disturbing as it its, captures the spirit of Warren’s novel perfectly.

We’ve just returned contracts for trade paperback editions of Cherie Priest’s Dreadful Skin, Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam, Brian Lumley’s A Coven of Vampires, and are awaiting the signed contract for a trade paperback of Tad Williams’s Rite. All of these will be part of our new imprint, Far Territories.

As if that’s not enough good fortune, we just inked a deal with Jim Butcher for a Dresden Files novelette to be published as a hardcover chapbook, and reached agreement with hot new supernatural detective writer (and comic legend) Mike Carey to publish an original hardcover chapbook featuring his exorcist, Felix Castor. (We can’t recommend the Castor novels highly enough. Only one is available in the U.S. thus far — The Devil You Know — but a pair of others are available as UK paperbacks. They’re great, tightly plotted, witty fun. Perfect summer/fall reading.)

Posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 7:56 am.