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“.

We’re pleased to announce a signed limited edition novella, Alpha and Omega, by New York Times Best-Seller Patrica Briggs, whose Mercy Thompson books are the hottest series going in urban fantasy. Our novella, which appeared once in an anthology we’re certain many of Patty’s fans missed, will be published in an edition of only 1000 signed hardcover copies illustrated by Maurizio Manzieri. The book is designed, proofed, and ready to go. All we need are the signature pages, and Alpha will be ready for its release this fall.

The seeds of the ARCs we planted for Philip Jose Farmer and Win Scott Eckert’s The Evil in Pemberley House are starting to bear fruit, as snippets from these three internet reviews prove:

“Between them Farmer and Eckert have served up a most satisfying coda to the “Wold Newton” cycle. Familiarity with those works is not a pre-requiste to enjoying ‘Pemberley House,’ of course, as it works just as well as a stand-alone novel in the gothic tradition.” (Bard of the Lesser Boulevards)

“The colorful cast of characters includes the dowager Duchess and her very personal physician multiple servants with mysterious pasts and those hangers on who gravitate into the lives of wealthy people when there are no relatives to prevent it. There are also the usual bedroom-farce antics and cases of mistaken identity that abound in romantic novels.” (Speculations in Bronze)

“The answer to both questions is a resounding yes. Like many of Farmer’s works it can be read on many levels, a sexually charged gothic thriller, a psychological mystery, a sherlockian/pulp pastiche and yes, as a novel that fits into his Wold Newton Family mythos. Farmer’s skill was always to adeptly take many disparate elements, do some literary alchemy and decant gold from the mixture. The Evil in Pemberley House is no exception to this rule. It is a very good book and a compelling read. I think that it easily stands alongside such works as The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Greatheart Silver, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg as well as his erotic classic A Feast Unknown.” (From the Den)

Early reader reaction to this Wold Newton concoction is, as you can see, quite positive–the tale wrapped inside Glenn Orbik’s utterly perfect dust jacket.

Even though it’s been out for over six months, reviews for Cherie Priest’s hillbilly monster mash, Those Who Went Remain There Still, continue to trickle in. This time, as the Sacramento Book Review notes, “Explaining Those Who Went Remain There Still without sounding delusional should be part of the Mensa admission test: unkillable she-birds, Daniel Boone, psychic sisters, ghost-sensitive men, and Hatfield and-McCoy-style Southern rivalries all play a role—and that’s not even counting the hidden will or the smelly cave of death.”

The trade edition is long gone, but we still have the limited edition, which includes an exclusive chapbook, as well as consisting of only 200 signed numbered copies.

The reviews of Kage Baker’s steampunk romp, The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, are revving up. Here’s the lastest, from Sf Site: “The steampunk nature of the story is revealed by the amusing devices available to the spies — very much James Bond in the 19th Century — including a covert set of eyes for supposedly blind Mrs. Corvey. The actual plot is a bit rudimentary, but enjoyably relayed, as Lady Beatrice and friends entertain Lord Basmond’s various guests, witness a murder, and unravel the curious facts behind Lord Basmond’s invention.”

The first review for the Jack Vance tribute antho, Songs of the Dying Earth, is in, and it’s a beaut. Library Journal, in its starred review, says “from Dan Simmons’s new novella about a wild search for the Ultimate Library (’The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderoz’) to Walter Jon Williams’s tale of an architectural student caught up in a war between two great powers (’A brizonde’), the 23 stories not only capture the unique feel of Vance’s dying universe but stand individually as one of the strongest gatherings of writers to pay homage to one of their own.”

In Mike Resnick’s Hazards, fresh off his positive Publishers Weekly review, Lucifer Jones’s battered ego had to undergo this from Library Journal. “A winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, Resnick is not only a talented and passionate sf novelist but also a raconteur in the grand style of picaresque tales featuring one-of-a-kind quasiheroes whose roguish qualities often mask a softer side. Fans of the series or the author will enjoy this cavalcade of adventure straight from the annals of pulp fiction and the mind of a true literary genius.” We’re not sure how Lucifer will manage, but we’re certain he’ll muddle through somehow.

Hazards is at the printer, and on schedule for release in the next 3-4 weeks.

PW’s was not a perfectly glowing review, but it did sum up the action in James P. Blaylock’s new adventure, The Ebb Tide, quite nicely: “Explorer-scientist Langdon St. Ives and narrator Jack Owlesby (familiar from 2008’s The Adventures of Langdon St. Ives) embark upon a new steampunk adventure in this slight but enjoyable novella. A battered old map, possibly drawn by St. Ives’s long-missing companion, Bill Kraken, displays the location of a strange object that plunged to earth years earlier. Hilario Frosticos [ED: aka Dr. Ignacio Narbondo], longtime nemesis to St. Ives, is also in pursuit, and a series of amusing feints and counterfeints culminates in a frantic race to an underwater grotto.”