We’ve been lucky enough to have two SubPress titles nominated for Nebula Awards by the SFWA, including John Scalzi’s ultra-dark fantasy space opera, The God Engines. This has become our best-selling Scalzi title, and with good reason. As Publishers Weekly pointed out, “If J. G. Ballard and H. P. Lovecraft had ever collaborated on a space opera, the results might have been like this: ferociously inventive, painfully vivid, dispassionately bleak and dreadfully memorable.”

Also a Nebula nominee in the novella category is Kage Baker’s The Women of Nell Gwynne’s. We’re sold out of this title, though the novella will be reprinted later this year in the expanded Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy, which will also include the novelette, “The Bohemian Astrobleme”.

Finally, John Scalzi’s novel Zoe’s Tale is up for the Norton Award. Keep an eye out — we’ll be posting ordering information for the limited edition very soon.

Return to the world of Kelley Armstrong’s best-selling novels Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic for Counterfeit Magic, a long original novella.

The first rule of a supernatural fight club? Don’t kill your opponent.

When the fighters come with lethal spells, werewolf strength and half-demon powers, that can be a lot tougher than it sounds. It’s hard to attract talent if they know they might not leave the ring alive. So when fighters at a California club start dying … it’s bad for business.

Witch detectives Paige Winterbourne and Savannah Levine take the case. Going undercover in the power-heavy arena of the fight club is a welcome change of pace for Paige, relegated to the role of The Wife as her husband struggles to find his place in his family’s Cabal—the corporate Mafia of the supernatural world.

As Paige is drawn deeper into new and dangerous corners of her world, she quickly discovers the greatest threat isn’t the killer in her sights. It’s something much, much closer to home. And this is one fight she can’t afford to lose.

The Limited Edition of Counterfeit Magic be leatherbound, with a completely different dust jacket than the Trade Edition. In addition, the Trade Edition cover will be reproduced as a full-color frontispiece. Both editions will feature 8-10 full page black and white interior illustrations.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered leatherbound copies, with different dust jacket: $45

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $25

In addition to our lettered editions, here’s an ultra-quick update on where things stand with shipping:

We’ve just finished packing and sending out all orders (direct, retail, wholesale) for Charles de Lint’s epic fantasy novel, Eyes Like Leaves. You can’t tell it from the small image, but Mike Dringenberg really knocked the wraparound cover out of the park.

As soon as our lettered editions are done shipping, we’ll move on Ray Bradbury’s mammoth mystery omnibus, Where Everything Ends, which gathers his three semi-autobiographical detective novels, as well as the original story, making its debut appearance more than 50 years after it was written.

Along with the Bradbury, we’ll be shipping Kage Baker’s extravaganza, Not Less Than Gods, a Company related novel that, with its steampunk driven gadgetry and outre situations, will please her many fans.

We’ve had a number of lettered editions lined up on the tarmac, and are taking a couple day break from shipping new titles to catch up with those, which include:

Songs of the Dying Earth (edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois);
The Last Colony (John Scalzi);
Drood (Dan Simmons);
The Terror (Dan Simmons);
This is Me, Jack Vance! (Jack Vance);

We’ll jump right back into shipping newly published books as soon as the above lettereds are out the door.

The past couple of days have been very happy ones here at SubPress. Kelley Armstrong just turned in Counterfeit Magic, a brand new novella set in the world of her popular novels Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic. Kelley’s many fans will be even more pleased to know that the new novella is well over twice as long as Angelic was.

Still speaking of novellas, K. J. Parker just turned in her latest, tentatively titled Blue and Gold. No word on the subject matter yet, as we’ve just loaded it into our ereaders.

Meanwhile, back at the printer, we’ve just ordered a third printing of John Scalzi’s dark fantasy novella, The God Engines, which officially pushes it into the top spot as our best-selling Scalzi title yet.

We’re reprinting, yes, but mostly for our wholesale and large retail accounts. If you order direct from SubPress, you’ll still receive a first printing copy, though we expect that supply to hold out only for a few more weeks.

This week’s original story over at Subterranean Online is a brief one, but no less powerful for that. Michael Bishop has graced us with “The Library of Babble“, which should take you only a few minutes to read, but will linger far longer. Long-time readers may remember Bishop’s earlier tale, “The Pile“, which also more than deserves your attention. Both tales were based upon notes by Bishop’s son, Jamie.

Our shippers have sent out all individual orders for Charles de Lint’s Eyes Like Leaves, along with over half of the wholesale and retail orders. The rest will follow over the next few days. Roughly 80% of both the deluxe leatherbound edition and signed trade editions are sold out, with more orders arriving on a daily basis.

After Eyes, we’ll be moving on quickly to shipping Where Everything Ends (Ray Bradbury), Not Less Than Gods (Kage Baker), and The Great Bazaar and other Stories (Peter V. Brett). Please keep an eye on our news page, and our newsletter, for further updates.

Here’s the first of three new collections we’re announcing, by new writer Daniel Abraham, acclaimed author of The Long Price Quartet and Hunter’s Run (with George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois).

Leviathan Wept and Other Stories may well be the best debut collection we’ve seen since Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts. You’d do well to preorder a copy and see what all the excitement is about.

Next up is Journeys by Ian R. MacLeod, whose most recent novel, The Song of Time, won the 2009 Campbell award. Journeys gathers nine tales, including “The Hob Carpet,” a stunningly horrific novella, as well as “The Master Miller’s Tale,” another novella, this one a return to the world of his popular novels The Light Ages and The House of Storms.

Finally, we have a long gathering of the best recent work by Australian writer Terry Dowling. Collectors may remember that his collection from Cemetery Dance, Basic Black, sold out within a month of publication a few years ago. We have no reason to believe that Amberjack: Tales of Fear & Wonder will be any different, with its heady mix of sf, fantasy, and horror. Dowling’s a singular writer, shown to good effect in this new collection.

Kage Baker may be gone, but her work lives on. Our major Baker title last year, The Women of Nell Gwynne’s, sold out quickly and now fetches $80+ on the collector’s market. We’ve decided to re-release this steampunk adventure in the fall as a trade paperback, under the title Nell Gwynne’s Scarlet Spy. To flesh the book out, making it more attractive to our wholesale and retail accounts, we’ve added the Lady Beatrice novelette, “The Bohemian Astrobleme.”

Watch for more Kage Baker books in the future as we work with her agent to bring projects to fruition.