Two Books Shipped to Stores

In the last ten days, two ESP titles have shipped to bookstores. Most notably, Barnes and Noble will soon have John Shirley's novel Black Glass, and Tim Curran's novel Hive on their shelves. Keep an eye out for them.

Black Glass is a remarkable "lost cyberpunk novel." As cited by Locus Magazine, it is far more than that. John returns to the cyberpunk setting, and updates the sub-genre as well. This is a modern novel about timeless conflicts. But there is enough nostalgia to please cyberpunk fans, and enough dark science fiction to delight new readers.

For those who are fans of Tim Curran, Hive is well known. A reprinting of the title is shipping to the stores, and with it comes the news of Tim's second novel in the series --. For the moment, the name won't be mentioned, but I'm certain a peek at Tim's blog would reveal it. Once the title is listed with distributors, ESP will make an official announcement it. But the manuscript is in house, and the book is slated for a 2010 release.

There are a few more new titles on their way to press. News of those will appear here shortly.

High Seas Cthulhu Release Party!

The High Seas Cthulhu release party is a go! The celebration is Saturday October 13 at the ConClave 32 Science Fiction convention in Romulus, Michigan, which is held October 12-14. Right now the tentative time is 3:00-5:00, but once that's firmed up I'll post the official time here.

There will be a drawing for free copies High Seas, as a chance to meet several of the contributors, a panel, giveaways, and more!

Here's the official link to ConClave's website: http://www.conclavesf.org/
Stop by and say hello, we look forward to seeing you there!

Ahoy! Discounts abound!

Arrrr! It be Talk Like a Pirate day. To celebrate this and our new release High Seas Cthulhu, we'll offer up some treasure. Between now & Sunday, use coupon code ESP_PIRATE to be gettin' yer 10% off any order of $10.00 or more. Avast!

High Seas Ahoy!

Hello all,

As I write this, our latest release, High Seas Cthulhu, is shipping to distributors and retailers around the world. Our advance order customers and retailers should already have their copies by now.

I suspect that High Seas will be showing up in Borders in the next couple of weeks, so if you haven't picked up your copy yet, well then Ahoy, Borders awaits!

So we're going to try to celebrate all this fun High Seas Cthulhu goodness with a High Seas Release Party in October. I don't have the exact details for the release party yet, but as soon as I do, they will be posted in this blog, and I do hope to see you there. Ahoy!

Long time, no post.

Okay, so I haven't been great about updating this blog. Thing is, we've been quite busy over the summer working on a few new releases, such as Dark Wisdom issue #11 and High Seas Cthulhu. We're quite proud of issue #11, which is our second full-color release of the magazine.

We've received a quantity advance copies of High Seas, which are currently shipping to pre-order customers (High Seas will not officially be in stores and on the bookshelves until October 1).

I hear there may be a special "below the decks" glimpse into the making of High Seas Cthulhu, courtesy of editor William Jones, on his blog, featuring insights on how the anthology came together, as well as input from some of the contributors. Keep an eye on his blog over the next few weeks: http://williamsramblings.blogspot.com/

Stay tuned, more updates to come soon. I mean that, this time.

You're releasing what... when?

It' s been awhile, hasn't it? We're still busy attending to the distributor hand-over, as well as getting a few new books ready for press.

Speaking of distributor hand-over. You may have wandered by Amazon or the like and attempted to purchase one of our books, say Harboiled Cthulhu. Maybe you had one on order. And all of the sudden, after it's been steadily available since its release date, you notice that all of the sudden it's got a release date of April 15, 2007, and it's listed as a pre-order!

In addition, for existing customers, you may have received a notification that the book was not yet available.

Well, that's not true. The book, as with all of our others, is available, don't let them tell you otherwise. As part of the change-over, all of our books were re-listed with our new distributor as the provider, which caused the change in release date. This will soon show up correctly in Amazon's system again, and if you received a notice that the book won't be available until April, I assure you that any restocks are on their way to Amazon as I type this.

They've arrived (part III): All's well that ends well.

Aforementioned misplaced signed Chronicles paperbacks: located by the fine folks in our warehouse, as we had hoped, so the space-time vortex transport will not be necessary.