Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: The Band Perry, "Miss You Being Gone."

When will you Rise? COUNTDOWN coming from Subterranean Press!

Hey. Remember when I wrote a novella leading up to the release of Deadline, and we called it "Countdown," and everybody had a good time watching the end of the world? Yeah, that was fun. In fact, that was so fun that Orbit wound up purchasing the novella for the Orbit Short Fiction Program, which gave me the luxury of revising and expanding on the original text (since I couldn't really afford the time when I wasn't getting paid for it). Good times.

Well. The times are getting better. Subterranean Press, the publishers of amazing limited-edition, illustrated works of speculative fiction, have acquired the rights to "Countdown," and will be publishing a special hardcover edition of the novella. These books will be limited to a signed and numbered print run of 1,000, and will include both "Countdown" and "Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box" (also previously published by the Orbit Short Fiction Program).

I am so excited. I don't know yet exactly when the books will be available, although believe me, I'll be announcing it as soon as I have any information. They should sell for about $35 USD, and are likely to sell out, if past books from this publisher are anything to measure by. Subterranean does small, beautiful, collector's-quality books, and having an edition from them is something I have dreamed of for years.

Life is good.
Tags: good things, mira grant, pandemic time, publishing news, short fiction, so the marilyn, zombies
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fadedbluejeans

August 25 2011, 02:36:32 UTC 5 years ago

Ooooh, shiny.

I have 2 copies of a Kelley Armstrong novella from them, the theory being that I was going to keep the signed, leatherbound one and sell the clothbound to go toward the price of a rarer, earlier novella. And then the books arrived, and they were SO PRETTY that I ended up keeping both.

The point of this story is that SubPress books are things of beauty and wonder, and that I MUST HAVE this book. Having a book published by Subterranean is a fantastic dream, and I'm so happy that this dream of yours is coming true.

seanan_mcguire

September 3 2011, 20:09:40 UTC 5 years ago

They really are. I'm so excited, still.