PS Publishing - Stephen King Anniversary Editions

[Randall Flagg]

Vanished? Imagine that.

[Brian James Freeman]

Vanished? Imagine that.

You could say they up and vanished like a fart in the wind.

Brian

[herbertwest]

Did any of those magically reappear for sale, anywhere?
But yes, that confirms my idea of shipping the signing sheets to King, last.

[Brian James Freeman]

Did any of those magically reappear for sale, anywhere?

No, I suspect they're either posted on an office wall or hidden away in a personal filing cabinet!

Brian

[Bev Vincent]

Or stuck into the front of other books...

[Brian James Freeman]

Or stuck into the front of other books...

So THAT'S where your collection of signed first editions came from! I should have known!

[Br!an]

Or stuck into the front of other books...

So THAT'S where your collection of signed first editions came from! I should have known!

[Roseannebarr]

Two quotes from the Newsletter. Two copies still available. I pasted here for easy reference.

But that was nothing. Then came the CARRIE slipcase.

It turned out that we make a small change to the book AFTER producing the blank-paged dummy, and that ‘small’ change involved an additional eight pages (it’s a print thing: the books are produced in eight-page sections and so, sometimes, even causing one extra page means having to accommodate eight). All of which meant that, when we started to put books with cases earlier this week, the apertures in the slipcases were too narrow for the books.

So Nicky, Mike and I bit yet another bullet and authorised the cases being re-created sob!. They’re due in on 1 August and we’re planning on all copies being sent out before we leave for the World SF Convention in London mid-month.

Of course, out of every problem there should (if you look hard enough) appear something positive.

Thus we’re looking at creating a neat-o update on the next two Stephen King Anniversary editions to be housed in one of the too-small CARRIE slipcases and sent out to those folks who ordered a copy. But please note that this little goodie will be sent out only to those folks who signed up for the lettered edition.

And while we’re on the subject, we had to re-instate two copies of the lettered edition due to payment problems. Thus, if you wanted a copy but missed out in the flurry of excitement a few weeks back then now’s your chance. But just TWO copies are available. Good luck.

Hey, the bases are loaded and we’re in the bottom of the ninth (Heck, I always’ wanted to shout that! Oh, and Steve? Can I have my pencil back now? Kin I? Huh?)

Naw, I was just joshin’ the big guy then. Heck, he’s barely surfaced from the chaos of signing the special sections of our lettered edition of CARRIE. Well, the signing wasn’t so much the problem as getting the sheets on to Glenn Chadbourne and back to Blighty for Messrs Lovegrove and Newman. Sounds easy, right? Don’t you believe it.

Already involving much to-ing and fro-ing—believe me, you don’t wanna know—instead of going to Glenn when Steve had finished with them, the sheets got returned to England and then disappeared into the black hole that also answers to the name of the FedEx building at Stanstead Airport (be afraid . . . be very afraid!). Well, after sitting on a desk there for some eight days while all the rest of us combed the farthest flung areas of the planet so as not to have to go again to Steve and ask him to repeat the operation, the sheets showed up and were duly returned to Steve’s office where they were picked up and hand-delivered to Glenn. By this time, the package had picked up enough air miles to fly three times around the planet.

But the good news is Glenn has now signed them and they’re on their way for one more trans-Atlantic journey to the domiciles of Messrs Lovegrove and Newman. We’re aiming (hoping? praying?) to be able to hand them over to Blissets by the end of the month so that they can produce the long-awaited full colour dummy of ALL the items in the lettered edition.

We’ll keep ya posted!

[Roseannebarr]

I cant wait to get my book! My first lettered! My first very expensive lettered. But it will be worth it, if it stays limited to 26 copies and no one else ever, ever, ever, ever, ever gets permission to do a S/L Carrie.

[pete at pspublishing]

Hi Roseanne -- Certainly you may rest assured that there'll be no more copies coming from PS.

We're nearing the stage to put up the order page for THINNER. We're just waiting for more artwork from Les and Mike is working on the cover (a VERY striking image). We've got ALL of the artwork for SKELETON CREW but that won't go up until later.

Best wishes one and all

Pete

[herbertwest]

PS Publishing posted those first draft cover in their latest newsletter.
Artwork by Pete Von Sholly.
Both books are planned for may of 2015.




Lets remember the great following illustration posted about a month ago (artwork by Les Edwards)

[Jimimck]

Not sure what I think about Skeleton Crew. It seems a bit too busy for me, but then that could be a good fit for a short story collection.

[Roseannebarr]

I liked the Skeleton Crew. I know its been along time since i read thinner. but i dont get the cover? love the pie and "thin" man!

[Superfly]

Skeleton crew looks for me like a creepy book for children. Sorry. But it looks like Thinner will be really great.

[WeDealInLead]

Not into that Skeleton Crew artwork at all. Other two are both great.

[Randall Flagg]

I like the art, but am unsure. Quite a bit of blue in the covers. It looks like there was an attempt to get an icon for every story (21 in total,) on the Skeleton Crew cover.

[tippy4]

Wondering why King is listed as the author of Thinner?

[Lookwhoitis]

Wondering why King is listed as the author of Thinner?

Yeah, that's super craycray. I wonder if they couldn't get the rights to republish the book under the pseudonym?

[Stockerlone]

Nice... but....
when i think illustration+Skeleton Crew i only think about the beautiful Skeleton Crew Kalender drawings from Darek Kozurek......

[Merlin1958]

Not sure what I think about Skeleton Crew. It seems a bit too busy for me, but then that could be a good fit for a short story collection.

I like the fact that they represented a bunch of the stories, but it might have been a nice touch to include a version of the S/L original artwork. Not the same image, but this artists take on it. Just a thought. Seeing as a "Skeleton Crew S/L" is one of my grails, I may just go for this edition. However, I will miss any representation of the original art.

[Br!an]

Wondering why King is listed as the author of Thinner?

That is strange. I wonder if it's intentional.

[WeDealInLead]

It makes sense. Bachman books have been published under Stephen King ever since he came clean, no? There was even that band that later came with Thinner saying that was really Stephen King.

[Br!an]

This being an "Anniversary Edition" I figured it would be true to the original.

[pete at pspublishing]

Hey everyone, thanks for your comments on the artwork. Very helpful. I'm totally sold on the THINNER cover, I have to say. But while I absolutely LOVE the pieces that Pete Von Sholly turned in for SKELETON CREW (22 or 23 of them), I'm now wondering if maybe the composite cover is just a little too busy. So far, it would seem that the majority of your folks here on the DT site think it is but I'll wait for more comments.

As regards saying THINNER is by Bachman well, the man who'll have the final say is Steve and I need to check in with him about it. I think a good compromise, I reckon, would be to make it 'Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman' but, like I say, my opinion and a couple bucks will only buy you a coffee so let's wait until Steve passes judgement.

It's hot as hell on the Yorkshire coast right now so all I can say is roll on winter! Have a great weekend, whatever you're doing.

Best wishes

Pete

[Br!an]

Thanks Pete. I'm good with whatever Steve wants.

As far as the dustjackets. I like the Thinner and find the SC cover too busy.