Egaeus Press

[Freyasfire]

How titillating!

[Egaeus]

Yet another rather splendid review of George Berguño's The Tainted Earth has been posted:
http://speculativefictionjunkie.net/2013/02/06/review-the-tainted-earth/

"Authors who can draw on this oldest and most powerful of literary veins as well as Mr. Berguño does are rare, to say the least."

[Egaeus]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

A news update from Egaeus Press is somewhat overdue, so we hope to make this one count.

Firstly, our 'literary triptych', The Transfiguration Of Mister Punch - featuring the work of Charles Schneider, Cate Gardner and D.P. Watt - will be published a little later than originally advertised, in the early part of July. Sorry for the delay, but make no mistake, it'll be worth the wait.

Secondly, we're pleased to be able to confirm - though in typically cryptic fashion - that the next 12 months will see the publication of new collections by D.P. Watt, Adam S. Cantwell and Molly Tanzer. A very exciting line-up I hope you'll agree.

Updates will naturally follow, or keep tuned to the Egaeus Press website (www.egaeuspress.com)

Thank you.

[nomis]

You're doing the gods' work, sir.

[Egaeus]

Ladies & Gentlemen, boys and girls...

The British seaside season is upon us, and Punch is rising. After a few delays – for which we can only apologise - we're finally able to announce with certainty that The Transfiguration of Mister Punch - featuring the work of D.P. Watt, Charles Schneider and Cate Gardner will be available to pre-order on the 3rd August, with copies being despatched on the 19th August, or even a little earlier.

As I write this, the printing presses are poised in anticipation, their inky fingers twitching over its soon to be filled pages.
More announcements will follow as the time nears. Or keep an eye on the website: www.egaeuspress.com.

And we promise you, it will be worth every day's wait.
Thank you all.

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Egaeus

Ladies & Gentlemen, boys and girls... The British seaside season is upon us, and Punch is rising. After a few delays – for which we can only apologise - we're finally able to announce with certainty that The Transfiguration of Mister Punch - featuring the work of D.P. Watt, Charles Schneider and Cate Gardner will be available to pre-order on the 3rd August, with copies being despatched on the 19th August, or even a little earlier. As I write this, the printing presses are poised in anticipation, their inky fingers twitching over its soon to be filled pages. More announcements will follow as the time nears. Or keep an eye on the website: www.egaeuspress.com. And we promise you, it will be worth every day's wait. Thank you all.

I'll be sure to buy this. Looking forward to it.

[Egaeus]

Good people

If I might take a moment from readying myself for the impending arrival of The Transfiguration Of Mister Punch, I should like to announce that this autumn Egaeus Press will be publishing a new collection by the excellent Molly Tanzer, who I might add has just been nominated for best newcomer at this year's British Fantasy Awards. The collection will be entitled Rumbullion and Other Liminal Libations, and will feature a number of previously published stories along with new material, including a novella, and, for the discerning – or perhaps undiscerning – libertine, themed drinks recipes from Molly's own expert repertoire. More information will follow in due course.

Thank you kindly.
www.egaeuspress.com

[Egaeus]

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages...

It is with no small degree of pleasure that we are able to announce our latest publication, The Transfiguration Of Mister Punch - featuring new writings by Cate Gardner, Charles Schneider and D.P. Watt – is available for pre-order.
But what - I hear you ask – is it all about? For some – for most perhaps - the very name of Punch will be enough ignite in their minds pictures of grotesque and cracked lacquered wooden things, of bells and distended bellies and moon-shaped grinning heads; or else they might find themselves involuntarily drawn to some garish childhood memory of fairground pandemonium or the melancholic sounds of candystriped tarpaulin flapping on some windblown seafront where Punch and his associates screeched and capered for their entertainment. Yet for all their pin-prickly poignancy, these thoughts are essentially superficial, grounded as they are in basic sentimentality.

The Transfiguration Of Mister Punch proffers something more complex. It is the work of three celebrated contemporary writers, working more or less in isolation from one another to produce what might be termed a literary triptych – a three panelled piece – fantastical in its parts, suggestive in its entirety of a reality altogether out of this dream we call life. A reality behind that little rectangle of gloom and plywood scenery where the myth of Punch is played out in time honoured fashion to the human world. This is the wondrous and dreadful, tragical and comical domain of Mister Punch & Co., fettered no more by the manipulations of humanity; real living things, breathing, large as life, real as the stars.
The full contents of the book reads thusly:

The Show That Must Never Die by Charles Schneider - A curious and rambling essay with certain grand, glorious and once-secret revelations.

Memorabilia by D.P. Watt - An evening’s entertainment for two players, incorporating a number of singular tales.

This Foolish & Harmful Delight by Cate Gardner – A grotesque novella set in hell and theatreland, concerning love, death, dismemberment and a mechanical heart.

The book is a lithographically printed, 256 page sewn hardback with colour endpapers. ISBN 978-0-957160637. It is priced at £30 inclusive of P&P and is limited to 300 copies. The first 150 copies include an exclusive postcard of Charles Schneider's deranged Punch oil painting “How Do, Mr. Toby”.

To order, kindly direct your gaze to: http://www.egaeuspress.com/Punch.html. Pre-ordered copies will be despatched on / very close to the 19th of August 2013.

Thanks kindly for your attention.

[Michael]

Ordered this as soon as I got done watching Wolverine. Don't know if there's a cause and effect there but both things kick ass so maybe that's the common denominator.

[kobaia]

Ordered. 19th of August can't come soon enough. Superb cover!