Kaaron Warren’s new collection, Dead Sea Fruit, published by Ticonderoga Publications, is now available for pre-ordering from indiebooksonline.com

Dead Sea Fruit collects the following stories:

Introduction by Lucius Shepard

Dead Sea Fruit
Woman Train
Down to the Silver Spirits
Fresh Young Widow
Coalescence
Buster and Corky
Cooling the Crows
Edge of a Thing
Guarding the Mound
State of Oblivion
The Softening
The Grinding House
Green
Sins of the Ancestors
Doll Money
The Gibbet bell
In the Drawback
The Census-Taker’s Tale
His Lipstick Minx
Polish
The Coral Gatherer
Bone Dog
A Positive
The Capture Diamonds
Ghost Jail
The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall

Dead Sea Fruit is available in two editions, a tradepaperback and a limited edition hardcover, 100 copies only signed by all contributors. Cover artwork by Olga Read.

Dead Sea Fruit will be launched at AussieCon4, Melbourne, September 2010. Pre-orders will ship late August.

Dead Red Heart edited by Russell B Farr

We all know about vampires, drinking blood, banished by garlic, killed by sunlight or a stake through the heart.

We all know about Australia, the land down under: sand, beaches and lots of sunlight. That splash of red you see could be a world renowned shiraz, or tomato sauce on a meat pie.

Dead Red Heart will be an anthology of Australian vampire stories, showing vampires in Australian settings. It could be the beach, the outback, suburbs or cities. It could be historical or contemporary.

The editor is looking for stories that capture the essence of vampirism and the essence of Australia.

Any stories involving cultural borrowing from Australian indigenous cultures should be respectful of the beliefs of Australia’s traditional owners.

Submission guidelines

Send us your best vampire stories. Stories must reflect an Australian theme or setting. International contributors are welcome to submit.

1. Story length 1,000 to 7,500 words. (Longer stories may be accepted, although payment is capped at 7,500).
2. Original stories only: no reprints, multiple, or simultaneous submissions.
3. Stories may be submitted online here http://ticonderogapublications.com/news/jobs/dead-red-heart/.
4. Manuscript format: double spaced, large margins, sensible font, Australian English spelling.
5. The editors reserve the right to use their discretion in selecting stories.
6. Deadline: 1st December, 2010.

Reading period: The anthology is open to unsolicited submissions until 1st December, 2010.
Payment: 1 copy of hardcover edition, 1 copy of trade edition and Aus 2 cents/word (GST inc., maximum payment $150) on publication.

Dead Red Heart is scheduled for release in 2011.

Ticonderoga Publications is far more than totally chuffed to announce a forthcoming collection of stories by premiere Australian Fantasy writer Sara Douglass.

The substantial collection, scheduled for publication next year, is tentatively titled The Hall of Lost Footsteps.

Sara Douglass is the bestselling, award-winning writer of the Crucible, Troy Game, Darkglass Mountain and Wayfarer Redemption series.

Her short fiction has appeared in Eidolon, Dreaming Again and the World Fantasy Award winning Dreaming Down Under.

“Sara Douglass has written a number of wonderful powerful stories in addition to her novels,” Ticonderoga Editor Russell B. Farr said.

“It will be great to be able to get all of these gems, 15 years’ worth, in one volume,” he said.

The Hall of Lost Footsteps will also feature a number of Wayfarer Redemption related tales, appearing in print for the first time.

“We’re expecting to include a story or two that will be totally original to the collection,” Russell added.

The Hall of Lost Footsteps is scheduled for publication in 2011, in limited edition hardcover and trade editions.

More information will be available in coming months at www.ticonderogapublications.com

The Infernal, our 13th anniversary reprint of Kim Wilkins’ stunning first novel, is now shipping.

With all pre-orders now dispatched, we have a number of copies still available from out store.

http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=85

This limited edition hardcover is signed by Kim Wilkins, is a hefty tome at 460 pages (Ticonderoga Publications largest book to date) and with only 100 copies printed, is a guaranteed collectors edition.

The novel is an amazing tale, winning both the Aurealis Award for Fantasy Novel and the Aurealis Award for Horror Novel when first published in 1997.

This is the first hardcover edition.

We’re really pleased to be able to announce the cover design for Angela Slatter’s collection The Girl With No Hands and other tales.

Designed by Lisa L. Hannett, we think it’s an amazing and striking image, and hope that this leads to the books flying off the shelves.

We’re also pleased to announce that the collection is now available for pre-order, but…

Before we get to that, we’d like to offer you, our greatly appreciated customers, the opportunity to be part of this exceptional book.

Please consider this an offer to become a Patron of The Girl With No Hands and other tales.

Pre-order a copy of the limited edition before 7 July and we will show our appreciation by including your name in the book, recognising your generous patronage, and continuing centuries of traditions supporting artists and the arts.

The 100 copy limited edition will be published in hardcover, and signed by Angela Slatter, Jack Dann and Lisa L. Hannett. This is the ideal addition to the library of any discerning collector.

We invite you to be a patron of this impressive work by pre-ordering the limited edition $75 here.

If you would like to pre-order the tradepaperback edition, this may be ordered for $25 here.

It has come to our attention that recent copies of Belong and Scary Kisses we’ve shipped may suffer from pages falling out.

Firstly, we’d like to apologise. We’ve never had this problem before. We hope never to have this problem again — but that’s our problem, not yours. If you have received a copy, and have found it is prone to losing pages, please  let us know and we will replace this, free of charge.

Secondly, we’d like to assure you that we’re working with the printer to ensure that this never happens again. We’ve used this printer for 2 years, and this is the first problem we’ve had to date. If we can’t resolve this with the printer, we’ll change printers to one who can produce books to our required standard, so that this may never happen again.

We believe that you should be able to trust a TP book not to fall apart. We apologise again if this has happened to you. Please let us know and we’ll replace the book.

in our recent computer upgrade, it looks like our mailing list has been eaten. If  you were on the list, don’t worry, the data is safe. It’s just buried deep in our backup system – so deep that right now it’s easier to start again from scratch.

So if you want to be kept informed of all the latest news from TP, please send an email to news@ticonderogapublications.com with the word “Subscribe” in the subject line.

Our next title, the extremely limited and beautiful hardcover edition of Kim Wilkins’ multiple award-winning debut novel, The Infernal, now has a cover that we are proud to reveal.

Full details including ordering can be found at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=85.

This edition will run to 460 pages, costs $85 and will be limited to 100 copies, all signed by Kim Wilkins.

We expect to have these ready to ship in early May. Over the next few days we’ll reveal a little of the internal design here, as we intend this to be a beautiful and very collectible book.

This will be a title you’ll be proud to show off.

SwanCon is over and the tallies are in.

I’m pleased to announce that, while Belong put up a good fight, Scary Kisses outsold it by half a dozen copies. Both titles have done very well in sales to date, almost enough for us to pay the writers without selling a kidney.

There will be a Scary Kisses sequel in the next 18 months, so start thinking of ideas for paranormal romance stories.

Both books are available at www.indiebooksonline.com where we would be more than happy to send you copies.