Without going into exact figures, Ticonderoga Publications enjoyed several days of solidly brisk trading at last weekend’s worldcon, held in Melbourne.

We launched two new titles, Kaaron Warren’s Dead Sea Fruit and Angela Slatter’s The Girl With No Hands and other stories, and sold about 30 copies of each at the launch. The launch was fantastic, and all credit should go to Kaaron, Angela, Lisa L. Hannett, for signing their fingers to the bone, and Liz Grzyb, who sat cooly behind the cashbos as the hordes waved money and cards before her.

A big thank you to everyone who attended the launch, it was heartening to see such a strong turn out to support two incredibly talented writers.

Over the weekend, both titles sold out of available stock at the table, and we’re all pretty chuffed at this. While there are still many copies of each left to sell, it was great to be shipping home a few less boxes than we arrived with.

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.