New Books from Lethe & Prime

~ Cheryl

We have some new books in the store this morning. First up is Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. This is a new anthology series from Lethe, a companion to their Wilde Stories series. It is edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft & Steve Berman, and should become a an annual purchase for anyone interested in lesbian SF&F. The 2011 edition contains fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Ellen Kushner and N. K. Jemisin amongst others. I love the cover. If you’d like to see it full size, click here.

Update: And the book is currently half price (see comment from Steve Berman below).

From Prime we have a couple of books from their back catalog recently converted to ebook format. The first is Northwest Passages by Barbara Roden. This was a World Fantasy nominee in 2010, and the lead story, “Northwest Passage”, was nominated for the World Fantasy, Stoker and International Horror Guild awards in 2005. There is an introduction by no less than Michael Dirda.

Also newly available is Phantom edited by Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace. As the title suggests, this is a collection of ghost stories. The authors include Steve Rasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, Nick Mamatas, Michael Cisco.

6 thoughts on “New Books from Lethe & Prime”

  1. Let’s offer Russ at 50% off – help give it a push. And for the month of January Wizard’s Tower can keep all profits.

  2. I’m trying to buy the ebook — but why does Wizard Tower need my physical address and phone number before I can even begin to place an order?

    1. Hi Fran,

      Very good question. The answer is complicated. If you want to sell other people’s products online you need to make sure that you have a very professional website. I have to make the books safe from pirates, and of course I have to give customers a safe shopping experience. That means I can’t just build something myself, I need professional quality store software. So I asked around some friends and ended up choosing the same package that Angry Robot used to build their store. It is very good in many ways, but it isn’t specifically designed for ebook selling, so it makes assumptions about what is needed. I note as well that the store can and does sell physical products, because Wizard’s Tower does make paper books as well, so some customers will need to give us an address. I’ll have another check to see if I can make the phone number optional, but in the meantime if you want to enter nonsense in those fields I won’t mind.

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