WE JUST RECEIVED a few advanced proof copies of THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, the first of two volumes, and man, does it ever look sharp. Five hundred-seventy-six pages, eighty-eight stories and 300,000 words starting with the first piece of fiction she sold in November of 1954, “Built for Pleasure,” up till her superhero homage “Grandma” in 2002. Emshwiller’s fiction cuts a straight path through the landscape of American literary genres: mystery, speculative fiction, magic realism, western, slipstream, fantasy and of course science fiction. This is one book we really are proud to be publishing. The limited first-edition hardcover is on scheduled to ship the first week in April. Let us know if you would like to have a copy – signed by Carol – reserved for you.

(Image: photo of Carol and Ed Emshwiller posing for cover to A Town Is Drowning, art by Emsh, c. 1955.)