What do you get when you cross the months of the year with a bunch of kindergarten kids, and add in the Macarena? Orion's in the thick of it. I had the chance to listen in at his classroom near the end of the day on Friday. And then from there we rushed to the movie theater to catch the Iron Man matinee...

Below is a list of Fairwood books to come. Most of them I've announced in various venues over the past year. But among them are some new announced titles:

I'm pleased to announce that I will be doing an as yet untitled 3rd short story collection by James Van Pelt, which will be ready (tenatively) for next summer. There's another "Van Pelt vehicle" that I'll hold off on announcing for now, due to the nature of the beast...

Also, I'm doing a limited hardcover of a novella by Jay Lake, titled "The Specific Gravity of Grief." It will be along the lines of the limited Ken Scholes novelette "Last Flight of the Goddess," in that it will be signed, numbered, and limited to a certain number of copies. That exact number hasn't been decided upon yet.

And more big news: I'm reprinting Louise Marley's Singers of Nevya trilogy in an omnibus edition. These were her first three novels, and they're out of print and nearly impossible to find. With the release of her novel Singer in the Snow, the fourth Nevya novel, more and more fans of her work have asked her about these first 3 wonderful books. 

Yes, starting in August this year, I'll have a book a month out. I've set some time aside, however, before rolling into 09 in March. There may be another title or two in 09 that's not in stone yet, and so isn't on the list below. 

Fairwood Forthcoming Books:

August 2008
THE VIPER OF PORTELLO
a novel by James C. Glass
(available for preorder at www.fairwoodpress.com)

September 2008
THE EXQUISITE CORPUSCLE
an anthology edited by Frank Wu & Jay Lake
(tentative date, since we don't have all the materials yet...)

October 2008
THE GODS PERSPIRE: THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF KEN RAND, VOL 2
a collection by Ken Rand

November 2008
LONG WALKS, LAST FLIGHTS & OTHER JOURNEYS
a collection by Ken Scholes

December 2008
ACROSS THE SKY
a collection by Mark Rich

March 2009
THE SINGERS OF NEVYA
an omnibus trilogy by Louise Marley

July 2009
STORY COLLECTION 3
a collection by James Van Pelt

November 2009
THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF GRIEF
a novella by Jay Lake 

Also in there, in the July 2008 spot, is Ken Rand's exhaustive Port Chicago history, PORT CHICAGO ISN'T THERE ANYMORE--BUT WE STILL CALL IT HOME.