The Deixis Press Weekly - Issue #45
*blows dust off the top of the weekly newsletter*
*coughs*
Hello Deixis Press fans! Yes, the press still exists; since we last spoke I’ve sold out of Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives for the second time, and also out of After Silence. But don’t worry! Hardbacks and paperbacks of these and every other book from Deixis Press remain available to order from your favorite bookstore, online or irl. (And I still have some of the others available at a discount in hardback)
But WHAT ON EARTH have I been doing? you ask. Well, as per my last newsletter, I’ve been toiling away at ALPH, working on any number of books. I try to track everything I read on my Goodreads, and this year the work books yet again outnumber the pleasure books (but only just). Sometimes I’ll be sitting at my desk reading a book and after a bit I’ll get a shock, like—omg, I’ve just been reading at work for half an hour—and then I remember that’s my actual job.
The press itself has mostly just been ticking along behind the scenes with the help of Hannah (publicity) and Alex (socials), but at least two new books are coming out next year. I’m aiming for April and May, depending on publicity plans (to be confirmed in early January).
APRIL 2023: Greyskin, James Kinsley
This stylish collection of interconnected western adventure stories has a twist: it’s not cowboys and Indians. Not exactly, anyway. James has populated his frontier with any number of native inhabitants and colonizers, and as you read the stories in Greyskin you’ll realize that the world James has created is vast—there are so many stories that can never and will never be told, making the ones we do get to hear all the more enjoyable.MAY 2023: What We Leave Behind, Siôn Scott-Wilson
Sammy and Facey are back! I don’t want to tell you toooooo much, but I will say that they find themselves doing the bidding of the same bad and powerful men that we met in Some Rise By Sin. When I tell you that I sobbed my heart out at the end of this book and then called the author to tell him off, that is also not a spoiler. And you technically could read What We Leave Behind as a standalone book, but why would you deny yourself the pleasure of the first one?
I’m in the process of the final editorial bits and the typesetting, and we have cover ideas in hand; this Christmas period is a holiday from ALPH but a productive time for Deixis Press.
And there could be more books next year, too—I just can’t figure out what will be the best thing for me, for my authors, for their readership . . . but lots is going on behind the scenes.
I hope you all had a dynamic Festivus and that you continue to enjoy your Yule.
Yours,
Angel