June Chronicle - Book Deals If you have any news of books sold (or re-sold or foreign language sales) please email the information to mailto:methos@eternalnight.co.uk and it will included in the next Chronicle. K.J. Bishop UK rights to The Etched City, published in the US by Prime Books, have sold to Pan Macmillan for their new imprint Tor UK. . Bruce Boston PITCHBLENDE, a collection of dark poetry will be released Dark Regions towards the end of the year. The introduction will be provided by Michael A. Arnzen. . Gary A. Braunbeck Leisure books has just acquired THE INDIFFERENCE OF HEAVEN, to be released as a mass-market paperback in June of 2004. . Wildside Press (http://www.wildsidepress.com) will be releasing Gary A. Braunbeck's first collection of short sf stories. It will be called x3 and will be released in 2004. . Borderlands (http://www.borderlandspress.com) will be releasing THE LITTLE ORANGE BOOK OF ODD STORIES, a 20,000 word small format hardcover collection which will include some new work. . Gary A. Braunbeck will also have a non-fiction book coming out soon which will include his ELDRITCH EYE film columns as well as CHRONICLE OF THE DROWNING DAYS - a personal account of the sequence of events from his short story 'Drowning With Others' first being optioned through to it's filming. . ed. Kealan-Patrick Burke TAVERNS OF THE DEAD to be released by Cemetery Dance. . Ramsey Campbell PS Publishing will be releasing the next horror novel from Ramsey Campbell. The book, entitled The Overnight, will feature a J.K. Potter. . Michael Cisco Prime Books have acquired hardcover and trade publication rights for Michael Cisco's new novel, The Tyrant. Publication is expected in early 2004. . William Gibson UK rights William Gibson's new novel (currently without a title) have sold to Tony Lacey at Penguin UK. . Christopher Golden & Thomas E. Sniegoski Simon and Schuster Children's Books has bought world rights to a four book children's fantasy series - The Outcast about a boy who is the only non-magickal person in his world. . John Grant (Paul Barnett) Blue Ear will be presenting the new John Grant THE DRAGONS OF MANHATTAN, a satirical fantasy in which dragons in disguise control the world's power bases as an e-serial novel. . R. Andrew Heidell PS Publishing have picked up a book which is described as "a big collection of 'small' stories and surreal vignettes", although at the moment the title of this collection is unknown - but it does contain the author first book BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP in its entirity. . Phil Henry Phil Henry has just signed a deal with Black Death Books who will be publishing his new work which as yet is untitled. . Brian A. Hopkins Camelot Books has released a limited edition chapbook of one of Brian's short stories. It is entitled The Woodshed and is now available. . Rhys Hughes Engelbrecht, Again!, a collection of tales featuring "Maurice Richardson's pugilistic dwarf, Engelbrecht, and the rest of the Surrealist Sportsman's Society" will be released by Night Shade Books in December 2003. There will be a $40 limited edition signed hardcover . Edward Lee INFERNAL to be released by Cemetery Dance. . Michael McCarty Wildside Press will shortly release GIANTS OF THE GENRE in trade paperback. The book contains interviews with many of the Great Writers of Horror including Peter Straub, Poppy Z. Brite, Douglas Clegg, Bentley Little, Neil Gaiman, and Graham Masterton. . Paul J. McAuley PS Publishing will be releasing a collection of short stories from Paul J. McAuley which will be called Little Machines. . Sarah Mlynowski BRAS & BROOMSTICKS, the first in a new series of young adult novels featuring the misadventures of a self-deprecating, angst-ridden, 14-year old high school freshman attempting to get here magickal powers to work, has sold to Wendy Loggia at Random House Books for Young Readers in a two book deal. . Mark Morris Nowhere Near an Angel, a horror novel, has sold to PS Publishing. . Adam Nevill PS Publishing will be publishing Banquet for the Damned, the debut novel from newcomer Adam Nevill. It is described as a massive ghost story. . Mike Philbin (Hertzan Chimera) Double Dragon Publishing will be releasing the new 32 story collection Animal Instincts in the first quarter of 2004. . Christopher Priest Gollancz will be issuing the paperback version of Priest's novel THE SEPARATION published in 2002 in trade format by Simon & Schuster. The book was the recipient of this year's Arthur C. Clarke and the BSF Awards. . Al Sarrantonio HORNETS AND OTHERS & HALLOWS EVE to be released by Cemetery Dance. . Anne Strieber Anne Strieber, together with her (uncredited) husband Whitley, have sold a thriller entitled THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, LITTLE TOWN LIES to Beth Meacham at Tor/Forge. . Koji Suzuki The author of The Ring, recently made into a Hollywood movie, is to get a further two books in the series (Loop and Spiral) released in English Language editions by Vertical, a new publisher specialising in English language versions of Japanese bestsellers. . Michael Swanwick THE PERIODIC TABLE OF SF, a collection compiling all the stories from the SciFiction website will be released by PS Publishing. . Anna Tambour Prime Books have acquired Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales, a collection of short stories for hardcover and trade publication in late 2003 or early 2004. . Steve Tomasula In & Oz, described as high literary weirdness, will be released by the Ministry of Whimsy in September 2003. It will be a $25 hardcover. . Sean Williams HarperCollins Australia have picked up the Australian rights to a four volume fantasy series entitles BOOKS OF THE CATACLYSM The books are set in the same world as his Books of the Change trilogy. . F. Paul Wilson MIDNIGHT MASS, released by Cemetery Dance. . Zoran Zivkovic Ministry of Whimsy / Night Shade Books will publish Impossible Stories, a new collection of short stories collecting all stories from Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library, and Steps through the Mist. The book should see release in November 2004. .