About PS Publishing
If you've landed here you're probably looking for some specific information on PS Publishing. Either that or you're just curious or bored, or surfing at random, or work-dodging... all of which are fine by us!
Whatever your reason for finding yourself here, welcome to this lengthy page of assorted information on the history, philosophy and general operation of our independent publishing house.
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Whatever your reason for finding yourself here, welcome to this lengthy page of assorted information on the history, philosophy and general operation of our independent publishing house.
Please either make use of the jump menu (immediately below) to navigate your way around the page, or simply scroll down until you see something that takes your fancy...
- PS Publishing has been in business since 1997.
- We believe in publishing high-quality books for collectors and bibliophiles.
- And we've published a very wide range of great authors.
- We've even won awards for a number of our books.
- And these are the folks who make it all happen.
- If there's anything else you'd like to know, please feel free to get in touch and ask us!
A brief history of PS Publishing
We put out our first four books in 1999 and we now have published over 260 titles since.In between, we've had novels, collections, non-fiction - including a collaboration with Tartarus Press - a brand new short fiction magazine (Postscripts), an innovative new grandstand for up-and-coming talents (PS Showcase) and lots more novellas...
We've also won six British Fantasy Awards for the Best Small Press and have received similar recognition from the Horror Writers Association and have won the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award.
The PS Philosophy
Our main aim here at PS is to produce top quality (in terms of both the stories themselves and the production values of the actual books) collectable but affordable signed limited editions -- both fiction and non-fiction -- within the field of science fiction, fantasy and horror.PS Awards and Associated Award-Winners
2008- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award - Best Novel The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell
- British Fantasy Award - Best Novella The Scalding Rooms by Conrad Williams
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Vincent Chong
- World Fantasy Award for Best Professional for Peter Crowther
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award - Best Non-Fiction for Cinema Macabre ed by Mark Morris
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Vincent Chong
- Sydney J. Bounds (British Fantasy Society) Award for Best Newcomer - Joe Hill
- Horror Writers Association Award - Best Speciality Press 2006 for PS PUBLISHING
- International Horror Guild Award - Best Periodical for Postscripts
- William L. Crawford Award for 20th CENTURY GHOSTS by Joe Hill
- Bram Stoker Award - Best Long Fiction for 'Best New Horror' by Joe Hill (published in Postscripts #3 & 20th CENTURY GHOSTS)
- Bram Stoker Award - Best Fiction Collection for 20th CENTURY GHOSTS by Joe Hill
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award - Best Collection for 20th CENTURY GHOSTS by Joe Hill
- British Fantasy Award - Best Short Fiction for 'Best New Horror' by Joe Hill (published in Postscripts #3 & 20th CENTURY GHOSTS)
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Les Edwards / Edward Miller
- International Horror Guild Award, Best Novel for THE OVERNIGHT by Ramsey Campbell
- British Fantasy Award - Best Collection for OUT OF HIS MIND by Stephen Gallagher
- British Fantasy Award - Best Short Fiction for MAYFLOWER II by Stephen Baxter
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Les Edwards / Edward Miller
- International Horror Guild Award, Best Periodical for Postscripts
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award - Best Collection for TOLD BY THE DEAD by Ramsey Campbell
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Les Edwards / Edward Miller
- World Fantasy Award for Best Professional for Peter Crowther
- Locus Award - Best Novella for THE TAIN by China Miéville
- International Horror Guild Award for RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PROBABLY ed. by S.T. Joshi
- Bram Stoker Award for RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PROBABLY ed. by S.T. Joshi
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award: Best Collection for RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PROBABLY ed. by S.T. Joshi
- British Fantasy Award - Best Short Fiction for THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER-STROKE by Mark Chadbourn
- British Fantasy Award - Best Anthology for KEEP OUT THE NIGHT ed. by Stephen Jones
- British Fantasy Award - Best Artist for Les Edwards / Edward Miller
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Short Form for THE HUMAN FRONT by Ken MacLeod
- Prix Lumiere (awarded in 2003) for LENINGRAD NIGHTS by Graham Joyce
- British Fantasy Award - Best Small Press for PS PUBLISHING
- British Fantasy Award - Best Short Fiction for NAMING OF PARTS by Tim Lebbon
- Theodeore Sturgeon Award for TENDELEO'S STORY by Ian MacDonald
The following is video footage of Pete Crowther collecting the 2006 British Fantasy Society Award for 'Best Small Press' at Fantasycon in September '06.
Many thanks to Martin Roberts for shooting the footage and for making it available. You can see more of Martin's BFS Awards footage over at his MySpace page.
Meet the PS Crew...
The following nefarious and sinister talented and wonderful individuals are responsible for various aspects of the PS Publishing operation.
Pete Crowther - Publisher.
Pete worked for a time in computers, had a dalliance in music/arts journalism and ended his corporate working life (1995) as head of internal communcations for Leeds Permanent Building Society... just before it was gobbled up by the Halifax (though the two things were not linked).From 1995 he worked as a communications consultant with a specialist communications and design company in Leeds before becoming a full-time writer/editor/publisher in 2000.
Born on the fourth of July, Pete developed an early love of all things American. That love affair has stayed with him through five full decades (plus a considerable slice of a sixth!) and it tends to feature heavily in his writing, particularly the short stories.
He's the author of the Forever Twilight series, co-author (with James Lovegrove) of Escardy Gap, and author of the 'Luddersedge', 'Land at the End of the Working Day' and 'Koko Tate' short story series. Several of his 100-plus stories have been optioned or adapted for both big and small screen.
Pete shares his life with Nicky and an unfeasibly large collection of books, comics, magazines, records and CDs.
Nicky Crowther - Business Manager.
Nicky trained as a teacher and met Pete in the autumn of 1970. They started 'going out' together (to use that delightfully 'olde world' phrase) in the spring of 1971 and married in 1976.Their first child (Oliver) appeared in April 1977 to be followed by Timothy in January 1979, which resulted in Nicky becoming a full-time child-minder / meal-maker / house-cleaner until the mid-1980s when she decided to go back to full-time teaching.
The next twenty years saw her take on more and increasingly demanding roles at a wonderful multi-ethnic school on the outskirts of Leeds - it was a job she adored but the interminable bureacracy and paperwork proved to be demotivating and, ultimately, unfulfilling.
Not surprisingly, she jumped at the opportunity when Pete suggested she join him looking after PS - thus she finally left a life working with lots of children and took up a career of working with just one! This was in the summer of 2004, when they moved from Harrogate (where they had lived for 25 years) to the east coast.
Nick Gevers - Editorial.
Nick Gevers is a South African science fiction editor and critic, whose work has appeared in The Washington Post Book World, Interzone, Scifi.com, SF Site, The New York Review of Science Fiction and Nova Express.He writes two monthly review columns for Locus magazine, and is editor and deputy publisher at PS Publishing. He is also the editor, with Peter Crowther, of PS's quarterly fiction magazine, Postscripts.
Nick was co-editor, with Keith Brooke, of the science fiction anthologies Infinity Plus One (2001) and Infinity Plus Two (2003), and in September 2007 released Infinity Plus: The Anthology through Solaris Books.
His first original anthology, Other Earths, in collaboration with Jay Lake, will be published by DAW Books in 2008.
Robert Wexler - Product Design.
Alligator Tree Graphics is the alter-ego of writer Robert Freeman Wexler. His designs have also found their way to books from Subterranean, Tachyon, and Hill House (and assorted medical and computer textbooks, but that was a long time ago).He was ensnared by PS after having his novella, In Springdale Town, accepted for publication. Short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Polyphony, The Third Alternative, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Electric Velocipede, and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases. His novel, Circus of the Grand Design, was published by Prime Books in 2004.
He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio with his wife, writer Rebecca Kuder.