Future publications

Although a handful of our publications came earlier (Beyond magazine and Craig Herbertson's The Heaven Maker and Other Gruesome Tales), Parallel Universe Publications has only been properly running for the past six years, during which time we have published eight hardcovers, thirty-nine paperbacks and thirty-seven kindle ebooks. Of these, many have been single author collections. Unfortunately, of all the books we have published the single author collections have for the most part been our poorest sellers. We have therefore decided to concentrate our efforts in future on special projects, such as the forthcoming The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts, and our very popular anthology series Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy. 

The art books we have already published (The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts in hardcover, split into two volumes for paperback) are amongst the most time-consuming projects we have undertaken. Likewise, with open submission periods for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, this too takes up a lot of our time, especially with the number of stories we  received last time. 

Volume 2 of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy was published in June. All going well, we are aiming to bring out a third volume before the end of the year, with an open submissions period a month or so beforehand.   

The Ever More Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts is progressing well and should be out in hardcover later this year, packed with black and white and full colour illustrations.