A new update from Robert McCammon in which he answers readers' recent questions can be found on RobertMcCammon.com. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:52:00 -0500

Robert McCammon's new novel, Mister Slaughter, is the Featured Title on the front page of the Subterranean Press website: Robert McCammon Brings MISTER SLAUGHTER To Your Door.

Also available on the Subterranean Press site is an exclusive new interview with Robert McCammon, along with a 171-page excerpt from Mister Slaughter! Check their site for all the details.

Website SF Crowsnest has posted a great new review of Mister Slaughter, which includes this:

So what happens when you make a deal with the devil? Things go wrong. We all know that. McCammon strings it out, lets us meet people and like them and all the time Slaughter is being malleable and friendly and you're just waiting for it to go wrong. When it does, it's sudden and shocking. Brilliantly handled by the author... Put simply, if it doesn't contain a copy of Mister Slaughter, your book collection will be sadly lacking.

Finally, here are a few recent blog mentions of McCammon works:

• 30ishGirlNextDoor on Speaks the Nightbird
• Sharpening the Tip on Swan Song
• A look at an art student's take on "Nightcrawlers.".

Happy New Year!

Subterranean Press kicks off the new year with this exciting shipping update:

Mister Slaughter (Robert McCammon) — The trade hardcover of this much lauded historical thriller should be in our offices on January 6. We'll begin shipping all orders immediately. Please note: We've already ordered a second printing of the trade hardcover, which means first editions may be scarce on the ground before long. Also, the limited edition will take roughly six to eight weeks longer to produce, as we wait for the slipcases to be produced.

If you haven't ordered a copy yet, you can do so by clicking on the image above or by clicking here. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500

A new audio interview with Robert McCammon can be found in the latest installment of Pod of Horror. The interview was conducted a couple of weeks ago by Mark Justice. You can download Pod of Horror #58 from the Pod of Horror page at Horror World or from iTunes. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:10:00 -0500 Mister Slaughter will occur at The Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 6 PM Central. Mr. McCammon will sign copies of Mister Slaughter, which will be available for purchase at the event. You are welcome to bring other McCammon books to get them signed, of course.

As they've done in the past, the Alabama Booksmith will also be offering signed (and personalized, if desired) copies of Mister Slaughter by mail. Please see the bottom of the Signings Schedule for details.

For a complete list of signing events, please see the Signings Schedule. We hope to add more dates and locations soon. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:34:00 -0500 The Funky Werepig on Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 9 PM ET. The show will air live at that time and will be archived on the site afterward.

Mark Justice recently interviewed Robert McCammon for an upcoming episode of Pod of Horror. We'll let you know as soon as the show is available for download.

A number of new-to-the-site book cover images have been added to the Book Cover Gallery. These include:

• Russian hardcover of The Queen of Bedlam
• Avon uncorrected proof for Bethany's Sin
• UK proof for Gone South
• Doubleday uncorrected proof for Halloween Horrors
• Japanese paperback of Post Mortem
• Japanese paperback of Swan Song (book 1)
• Japanese paperback of Swan Song (book 2)
• French hardcover edition of The Wolf's Hour
• French Hot Blood
• French Hot Blood (later edition)

  Thanks to Bob Jackson for the photos of the Bethany's Sin and Gone South proofs! ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 09:07:00 -0500 Mister Slaughter will occur at Borders, Waters Place, Ann Arbor, MI, on Friday, January 22, 2010, at 7 PM. Mr. McCammon will do a reading and book signing. Copies of Mister Slaughter will be available for purchase, along with the trade paperback editions of Speaks the Nightbird, The Queen of Bedlam, and Swan Song.

  As previously noted, Robert McCammon will also be attending ConFusion 2010 in Troy, MI that weekend (January 22–24, 2010).

  As expected from this week's earlier announcement, Subterranean Press has officially sent Mister Slaughter off to their printer. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:09:00 -0500 Subterranean Press has posted a 171-page excerpt from Robert McCammon's upcoming novel, Mister Slaughter. From the Subterranean Press website:

  As we're within days of sending Robert McCammon's manhunt masterpiece, Mister Slaughter, to the printer for its January release, we figured now was a good time to post a huge excerpt from the novel to the SubPress site. Head over to the book's page and read the first 171 pages of this explosive thriller, but be warned, the excerpt ends with a cliffhanger, so you'll need to order the novel to see how the plot threads are resolved.

  ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:37:00 -0500

  Hi all,

  I wanted to say that I finished the new book about a month ago, it went to my agent on the 29th of October, and it will start making the rounds of publishers after Thanksgiving. I have no idea where it's going to wind up, so we'll see.

  The title is The Five, which is also the name of the band. The image is one I put together just for fun to send out with the manuscript. I enjoy playing with graphics and fonts, so I thought I'd do this "mock cover". By no means am I a graphics professional, but I decided I'd do it anyway after I finished writing the book.

  The manuscript came out to 523 pages, a little longer than I'd anticipated but they always seem to come out longer than I think they will.

  The last two weeks of writing were really tough, as I had to finish before I went to the writers' conference in Vancouver. I'd made plans back last March or so to go to Vancouver, and I realized in September that I was going to crash into the conference date and not be finished unless I picked up the pace. I could've gone without finishing, but (at least for me) when I'm so close to the end of a project my sleeping schedule goes crazy and I can't do anything without having the book foremost in my mind, so I would've been bumping into walls in Vancouver and not been much good for anything.

  Any writing project to me is like a slow-motion marathon. It's going to be nine months, and you have to be careful not to "kick" too early or you'll burn out before you finish. I kicked early on this one, and I was running full-out trying to finish and so the world went away from me for awhile and, likewise, I went away from the world.

  But now, happily, The Five is done, I'm very excited and pleased with it and in a way it represents a new beginning (again!!) for me. A new agent, a new publisher, and (we hope) a new opportunity. As I mentioned in another post, The Five is a contemporary novel, which I've not done for awhile.

  I'm going to give myself a few months to recuperate and then I'll start on the next Matthew book. As I've also said, I'm planning on going back and forth in the next few years between doing the Corbett series and writing more contemporary books.

  I'm very pleased about the quality of my writing in The Five. I think it's way beyond what I've done before, and I have to credit Matthew Corbett for that. I believe that writing the historical series—and being somewhat constricted in language, yet having to be as painstaking and imaginative with language as you're able to be—has helped my abilities. I have great fun with the language in the Corbett series, and I found in writing The Five that I didn't have to "think" quite so hard to find the right way to say or describe something. It just seemed to flow much more smoothly, and I do credit Matthew for that.

  So...Mister Slaughter comes out in January, The Five will be after that (who knows when, but I hope it won't be too long) and I'm planning on finishing the new Matthew book, The Providence Rider, next autumn. Actually, probably around October. And also probably very near the time I told the good folks up in Vancouver I'd come to the conference again!

  Well, the wheels of the bus do go round and round.

  Thanks again for your interest in my work, and thank you for the time you spend in checking on the website and keeping up with my writing. I'll let you know later on as things progress.

  Best Wishes,
  Robert McCammon ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:00 -0500 Clayton Bye has posted his review of Robert McCammon's Mister Slaughter. The review contains plot spoilers. The highlight from the review:

  "Mister Slaughter is Robert McCammon doing what he does best. His descriptive abilities take us back to a world that is a composite of 30 some years of development in New York City (1700-1730). His characters, always larger than life and ever so quirky, never cease to entertain. And his story is complicated enough that Matthew Corbett can proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot."

  You can pre-order Mister Slaughter from Subterranean Press. ]]> http://www.robertmccammon.com/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:45:00 -0500 review of Robert McCammon's Mister Slaughter. The review contains a few mild spoilers. In the review, Chuck states, "I haven't enjoyed a book like this in years."

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  The maintainer of the blog eReader1 has posted about the Kindle release of Swan Song. The review concludes with "...in all that bleakness, McCammon gives us a beautiful message of love, hope & faith. That the purest of souls can be the most powerful." ]]>