Day: October 10, 2011

Robert McCammon will be a featured Visiting Author for the Huntsville Literary Association in 2012. From their website:

Visiting Authors for 2011-12

HLA is pleased to bring noted authors to the Tennessee Valley to discuss their works, their lives, and their writing craft. These lively talks, held at various venues, are open to the public unless noted. An admission fee may be required.

April 22, 2012 – Birmingham’s Robert R. McCammon is author of more than a dozen novels, including the best-selling coming-of-age novel Boy’s Life, the Matthew Corbett series of historical mysteries and the new modern thriller The Five. Stephen King calls the most recent novel, his best book yet. Location: Huntsville Madison County Public Library. Time: 2 to 4 p.m. Open to the public. Information: 256-652-2629.

This October 2, 2011, article from the Huntsville Times Living contains more details about the HLA series:

Huntsville Literary Association begins a season of poetry, history and a few murders

From the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards website:

Celebrate 25 Years of HWA!

Please join us at the World Horror Convention 2012 in Salt Lake City as we present “Celebrate HWA Day” in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Bram Stoker Awards and the 25th Anniversary of HWA’s incorporation! A day of special events and panels will culminate with the presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards for 2012, and the Vampire Novel of the Century Award.

HWA’S GUESTS OF HONOR:

HWA Co-Founder Joe Lansdale HWA Co-Founder Karen Lansdale HWA Co-Founder Robert McCammon

HWA’S SPECIAL GUESTS:

Dacre Stoker Emcee Jeff Strand

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We’re thrilled to have HWA’s three original founders, Joe Lansdale, Karen Lansdale, and Robert McCammon, join us as our special Guests of Honor for “Celebrate HWA Day”! We’re also happy to welcome back Dacre Stoker, representing the Bram Stoker Estate in the presentation of the Vampire Novel of the Century Award, and our Bram Stoker Awards Presentation emcee Jeff Strand.

For more information, you can read this HWA blog post and visit the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards website.

From Subterranean Press:

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It’s been out for a while now, both as a hardcover and ebook, but Robert McCammon’s remarkable rock and roll epic, The Five, continues to draw praise. From Locus: “The Five is Robert R. McCammon’s first novel outside of his recent series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett since Gone South. Do the math and that’s almost 20 years. It’s a nicely nostalgic return to form for a writer who was one of the most highly regarded novelists during horror’s boom years, and it will put readers familiar with his work very much in mind of earlier novels from that time, including Mine and Boy’s Life; its fantastic element is more suggested than evident, and it eschews the darker possibilities of its theme for an upbeat appraisal of the human spirit’s capacity to rise above adversity.”

The Five

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $26.95

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Before we go, an important note about Rick’s new Michael Gallatin collection, Hunter from the Woods: As we expected, Hunter is pre-selling very well. So well, in fact, that we won’t be able to fill orders for large online retail and wholesale accounts. If you’d like a copy, a direct order is your best bet.

Hunter from the Woods

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