Robert McCammon traveled to Troy, MI, on June 6, 2011, to sign and inscribe copies of his new novel, The Five, at the Subterranean Press warehouse. Over the course of two days, he signed over 1600 copies of The Five, plus about 80 copies of Mister Slaughter. If you order The Five directly from Subterranean Press, you will receive one of these signed copies. Photos by Hunter Goatley. Thanks to the great folks at Subterranean Press for putting out such a beautiful book and for being such gracious hosts!
The first pallet of cases of THE FIVEThe second and third pallets of THE FIVERobert McCammon inscribingRobert McCammonReady to be bagged....And ready for boxing and shipping....
There have been several notable blog posts and articles about Robert McCammon’s work in the past week or so. Here are some of the more interesting links:
Tomislav Tikulin has just turned in the first cover for Robert McCammon’s classic, Baal, which has been fully proofread and is on schedule for release this fall.
Next week, Rick will be in our offices to sign and inscribe copies of The Five. While he’s still here signing, we’ll be shipping copies of the trade hardcover. (The limited, which is nearly sold out, will ship as soon as the slipcases are in our offices.)
Stephen King has a column in the June 3, 2011, issue of Entertainment Weekly with his reading list for the summer. He includes The Five in the twelve books profiled. You can see a scan of the page by clicking on the image to the left, but here’s what he wrote:
THE FIVE Robert McCammon
One of the finest horror-suspense writers of the late ’70s and ’80s returns with a riveting novel of a rock band (the Five) pursued by a mentally unstable Army vet who’s offended by one of their videos. It’s scary; it’s also a soaring anthem to the redemptive power of rock & roll. You probably won’t find it in your bookstore, so go to your (hopefully nonmalevolent) computer and click on subterraneanpress.com.
Robert McCammon will be signing copies of The Five (and other books) at the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL, on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, beginning at 4 PM.
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Fan Kazuki Tamada has sent in four more illustrations inspired by Speaks the Nightbird, They Thirst, and The Night Boat. You can see the images on Kazuki’s Fan Art page or you can click on the images below.
The season 8 finale of the CW TV show One Tree Hill featured a lengthy quote from Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life. The episode, entitled “This Is My House, This Is My Home,” was written and directed by Mark Schwahn, who is a long-time fan of McCammon’s work. Here’s the scene as described by a fan on Facebook:
…the little boy Jamie was narrating a passage about living in a magic time and town etc and they pan up and show him reading “Boy’s Life”.
One Tree Hill character reading Boy’s Life
Here’s the passage quoted:
You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don’t recall it. See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves.
After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust turning in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and wonder where it might be going, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.
Subterranean Press has posted this update for The Five:
Robert McCammon’s new thriller, The Five, the one called “his best novel ever” by Stephen King, and “infused with power and passion, and laced with psychological horror and razor-sharp tension” in a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly, is headed into its second printing, less than a week after it started shipping.
(Important Note: For those have ordered signed or inscribed copies, Mr. McCammon will be here in early June to sign your books, which will ship immediately thereafter. Even though we just ordered a second printing, we have held back a number of firsts so individual customers may still order the more collectible printing of this major novel.)
The Five may be in short supply out in the world for a few weeks. We’re sitting on purchase orders for thousands of copies, which will be filled as soon as the second printing arrives in our warehouse.
Robert McCammon’s new contemporary novel, The Five, will soon be available (some Amazon pre-orders have already been shipped). If you’d like to help promote The Five, here are image files for bookmarks and a “shelf-talker” (when printed and folded in half, the “shelf-talker” can be inserted under books on a shelf in a bookstore, with the bottom half of the image displayed). The files are 300 DPI images, suitable for high-quality printing. If you can print these and take them to bookstores, conventions, etc., for distribution, that would help spread the word of the book’s release.
Thanks to Vincent Chong for the use of his artwork and to Dave Ballard, who put these together!
If you can’t see the images above, you can right-click on the URLs below:
Robert McCammon’s World Fantasy Award-nominated short story “Best Friends” will be reprinted in the upcoming anthology Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed. The anthology is edited by John Skipp, who also edited the recent Zombies and Werewolves anthologies. The trade paperback will be published by Black Dog & Leventhal in September 2011.
The book can be pre-ordered from Amazon here. The complete Table of Contents can be found here.
“Best Friends,” which originally appeared in Night Visions IV, can be read here.
The season 8 finale of the CW TV show One Tree Hill featured a lengthy quote from Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life. The episode, entitled “This Is My House, This Is My Home,” was written and directed by Mark Schwahn, who is a long-time fan of McCammon’s work. Here’s the scene as described by a fan on Facebook:
Robert McCammon’s World Fantasy Award-nominated short story “Best Friends” will be reprinted in the upcoming anthology Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed. The anthology is edited by John Skipp, who also edited the recent Zombies and Werewolves anthologies. The trade paperback will be published by Black Dog & Leventhal in September 2011.