Robert McCammon was a guest reader at the My Favorite Poem Sixth Annual Literary Event held on September 23, 2011, at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, AL. Mr. McCammon read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” A low-quality video of his reading is now available on the Robert McCammon YouTube channel:
Video of the entire event, with all 15 guest readers, can be found on Vimeo.
Author Joe Lansdale wrote a brief essay about Robert McCammon for the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Incorporating The World Horror Convention Souvenir Book. Robert McCammon was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the Bram Stoker Awards on June 15, 2013, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. With the help of Lisa Morton, Norm Rubinstein, and Bailey Hunter, Joe Lansdale has given permission for his essay to be reprinted on this site.
Click to read “Rick McCammon, A True Southern Gentleman” by Joe Lansdale.
Just a quick note to let you know that the print editions of Robert McCammon’s I Travel by Night are now sold out. We don’t plan to reprint, so unless we see distributor returns—which is always a possibility—your best way to pick this historical vampire novella up are through your favorite store, or as the ebook.
In other McCammon news, the fall release of his classic Nazi zombie novel, The Night Boat, is right on schedule.
Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies: $75
Note: As of Thursday afternoon, copies of I Travel by Night were still in stock and available from both Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as Camelot Books and The Overlook Connection.
As reported earlier this month, Lisa Morton’s interview with Robert McCammon for Nightmare Magazine is now available to read for free. You can find the interview on the Nightmare Magazine website.
Also now available, Steve Berman’s new anthology Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny contains a reprint of Robert McCammon’s short story “Yellowjacket Summer.” The story previously appeared in the October 1986 issue of Twilight Zone and in the Robert McCammon short story collection Blue World. The trade paperback can be ordered from Amazon here.
The Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Souvenir Book included an excerpt from The Five, as well as an essay by Joe Lansdale entitled, “Rick McCammon, a True Southern Gentleman.” The cover for the book has been added to the Book Cover Gallery and can be seen here.
The Spring 2013 issue of Dark Discoveries magazine includes a new short story by Stoker Award-winner Joe McKinney entitled “The Woman Who Collected McCammon.” The story was inspired by Robert Bloch’s classic story, “The Man Who Collected Poe.” You can purchase the issue (or subscribe) on their website.
Finally, the goodie bag for the World Horror Convention 2013 included a postcard from Open Road Media, the ebook publisher of many of McCammon’s backlist titles, congratulating him on his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. The front and back of the card are shown below.
Robert McCammon will be the guest on Friday’s edition of The Funky Werepig (June 28, 2013). The show airs at 9 PM EDT on TMV Café. It will be archived on Archive.org after the live broadcast.
You can also listen to the live broadcast on your smartphone using the TuneIn app. The show will also be available from iTunes after the broadcast.
To listen to the live broadcast, visit TMV Café and click on the “Café” link at 9 PM EDT Friday.
At the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend incorporating World Horror Convention, author Yvonne Navarro interviewed Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Robert McCammon. An audio recording of the interview is now available for your listening pleasure. Click on the image or click here to listen to the interview.
On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Robert McCammon received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association at the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards banquet, held at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. The weekend was a joint event with the 2013 World Horror Convention.
For more photos in general from the weekend, please visit Stacy Scranton’s Flickr page.
Robert McCammon was a Guest of Honor at the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend incorporating World Horror Convention held this past weekend in New Orleans. We’ll have some more photos up soon, but here’s a shot of all of the Guests of Honor (photo by Stacy Scranton). You can see many more of Stacy’s photos on Flickr.
The 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 2013 Incorporating World Horror Convention takes place this weekend, June 13—June 16 in New Orleans, LA. As previously announced, Robert McCammon (who will be attending) and Clive Barker (who will not) will be receiving Bram Stoker Awards for Lifetime Achievement.
If you’re in the New Orleans area, there is a mass signing on Friday, June 14, from 7 to 9 PM that is open to the public; no convention ticket will be required for you to attend the mass signing. For a list of all the authors who will be signing then, visit the 2013 Stokers website. Mr. McCammon is scheduled to be present from 7 to 9 PM.
If you’re attending the convention, Mr. McCammon will be interviewed by Yvonne Navarro at 3 PM on Saturday. I hope to have an audio recording of this interview available next week.
The actual Bram Stoker Awards presentations will be streamed live via Ustream on Saturday, June 15, 2013, starting at 10 PM EDT. Click here to watch the presentations.
As we announced a while back, the publishing house Tor will release a mass-market paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s The Five on November 26, 2013. They have released the cover art, which can be seen to the right. Pre-order links are available now. The book will also be re-released in ebook formats from Tor at that time.
