Audiobook producer HighBridge is releasing Otto Penzler’s ginormous collection Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! on December 31, 2019. The anthology includes Robert McCammon’s “Eat Me,” read by Matt Godfrey.
Month: December 2019
German publisher Luzifer Verlag has announced the March 31, 2020, publication date for BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER, their translation of Boy’s Life. The cover art by Michael Schubert can be seen below.
BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER @ Luzifer
Also, Luzifer’s translation of Mister Slaughter was released at the end of November!
The Crimson White is the student newspaper of the University of Alabama. Robert McCammon was the editor of The Crimson White in 1973–1974, and he is briefly interviewed in a recent article looking back at past editors of the paper.
You can read the article on The Crimson White website:
The Crimson White: Then and Now: CW editors through the years
The Donald Maass Literary Agency has announced the following new translation rights deals for Robert McCammon novels.
- Czech rights to Usher’s Passing have been acquired by Dobrovsky
- French rights to Swan Song have been acquired by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
- German rights to The Providence Rider have been acquired by Luzifer Verlag
These will be the first translations of each book published in those countries. Presumably, these editions will be published in 2020 or 2021.
Other upcoming international editions planned include:
- Polish translation of Speaks the Nightbird from Vesper
- Bulgarian translation of The Listener from Ciela
- German translation of Boy’s Life from Luzifer
- Five novels from Russian publisher Azbooka (presumably; deal announced in 2018, nothing yet)
Italian publisher Fanucci has published a trade paperback translation of Otto Penzler’s anthology Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Il grande libro degli zombie (The Great Book of the Zombies) was published on December 5, 2019, and includes Robert McCammon’s “Eat Me,” originally published in Skipp & Spector’s Book of the Dead anthology from 1989.
The ISBN is 9788834738764, and the book can be found on various European Amazon sites, including Amazon ES and Amazon FR. Oddly enough, only the Kindle edition is currently available on Amazon IT, though Amazon sellers offer it.