Author: goathunter

Alabama Booksmith has announced the book launch event and signing for Leviathan, the final book in Robert McCammon’s Matthew Corbett series! The event will take place on Saturday, December 7, 2024, at the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL.

From their event page:

Come meet international best selling Robert McCammon as he discusses the final volume of the Matthew Corbett series.

While limited seating remains, reserve your ticket to hear Robert McCammon discuss his new book. One ticket is complimentary with the purchase of each copy of LEVIATHAN from the Alabama Booksmith. Tickets must be requested with book purchase.

No reservations are needed for the signing line which begins at 1:00.

Important note #1: We only carry hardbacks, but are making a policy change for one day only! Since many of Mr. McCammons’s previously titles are only available in soft cover, we are giving his fans the opportunity to own signed copies. Pre-orders are accepted beginning today. Soft covers will not be available after December 7, 2024.

You may purchase signed copies of these sixteen soft covers, the new book, and all hardbacks in print to pick up at the event, pick up at the store later, or carefully wrapped and mailed worldwide by Clicking Here.

Important note #2: If you are unable to attend in person, you may watch Robert McCammon’s presentation on Facebook Live at 12:00 noon CST.

See you December 7, 2024!

Audible has listed their audiobook edition of Robert McCammon’s Leviathan for pre-orders! The book is the last book in the Matthew Corbett series, and the audiobook will once again be narrated by the incomparable Edoado Ballerini!

The audiobook will be released on December 3, 2024, which is also the release date for the trade hardcover and the ebook (details for the ebooks are TBD).

Pre-order the Leviathan audiobook from Audible

Order Leviathan from Lividian Publications
Order a signed trade hardcover from Alabama Booksmith
Order the trade hardcover from Amazon, B&N, Amazon UK

Lividian Publications is proud to announce the trade hardcover edition of Leviathan by Robert McCammon, the epic conclusion to his acclaimed Matthew Corbett series.

This beautiful hardcover edition features exclusive Vincent Chong full-color artwork for the dust jacket and will be printed in a very limited First Edition/First Printing run that will only be available from us and our regular “smaller” retailers like Sub Press, Camelot, CD, etc.

Big box stores and Amazon will get a POD hardcover because that worked out extremely well for the last two titles in this series.

Pre-order Leviathan from Lividian Publications

As usual, signed copies of Leviathan can be ordered from the Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL:

Pre-order Leviathan from the Alabama Booksmith

Order the trade hardcover from Amazon, B&N, Amazon UK

N.B. Ebook and audiobook editions will also be published December 3, 2024. More information on those releases will be available closer to publication date.

Here is the information from the product page on the Lividian website:

Lividian Publications is proud to be publishing a trade hardcover edition of Leviathan by Robert McCammon, the epic conclusion to his acclaimed Matthew Corbett series. This beautiful hardcover edition features exclusive Vincent Chong full-color artwork for the dust jacket and will be printed in a very limited First Edition/First Printing run.

Please Note: there will be a signed & slipcased Limited Edition like the previous titles in this series, but it won’t be shipping until next year, so we’re holding off on taking orders for that edition until it is closer to publication. There is not a wait list at this time.

Retail Price: $39.50
Publication Date: December 3, 2024
Page Count: 424 (estimated)

Production Features for the FIRST PRINTING only:
• Full-color dust jacket artwork by Vincent Chong (different from the Limited Edition)
• Offset printed on an acid-free archival quality paper stock
• Hot foil stamping on the spine
• Smyth-sewn to create a more durable binding
• Twine head and tail bands
• Colored endpapers

About the Book:
It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally and physically, after their harrowing ordeal.

Their respite is short-lived when the Spanish authorities learn of their abandoned quest for Brazio Valeriani and the mirror created by his father, Ciro. This mirror is rumored to have the power to summon demons from the underworld, and the Spanish authorities are eager to possess it. Consequently, a professional witch-hunter and soldiers are assigned to accompany Matthew, Hudson, Professor Fell, and Cardinal Black as they resume their quest.

Their only lead on Brazio’s whereabouts takes them to Venice. Unbeknownst to them, members of an established crime family also seek the mirror for their own nefarious purposes, and a betrayal from within Matthew’s cohorts puts the family on their trail. The journey presents numerous challenges, including a close encounter with the French-Dutch war, forcing Hudson to confront personal demons from his past and putting the entire group in grave danger.

As they race towards the mirror with multiple competing agendas for its future, Matthew finds help and support from unexpected places. The quest will push him to his limit once again, cause him to question his own beliefs about what is real and what is fantasy, and ultimately what his future holds.

Leviathan is the final installment in bestselling author Robert McCammon’s acclaimed series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, a brave and resourceful “problem-solver.” Matthew aims to solve the mystery of the mirror once and for all and end his entanglement with Professor Fell, so he can return to New York to start his life with Berry Grigsby. However, this ultimate test of his wits, cunning, and ingenuity might prove to be more than even Matthew Corbett can handle.

Reader Tom Finnegan was able to attend the Teacup panel at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, and he sent in his self-described “fanboy review,” along with photos he took.

Here’s Tom:

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the panel for the new Peacock Series Teacup at this year’s San Diego Comic Con. Based on Robert McCammon’s fantastic book Stinger. Ballroom 20 at the San Diego Convention Center is the second biggest room there. A pretty big place, I believe it seats around 5,000 people. I was happily surprised to see the place about three-quarters full! I hope everyone has read through all the different summaries of today’s panel on the different entertainment sites. I am just going to chime in with some additional things that stayed with me.

The panel was comprised of moderator Damian Holbrook, Creator Ian McCulloch, stars Scott Speedman, Yvonne Strahovski, and Chaske Spencer, as well as the awesome director James Wan.

The first subject they addressed was that the series, comprised of eight thirty-minute episodes, does not stick to the book. McCulloch said he wanted to focus more on what he felt was the primary characters to make the story shorter and more intense. I can assure you after seeing the trailers, this one will be intense! The trailer they showed was edited to reduce the gore (with respect to the under 18 crowd in attendance), and it was still quite gory!

First two episodes drop October 10th, with the remainder apparently coming two at a time every couple weeks after that.

Taking place over 48 hours, the compacted story did have McCammon as a producer, so we can be assured this will get his blessing. While the story covers 48 hours, of course it took many months to create. Shot on the outskirts of Atlanta, GA, the production took place on a one hundred and twenty-acre farm that used existing and newly-constructed buildings for filming. I found it interesting that they had to have a crew that was dedicated to getting leaves on the trees (one way or another, not sure how), as they fell during the seasons! They also had to deal with the different seasons and accompanying temperatures during filming.

They tried to stay tight-lipped about the story, so as not to give any spoilers. They did show a teacup being placed over a wasp that was on a window, trapping it in. Those who have read the story may understand this. That is all I have to say about that!

This was the first production done at the then-brand-new Assembly Studios and done by the fantastic Atomic Studios. Coming out on Peacock Streaming, you will definitely want to check this one out!

Fanboy Tom Finnegan

Tom also sent these photos in: