The Overlook Connection Bookstore is running a Facebook contest to see who can identify the panelists in the photo above, as well as the convention and year. We’ll give you one: Robert McCammon is on the far right. You have to Like their Facebook page to participate, and guesses must be mailed to [email protected]. For contest details, including the prizes, visit the Facebook post by the Overlook Connection.
The audiobook edition of Speaks the Nightbird is one of the finalists in the Fiction category for the 2013 Audie Awards!
The Audies are “awards recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association (APA).” More on the Audies can be found on the APA website. The winners will be announced on May 30, 2013.
The actual Press Release from the APA in PDF format can be found here.
The unabridged audiobook edition of Speaks the Nightbird was produced by Audible, Inc., and was narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.
Audible also produced unabridged recordings of the other Matthew Corbett novels, all read by Edoardo. You can purchase the audiobooks from Audible’s site.
Subterranean Press chose artist Les Edwards to do the cover and interior paintings for their upcoming signed, limited edition of The Night Boat. Les is now offering prints of his paintings via his website, as well as the original paintings (though the cover painting has already sold). You can visit the gallery on Les’s website or click the individual links and images below to visit each page on Les’s website.
Robert McCammon’s Swan Song is one of today’s Kindle Daily Deals! Today only, you can buy the Kindle ebook for only $1.99. Click here to see the Kindle Daily Deals.
Swan Song is also on sale for the other formats, too, though apparently only in the U.S.:
The Horror Writers Association, a group originally conceived by Robert McCammon, has announced that the latest recipients of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award are Robert McCammon and Clive Barker. The award is given in recognition of the recipient’s overall body of work. Previous recipients of the award include Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ramsey Campbell, Rick Hautala, and Peter Straub.
The award will be presented at the HWA Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in New Orleans, LA, on June 15, 2013. Robert McCammon will attend, along with previously-announced guests Editor John Joseph Adams, Media Guest of Honor Amber Benson, Poet Bruce Boston, Ramsey Campbell, Artist Glenn Chadbourne, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Jonathan Maberry.
Have a look at the first of the two color plates [by Les Edwards] from Robert McCammon’s classic novel, The Night Boat. If WW II zombie Nazis are your thing, this book has that need covered, in spades. It also happens to be a heckuva fun read, presaging McCammon’s more mature work in The Wolf’s Hour, Swan Song, and others. If you’d prefer not to wait for the hardcover coming this fall, the ebook is already available, though without the great interior illustrations.
While he was working on the iconic cover for Robert McCammon’s new vampire novella, Michael Whelan first took a crack at depicting one of the many creatures that Trevor Lawson faces down. This painting depicts one of them, in mid-transformation, to something that is no longer human, and beyond vampire. Michael was kind enough to send along the image, which will be exclusive to the Signed, Limited Edition of I Travel by Night.
Michael Whelan’s interior plate for the signed, limited edition of I Travel by Night
Two more audio interviews conducted by Robert McCammon at the 1990 World Fantasy Convention are now available for your listening pleasure. (The first, Robert McCammon interviews Chet Williamson, was posted last week.) Authors Al Sarrantonio and Tom Monteleone were interviewed on November 3, 1990. The intention was to run the interviews in Lights Out!, but only an edited version of Al’s interview made it to print. After more than 22 years, here they are! Just click on the images to listen to the interviews.
Legendary Artist Michael Whelan has turned in a killer, positively Gunslinger-esque dust jacket for Robert McCammon’s new vampire novella, I Travel by Night. We’ve heard rumblings that this will not be Trevor Lawson’s only foray chronicled by Mr. McCammon, so order now to get in on the ground floor of what is sure to be one of the most compelling tales of his distinguished career.
About the Book:
I Travel by Night marks Robert McCammon’s triumphant return to the sort of flamboyant, go-for-broke horror fiction that has earned him an international reputation and a legion of devoted fans. The terrors of the Dark Society, the gothic sensibilities of old New Orleans, and the tortured existence of the unforgettable vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson all combine into a heady brew that will thrill McCammon’s loyal readers and earn him new ones as well.
For Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society’s clutches. In the decades since, he has roamed late nineteenth century America, doing what good he can as he travels by night, combating evils mundane and supernatural, and always seeking the key to regaining a mortal life.
That key lies with his maker, and now Lawson hopes to find LaRouge at the heart of a Louisiana swamp with the aid of a haunted priest and an unexpected ally. In the tornado-wracked ghost town of Nocturne, Lawson must face down monstrous enemies, the rising sun, and his own nature. Readers will not want to miss this thrilling new dark novella from a master storyteller.
Limited: 474 signed numbered copies, housed in a custom slipcase: $75 Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $35
From Publishers Weekly:
“Southern gothicist and paranormal historian McCammon (Gone South; The Wolf’s Hour) combines the two genres in this fun, fast novella… An explosive confrontation with the Dark Society in a bayou ghost town opens the door to more stories of Lawson and his companions, deftly sketching the wider world’s parameters without shortchanging personal conflicts.”
The audiobook edition of Speaks the Nightbird is one of the finalists in the Fiction category for the 2013 Audie Awards!
Subterranean Press chose artist Les Edwards to do the cover and interior paintings for their upcoming signed, limited edition of The Night Boat. Les is now offering prints of his paintings via his website, as well as the original paintings (though the cover painting has already sold). You can visit the gallery on Les’s website or click the individual links and images below to visit each page on Les’s website.
Robert McCammon’s Swan Song is one of today’s Kindle Daily Deals! Today only, you can buy the Kindle ebook for only $1.99. Click here to see the Kindle Daily Deals.
The Horror Writers Association, a group originally conceived by Robert McCammon, has announced that the latest recipients of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award are Robert McCammon and Clive Barker. The award is given in recognition of the recipient’s overall body of work. Previous recipients of the award include Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Bradbury, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ramsey Campbell, Rick Hautala, and Peter Straub.
From Subterranean Press:
