Author: goathunter

Here are some recent McCammon-related happenings around the web:

As we’ve posted before, Robert McCammon will be an HWA Guest of Honor at the 2012 World Horror Convention/2012 Bram Stoker Awards next week. The events schedule has been released, and Robert McCammon will be participating in the following events:

  • Friday, March 30, 8 PM: Mass autograph signing
  • Saturday, March 31, 10 AM: Q & A with Robert McCammon
  • Saturday, March 31, 2 PM: HWA: Past, Present, and Future
  • Sunday, April 1, 2 PM: Classic Horror panel

There may be other events added and times could change, so if you’re attending, be sure to check the programming information on site.

Also, don’t forget the public signing at the Columbus Library on Thursday, March 29, at 7 PM with Robert McCammon, Joe Lansdale, Rick Hautala, P.N. Elrod, and Sherrilyn Kenyon.

From the Publishers Weekly website:

The Providence Rider
Robert R. McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59606-466-9

Problem-solver Matthew Corbett’s past comes back to haunt him in McCammon’s intriguing fourth historical thriller (after 2010’s Mister Slaughter). Shanghaied in 1704 from Manhattan to Pendulum Island, the Bermuda home of his nemesis, criminal mastermind Professor Fell, Matthew is tasked with finding out who among Fell’s criminal confederates is leaking to England Fell’s plans to sell a devastating new type of weapon to the nation’s European enemies. Matthew must not only risk betraying his mother country to do Fell’s bidding but also find some way to save his girlfriend, Berry Grigsby, whom Fell is holding in pawn until Matthew completes the job. Once again, McCammon provides a colorful and well-researched depiction of colonial America, enlivened by a rogues’ gallery of well-drawn characters. Hair’s-breadth escapes and the teasing promise that characters who appear to have been disposed of might resurface in future adventures make this a rollicking good yarn. Agent: Cameron McClure, DMLA. (May)

Reviewed on: 03/19/2012

Remember, you can download the first 120 pages of The Providence Rider for free from Subterranean Press! The book will be published in late May 2012.

A Robert McCammon Signing on the Horizon

Robert McCammon is Coming!

As we did with The Five, we’ve decided to fly Rick McCammon to the SubPress offices to sign The Providence Rider for customers. He’s become such a part of the SubPress family that it made sense to bring him in again. We also have a very limited stock of Baal left, which he’ll be happy to personalize as well.

Now’s also a good time to let you know that we put our heads together with Rick and his agent and worked out the frameworks so we’ll publish the fifth Matthew Corbett novel down the road.

To limit the effect on Rick’s hands and wrists, we’ve set a few guidelines for what he’ll be signing and inscribing:

Personal Inscriptions:

  • Deluxe Trade Hardcover of The Providence Rider, with illustrated endsheets;
  • Signed, Limited Edition of The Providence Rider;
  • Signed, Lettered Edition of The Providence Rider;
  • Signed, Limited Edition of Baal;
  • Signed, Deluxe Limited Edition of Baal.

Signed Only, Not Inscribed

  • Regular Trade Hardcover.

Important Note: If you already have a book eligible to be inscribed by Rick, please drop us an email at [email protected] with your name, address, and how you would like the book inscribed. Those who have the regular trade edition on order will automatically receive signed copies. Please note that Rick will not be signing copies for large online retailers or our wholesale accounts.

Posted on Friday, March 16th, 2012 at 9:27 am.

Salt Lake City hosts the 2012 World Horror Convention and Bram Stoker Awards on March 31, 2012.  On March 29, the Columbus Library, a branch of the Salt Lake County Library, will host a reading and signing from 7 to 9 PM.  The event will be open to the public.  The authors scheduled to participate are Robert McCammon, Sherrilyn Kenyon, P.N. Elrod, Joe R. Lansdale, and Rick Hautala.

The Columbus Library is located at 2530 East 500 South, Salt City, UT.  Click here for more details.

Subterranean Press posted this on their website this morning:

Robert McCammon — Read the First 120 Pages of THE PROVIDENCE RIDER

Want an early, extensive look at Robert McCammon’s major new historical novel, The Providence Rider? We’re happy to provide one. Please head over to the book’s page, where you’ll find a gigantic free sample of Matthew Corbett’s latest adventure, available as a pdf, and in mobi and epub formats.

Oh, and the image above? They’re the endsheets from the signed limited and signed trade editions. The Providence Rider is going to be one beautiful book, as well as one thrilling adventure. Don’t miss it.

Posted on Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 9:39 am.

Behold the spectral rider that signifies the coming of Robert McCammon’s classic novel, Bethany’s Sin. Tomislav Tikulkin has contributed not only the dust jacket, but full-color endsheets to our edition of McCammon’s tale of small town horrors unleashed.

First published as a paperback original in 1980, Bethany’s Sin was Robert R. McCammon’s second novel. Like its predecessor, Baal, it offers a frightening, thoroughly imagined portrait of ancient forces set loose in the modern world. Like Baal, it is both a notable accomplishment in its own right and an invaluable glimpse into the formative years of a major writer, a man whose raw narrative talent was apparent from the start. This deluxe new edition offers McCammon’s many fans the definitive version of a significant early work, a book that foreshadows the later-and larger-accomplishments to come.

Bethany’s Sin is right on schedule for its publication this fall. The signature pages are nestled safely in house, and we’re giving the book a final proofread.

Limited: 1000 signed numbered hardcover copies: $75

Lettered: 26 signed copies, leatherbound, housed in a custom tray case: $250