Russian publisher Azbooka-Atticus has acquired the translation rights for five Robert McCammon novels: Boy’s Life, Swan Song, The Border, The Listener, and Speaks the Nightbird. No word on when the books will be published, but I would guess the first will appear in 2019.
The ebook edition of Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life is one of twenty-two books included in the Humble Book Bundle: Forbidden Books this year. Pay what you want, and help support charity. The more you pay, the more books you get. To get Boy’s Life (along with 14 other books), you must pay $8 or more. Bundled books are DRM-free, and the charities supported this year are National Coalition Against Censorship and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Georgian publisher Books in Batumi has published their translation of Boy’s Life. The cover, shown below, has been added to the Book Cover Gallery.
Bბიჭის ცხოვრება at Books in Batumi
Open Road Media recently bundled four of Robert McCammon’s ebook titles as The Southern Novels. Included in the bundle are Boy’s Life, Mystery Walk, Usher’s Passing, and Gone South.
As of March 21, 2018, at 4:29 PM CDT, this 4-book bundle is sale-priced at only $3.99! Act fast!
While visiting with Robert McCammon last week for the launch of The Listener, I took this (lame) photo of the World Fantasy Award that he received in 1992 for Boy’s Life.
The publisher Fumax has acquired the Hungarian rights to Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life.
Fumax also has a Facebook page: Fumax on Facebook
This will be the second Robert McCammon novel translated into Hungarian. A translation of MINE was published by Agave Könyvek in 2004.
There are no other details available at this time, but we’ll post them as we get them!
Open Road Media has updated the cover art for their ebook editions of Boy’s Life and Usher’s Passing! Click on the images below to view larger versions, or visit the Book Cover Gallery to see them and lots more.
They may create new covers for their other ebook editions down the road.
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McCammon fan Casey recently sent me this screenshot from the TV show Rizzoli & Isles in which you can spot the hardcover edition of Boy’s Life on the shelf behind Angie Harmon as “Rizzoli.”
Rizzoli & Isles
Season 1, Episode 2
“Boston Strangler Redux”
–Starts around the 31:20 mark, lasts about 10 or so seconds, about 2 or 3 views of it on the bookshelf behind the Rizzoli character.
—According to IMDB, this episode aired July 19, 2010.
In case you’ve never seen it before, a copy of Stinger showed up on a shelf in the second episode of season four of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer:
From the Donald Maass Agency:
Georgian rights to Robert McCammon’s BOY’S LIFE, to Books In Batumi, by Nada Cipranic at Prava I Prevodi, in association with Katie Shea Boutillier on behalf of Cameron McClure.
This will mark the first publication of Boy’s Life in Georgia. Publishing house Books in Batumi was founded in the western part of Georgia, in Batumi. The main priority of the publishing house is to publish and popularize Sci-Fi titles in Georgia.