Category: Boy’s Life

Several updates from the past couple of weeks:

  • Japanese illustrator Kazuki Tamada has contributed another piece of artwork inspired by The Wolf’s Hour. You can view a larger version of his art, as well as see his other illustrations, by clicking on the image or here.
  • Publishers Weekly has posted a great review of the Subterranean Press edition of Robert McCammon’s first novel, Baal. You can read it on the PW site.
  • Robert McCammon recently finished signing the tip-in sheets for The Hunter from the Woods, which Subterranean Press is about to send to the printer for its November publication.
  • Mel Odom posted a superb review of The Five on his Bookhound blog.
  • A post about the Matthew Corbett series was posted over on Wisdom of Bookmonkey.
  • Author Laraine Herring posted one reason that Boy’s Life is so effective.
  • A fantastic new review of Boy’s Life was posted on Right2Left.

Stay tuned for some exciting news about Robert McCammon ebooks!

  • On Friday, July 29, 2011, Robert McCammon tweeted the following from his Twitter account:

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    THE PROVIDENCE RIDER (Corbett 4) is done and off to my agent. It was an epic all-nighter, fueled by Kona coffee and cigar breaks on my balcony. The sun came up and the birds sang. The doc file was sent through the electric god. I rest ’til Monday, seeing HP tonight.

  • The Five is now available in ebook format for the Kindle and the NOOK! Other formats will be coming soon.

  • A new Chinese edition of Boy’s Life has been published by Yilin Press in China.  The cover can be seen below; it has been added to the Book Cover Gallery.

More fantastic reviews of The Five have popped up on various sites.  Here are some of the more notable reviews:

And here are several other recent mentions of Robert McCammon’s work:

Finally, reader Kevin Richardson posted this photo of his The Five t-shirt to the Robert McCammon Facebook page, along with the caption:

"Just finished reading The Five and love it. I even got in the last show free."

You can read more about the T-shirts by clicking here.

Korean publisher Sigongsa has released a new two-volume paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life.  The covers can be found below and in the Book Cover Gallery.  The same publisher will be releasing a Korean translation of Swan Song sometime later this summer.  Boy’s Life was previously published in Korea in 1993; until now, it was the only McCammon novel translated into Korean.

Boy's Life - Volume 1
Boy's Life - Volume 2

Some blog posts by Sigongsa (in Korean) about their release of Boy’s Life can be found here.

Russian publisher Эксмо (Eksmo) has released new hardcover editions of four of Robert McCammon’s novels: They Thirst, The Wolf’s Hour, Swan Song (2 volumes), and Boy’s Life (2 volumes).  The covers of all six books have been added to the Book Cover Gallery. You can click on the images below to view a slightly larger version of each.

Boy's Life - Volume 1
Boy's Life - Volume 2
Swan Song - Volume 1
Swan Song - Volume 2
They Thirst
The Wolf's Hour

There have been several notable blog posts and articles about Robert McCammon’s work in the past week or so.  Here are some of the more interesting links:

I know many of us would love to see some film adaptations!

One Tree Hill logoThe season 8 finale of the CW TV show One Tree Hill featured a lengthy quote from Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life.  The episode, entitled “This Is My House, This Is My Home,” was written and directed by Mark Schwahn, who is a long-time fan of McCammon’s work.  Here’s the scene as described by a fan on Facebook:

…the little boy Jamie was narrating a passage about living in a magic time and town etc and they pan up and show him reading “Boy’s Life”.

One Tree Hill screenshot
One Tree Hill character reading Boy’s Life

Here’s the passage quoted:

You know, I do believe in magic. I was born and raised in a magic time, in a magic town, among magicians. Oh, most everybody else didn’t realize we lived in that web of magic, connected by silver filaments of chance and circumstance. But I knew it all along. When I was twelve years old, the world was my magic lantern, and by its green spirit glow I saw the past, the present and into the future. You probably did too; you just don’t recall it. See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they’d allowed to wither in themselves.

After you go so far away from it, though, you can’t really get it back. You can have seconds of it. Just seconds of knowing and remembering. When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and they’re left feeling a little heartsad and not knowing why. When a song stirs a memory, when motes of dust turning in a shaft of light takes your attention from the world, when you listen to a train passing on a track at night in the distance and wonder where it might be going, you step beyond who you are and where you are. For the briefest of instants, you have stepped into the magic realm.

That’s what I believe.

The episode can be viewed on Hulu.com.

  • The Italian website ThrillerCaf� has posted a new interview with Robert McCammon regarding the recent release of Mary Terror (MINE) from Gargoyle Books. An English version of the interview can be found here.
  • A review of Mary Terror was recently posted to the Italian site Ca’ delle Ombre. A translation of the review via Google Translate can be found here. Here is a quote from the review:

    “Perhaps the most beautiful and complete novel by Robert McCammon never published in Italy, Mary Terror has an intrinsic message of rare beauty and magnificence….”

  • Author Bob Ford recently posted an open letter to Robert McCammon on his blog. Magic Among Pages describes his thoughts after recently reading Boy’s Life for the first time.
  • Publishers Weekly recently posted a profile of Subterranean Press that mentions the release of Mister Slaughter as an ebook.
  • The website E-zine Articles recently posted a new review of The Queen of Bedlam: A Summer Must-Read: The Queen of Bedlam. Here is a quote from the review:

    “Again, Robert McCammon showcases his versatility and amazing talent in crossing genres directly into a suspense novel. This page turner is set in early Eighteenth century Manhattan. There is a serial killer on the loose and Matthew must find him. Then, the book morphs into a journey of… rich characters, hairpin turns, unexpected surprises, and a bunch of ‘wow, who would have thought that.'”

  • Author Alison Kent blogs about Swan Song and concludes with:

    “Bottom line, McCammon is an incredible storyteller. There’s a reason this book is still in print twenty-five years later. I loved it!”

  • The still-in-development Blue World movie from Frontsight Productions was mentioned on the website ReelChicago.com on June 16, 2010: 

    Rutger Hauer attached to thriller feature

    Producer Nehs plans to shoot here next spring

    Action actor Rutger Hauer

    PRODUCER MICHAEL NEHS of Frontsight Productions is slated to shoot Blue World, his long-in-development thriller, in Chicago next spring.

    Director Charley Rivkin and Adam Witt adapted Robert McCammon’s Bram Stoker Award-winning short story, about a priest resisting his desire for a porn star he’s trying to protect from a serial killer.

    Nehs says Rutger Hauer, Bryan Dennehy, Steven Weber, Seymour Cassel and Kaitlin Doubleday are attached to star. Frontsight is a division of Nehs’s Templar Studios, which long has had plans to construct a post-production facility in Old Town. See frontsightproductions.com.

     

  • A new mass-market paperback of Le Mystere du lac, the French translation of Robert McCammon’s Boy’s Life, has been released in France by Pocket. The new cover art for the book has been added to the Book Cover Gallery. Click on the image below to see a larger version of the cover.The book should be in French bookstores now. It can also be ordered from online bookstores, including Amazon.fr.

     

  • Artist Vincent Chong has posted his revised artwork for the cover of the upcoming Subterranean Press limited edition of The Wolf’s Hour. Click on the image below to see a larger version of the art.