Category: Francois Vaillancourt

UK publisher SST Publications is pleased to announce Stinger (Signed & Traycased Limited Hardcover Edition) by Robert McCammon.

Read more and preorder your copy here while stocks last:
https://sstpublications.co.uk/r-mccammon-stinger.html

You can also see photos of the book, as well as François Vaillancourt’s interior artwork, at the SST link above.

From the SST website:

“McCammon delivers terror with skillful ferocity.”—Publishers Weekly

The basis for the Peacock TV series Teacup: An extraterrestrial bounty hunter turns a Southern community into its private hunting ground in “the ultimate horror novel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).

The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now, it’s the UFO that comes crashing through the clouds.

It brings with it a young alien named Daufin, a fugitive who has taken human form. She knows the terror that awaits this planet—because it’s looking for her. Stinger is an alien bounty hunter with an infinite capacity for death and a devious plan to find Daufin. Entombing the region in an inescapable dome, Stinger unleashes a violent fury unknown to humankind. Now, the few remaining survivors must come together to protect Daufin, themselves, and the world beyond.

From Robert McCammon, the New York Times–bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author, Stinger is “one of the best suspense novels of recent years” (Science Fiction Chronicle). It has now been adapted into one of the most hotly anticipated horror series on television: Teacup, premiered on Peacock in October 2024.

Signed & Traycased Limited Hardcover Edition:
Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies
Signed by Robert McCammon and François Vaillancourt on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
664 pages
Printed on a heavier 100gsm acid-free paper
Bound in premium cloth with coloured head and tail bands
Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
Sewn binding for increased durability
Ribbon page marker
Dust jacket artwork by François Vaillancourt
Featuring six full colour interior illustrations by François Vaillancourt printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
Housed in a magnetic closure traycase
Covered in a deluxe material
Hot foil stamping on the front and spine
Ribbon lifter

Brian James Freeman, owner of Lividian Publications, has a Patreon page with different tiers that have different rewards for each level. One of the tiers, the Guest Author Chapbooks tier, is $10/month. Patrons of that tier, and higher tiers, will receive two chapbooks each year by guest authors, as well as two chapbooks per year written by Brian James Freeman (tier 1).

The next Guest Author Chapbook is Robert McCammon’s “Children of the Bedtime Machine,” featuring fantastic art by François Vaillancourt. The chapbook will be signed by Robert McCammon and François Vaillancourt. It will ship in January or February.

“Children of the Bedtime Machine” originally appeared in Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. It was also included in the Subterranean Press edition of Blue World.

It’s not too late to become a patron of the Brian James Freeman Patreon and receive this chapbook. Becoming a patron is the only way to get the chapbook, though I expect copies will show up on eBay when some patrons decide to sell theirs.