Bulgarian publisher Ciela Books has released their translation of The Listener. Publisher Blagoy Ivanov was a guest on Darik Radio to discuss the book. If you understand Bulgarian, you can listen to the interview here.
Category: International editions
On August 1, 2020, Australian audio publisher Bolinda Publishing will release Robert McCammon’s Speaks the Nightbird, complete and unabridged, as a 3-disc MP3 CD set. The recording is the Audible production narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. Bolinda previously released the audio production of Freedom of the Mask in 2016 on both audio CD and MP3 CD.
The set can be ordered from Amazon AU. It’s also available from Book Depository in the UK, which offers free worldwide shipping.
Bulgarian publisher Ciela has announced the release of their translation of Robert McCammon’s The Listener! The book will begin shipping in early July 2020. It can be pre-ordered on the Ciela website. You can read publisher Blagoy Ivanov’s post about the release on Facebook.
Pre-order the Bulgarian edition of The Listener from Ciela
This is the sixth McCammon novel published in Bulgaria. See the covers for the previous five books in the Book Cover Gallery.
Luzifer Verlag has announced the publication date for their German translation of The Providence Rider. They’ll release Matthew Corbett in den Fängen des Kraken on September 30, 2020. The cover art can be seen below.
Matthew Corbett in den Fängen des Kraken at Luzifer
The Donald Maass Literary Agency has announced that Chinese publisher Xiron has acquired the Chinese rights to Robert McCammon’s Swan Song.
As we reported last month, these rights deals were also recently signed:
- Czech rights to Usher’s Passing have been acquired by Dobrovsky
- French rights to Swan Song have been acquired by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
- German rights to The Providence Rider have been acquired by Luzifer Verlag
These will be the first translations of each book published in those countries. Presumably, these editions will be published in 2020 or 2021.
Other upcoming international editions planned include:
- Polish translation of Speaks the Nightbird from Vesper
- Bulgarian translation of The Listener from Ciela
- German translation of Boy’s Life from Luzifer (coming in March 2020!)
- Five novels from Russian publisher Azbooka (presumably; deal announced in 2018, nothing yet)
- A new French translation of Boy’s Life from Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
If you read German, an excerpt from Luzifer’s upcoming translation of Boy’s Life can be read on their website.
German publisher Luzifer Verlag has announced the March 31, 2020, publication date for BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER, their translation of Boy’s Life. The cover art by Michael Schubert can be seen below.
BOY’S LIFE – DIE SUCHE NACH EINEM MÖRDER @ Luzifer
Also, Luzifer’s translation of Mister Slaughter was released at the end of November!
The Donald Maass Literary Agency has announced the following new translation rights deals for Robert McCammon novels.
- Czech rights to Usher’s Passing have been acquired by Dobrovsky
- French rights to Swan Song have been acquired by Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
- German rights to The Providence Rider have been acquired by Luzifer Verlag
These will be the first translations of each book published in those countries. Presumably, these editions will be published in 2020 or 2021.
Other upcoming international editions planned include:
- Polish translation of Speaks the Nightbird from Vesper
- Bulgarian translation of The Listener from Ciela
- German translation of Boy’s Life from Luzifer
- Five novels from Russian publisher Azbooka (presumably; deal announced in 2018, nothing yet)
Italian publisher Fanucci has published a trade paperback translation of Otto Penzler’s anthology Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Il grande libro degli zombie (The Great Book of the Zombies) was published on December 5, 2019, and includes Robert McCammon’s “Eat Me,” originally published in Skipp & Spector’s Book of the Dead anthology from 1989.
The ISBN is 9788834738764, and the book can be found on various European Amazon sites, including Amazon ES and Amazon FR. Oddly enough, only the Kindle edition is currently available on Amazon IT, though Amazon sellers offer it.
Bulgarian publisher Iztok-Zapad released Лебедова песен, their translation of Swan Song, on August 15, 2019. The translation is by Costa Sivov. Iztok-Zapad previously published Boy’s Life in 2013.
Thanks to the fine folks at Crossroad Press, Robert McCammon’s Trevor Lawson books, I Travel by Night and Last Train from Perdition, are now available in ebook formats outside the U.S. and Canada. Both ebooks sport new covers, too.
I Travel by Night ebook at Amazon UK | Kobo UK | Amazon AU
Last Train from Perdition ebook at Amazon UK | Kobo UK | Amazon AU
With these releases, all of Robert McCammon’s books are available as ebooks worldwide.
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