Subterranean Press’s Gwenda Bond interviews Robert McCammon about The Providence Rider in part one of her three-part interview. You can read it on the Subterranean Press site here.
Category: The Providence Rider
Here are some recent McCammon-related happenings around the web:
- Lou Pendergrast of the website More 2 Read has posted a brand-new interview with Robert McCammon. You can read it here.
- Horror World has posted a fantastic review of The Providence Rider.
- Author Glenn Starkey recently wrote a blog article entitled MIA Part 2: Robert McCammon, Author of The Wolf’s Hour.
- Opinionator also posted a review of The Providence Rider. You can read it on their site here.
- Author Carl Alves posted a review of The Wolf’s Hour.
- YouTube user CombatOasis posted a video review of Swan Song.
- Blog Crash and Byrne posted a review of Blue World.
- Jennifer at Book Den continues The Great McCammon Read with her thoughts about Swan Song.
From the Publishers Weekly website:
The Providence Rider
Robert R. McCammon. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59606-466-9Problem-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.
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.
The T-shirts we did for The Five were popular enough that we decided to offer T-shirts featuring the cover artwork from Mister Slaughter and The Providence Rider. Vincent Chong’s fantastic covers look great on a T-shirt!
The purpose of the shirts is simply to help promote the Matthew Corbett books. In order to keep the costs down, no profit is made from these shirts; the prices shown are the actual costs of the shirts from Spreadshirt.com. A variety of shirt types, colors, and sizes are available. Additional shirt styles can be added to the store, so if you don’t see the type of shirt you want, drop me a line and let me know what you want.
Robert McCammon T-shirts at Spreadshirt.com
Note that the printing and shipping of the shirts is handled entirely by Spreadshirt. In my experience, it takes about 7 to 10 days for U.S. orders to be delivered.
Once again, I’ve managed to locate cover scans of more books that I didn’t previously know about. In the ’90s, several of Robert McCammon’s short stories were included in anthology reprints in Finland. The books includes translations of Night Visions 4, Night Visions 8, New Stories from the Twilight Zone, and Hot Blood. In addition, a fifth anthology included a reprint of “The Deep End.”
The covers for all of those have been added to the Book Cover Gallery, along with a second printing ARC for The Providence Rider, an advertisement for a 1992 book signing in Nashville, the cover art for the recent hardcover edition of Illustrated Masques, and the cover of a UK edition of Otto Penzler’s recent Zombies anthology.
Speaking of Illustrated Masques, a trade paperback edition of that book will be published in July 2012 by IDW. The book includes a graphic adaptation of Robert McCammon’s “Nightcrawlers.”
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From Subterranean Press — THE PROVIDENCE RIDER Production Update
We’re deep in production on Robert McCammon’s upcoming historical thriller, The Providence Rider, which means that praise is starting to roll in. We’re only too happy to share the good words with you.
From Joe R. Lansdale:
“Wow, McCammon is back with a vengeance, and he’s riding high with The Providence Rider. Historical, strange, creepy, and engaging as all of McCammon’s work is. I highly recommend it.”
From William Browning Spencer:
“I just finished reading The Providence Rider. It may be the best of the series so far. Beginning with Speaks the Nightbird, Robert McCammon’s only credible competition is Robert McCammon. As is the case, I suspect, with most lifetime readers, I’m somewhat jaded, less likely to be bowled over by a book. But reading The Providence Rider created a feeling akin to what I experienced reading Kidnapped or A Princess of Mars when I was a kid.”
From Famous Monsters of Filmland:
“The Providence Rider is an absolutely brilliant historical thriller that will keep you turning the pages at a feverish pace as Mr. McCammon takes you along on a grand adventure full of action, intrigue, violence, love and friendship… [The Providence Rider] contains the best of what I liked about the first three books, while adding substance and depth to Matthew, and introducing us to some new and interesting characters that I will be looking forward to getting to know better in future tales.”
From Horror Drive-In:
“In The Providence Rider, Corbett is launched quite literally into his most exotic adventure yet. Already targeted by the nefarious ‘Emperor of Crime’, Professor Fell, Corbett is taken against his wishes to an island where the Doctor reigns supreme. Though Fell has previously marked Corbett for death, he now needs the young problem solver to help him with some of his own troubles… What makes this series work so, other than McCammon’s flawless depiction of the past and the exquisite language he conjures it up with, is the basic decency of Matthew Corbett. The young detective is intelligent, tenacious, honorable, and simply a good human being. Yet no man can face the evils Corbett faces in these books and remain wholly innocent.”
On the production end of things, we’re doing quite well. The signature pages are in hand, while Vincent Chong maintained the high marks he set with the art from Mister Slaughter. (You can see full color and black-and-white examples at The Providence Rider page). Rick McCammon is taking his final proofing pass through the book. We are set to publish, right on time, in May.
Posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2012 at 12:11 pm.
The first three reviews of The Providence Rider have appeared on the ‘net. All are spoiler-free:
- Review by Nik Houser (posted to the forum at RobertMcCammon.com)
- Starred Review: The Providence Rider, posted by Mark Sieber at Horror Drive-In
- Book Review: The Providence Rider, posted on Famous Monsters of Filmland and HorrorNews.net
The Providence Rider will be published in May 2012 by Subterranean Press. You can pre-order several editions from Subterranean Press.
Artist Vincent Chong recently completed the artwork for the upcoming Subterranean Press release of Robert McCammon’s The Providence Rider, the fourth book in the Matthew Corbett series. He posted a few examples of the artwork on his blog. Vincent wrote:
As with Mister Slaughter, I did a number of B&W interiors, but for this one I also provided colour endpaper art (which you can see below) and two colour interiors, one to go with the new story, Death Comes for the Rich Man (another Matthew Corbett adventure), that accompanies this volume.
You can click on the images below to view larger versions of the art. The Providence Rider can be pre-ordered here.
Congratulations to Vincent, who last year received two British Fantasy Awards for ‘Best Artist’ and for ‘Best-Non Fiction’ for his art book Altered Visions. He was also nominated for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for ‘Best Artist’.