Category: The Five

The lettered edition of I Travel by Night

The 2013 Audie Awards, which recognize “distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment” and are sponsored by the Audio Publishers Assocication, were presented yesterday in New York. The audiobook edition of Speaks the Nightbird, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, had been nominated in the Fiction category, but it lost to Clair Danes’s narration of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Also, the audiobook of Shadow Show, containing McCammon’s short story “Children of the Bedtime Machine,” was nominated but lost. Congratulations to Edoardo Ballerini for winning “Solo Narration – Male” for his reading of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins!

Author David B. Silva, who published the seminal horror magazine The Horror Show, in addition to writing novels and stories, died earlier this year. Cemetery Dance Publications has announced that they will be publishing Better Weird, an anthology that will pay tribute to Dave Silva. Publication details are still to be determined, but the anthology will include stories and tributes from Billie Sue Mosiman, Joe Lansdale, Kealan Patrick Burke, Rick McCammon, Gary Raisor, Tom Monteleone, Elizabeth Massie, Brian Hodge, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kathy Ptacek, Yvonne Navarro, Robert Swartwood, J.F. Gonzalez, Bentley Little, Brian Keene, and Paul F. Olson. The McCammon contribution will be a reprint of “Yellachile’s Cage”, along with a short remembrance of Dave. For comments from Billie Sue Mosiman about the project, see this article from Hobbes End Publishing. Stay tuned for more details.

Photos of the limited and lettered editions of I Travel by Night have been added to the Book Cover Gallery.

Finally, some recent reviews from around the ‘net:

 

Publishing house Tor will be releasing a mass-market paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s The Five on December 1, 2013. They haven’t released the cover art or, indeed, any details yet, but the MMPB is already pre-orderable via Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It will have a list price of $7.99.

As always, we’ll pass along more information as it becomes available.

 

Paul Simpson at Sci-Fi Bulletin has posted an extensive new interview with Robert McCammon in which they discuss I Travel by Night, The Five, and why The Village isn’t likely to ever see print.

Sci-Fi Bulletin: Interview: Robert McCammon (part 1)

Sci-Fi Bulletin: Interview: Robert McCammon (part 2)

Also, Staffer’s Book Review posted a short but very enthusiastic review of I Travel by Night. You can read their review here.

The reviews for I Travel by Night keep popping up, along with reviews of some of Robert McCammon’s older novels. Here are some of the more recent reviews:

The audiobook version of Speaks the Nightbird has received an Earphones Award from AudioFile magazine. From their website:

Earphones AwardAudioFile awards Earphones to truly exceptional presentations that excel in all the following criteria:

  • Narrative voice and style
  • Vocal characterizations
  • Appropriateness for the audio format
  • Enhancement of the text

The audiobook is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini and produced by Audible, Inc. You can read the AudioFile review on their website. The audiobook has also been nominated for a 2013 Audies Award.

There are also audiobooks of The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter, and The Providence Rider. They, too, are narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. You can find them on the Audible website.

mystery-panel

The Overlook Connection Bookstore is running a Facebook contest to see who can identify the panelists in the photo above, as well as the convention and year. We’ll give you one: Robert McCammon is on the far right. You have to Like their Facebook page to participate, and guesses must be mailed to [email protected]. For contest details, including the prizes, visit the Facebook post by the Overlook Connection.

As we wind down the year, it’s a good time to take stock of the availability of the various Subterranean Press editions of Robert McCammon’s work. Many of them are already sold out from Subterranean Press and getting scarce. This list does not take into account all possible sources of the books, just the most common. Some retailers such as The Alabama Booksmith (copies from them can be signed, too!) and Camelot Books still have various editions in stock.

All of the books are available in various ebook formats. Audio editions of some of them are also available via Audible and GraphicAudio.

 

Artist Vincent Chong created the artwork for the recent Subterranean Press editions of Mister Slaughter, The Providence Rider, The Wolf’s Hour, The Hunter from the Woods, and The Five. He just posted some photos of some recent remarques he’s done for fans. (A remarque is an original drawing in a book.) You can find the photos on his blog here, or click on the photo to the right. They look fantastic!

Things are kind of quiet at the moment. Mr. McCammon is hard at work on his next novel. The limited edition of Bethany’s Sin is scheduled for release by Subterranean Press in November. You can pre-order it here. That same month, Subterranean will be releasing their trade hardcover edition of The Hunter from the Woods. You can pre-order it here. If you haven’t picked it up yet, the latest Matthew Corbett book, The Providence Rider, is out now in trade hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. The links on the right side of the page can be used to order whichever edition you want. Also, don’t forget that Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury is out now, and it includes a brand new story by Robert McCammon called “Children of the Bedtime Machine.”

There have been a few reviews posted around the ‘net lately: