Category: The Five

As we announced a while back, the publishing house Tor will release a mass-market paperback edition of Robert McCammon’s The Five on November 26, 2013. They have released the cover art, which can be seen to the right. Pre-order links are available now. The book will also be re-released in ebook formats from Tor at that time.

• Pre-order The Five paperback from Amazon
• Pre-order The Five paperback from Barnes & Noble
• Pre-order The Five paperback from Chapters

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:

• Author David Agronoff reviews Gone South
• Midnyte Reader reviews Mister Slaughter
• Writer at Play reviews I Travel by Night

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.

• Pre-order The Five paperback from Amazon
• Pre-order The Five paperback from Barnes & Noble
• Pre-order The Five paperback from Chapters

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

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

AudioFile 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.

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.

• The Wolf’s Hour – The limited edition is long sold out. Copies do occasionally show up on eBay, but they’re not cheap. Copies appear to be available via Camelot Books, Amazon resellers, and ABE.
• Mister Slaughter – The limited and trade editions are sold out from Subterranean Press. Copies are available via Amazon resellers and ABE. The trade edition is still available from The Alabama Booksmith and Camelot Books.
• The Five – The limited and trade editions are sold out from Subterranean Press. Copies are available via Amazon, The Alabama Booksmith, Camelot Books (limited, too), Amazon resellers, and ABE.
• The Hunter from the Woods – The limited editions are sold out from Subterranean Press. A trade hardcover edition has just been released and is available via Subterranean Press and Amazon. The limited edition can be found via Amazon resellers and ABE.
• Baal – The limited edition is still available from Subterranean Press in all three states.
• Bethany’s Sin – The limited editions are sold out from Subterranean Press. As of this writing, there are 18 copies remaining from Amazon.
• The Providence Rider – The trade edition is sold out from Subterranean Press, but they still have the Deluxe Trade and Limited Edition. The trade edition is available from The Alabama Booksmith, Camelot Books (the limited edition, too), and Amazon.
• The Night Boat – Available for pre-ordering from Subterranean Press, and Camelot Books.
• I Travel by Night – Available for pre-ordering from Subterranean Press, Camelot Books, and Amazon.

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

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:

• The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville posted this review of The Providence Rider.
• Blogger Katyy Takes on Books posted a fantastic review of Speaks the Nightbird that serves as a great introductory piece for the book.
• The Lit Asylum posted this brief overview of the Matthew Corbett books.
• Blogger Bryant Burnette posted an in-depth review of Baal on his blog, The Truth Inside the Lie.
• Bryant also posted an in-depth review of Bethany’s Sin.
• French blog Les Victimes de Louve also posted a review of Bethany’s Sin (English translation here).
• Blogger Vintage45 posted this great review of MINE.
• Elitist Book Reviews posted their review of Swan Song.
• Parlez Moi Blog posted a wonderful review of Boy’s Life, written by a reader new to McCammon’s work.