As you’ve no doubt heard, Ray Bradbury died earlier today. Robert McCammon posted the following on Twitter today:

Robert McCammon (@MacCammon)
6/6/12 7:40 PM

A sad day. Ray Bradbury was my writing hero. I loved “The Lake”. It brought me to tears and I wished I could create that same bittersweet emotion. But he wrote so many great things, and left such fantastic stories and characters…. Today the summer sun still shines and tonight the summer moon will glow…but the world is different—and a little colder—without him.

The photo below shows Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, and Robert McCammon. The three made an appearance at A Change of Hobbit bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, on October 23, 1988.

At A Change of Hobbit, Santa Monica, CA, October 23, 1988

Author Chuck Wendig interviewed Robert McCammon about The Providence Rider for blog site Omnivoracious.

The Providence Rider: The Return of Horror Great Robert McCammon, Interviewed by Chuck Wendig

Chuck also posted his review of The Providence Rider on his own blog, TerribleMinds. It’s fun reading.

Finally, Magiczne Lata, the Polish release of Boy’s Life, has been getting lots of press coverage in Poland, with lots of great reviews. Here are a couple more that have appeared recently:

Great news, audiobook fans! Audible has released unabridged audiobook versions of all four Matthew Corbett books. The audiobooks are narrated by Edoardo Ballerini and are available for purchase now. Three-minute audio samples from each book can be found on the Audible page for each book; just click on the images below to reach Audible.com, or click here for all of the Matthew Corbett books on one page, or click here to search for all Robert McCammon audiobooks.

 


 

On April 22, 2012, Robert McCammon was a guest speaker of the Huntsville Literary Association. He spoke at the Huntsville-Madison County Library in Huntsville, AL, and read the first chapter of the fifth Matthew Corbett novel, The River of Souls, which he had just started writing.

Video of the presentation can be found on YouTube. The reading from The River of Souls begins at about 13:35. The sound quality isn’t quite as good as the video quality (which is better than the thumbnail below suggests!), but it’s not too bad. Enjoy!

From author Kealan Patrick Burke:

The latest entry in my interview series THE SEVEN is now live. Today’s guest is the legendary Robert McCammon. Stop by and leave a comment to be in with a chance to win a deluxe hardcover copy of The Providence Rider, the fourth book in the Matthew Corbett series, courtesy of Subterranean Press.

Visit Kealan’s site to read THE SEVEN: ROBERT MCCAMMON

SF Signal has posted two new interviews with Robert McCammon:

Polish blog site Clevera has posted a great new review of Magiczne Lata, the new Polish release of Boy’s Life.  Click here for an English translation via Google Translate.

The cover for the limited edition of Shadow Show has been added to the Book Cover Gallery.  Shadow Show is a new anthology of short stories by authors paying tribute to Ray Bradbury. It includes a brand-new story by Robert McCammon entitled “The Children of the Bedtime Machine.” The limited edition is a joint publication of Gauntlet Press and Borderlands Press. For more information, visit the Gauntlet Press site.  HarperCollins will release a trade paperback edition of Shadow Show on July 17, 2012. You can pre-order it from Amazon U.S. here.

Finally, a vintage interview with Robert McCammon from The Morning Call on June 8, 1990, has been added to the Interviews page.