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Photos of Four Exclusive Items For The Cemetery Dance Collectors Club 4

As you might know, each fall Cemetery Dance Publications offers memberships to the Cemetery Dance Collectors Club. In addition to advance notifications of new books and special exclusive discounts, along other perks, the members also receive a couple of shipments of items that are only produced for members of the club and are not sold to the general public.

Although CDCC memberships won’t be sold again until fall 2014, I thought you might like to see the shipment that is going out to the curre...

First Photos of the Custom Slipcases for Doctor Sleep by Stephen King!

Here are the first photos of the custom slipcases Cemetery Dance Publications is making for the US and UK trade hardcovers of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King:

Turn Down The Lights Edited By Richard Chizmar Shipping Soon

The trade edition ofTurn Down the Lightsedited by Richard Chizmar is on the way to the warehouse from the printer and will begin shipping soon. Here are some of the early reviews:

“Ireaddevoured the stories in an afternoon, trying to make them last, but unable to control myself. Isn’t that what we all want? Books that compel us to just keep reading – more, more, faster! Yeah, this book has that in spades.”

— SJ,Snobbery

“Turn Down the Lightsdoesn’t just celebrateCemetery Dancemagazine; it illust...

Midnight Symphony: 10 Novellas of Horror & Suspense is just 99 cents today!

Midnight Symphony: 10 Novellas of Horror & Suspense is just 99 cents today and it includes my novella The Painted Darkness in case you haven’t read that one yet and want to give it a try!

Featuring novellas by:

F. Paul Wilson

Bryan Smith

Mary SanGiovanni

J.F. Gonzalez

Kelli Owen

Tim Lebbon

Kealan Patrick Burke

Robert Swartwood

Robert Ford

Brian James Freeman

Where To Order:

Amazon for the Kindle

Amazon.co.uk for the Kindle

Nook

Ganxy, for readers who don’t have Kindles or Nooks and want to buy direct

Also, he...

GAK’s artwork for “An Instant Eternity”

My new short story”An Instant Eternity” will be published next month inTurn Down the Lights edited by Richard Chizmar, and I’m very pleased to show off GAK’s interior illustration for my story:

Table of Contents:

“Turn Down the Lights…” an introduction by Richard Chizmar

“Summer Thunder” by Stephen King

“Incarnadine” by Norman Partridge

“The Western Dead” by Jack Ketchum

“An Instant Eternity” by Brian James Freeman

“In the Room” by Bentley Little

“Flying Solo” by Ed Gorman

“The Outhouse” by Ronald Kel...

“An Instant Eternity” In Turn Down The Lights Edited By Richard Chizmar

My new short story”An Instant Eternity” will be published next month inTurn Down the Lights edited by Richard Chizmar, which features the most amazing table of contents of any book my work has appeared in. Read all about it:

It was December 1988: George Bush had just defeated Michael Dukakis in the Presidential Election. Pitcher Orel Hershiser and the Los Angeles Dodgers had beaten the Oakland A’s in five games to win the World Series. People were waiting in line at movie theaters to watch Tom...

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King: Uncut Sheets of Vincent Chong’s Full Color Artwork

As you might know, the Special Edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King from Cemetery Dance Publications was delayed a bit due to an issue with the two full-color artwork foldouts that were to be tipped into the book, but everything was fixed and the books turned out great, as you can see here and here.(Orders are still shipping at the moment, but our warehouse is making aherculean effort to get them all done.)

Our printer shipped us some of the artwork that was printed at the wrong size becaus...

Rusty Ryan On Conning (Which Is A Lot Like Writing Fiction)

I think of this quote often when I’m editing my work.

Rusty Ryanon conning someone, which is a lot like writing fiction: “Don’t use seven words when four will do.”

Weak and Wounded reviewed by FEARnet

Kevin Quigley over at FEARnethas posted a review of my new mini-collection of short stories, Weak and Wounded, which very well may be the best review my work has ever received.

Here is a little bit of the review:

Weak and Wounded plunges us into small worlds, in which people live desperate lives and struggle with impossible decisions. Loss permeates every page: these people survive the deaths of parents, children, spouses, and siblings, only to find that survival might be a fate worse than deat...

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Signed Limited Edition: First Look!

This is one of the busiest months we’ve had in a very busy year, but here’s a sneak peek at the Traycased Signed Limited Edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, which will be shipping from the Cemetery Dance Publications warehouse right before Halloween. I posted photos of the Slipcased Gift Edition the other day, but we included it in a few of these shots as well.