Brian James Freeman's Blog, page 35
March 18, 2013
Scenes from the Cemetery Dance office: Hot Foil Stamping Dies
A few people have asked about the hot foil stamping dies our printers, slipcase makers, and traycase makers use to stamp the covers/cases. These are made of copper, aluminum, or a similar material and weigh between one and 25 pounds. These photos don’t show it, but the copper ones are extremely shiny.
March 15, 2013
Stamping Options for The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
It took a few tries for the stamping die maker and binder to get on the same page for Lettered Edition ofThe Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. At the top of this photo is the traycase (left, in red) and the leather-bound book (right, in black). Across the bottom are three different stamping samples on the leather binding, with the first version on the left and the final version on the right.
The final stamping looked like this:
March 14, 2013
My New Website: eHorrorBargains.com (FREE and Heavily Discounted eBooks)
On Tuesday, I came up with an idea for a new website and spent the last couple of nights getting it ready to launch. I was inspired to create this site because some helpful posters on the Cemetery Dance Forums pointed out some HUGELY discounted horror eBooks on Amazon that I definitely would have missed without their help. These were all classic or bestselling titles that I had read before but ordered for my e-reader for future re-reads because the price was unbeatable. As I was placing my or...
March 8, 2013
The Short Story is Dead! Long Live the Short Story!
I keep hearing from people who ask why Cemetery Dance Publications even bothers publishing anthologies and collections (or even the magazine!) these days. After all, isn’t the short story dead?
Well, if it is, I guess I didn’t get that memo.
Yes, obviously the heyday of short stories in print has passed. None of us are selling short stories tothe Evening News orSaturday Evening Post or even the paperback original anthologies that crowded the bookstores in the ’80s and early ’90s — and those mar...
March 6, 2013
More Than Midnight Reviewed by Hellnotes
All 750 copies of the signed Limited Edition of my new mini-collection of short stories, More Than Midnight,sold out from the publisher just one week after it was announced back in December, but Amazon.comhas a few more copies left in-stock and another great review has arrived from Hellnotes:
More Than Midnight by Brian James Freeman is the dark night of the soul with lightning snapping in the background, revealing that lone, dark figure standing in the roadway with his arms open for you. Go a...
March 1, 2013
The Million Dollar Book (Don’t Buy That Big House Just Yet!)
A few years ago, I was talking to an author friend whowrote a novel in the 1990s that his agent — who was one of the biggest agents in the game — thought was a “million dollar book.”
She was extremely excited and she took the book out to auction, convinced it was going to make her author rich and famous and push his career into the stratosphere.
(This would hardly be the first time she had done this for one of her clients. She really understood the market well.)
She picked the five biggest edito...
February 28, 2013
Photos of The Century’s Best Horror Fiction Artist Edition from Cemetery Dance Publications
The Deluxe Artist Edition of The Century’s Best Horror Fictionwill be shipping next week. This sold out special edition was limited to just 25 signed copies that are individually lettered and numbered AE-1, AE-2, etc.
This special hand-bound, custom-made set features:
* Cromwell Black Aristo Grain leather binding on spine
* Asahi Japanese Bookcloth, Black Mohair, for front and back cover binding
* French Marbled endsheets, a different sheet for each volume
* pages edged with hand-dipped silver gil...
February 27, 2013
Christina Peaden Writes Book About The Carnival Triumph Hell Cruise… Can She Launch A Career?
I don’t know if Christina Peaden thought of herself as a “writer” one month ago, but she certainly took advantage of a huge opportunity to make a name for herself with her first published project: Triumph over Calamity.
According to an article over at theHouston Chroniclewebsite (Galveston woman already published book about Triumph),Christina Peaden kept a journal about her family’s recent vacation on the Carnival Triumph, which as you probably know ended in spectacular failure.
When Christina...
February 25, 2013
A Surprising Fact About Modern Day Cruise Ships: Still Not Enough Lifeboats
This one definitely falls under myMiscellaneous Thinking category and has nothing to do with the publishing business, but I was genuinely surprised to read this fact in the article “Lack of Backup Power Puts Cruise Passengers at the Ocean’s Mercy” in The New York Times today:
Massive new vessels like the Oasis of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean, can carry up to 5,400 passengers and 2,160 crew members…Experts say that evacuating any vessel is a dangerous, last-ditch procedure. And the pro...
February 22, 2013
Photos of The Exorcist 40th Anniversary Special Limited Edition from Lonely Road Books
Here are a few photos of the The Exorcist: The 40th Anniversary Revised Limited Editionfrom Lonely Road Books, along with a few scans of the 13 or so color plates Caniglia created for the book, which sold out in just about 30 hours after it was announced:
