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December 4, 2012
New Signed Limited Edition Hardcover: More Than Midnight
Later today Cemetery Dance Publications will announce the signed Limited Edition hardcover of my new mini-collection, More Than Midnight, which features five of my short stories that fall squarely in the horror category. This is a “surprise in-stock” Limited Edition and the books will be arriving in the warehouse this afternoon. There are only 750 copies of the Limited Edition and 26 copies of the Deluxe Traycased Lettered Edition.
More Than Midnightwas a lot of fun to put together and I absol...
December 3, 2012
Chuck Palahniuk On Writing
Chuck Palahniukon writing: “It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. But in minimalism you just put one detail next to another detail and you allow the reader to decide what the relationship is.”
November 30, 2012
Scenes from the Cemetery Dance office: Sasha the German Shorthaired Pointer Gets Stuck In Her Cone of Shame
As many of you know, we love our pets at Cemetery Dance and we’re really lucky to have a dog friendly office. In fact, there are currently fourdogs within a few feet of my desk. Kate and I have brought our German Shorthaired Pointers, Maya and Sasha, to work with us since we adopted them from a rescue group a couple of years ago. We probably never would have been able to adopt them if we couldn’t bring them to work because we’re often away from the house for 10 to 12 hours each day.
On Monday...
November 29, 2012
A Sneak Peek at “The Glass Floor” by Stephen King in Cemetery Dance #68
As you might have heard, Cemetery Dance #68 is shipping from the printer now and it’s our Glenn Chadbourne Special Issue. In addition to a new interview with Glenn and a new short story he wrote with Holly Newstein, every story and all of the columns feature an original illustration created by Glenn!
It was a lot of fun to put this one together since we’ve never published a Special Issue focused on an artist before and Glenn is one of our favorite people in the business. He’s a talented artist...
November 22, 2012
Scenes from the Cemetery Dance office: Happy Thanksgiving!
What else can you say when this greets you at the office?
November 20, 2012
Scenes from the Cemetery Dance office: Scanning The Stand Hardcover
We needed to scan the cover of The Standby Stephen King (“The Complete and Uncut Edition” that Doubleday published in 1990) for an article in Cemetery Dance #69, which is due out early next year, but the book was just a little bigger than the scanner was designed to handle:
November 19, 2012
Scenes from the Cemetery Dance office: Comparing Hot Foil Stamping Options
Although the differences are difficult to discern in a photo, these three traycase stamping samples were made with different foils so we could see how they would look on the final product (a Lettered Edition that we’ll be publishing in early 2013):
November 10, 2012
The Stephen King Library Desk Calendar 2013
I received my contributor’s copy ofThe Stephen King Library Desk Calendar 2013 fromBook-of-the-Month Club and once again they’ve gone above and beyond to create a great gift for any type of Stephen King fan, from the casual reader to the serious collector. The theme this year was “King Anniversaries” and the calendar includes excerpts from King books that are celebrating anniversaries in 2013 including The Stand, Christine, Pet Sematary, Bag of Bones, Duma Key, and more.
As always, editor Jay...
November 5, 2012
Another positive review for The Painted Darkness
Josef Hernandez, Minneapolis Books Examiner, posted a new review forThe Painted Darknessover the weekend. Here is just a little sample of the glowing review:
Brian James Freeman (who has previously published without his middle name) handles the story with a deftness that shows his talent. The reader is transported from the past to the present seamlessly as Freeman steers the story toward an understanding of the monstersthat lurk in our world. Everyone is afraid of monsters and the things that...
November 1, 2012
FEARnet Reviews The Painted Darkness Audiobook
The first review for theThe Painted Darknessunabridged audiobook has arrived and it’s from one of the biggest horror websites around: FEARnet.com. Here is just a little sample of the glowing review:
Brian James Freeman’s fascinating novella,The Painted Darkness, is one of those rare gems you sometimes find in fiction that manage to effortlessly capture the strangeness of being young…The Painted Darknessconcerns itself with classic themes: letting go of childhood, the power with which we wield...
