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Preview of “As She Lay There Dying” from Shivers VII

As I mentioned the other day, my new short story “As She Lay There Dying” will be published in Shivers VII edited by Richard Chizmar. Some of the other authors in the book include:Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Lisa Tuttle, Graham Masterton, Kaaron Warren, Del James, Lisa Morton, Roberta Lannes, Scott Nicholson, Bev Vincent, Norman Prentiss, and many others.

Here is a small preview of my story:

“As She Lay There Dying”

by Brian James Freeman

The roads were wet from another...

Photos of It: The 25th Anniversary Special Edition by Stephen King Deluxe Lettered Edition

The Deluxe Lettered Edition ofIt: The 25th Anniversary Special Editionby Stephen King was limited to 52 signed and lettered copies. Please note that the traycase is such a deep black color that it shows up gray in most of these photos because of the white backdrop and because I’m not much of a photographer.

This custom-made Lettered Edition book features:

* Cromwell Black Flanders Grain leather binding on spine

* Asahi Japanese Bookcloth, Turquoise Blue for front and back cover binding

* French M...

The Painted Darkness Unabridged Audiobook Available Now For Just $6.95!

I’m pleased to announceThe Painted Darknessis now available as an unabridged audiobook for just $6.95.

Read by Alexander MacDonald, this audiobook can be downloaded immediately onAmazon.com,Audible.com, oriTunes.

Please do me a favor and spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested!

(I worked directly with Alex on the audiobook and I was extremely pleased with how everything came together. He was great to work with, so if you’re looking for a narrator or voiceover person, check out...

Cemetery Dance Talks With IDW’s Jeff Conner about Stephen King, Clive Barker, and the future of horror Limited Editions

For the past three years Jeff Conner has been the editor and lead designer for IDW Publishing’s “alt-lit” prose program. Prior to a stint working in the entertainment industry—setting up Top Dollar Comics and editing a series of original Crow novels for producer Edward R. Pressman, performing similar activities for Conan Properties—Mr. Conner ran Scream/Press, a micro-publisher specializing in short story collections and novel reprints.

He won a World Fantasy Award for his efforts there, but h...

“As She Lay There Dying” to be published in Shivers VII

My new short story “As She Lay There Dying” will be published in Shivers VII edited by Richard Chizmar. Some of the other authors in the book include:Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Lisa Tuttle, Graham Masterton, Kaaron Warren, Del James, Lisa Morton, Roberta Lannes, Scott Nicholson, Bev Vincent, Norman Prentiss, and many others.

Here is the complete TOC:

“The Departed” by Clive Barker

“Red Rover, Red Rover” by Norman Partridge

“Breakbone” by Bill Pronzini

“The Storybook Fore...

The USPS Did Something Very Bad to A Customer’s Book (With Photo!)

This is far from the first time I’ve seen a book damaged by the USPS or UPS or Fed-Ex, but this one seemed particular stabby, so I asked the customer if I could share the photo she sent us:

The Beautiful Stephen King Artwork of Erin S. Wells

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Erin S. Wells on several projects now, including It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Editionby Stephen King and myDueling Mindsanthology among others. Several collectors hired her to remarque their copies of It and she was kind enough to let me share a few samples here on the blog. (A remarque is an original drawing created by an artist directly in the book.)

Cemetery Dance magazine reopening to fiction submissions later this year

Last month, we announced that Cemetery Dance magazine would be reopening to fiction submissions later this year. A poster on the Cemetery Dance forum asked a couple of great questions, which I thought I’d discuss here.

1) “Yet, I do have a question: what is the value of opening to submissions besides the chance that some new writers will be discovered?”

It’s an excellent question and he answered it perfectly. In Cemetery Dance #66, two of the stories originally arrived unsolicited. In Cemetery...

The answer to our Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Sales Mystery!

As I mentioned in my last post, there was a very nice surge in sales forThe Painted DarknessatBarnes & Noblethis summer and I couldn’t figure out why.

Several readers reminded me about the “Customers Who Bought This Also Bought” feature on Barnes & Noble’s website, which I hadn’t thought of for some reason. I’ve seen how well that feature on Amazon’s website can boost sales for a book, but I overlooked it last week when thinking about these B&N sales!

Wendy Casperson then hit a home run and tol...

A Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Sales Mystery!

For those of you who are interested in the world of eBooks and self-publishing, I have a bit of a Barnes & Noble eBook sales mystery that I’m trying to unravel.

Some background: like many authors these days, Amazon.com has always sold the most copies of my eBooks.

If Amazon sells 100 copies of The Painted Darkness in a month, Barnes and Noble will sell 50, Apple will sell 15, andSony will sell 8.

That trend has been pretty steady. For the sake of discussion, let’s say Barnes and Noble might have...