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December 8, 2011
Tomislav Tikulin's Beautiful Cover Painting For Gideon's Corpse by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
On Tuesday, Cemetery Dance Publications announced a deluxe special edition of Gideon's Corpse, the forthcoming novel from New York Times bestselling collaborators Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
This signed Limited Edition is already more than 70% sold out, just 48 hours later, and today I wanted to show off the stunning cover painting Tomislav Tikulin (who also painted the cover for the special edition of Gideon's Sword) has turned in. Click on the image for a much larger version:
December 6, 2011
Preview of It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Stephen King
Cemetery Dance Publications will be shipping the Gift Edition and Limited Edition of It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Stephen King next week, and I thought you might like a sneak peek at the Gift Edition. I took these photos very quickly, and please note that we don't have the slipcases for the Gift Edition yet, so this is just the book itself, but I'll post new photos of the finished Gift Edition and the signed and traycased Limited Edition later this month.
This...
December 4, 2011
Ernest Hemingway On Writing
Ernest Hemingway on writing: "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
December 1, 2011
A Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes of It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Stephen King
If you're curious what publishers are talking about when they reference the "bluelines" of a book, these are the bluelines for It: The 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition by Stephen King, which Cemetery Dance Publications will be publishing later this month:
This is the official approval copy the publisher gets from the printer and, as you can see, these days they aren't blue, but they serve the same purpose. This stack of loose papers represents the way the text will be presented on the ...
November 23, 2011
November 21, 2011
Even Stephen King Had to Start Somewhere (14-year-old Stephen King's submission letter to Spacemen Magazine)
Even Stephen King, one of the bestselling authors of our time, had to start somewhere:
November 17, 2011
The Exorcist: The 40th Anniversary Revised Limited Edition Cover Artwork by Caniglia
As I mentioned a while back, Lonely Road Books will be publishing a special Limited Edition of The Exorcist: The 40th Anniversary Revised Edition by William Peter Blatty. The book sold out just 30 hours after it was announced, which is excellent for the collectors who managed to snag a copy, and production is moving along smoothly. In fact, today I'm extremely pleased to unveil Caniglia's incredible cover artwork for the book, which I absolutely love:
Caniglia is now working on the interior ...
November 14, 2011
Q.R. Markham: The Plagiarist of Secrets and another example of why writing is hard work
So has everyone heard about "Assassin of Secrets" by Q.R. Markham (real name: Quentin Rowan), which was recently published by Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown in New York, and which was then very quickly pulled from stores because it contains some of the most blatant acts of plagiarism anyone has seen in a long time?
If not, here's a New York Times article.
Here's the James Bond message board where readers first discovered the plagiarism.
Jeremy Duns, an author of spy fiction, was l...
November 8, 2011
Allen K's INHUMAN MAGAZINE NO. 5 FALL 2011
My short story, "Among Us," which I wrote in college, has been published in Allen K's INHUMAN MAGAZINE #5. This is a huge issue — more than 200 pages — and Allen Koszowski did a great job, as always. If you want to read some good old-fashioned monster horror, this is the magazine for you. I didn't find the cover or Table of Contents anywhere on the web yet, so here they are:
INHUMAN MAGAZINE
NO. 5 FALL, 2011
new terrors
san diablo. Lisa Morton 4
soul-eater. Jill Bauman 13
lachesis . Monica J...
November 4, 2011
This Month's Question: Why Horror?
As I mentioned the other week, my new feature called "The Question of the Month" over at FEARnet is a mix of "The Final Question" from Cemetery Dance magazine and also original content. What I forgot to mention was that last month's column ran before my blog was launched, so I'm going to post that content here today to catch everyone up.
The feature has a simple premise: each month I'll ask a handful of horror/dark suspense authors to answer the same question and then I'll publish their...
