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May 23, 2012
Lifetime Subscriptions Offered Again For Limited Time (UPDATED)
Several years ago, I offered a limited number of Lifetime Subscriptions. Due to popular demand, I’m going to offer ten more subscriptions. If that interests you, read on.
UPDATE: Five subscriptions left as of 5-26-2012
For a one-time fee of $500, you receive 1 (one) copy of each and every mass market paperback, trade paperback, trade hardcover, comic book or graphic novel that I publish, beginning with whatever is released upon the start of your subscription and continuing until the time I die or you die (whichever happens first). Copies come flat-signed or personalized to you (whichever you prefer). Shipping costs are covered in the one-time fee.
This offer DOES NOT include limited edition hardcovers, lettered editions, foreign editions, multi-author anthologies I appear in, DVDs, audio-books, or other miscellany. It is applicable only to US trade editions.
There are no international restrictions. Offer is open to anyone. However, if you live in a country other than the United States, your payment must be in the form of an international money order and made payable in US dollars.
This offer is limited to ten people only, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Payment must be rendered in full for the agreement to apply. In the interest of fairness to all, I cannot accept pay installments.
Check or money order only, made payable to Brian Keene and sent to PO Box 281, Craley, PA 17312. PLEASE INCLUDE A NOTE THAT YOUR PAYMENT IS FOR THE LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION. Please indicate how you would like your books signed (personalized or signature only). Please provide an accurate mailing address. If your address changes, you are responsible for informing me of the change.
Lifetime Subscriptions Offered Again For Limited Time
Several years ago, I offered a limited number of Lifetime Subscriptions. Due to popular demand, I’m going to offer ten more subscriptions. If that interests you, read on.
For a one-time fee of $500, you receive 1 (one) copy of each and every mass market paperback, trade paperback, trade hardcover, comic book or graphic novel that I publish, beginning with whatever is released upon the start of your subscription and continuing until the time I die or you die (whichever happens first). Copies come flat-signed or personalized to you (whichever you prefer). Shipping costs are covered in the one-time fee.
This offer DOES NOT include limited edition hardcovers, lettered editions, foreign editions, multi-author anthologies I appear in, DVDs, audio-books, or other miscellany. It is applicable only to US trade editions.
There are no international restrictions. Offer is open to anyone. However, if you live in a country other than the United States, your payment must be in the form of an international money order and made payable in US dollars.
This offer is limited to ten people only, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Payment must be rendered in full for the agreement to apply. In the interest of fairness to all, I cannot accept pay installments.
Check or money order only, made payable to Brian Keene and sent to PO Box 281, Craley, PA 17312. PLEASE INCLUDE A NOTE THAT YOUR PAYMENT IS FOR THE LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION. Please indicate how you would like your books signed (personalized or signature only). Please provide an accurate mailing address. If your address changes, you are responsible for informing me of the change.
May 22, 2012
Kayla and the Devil
Finished this latest from Bryan Smith and had to rave about it. Kayla and the Devil reads like a collaboration between Richard Laymon, Neil Gaiman, and Charlaine Harris, and is as delightfully bizarre as that mash-up sounds. A wonderful female protagonist. Pitch-black humor. Jack the Ripper. Elizabeth Bathory. BUY IT!
Paperback – $12
Kindle – $3
May 20, 2012
Sometimes Writing Doesn’t Involve Writing
To the left, a scene from issue #4 of The Last Zombie: Neverland (on sale in all good comic shops next Wednesday) in which we learn that my friend Kasey Lansdale’s music is still popular post-apocalypse. If your local comic shop doesn’t carry The Last Zombie, burn them down and then order one online here.
As promised two weeks ago, I’ll be posting an occasional writing journal for those who like reading such things. Here is the latest installment, after the cut.
In the last installment of my writing journal, I explained how my work week is compressed into Thursday through Sunday, essentially making it a work weekend. This weekend was no different, except for the work being done.
On Thursday, I combed over the manuscript for the Author’s Preferred Edition of Earthworm Gods. This involved going through scenes that were cut from the original editions and deciding whether or not to include them in the new one. Most of the scenes remain cut, but I’ve restored a few (including a great sequence in which Kevin, Taz, Ducky, and Juan encounter their first white fuzz-infected humanoid). I also wrote a very long afterword that will be exclusive to this edition, in which I talk about the novel’s origin, its publication history, and why it has a special place in my heart. Much of this is stuff I’ve never discussed in public before, and I think you’ll dig it. The manuscript is now being picked over by trusty pre-readers Mark Sylva and Tod Clark, and Deadite will bring it your way later this year (probably right around the time that Earthworm Gods II: Deluge is released in hardcover).
Speaking of Deadite, many of you have been asking about the delay of Dark Hollow and wondering what’s behind that. Basically, it’s the manuscript I turned in. It was formatted from a PDF rather than a Word document, which makes the production-process a little lengthier than normal. Added to that, Deadite lost a copy-editor (Troy, who has moved to New Orleans to open a voodoo shop, and we all wish him luck in that endeavor), so they’ve been tied up with finding a replacement for him–somebody who’s freaky enough to willingly copy-edit works by myself, Bryan Smith, Edward Lee, Wrath James White, and the rest of the stable. But I’m told the delay won’t be much longer, and I submitted the Deadite versions of Ghost Walk, An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley, and Entombed in Word, rather than PDF, so we’ll catch up quick.
Anyway, Thursday and Sunday were spent working on that. Friday was spent re-tooling the synopsis for this mass-market political thriller that J.F. Gonzalez and I are writing together and aren’t allowed to tell you about. You might think that spending an entire day writing and re-writing a synopsis is a bit of overkill, but it’s not. When you are ghost-writing for a brand name — be it Tom Clancy or V.C. Andrews or whoever — you not only have to write in the house “style” but your plot has to be in line with the brand, as well.
On Saturday, Mary, J.F., and I checked and replenished our stock at The York Emporium (as you may recall, the three of us entered a bookselling venture earlier this year). When that was over, we had lunch in downtown York and then Mary and I headed over to the home of authors Kelli Owen and Robert Ford. Robert Swartwood and many other peers were also on hand, and of course, writing dominated the conversation–discussion of everything from Anthony Giangregorio to digital books to a history of the small press to what constitutes the bizarro genre.
A non-writer (or even a new writer) might read all of the above and think, “Well, he didn’t do any actual writing.” And it can certainly be perceived as such. But all of these things–edits, afterwords, creating a synopsis, catching up with peers, trading industry gossip, and even bookselling are all things that a working writer does as part of his or her living. The trick is to write more than you do these other things.
But tonight, I’ll make up for it by working on The Lost Level and this short story for Cemetery Dance…
Casting Call – Central Pennsylvania
We are currently casting for the role of JESSICA in Fast Zombies Suck. Jessica is a 20-something girl fed up of her boyfriend’s zombie obsession. We are open to all types of looks, nothing specific.
An open casting call will be held on Sunday, June 3 at EpicDermis Tattoo, 2028 State Street, East Petersburg, PA 17520 between 11-4. Please email head shot and resume. Filming will take place August 11th-12th in East Petersburg, PA.
May 18, 2012
THE CAGE now on Nook!
Earlier this week, THE DAMNED HIGHWAY (a novel I co-wrote with Nick Mamatas) became available for the Nook (as well as in paperback).
Now, THE CAGE — already available for the Kindle and in paperback – is available for the Nook, as well.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CAGE TO YOUR NOOK
May 17, 2012
The Ghosts of Monsters
Here’s another freebie for you – “The Ghosts of Monsters” – a short story that ties in with Dark Hollow and Ghost Walk. It was filmed in Rehmeyer’s Hollow (the real-life inspiration for LeHorn’s Hollow) by Dark Hollow director Paul Campion.
May 16, 2012
THE DAMNED HIGHWAY now on Nook!
THE DAMNED HIGHWAY: FEAR AND LOATHING IN ARKHAM, the critically-acclaimed novel I co-wrote with Nick Mamatas, in which Doctor Hunter S. Thompson fights the forces of Cthulhu and Richard Nixon, is now available for the Nook (as well as in paperback). Kindle editions are forthcoming.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR NOOK
THE DAMNED HIGHWAY Now On Nook!
THE DAMNED HIGHWAY: FEAR AND LOATHING IN ARKHAM, the critically-acclaimed novel I co-wrote with Nick Mamatas, in which Doctor Hunter S. Thompson fights the forces of Cthulhu and Richard Nixon, is now available for the Nook (as well as in paperback). Kindle editions are forthcoming.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT TO YOUR NOOK
