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 Brian James Freeman has answered on his blog, including:
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?”
“The Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee Naughty and Nice 2012 Holiday Giveaway”
Hi Folks!
Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee have announced a very cool contest to promote their new book, I’m Not Sam. Here are the details:
Want a chance to WIN the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT for I’m Not Sam—the latest collaboration from the masters of mayhem—JACK KETCHUM and LUCKY MCKEE?
This ONE-OF-A-KIND prize (featuring HANDWRITTEN corrections by Jack Ketchum, and personalized by the authors upon request) will be given away to ONE LUCKY READER in time for the holidays!
If you win, we’ll let you decide whether you keep the manuscript for yourself or gift it to a friend. (Exactly how naughty are these friends of yours?!)
HOW DO YOU ENTER?
It’s simple!
1. Preorder/Purchase a copy of I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee before the clock strikes midnight on NOVEMBER 30, 2012.
2. Forward a copy of your order confirmation to: [email protected]
One entry will be selected at random, the winner will be notified via email, and you’ll have the prize in your hands in time for the holidays.
“What if I buy two copies? One for myself and one as a gift?”
You’ll receive one entry for EACH copy you preorder/purchase, as long as you send your order confirmation to [email protected] before 11:59 EST on November 30, 2012.
Buy two copies, get two entries, and so on and so forth. Please direct all questions and entries to: [email protected]
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One postcard per reader. All postcards must be received by November 30, 2012 to be processed. No confirmation of receipt can be given. The sponsors of this contest are not responsible for any lost or misdirected mail. All decisions of the sponsors are final.
Hi Folks!
We’ve received another terrific review of Sick Chick Flicks by John Skipp, this one from Dark Discoveries:
“John created three cool, strong women and really got into their heads. Some folks aren’t the biggest fans of scripts, but I found these ones fast-paced and easy to follow. John is very good at characterization and I think these could easily make good prose stories as well as good scripts and movies.”
Read more about this book or place your order while we’re offering FREE US SHIPPING!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on Update on Oktober Shadows by Norman Partridge We have an update on Oktober Shadows by Norman Partridge today from the author himself:
Hi all:
First off, thanks to all who ordered a copy of OKTOBER SHADOWS from Cemetery Dance. I’m sorry the book has taken so long. The delay is entirely my fault, and has nothing at all to do with the fine folks at CD, who’ve been nothing but supportive as I’ve (admittedly) struggled with this book.
OKTOBER SHADOWS has been a tough project for me for a number of reasons. I’ve hit a few walls writing it. But since I’ve always believed that one man’s reasons sound little different than another man’s excuses, I’ll spare you the details. Let me just say the good news is that I’ve turned a corner and work is going well on the project. For one thing, the story has expanded. OKTOBER SHADOWS will be longer than the 15,000 word novella I first envisioned, and making that decision has opened things up for me. In a way, it’s taken a creative straight-jacket off the story. And for me, the story is the main thing–I want to do the best job I can in service of it, especially given the delay.
So thanks for hanging in there. I’m doing my damnedest to make the book a solid piece of work you’ll enjoy reading. I’d also like to thank Rich, Brian, and the good folks at CD for their support. I know they’ll do a first-class job with the production of OKTOBER SHADOWS when the book is in their hands, and I hope when all is said and done it will be a book that readers will find worth the wait.
All the best,
Norm
Have you heard about A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan, a new eBook that Simon & Schuster just published TODAY that you could be reading mere seconds from now? We are not involved in this project, but the news is so cool, we just had to share!
About the Book:
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…
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Neil Gaiman Visits With Stephen King, A New Douglas Clegg Story, and More!
Hi Folks!
Today we’re pleased to announce Cemetery Dance #67 is already rolling at the printer and will be shipping at the end of this month!
Just one of the features is “The King and I” by Neil Gaiman, a detailed account of Gaiman’s trip to visit Stephen King in Florida. Some of the topics they discuss include King’s new novel Joyland, how King feels about Joe Hill’s writing, why he wrote a sequel to The Shining, and why he’s considering removing himself from the Dark Tower series on a future rewrite of the books.
Also included this the jam-packed issue are stories by Douglas Clegg, Blake Crouch, Will Ludwigsen, Peter Ullian, Daniel Braum, and Joel Sutherland; interviews with Al Sarrantonio and Matt Costello by Lisa Morton; a feature review of Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury; and much, much more!
Author Cemetery Dance OnlinePosted on Categories Breaking NewsLeave a comment on The Prophet: Deluxe Special Signed Limited Edition 
A compulsively readable novel about brothers on opposite sides of life.”Hi Folks!
What do Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Scott Smith, Dennis Lehane, and Dan Simmons all have in common? They’re huge fans of Michael Koryta! So are we, and we think our collectors will be, too!
We’re very pleased to announce our new beautiful deluxe special edition of The Prophet (Deluxe Signed Special Limited Edition) by Michael Koryta, which is already selling extremely quickly thanks to the strong response from collectors and readers alike!
PLEASE NOTE: This is the first of several Limited Editions by Koryta that we’ll be publishing, and collectors who order a copy of The Prophet through our website will be the first notified about future special editions!
About the Book:
Adam Austin hasn’t spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town’s criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them.
Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. After years of near misses, Kent’s team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships.
Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. When details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two are forced to unite to stop a killer-and to confront their buried rage and grief before history repeats itself again.
Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever-an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him “one of the best of the best.”
Special Features Exclusive to this Deluxe Collector’s Edition:
• deluxe oversized design different from any other edition
• a full-color signature sheet personally signed by the author
• fine binding for both the Limited Edition and the Lettered Edition
• epic cover artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of copies of the edition you’ll see in bookstores — and you will NOT see our edition in chain bookstores!
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Dirty Coppers by Richard Chizmar & Ed Gorman
Walpuski’s Typewriter by Frank Darabont
Hi Folks!
Today we’re pleased to announce two new eBooks have been added to our online store and they’re both LONG Out of Print classics we’ve been asked about a lot over the years:
Walpuski’s Typewriter
by Frank Darabont
About the eBook:
The first-ever book (fiction) project from Frank Darabont, the Academy Award-nominated director of The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption!
Howard Walpuski is a struggling writer trying to make his way on the tough streets of Hollywood. And like so many others, he dreams of the big-time. But times are tough and when he walks into the run-down repair shop with his old typewriter under his arm and five bucks in his wallet, he figures it’s about to get a lot tougher.
But he’s wrong.
Because not only is his typewriter fixed that afternoon at the old shop… so is his life.
Suddenly he is writing like never before… and suddenly his work is selling like never before. In fact, before long, he’s a star on the fast track to certain fame and wealth.
But there’s a price to pay for his overnight success.
And Howard Walpuski must pay it… in blood.
Walpuski’s Typewriter is packed with dark chills and terrifying suspense and laced with a brilliant streak of black humor. It’s one of the most compelling reads of the year and should not be missed!
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Dirty Coppers
by Richard Chizmar & Ed Gorman
About the eBook:
Sometime in the near future, a hell-hold of an America, where sometimes you can’t tell the good buys from the bad guys.
Mullican (he) and Neely (she) are urban cops who (usually) protect the innocent, but along the way also stuff their own pockets, and kill off a few people that they (and we) really hate. That’s the prerogative of the urban cop of the future, doubling as executioner, with your trial held right at the point of arrest.
Now Mulligan and Neely must also play detective, and find out who’s killing off the male clientele at the cybersex bars. These are some of the nastiest killings the two cynical coppers have ever encountered.
No matter what you’ve read… You’ve never met a pair of cops like Dirty Coppers in this noirish nightmare of future America.
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Thanks, as always, for your continuing support!
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Today is your last chance to grab your FREE Amazon Kindle eBook edition of Four Legs in the Morning by Norman Prentiss is FREE FOR EVERYONE THIS WEEK ONLY at this special Amazon.com link:
Please Note: You do NOT need to own a Kindle to read Kindle eBooks! You can try the Kindle App (for iPhones, iPads, Android Phones, PCs, and more) or you can even read Kindle eBooks in your web browser using the free Kindle Cloud!
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The Deluxe Lettered Edition of Full Dark, No Stars is limited to 52 signed and lettered copies.
This hand-bound, custom-made Lettered Edition book features:
* Cromwell “Charred Wood” Leather binding on spine
* black Skivertex Ecrases, Sanigal embossing with aqueous coating for front and back cover binding
* French Marbled endsheets
* pages edged with hand-dipped gold gilding
* hot-stamped, blind embossed with clear foil and simulated dusted gold foil on front and spine
* Smyth sewn with cotton thread
* cotton hinge cloth, sewn headbands, and brown silk ribbon page marker
* dust jacket with a different design than the other editions
* book printed on Mohawk Loop Laid Natural #70 paper
This handmade, custom-made box features:
* Skivertex “Brown” Spania with aqueous coating
* pastel copper baroque satin lining
* hot-stamped, black glossy foil and simulated dusted gold foil
* brass hinges and clasp
* box constructed with 100-point recycled chipboard
Glenn Chadbourne “remarqued” several copies of the Lettered Edition of Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King for collectors. A remarque is an original drawing created by an artist directly in the book. Glenn spent five full days working on these remarques. You can click on each image to see a larger version:
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The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book
by Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja
Featuring Original Artwork From Glenn Chadbourne & An Exclusive Afterword by Mick Garris!
Today we’re pleased to announce The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja, which features more than 1,000 questions about the movies, miniseries, and television episodes based on ideas conjured from the imagination of the King of Horror, along with more than 50 illustrated questions created by Glenn Chadbourne and an exclusive afterword by Mick Garris, director of The Stand, The Shining, Riding the Bullet, Desperation, Bag of Bones, and many others!
About the Book:
The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman (The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book), Hans-Åke Lilja (Lilja’s Library: The World of Stephen King), and Kevin Quigley (Wetware: On the Digital Frontline With Stephen King) features more than 1,000 questions
to test your knowledge of the movies, miniseries, and television episodes based on ideas conjured from the imagination of the King of Horror, along with more than 50 special illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne!
In addition, the book concludes with a special afterword by Mick Garris, director of The Stand, The Shining, Riding the Bullet, Desperation, Bag of Bones, and many others!
The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book includes material right up through this year and no Stephen King collection will be complete without it!
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Four Legs in the Morning by Norman Prentiss
Hi Folks!
Have you heard about A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan, a new eBook that Simon & Schuster just announced? We are not involved in this project, but the news is so cool, we just had to share!
About the Book:
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…
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We’re also very pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle eBook edition of Four Legs in the Morning by Norman Prentiss is FREE FOR EVERYONE THIS WEEK ONLY at this special Amazon.com link:
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— Stephen King
New Signed Limited Edition Announced:
I’m Not Sam
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee
Today we’re very pleased to announce I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee, the creative duo behind The Woman, which took the world by storm and shocked readers and film goers alike. (The splash they made at the Sundance Film Festival is still being felt today.)
We expect the signed editions to sell very quickly, so we’ll also be publishing an extremely affordably trade hardcover edition with a retail price of just $17.99. Place your order for any editions you want as soon as possible so you don’t miss out!
Please Note: If you haven’t already qualified for your free $80 shopping spree, this book could help you do that! PLUS this book qualifies for FREE US SHIPPING, so this is definitely the time to place your order!
About the Book:
Now I’m way beyond confusion.
Now I’m scared.
I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans.
And now I’m shivering too.
In some fundamental way she’s changed…
Revised & Updated Second Edition of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book
Today we’re pleased to announce a Revised & Updated second edition of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman & Bev Vincent and illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, featuring hundreds of new questions, ten new “illustration based” questions, and a brand new afterword by Kevin Quigley!
About the Book:
This revised and updated second edition of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book features all of the original questions from the first edition, along with more than one hundred new questions about Stephen King’s most recent releases!
Also included are ten brand new illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne, along with the 60 illustration-based questions from the original edition. (See samples on the website.)
This new edition concludes with a brand new afterword by Kevin Quigley, founder of Charnel House, one of the oldest Stephen King fan sites on the web.
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman and Bev Vincent includes material right up through The Wind Through the Keyhole and no Stephen King collection will be complete without it!
My 150th post was so memorable, so legen—wait for it—dary that I was hesitant to follow it up. Nah, I’ve just been busy with other stuff (a likely story). So, here it is, #151. All the news that’s fit to print, and even some that isn’t.
The hottest news is the pending publication of “A Face in the Crowd,” an e-book and audiobook short story co-written with Stewart O’Nan, release slated for August 21. You can read the plot synopsis at King’s website. If you find yourself saying, “Hey, that sort of sounds familiar,” there’s a good reason. King talked about this story idea in Faithful, also co-written with O’Nan, while discussing the Face Game, something he’d do to amuse himself while watching baseball games. “What if a guy watches a lot of baseball games on TV because he’s a shut-in or invalid…and one night he sees his best friend from childhood, who was killed in a car crash, sitting in one of the seats behind the backstop…After that the protagonist sees him every night at every game.” You can read the full passage from Faithful here. The idea stuck around. King mentioned it again at the end of his appearance at the Savannah Book Festival, where Stewart O’Nan was in attendance. You can hear King talking about it at the 1 hr 5 min mark of this video.
The next book to be published will probably be Joyland, which will be out from Hard Case Crime next June. Neil Gaiman spilled the beans about this crime novel in an interview with King published in the Sunday Times in April. The book will only be available in paperback at first because King wants people to experience it as a physical book. Presumably there will eventually be an eBook, too. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Publisher Charles Ardai calls the it “a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book. It’s a whodunit, it’s a carny novel, it’s a story about growing up and growing old, and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time. Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved.”
Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, originally slated for a January 2013 release, has been pushed back to give King more time to work on revisions. A new release date has not yet been announced, but you can hear King read the opening section on the audiobook version of The Wind through the Keyhole.
Part 1 of “In the Tall Grass,” a novella co-written with Joe Hill, was published in the June/July issue of Esquire, with the conclusion following in the August issue. It’s a nasty little story about what happens to people who unwisely choose to listen to the Canadian rock group Rush while traveling cross-country.
Movie update: The remake of Carrie is currently in production, with Chloë Grace Moretz in the starring role. Julianne Moore, Judy Greer and Portia Doubleday are also in the movie, which is directed by Kimberly Peirce. Justin Long is starring in a feature film adaptation of “The Ten o’Clock People,” directed by Tom Holland (The Langoliers, Thinner). Both are slated for 2013 releases. At Cannes, there were reports that “The Reach” and “A Good Marriage” would be turned into films, too, but there’s been no further news since then, nor has there been anything else about SyFy’s plans to turn The Eyes of the Dragon into a 4-hour TV movie. There are still rumblings about a 2-movie remake of It, too, but who knows if that project will take off or not.
King played with the Rock Bottom Remainders at their last-ever gigs in California recently. Before the shows, King said, “A few years ago, Bruce Springsteen told us we weren’t bad, but not to try to get any better otherwise we’d just be another lousy band. After 20 years, we still meet his stringent requirements. For instance, while we all know what ‘stringent’ means, none of us have yet mastered an F chord.” Kathy Kamen Goldmark, who came up with the idea for the band, passed away shortly before these shows. You can find some clips of their performances on YouTube. Here’s an article about the band in the L.A. Times.
King will take to the stage at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell, offering fans the chance to hear him read his work, ask him questions and listen to him discuss his passion for writing and his advice for aspiring authors on Friday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. See more about the event here.
Mark and Brian of KLOS hosted a wide-ranging interview with King recently You can listen to it here: Part 1 | Part 2.
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County may make the move to Broadway. Director Susan V. Booth plans to workshop the play in New York in September to try to arrange financial backing. In case you missed it in the awesomeness that was NFtDZ #150, here is my review of the Premiere at FEARnet.
James Smythe, a writer for the UK newspaper The Guardian, has read every King book and is now reading them again and reviewing them along the way. If you’re interested in following along, his first post on Carrie can be found here.
Season 3 of Haven is currently filming in Nova Scotia. The SyFy original series, based on The Colorado Kid (loosely based, that is), returns with thirteen new episodes on September 21. Hmmm. There’s something special about that date. Now, what could it be?
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