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October 1989 Vol. 1 No. 2 October 1989 Inside This Issue ² Contest: Finish McCammon's \The Night I Killed the King"! ² The Almost-Complete Robert R. McCammon Bibliography ² A Report on the HWA Awards Banquet ² A Review of Blue World ² News: Mine in Hardcover & British The Wolf's Hour Lights Out! Lights Out! Goat Busters A Message from the Editor The Robert R. McCammon Well, we've made it to the second issue of Lights Out!|The Robert R. Newsletter McCammon Newsletter. I'm fresh back from a two-week vacation to my home state, Kentucky. We drove 4,523 miles during those two weeks|it's Vol. 1 No. 2 October 1989 pretty tiresome stu®. Still, it was a much-needed break from work and a lot of other things, so I'm ready to get going on issue number 2. Presented by: Everything you've ever heard about publishing is true: no matter how well Hunter Goatley you've planned things, you're still going to miss deadlines. In this case, I had a project at work that demanded a lot of my time, so that kind of Title by: pushed this issue o® a week or so. Robert R. McCammon There's not a lot of news on the McCammon front this time, but this Business Manager: issue is full of lots of new things, not the least of which is an original Dana Goatley McCammon short story. I am working with Rick McCammon on a possible series of author Additional Editing by: interviews, all conducted by Rick. Denise de la Cruz Karl Hayes I recently ¯nished reading Razored Saddles, the sort-of-Western anthology Heather Stone edited by Joe Lansdale and published by Dark Harvest. Some interesting stories, for sure! So ::: does it strike anyone else as odd how Dark Harvest books are very collectable, yet the quality of the books is frequently pretty lousy? I gave up counting the typographical errors in Razored Saddles Subscriptions when I reached 40|and that only included misspelled words, repeated words, and missing words. I didn't bother to count all of the punctuation $12 per year (4 quarterly issues). errors. It sure seems to me that a little more care would go into the Send check or money order to: production of a book that will become an instant collector's item upon publication. Lights Out! P.O. Box 2111 Some Lights Out! statistics: there were initially 300 copies printed of issue Orem, Utah 84059-2111 number 1. By the end of August we had completely sold out. I printed another 300 copies of issue number 1 (which can be identi¯ed by the words \Second Printing" on the publication box on Page 2) and those are well on their way to becoming extinct. Thanks to the following people for all of their help: Adam Rothberg, Sally Peters, And ¯nally, as most of you know already, we have a new address for Lights Mike Cheyne, Jackie Bazan, Jane Jewell, Out! mail. Please send all correspondence to: Beth Gwinn, Dave and Laurie Hinchberger, Craig Goden, Jim Orbaugh, Mark Ziesing, Hunter Goatley Jodi Strissel, Karl Hayes, Lisa Rubilar, Heather Stone, Denise de la Cruz, and Dana Lights Out! Goatley. Very special thanks to Rick and P.O. Box 2111 Sally McCammon, for obvious reasons. Orem, Utah 84059-2111 This newsletter was typeset on a DEC VAXstation 3100 using the TEX typeset- ting system developed by Donald Knuth at Thanks to the following people for writing or calling with their Stanford University. TEX is a trademark of thoughts on issue number 1: Ron Alfano, Jim Colson, Craig the American Mathematical Society. Goden, Dave Hinchberger, Jill Johnson, Scott Johnson, Joe R. Lansdale, Peter McMillan, Jim Orbaugh, Ken Owens, Ray Rexer, Jodi Adam Rothberg, Jodi Strissel, Terry Swindle, Mark Turek, °C 1989 by Hunter Goatley. All rights reserved. Permission to reprint required. Michael Yates, and Mark Ziesing. I hope I didn't forget anyone! Page 2 October 1989 The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter Things Unearthed... News items of interest Mine Completed; April 1990 to coincide with the release of the Pocket Books Currently Scheduled as May Hardcover paperback edition of Blue World. Something Passed By will feature the following stories: As we reported last issue, the next McCammon novel will be called Mine. The book has been turned in to Pocket ² \Something Passed By" Books and is scheduled for publication in May 1990 as ² \Makeup" a hardcover edition. The release will follow on the heels ² \The Red House" of the Pocket Books paperback edition of Blue World, ² \Pin" McCammon's short story collection, scheduled for April ² \Chico" 1990. An excerpted chapter from Mine may appear in the collection. Three of the ¯ve stories are available only in Blue World. The reader for the tapes has still not been decided, though Mine is about a woman who was a member of the Storm William Windom, who read the stories for Nightcrawlers, Front, an out¯t similar to the SLA that Patty Hearst is a strong possibility. belonged to in the 1960s. The woman goes insane, kidnaps another woman's baby, and goes underground with the child. The novel chronicles the cross-country search for British Hardcover Editions of the kidnapped child. The Wolf's Hour and Bethany's Sin Continuing the recent tradition of British hardcovers of McCammon Short Story \Lizard Man" American paperbacks, British publisher Grafton Books will Appears in Dark Harvest's Stalkers publish hardcover and trade paperback editions of The Wolf's Hour in October 1989. The Grafton edition marks The newest McCammon short story is entitled \Lizard the ¯rst and only hardback appearance of the book. The Man" and will appear in Dark Harvest's new anthology print run for The Wolf's Hour is the same as Grafton's Stalkers. As the title implies, the book's central theme April Blue World print run: 2,000 hardcover editions and deals with people or things stalking others. \Lizard Man" 4,000 trade paperback editions. is about an old man who traps alligators in the swamp and comes to realize that he is being stalked ::: The cover art is by Bruno Elletori, the same artist responsi- ble for the covers of Grafton's editions of Stinger and Blue Other authors represented in Stalkers include Joe R. World. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Dean Koontz, Rick Hautala, Richard Laymon, John Coyne, Rex Miller, and eleven Bethany's Sin will ¯nally be released in a British hardcover others. The book is scheduled for publication in October edition by Kinnell, the same publisher that produced last 1989. There will be a limited edition (750 copies) signed by year's Stinger hardcover. At least three di®erent times all contributors ($65.00) and a trade hardcover ($19.95). during the past year, rumors of the book's release were circulating. Though I don't have a ¯rm publication date, it For more information, write to Dark Harvest, P.O. Box 941, appears that it could be published soon. As with the other Arlington Heights, IL 60006. British editions, Bethany's Sin will have a small print run, though I don't know the exact numbers. Simon & Schuster Audio's Something Passed By Miscellany: Reprints, Reprints, and More Reprints We reported last issue that Simon and Schuster Audio would be releasing a second audiocassette collection based Ballantine Reprints on McCammon's work. The tapes, entitled Something Ballantine Books is reprinting paperback editions of Mys- Passed By, will consist of more stories from Blue World. tery Walk and Usher's Passing in October 1989. Both The release date for the tapes has been rescheduled for books feature new cover art that closely resembles the Vol. 1 No. 2 Page 3 Lights Out! Cover for Ballantine Reprint Cover for Ballantine Reprint of Mystery Walk of Usher's Passing theme of the Pocket Books editions of McCammon's other to dig some up. Craig's prices are just about the most novels. reasonable in the business; you can order from Craig by writing to this address: An interesting note: the original cover flats produced for The Time Tunnel the reprints state \Author of The Hour of the Wolf ." The 313 Beechwood Avenue title has been correctly changed to \Author of The Wolf's Middlesex, NJ 08846 Hour" on the covers of the published books. 201-560-0738 (9AM{9PM ET) Possible They Thirst Hardcover It appears that Dark Harvest may be publishing a hardcover Non-¯ction Book Planned: edition of Robert R. McCammon's 1981 vampire epic They The Robert R. McCammon Companion Thirst. While nothing has been signed yet, McCammon has approved the new edition; talks are currently underway Dave Hinchberger, owner of the Overlook Connection between Dark Harvest and McCammon's publisher, Pocket mail-order business, is working on a non-¯ction book Books. covering McCammon's career. The book, tentatively titled The Robert R. McCammon Companion, may see release British Usher's Passing Available sometime in 1991. The original ¯rst British printing of Usher's Passing (a Pan Dave is currently in the process of gathering material for Books paperback from 1986) can be purchased from Craig the book, which will include interviews with McCammon, Goden, owner of The Time Tunnel. The book has been photos, and essays on McCammon's work by other authors. out-of-print for the last couple of years, but Craig was able Page 4 October 1989 The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter Dave is seeking copies of local reviews, interviews, photos, exchange, well stocked stores, churches of various de- and related material; if you've got something to send, you nominations, etc.
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