A few bits of news about the devil you know:
• I’m very flattered and excited and grateful to see HORNS made the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards for achievement in a novel. My congratulations to everyone else on this very cool list. Full ballot can be found here.
• HORNS also caught just about the best review I’ve ever had in my life today. Book critic Ilana Teitelbaum, over at Huffington Post, more or less just made the year for me. I won’t quote it, but you can check the review out in its entirety here.
• We’ve got a week left before the book drops in trade paperback. If you’re interested in a signed, doodled bookplate for the front of it, there’s still time. Details here.
New Locke & Key this week and information about the southern trade paperback tour for HORNS by Friday. It’s been a very good day.
WOW! You are right up there with Peter Straub! How awesome! Congrats! Keep up the great work (please)!
Great Review! I loved HORNS and I am always excited to see when others do as well.
Congratulations on the final ballot!
GOOOOOOOOD LUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!! Fingers Crossed for you.
Ditto TG!
Joe…that was a fantastic review, but it was everything HORNS deserves! I do hope you win the Stoker…you certainly ought to!
Joe
Thats great news for Horns thoroughly deserved!
Is there any news on the Bookplate offer for the UK fans?
That was an awesome review. I loved how she describes it as a beach read that will make you forget the tide is rising. So true! Waiting for the book tour announcement – bring it on!!
so, when’s the next book coming out?!?!?!?!
Joe,
That’s so awesome! Also, congrats on the nod for The New Dead. Twittering was such a neat story. Shows your love/addiction to the craft of the tweet.
We’re rooting for you!
Darrell
Anyone else get ripped off by New Dimension Comics? They charged me $25 dollars for shipping and on the postage box it said that it cost them $13. How is that fair.
M&M: Just view the shipping cost as admission to a local comic con.
How about i view the extra 10 dollars as money that I could have used for diapers.
It seems that new dimension comics is going to try everything in the book to rip me off.
To be fair…im not sure if this is a mix up with new dimension or not. Im tired of dealing with it. They can keep the money.
Plus, I really like my comics from the place. SO, what the hell…im over it.
Congrats on the stoker nomination…this years noms are really strong and will be interesting to see who will come out on top..even though just to be nominated among the other nominees would suggest that you already won in one way or another. Congrats again.
Everythings good with new dimension comics. Just a perfect storm of misunderstanding…
I have to admit I was under charged by new dimension comics for shipping, as they had to pay $50 for international shipping for the 3 HC off Locke & Key and I was only charged $40
I have no idea what that woman’s talking about. I don’t remember a ‘Mary’ character, and I never saw Christian symbols in the book.
I hope that doesn’t make me look uninitiated, but I get out of a book what I get from it, and I got the impression it was about grieving a death by violence, and dealing w/ the feelings that accompany the grief. Feelings like guilt for not being able to prevent it from happening and reflecting on the life you had w/ the person. And thinking about your role as the survivor of a homicide victim.
I understand violent death; I know somebody who died a horribly violent death that I incidentally witnessed, and I’ve felt all those feelings and thought some of the ideas that Ig had in the book.
That’s why I liked it so much, b/c finally I could relate to the death in a natural way. Well, I think it’s more natural to have Ig’s feelings than the ones people have been trying to impose upon me ever since it happened.
That’s one of the reasons I like reading so much, but I wish I were faster at it.
I have a friend on Good Reads, and she reads faster than anyone I’ve ever known. Well, I don’t really know her. I only know her from online.
I like her, though, and I aspire to read faster b/c I admire how fast she reads.