Get Your GAME On
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games is out today, so if you happen to find your way to a bookstore, maybe to buy a long-awaited thriller about Freemasons or sumpin’, and you’ve got room on your credit card bill for one other book, I hope you’ll pick it up.
And don’t forget, you can also still get an autographed copy of Head Games by ordering from River Run Books by September 23rd (603-431-2100). More info here.
Oh, one other thing: I guess I should take a second to dispel a misunderstanding that’s been going around the interweebs. Diamond Distributing goofed in their catalog and listed Head Games as volume 1… but it really is the second book in the series, you can tell by that big number 2 on the spine. Many online comic stores have repeated Diamond’s error. If you happen to be a comic dealer, and you list your new items online, and you have the book labeled vol. 1, I’d be grateful to you if you’d take a minute and correct your listing.
(There was a time, maybe even just a year or two ago, when something like this would’ve had me eating my own liver, but, y’know, mostly I think it’s sort of a laugh. I’m going to see if we can’t have the next book listed as volume 7, just to fuck with people.)
September 16th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Hey–> just wanted to let you know that i stumbled across your entry about contacting River Run Books for an autographed copy of HEAD GAMES… I called them a few minutes later, and they hooked me up with wonderful, friendly customer service.
I’m a huge fan of the Locke & Key series, as well as your other fiction– can’t wait for HORNS!
Keep up the great work
September 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I loved the first volume, “Welcome to Lovecraft”, so I am off to buy this one too
September 16th, 2009 at 11:05 am
FYI: L&K “Welcome” was recommended to me by the guys at Comics Factory in Pasadena ’round about issue #3 of the floppy, and I’ve been following it ever since. GREAT work, and I’ve recommended it to many. I’ll make sure Head Games got ordered and has a prominent place in the store (they sell a TON of tpb’s these days) when I go in today. Hey, dude, it’s COMICS DAY. 55 damn year old and STILL enjoying it … Great work, too — best ‘horror’ graphic storytelling available these days, and that’s sayin’ somethin’.
September 16th, 2009 at 11:10 am
I want one now.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
stopping at Water street, have to pick up hubby’s new Star Wars book as well.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Well, if you’re a famous writer and you can’t f*ck with people, then what’s it good for?
September 16th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I saw number them anything you want as long as you keep telling the story!!!
September 16th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Correction:
I say number them anything you want as long as you keep telling the story!!!
September 16th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
I like the beginning of the first book, but all this music I’ve been buying is running up my bill. I’ll probably get it anyway. Just not be able to get the extra iTune’s music.
I also love everything H.P. Lovecraft ever did. Well…Herbert Reanimator was hard to get through-I don’t agree with him, I think people have souls-but I’ve read it twice anyway.
Lovecraft is one good thing I got from my experience of reading everything Stephen King did until The Gunslinger 7.
I read one thing of his after that, which I liked. It was in that book ‘Sunset.’
A short story about a group of people who didn’t know they were ghosts until the end of the story.
Apple makes it too easy to buy music, and I’ve been collecting everything Blink-182 ever did. I HATE the “clean” versions; I’ve seen too much on my job as a Paramedic to be shocked by mere language. And I have a naughty streak in me-I guess it matches my sister’s “impish” side. Her word not mine.
I went to a Blink 182 concert because my friend, who’s a police officer, was part of the security at their L.A., California show. He made it possible for me to go. This was a while ago.
People try to throw each other over the top of security officer’s heads and onto the stage. It never works, especially not when Greg my friend, is watching.
But they kept trying. Living in eternal hope.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
ok, Joe, went to Water St and they didn’t have it…I think you need to have a serious talk with Dan! LOL Will have to order it from them
September 17th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hey Joe
Just off the phone with Riverrun Bookstore order placed and ready for you to sign when you call in at end of the month!! Again many thanks in advance for helping a massive fan who life so far away get a genuine signed copy!!
Go raibh maith agat! (thank you in irish!)
Tony
September 18th, 2009 at 12:09 am
When will we be able to buy a subscription foR L&K-CROWN OF SHADOWS from IDW.
Personally, this is the best way to go.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Just reserved my copy yesterday. I am looking forward to reading Volume 2!
Thanks Joe!!
(I’m also looking forward to Horns!!).
Mike (Stratham, NH)