Full Throttle Lands In Stores
I'm writing this in Portland, Oregon, where I'm kicking off the U.S. tour for Full Throttle with an event at Powell's Books today (September 30th). The book is officially out on October 1st, but Powell's will have copies for you if you're in the area and can make it: the reading starts at 7:30.
As I mentioned in the last issue of Escape Hatch, the book is available in hardcover and a lovely audio edition, with readings by Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Zachary Quinto, Ashleigh Cummings, Connor Jessup, Laysla de Oliveira, George Guidall, Neil Gaiman, Nate Corddry, Stephen Lang, and ummmm... am I forgetting anyone? Oh, yeah, and me. For those with a little more dosh to throw around, Subterranean Press pulled out all the stops for their limited edition, gloriously illustrated by David McKean.
Probably I don't need to sell you, but we've had some good reviews on the run-up to release, including starred reviews in Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, and Kirkus. So the early word has been kind.
I do love these stories and hope you love 'em too. Each of them is a kind of bookmark to particular moment in my life (here's the one I wrote when I spent a week riding trains around the U.K., there's the one Dad and I thought up over flapjacks during a late night run to I-HOP, and so on).
It isn't terribly hard to get a signed book (I signed nearly 1000 pre-orders for Water Street Books last week, B&N has an absolute shitton in stock, and Waterstones has you covered in the U.K.) but if you haven't tracked one down already, catch up with me on the road! I'll scribble in yer copy for you. I'm not really doodling so much anymore, but I still remember how to spell my name.
Thanks for picking up another book, guys. You are, in actual fact, the best.
FULL THROTTLE: THE TOUR
SEPTEMBER 30TH - 7:30 PM - PORTLAND, OR
Powell's City of Books
OCTOBER 1ST - 7:00 PM - PETALUMA, CA
Copperfield's
OCTOBER 2ND - 7:00 PM - DENVER, CO
The Tattered Cover
SOLD OUT
OCTOBER 3RD - 7:00 PM - SCOTTSDALE, AZ
The Poisoned Pen (30th Birthday Party!)
SOLD OUT
OCTOBER 4TH - 7:00 PM - MILWAUKEE, WI
Boswell Book Company
OCTOBER 5TH - 4:00 PM - NEW YORK, NY
NYCC - Signing with Gabriel Rodriguez @ Booth 1844 (!)
OCTOBER 5TH - 6:00 PM - NEW YORK, NY
NYCC - D.C. House of Horrors Panel @ RM 1A24 (!!)
OCTOBER 6TH - 11:30 AM - NEW YORK, NY
NYCC - Signing for IDW @ Booth 1844
OCTOBER 6TH - 1:00 PM - NEW YORK, NY
NYCC - Signing for HarperCollins @ Booth 2118 - 2119
OCTOBER 7TH - 7:00 PM - BROOKLYN, NY
In Conversation at the Center for Fiction
OCTOBER 10TH - 7:00 PM - SOMERVILLE, MA
Porter Square Books @ Somerville Theater
In Conversation with Stephen King
SOLD OUT
OCTOBER 11TH - 7:00 PM - NASHUA, NH
Barnes & Noble
OCTOBER 24TH - 7:00 PM - BANGOR, ME
Books-a-Million
OCTOBER 26TH - 7:30 PM - BLUE HILL, ME
WORD. FESTIVAL - in conversation with Laura Miller
You guys checking out Creepshow on Shudder? You won't find more gonzo horror anywhere on TV. The Shudder subscription is also $5 a month, or roughly the cost of an inedible croissant at that chain coffee shop you hit every morning (no, seriously, they do excellent tea and coffee, but those croissants are like chewing on a slightly moist roll of toilet paper).
One of the upcoming episodes features an adaptation of "By The Silver Water of Lake Champlain" (a story you'll find in Full Throttle) directed by none-other-than the godfather of gore himself, Tom Savini. Side note: not a lot of people realize that Savini is a casually skillful comic actor, and even less are aware that he's a top notch director. His remake of Night of the Living Dead is as sharp a piece of work as the much better known remake of Dawn of the Dead that was helmed by Zack Snyder.
Of course you know about this too.
Out on October 4th, dropping mid-tour. Scary AF. Give it a whirl. But think carefully before watching late at night, when you're alone in the house.
NOW...
.... watching: MINDHUNTERS, season two
(actually just finished and HOLY SHIT I love this show so much. There's TV I like, and TV I love, and then every once in a while a show comes along that exerts a drug-like hold over my imagination, and MINDHUNTERS is one of those shows.)
... reading: THE INSTITUTE by Stephen King
(What I said about TV and Mindhunters? Also true of books. Put this in the books-shouldn't-be-so-much-like-crack category. Just because I'm biased doesn't mean I'm wrong)
... listening: caught Vampire Weekend in Portland, OR, last Saturday night. Loved 'em. One of the best young bands in rock, and certainly one of the most inventive.
... playing: Darkest Dungeon... Joe Abercrombie (author of the amazing, instant-NYTimes-bestseller A Little Hatred) turned me on to this one. Yeah, it's been around a while, but it's new to me.
That's all I got for you. Hope you're being good to yourself, making a little time here and there to listen to that album you love, or read a little bit of that book that's got you hooked. I'm excited to see some of you on the road. Hang in there.