The Brazilian edition of HATER – Ódio Mortal – will shortly be published by ARX. Click here for more information.
Yet another very different cover design. I think it’s really interesting how much variety there already is in the approaches taken by different publishers. You can see all the current covers here, and there are still numerous other countries (including Russia, Romania, Japan and Korea to name but several) to go!
It’s been a busy few weeks, so I wanted to catch up with a few quick things…
First, thanks to Paul Huggins, owner of www.zombiejunky.com, who has put together my first fansite! Thanks, Paul – I’m honoured! Please head over to www.davidmoodysmonsters.com and give Paul your support. He recently added a review of DOG BLOOD and a short interview to the site.
On the subject of interviews, I recently spoke to BSC Review. They recently reviewed (and liked) DOG BLOOD, and there’s a great interview just gone online here.
I know it’s only a couple of days since I announced I had signed copies of DOG BLOOD available, but they’re very close to selling out already. If you wanted to get your hands on one, please head over to www.infectedbooks.co.uk quick!
Finally, thanks to all of you who’ve sent in pictures of yourselves with your copy of the new book. You must be camera shy – the entries haven’t exactly been flooding in – so everyone who’s entered so far is now guaranteed a T-shirt. Please get your entries in by Saturday. See here for details.
A very limited number of signed copies of the UK edition of DOG BLOOD (both hardback and paperback versions) have just been made available to buy via www.infectedbooks.co.uk.
There are book trailers and there are book trailers. This is a bloody excellent book trailer.
Scott Sigler’s ANCESTOR
With DOG BLOOD finally available in the UK now (click here to order a copy – I’ll have some signed copies available through www.infectedbooks.co.uk from early next week), I thought the time was right for a very quick and easy competition for UK readers.
All you need to do is send me a photograph of yourself with your copy of the book. Email it to competition@infectedbooks.co.uk by Friday 25th June. Next Saturday I’ll pick 15 – FIFTEEN! – names from the electronic hat, and each one will win a signed HATER T-shirt.
(Winners will be chosen at random. My decision is final, UK only readers for this one please – sorry, and please let me know in your email message whether you’re happy for your image to appear on this site. Thanks!)
UPDATE – 24th June – I’ve had a few messages asking for an extension to the deadline for those people who’ve ordered books direct from www.infectedbooks.co.uk this week. Everyone who’s sent me a picture so far is already guaranteed a T-shirt, but I’m now extending the giveaway until Wednesday 30th June to give everyone else time to get their cameras out and their pictures in!
Hope to see some of you tomorrow at Forbidden Planet in London where I’ll be signing DOG BLOOD on the day of its UK release. I’ll be there from 6pm – 7pm.
And stay tuned UK readers, for a DOG BLOOD giveaway at the end of the week. In the meantime, don’t forget to read EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, the free prequel to DOG BLOOD. Visit www.thehatertrilogy.com for more details.
Here’s something for those of you
The Danny McCoyne we meet at the beginning of DOG BLOOD is a different man to who we last saw at the end of HATER. Several months of fighting and several hundred kills have taken their toll…
Find out more by downloading EVERYTHING AND NOTHING – the free prequel to DOG BLOOD.
Read it, enjoy it, tell your friends about it, Twitter about it, share the link on Facebook etc. etc. etc.
It’s finally here! DOG BLOOD is released in the US and Canada today.
More news later. In the meantime, visit the new website for the HATER trilogy: www.thehatertrilogy.com
With DOG BLOOD finally hitting the shelves tomorrow (in the US and Canada at least, UK readers have one more week left to wait, release dates for other countries coming soon), I thought now would be a good time to say thank you.
What am I thanking you for?
Firstly, your patience. The last few years really have been incredible, and I could never have predicted what would happen when I first made AUTUMN available as a free download back in 2001. But there has been an unfortunate downside to this success, and that’s the fact that many of you who’ve been reading my books since the beginning have had an unacceptably long wait (four years to the month in fact!) to get your hands on something new. You know, things were chugging along nicely back in Summer 2006 – I’d just released HATER through Infected Books and it was selling at a decent rate, I was ready to start work on a new AUTUMN novel and DOG BLOOD . . . and then out of the blue I got an offer to talk about film rights which then turned into a deal, which resulted in a publishing contract for the HATER series, which then expanded to include the five AUTUMN books . . . I still have to pinch myself sometimes.
But four years is a long time in anyone’s book, and I hope when you finally get your hands on DOG BLOOD that you enjoy it and that it was worth the wait. Please let me know what you think of it.
I also want to thank you for your ongoing support.
I spend a lot of time sat in my tiny office staring at the screen, completely isolated from everyone else. It’s humbling when I do emerge from my little cage and I realise how much support I have around the world. As cheesy and clichéd as it might sound, it also happens to be true. Thank you for your emails, reviews, Facebook messages, Twitter follows etc. etc. Please keep them coming. I appreciate all your feedback!
So what’s next?
There are a few things planned around the release of DOG BLOOD, and you’ll hear more about them very soon. I’m currently working on the final HATER book for release next year, and I hope to share some details about that in the near future, as well as an update on the HATER movie. In October this year, the AUTUMN re-releases begin (and in 2011 you’ll FINALLY get to read AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION!). I have big plans to promote the series online, and I’ll reveal more about those plans towards the end of this year.
Until then, sincere thanks again, and enjoy DOG BLOOD!
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Bring classic horror back to the BBC
Growing up as a young horror fan in the UK in the 1980′s, it was bloody hard to find any decent movies to watch. Dumb politicians, moralistic idiots and misguided religious fools conspired to strip our shelves of everything even mildly horrific.
Some of my earliest horror movie memories came as a result of the ‘Horror Double Bills’ which used to screen on the BBC, late on a Saturday night. There you could see Universal monster movies back-to-back with sumptuous Hammer and Amicus classics. Just click here for a taste of the superb selection of seminal horror we used to enjoy.
But, without anyone really noticing, the Horror Double Bills died out, and were replaced, on the whole, with blandness: reality TV shows, endless repeats, 24 hour news etc. etc.
I was really pleased to hear that a campaign to bring Classic Horror back to BBC TV in the UK has been started, and I wanted to ask all you UK readers to show your support. There’s a website, a Facebook page and even a petition. Please add your voice!
This isn’t just a nostalgia trip for old buggers like me. These films really were instrumental in switching me on to horror, and I don’t think I’d be writing the books I write today if it hadn’t been for those Saturday nights spent creeping back downstairs to watch TV after my parents had gone to bed, or staying up late in the school holidays and being scared half to death by Quatermass
, Captain Kronos
, Doctor Phibes
and the like. Let’s get these films back on the box!