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There have been three Stephen King related releases this month, that's got to be a record, or close to it!
- Stephen King's latest book Never Flinch was released earlier this week. You can find the information page on it here.
- Carrie's Legacy from Lividian Publications is shipping now. It's a perfect candidate for the "Other Editions" section and you'll find an information page up on it here.
- The Stand is shipping from Cemetery Dance! Gift editions are first, a few hundred per week and the limited edition will ship later some this summer. (I read that they are waiting for cases to be finished on those). Even though not all editions are out, I've gone ahead and put both buying and information page up for the book. Limited and lettered values are estimates based on previous CD releases.
I have updated price range valuations for all US limited editions on the site. As usual some titles have gone up quite a bit, a few have stayed the same or even gone down slightly. Poke around the the specific info pages that interest you!
PS Publishing Firestarter - Rumor has it that PS Publishing will be announcing preorders for their printing of Firestarter in their weekly newsletter this weekend. I have to stress that I haven't seen this confirmed by anything official on the PS Publishing site, but let's just say I'll be paying extra close attention to their newsletter this week and I'd encourage you all to sign up. I'm not going to spam your inbox with my own dedicated newsletter one day after this one (if it happens), but I will put any info on the main page of the site and in the forums so check back regularly. As a reminder PS Publishing's website can get overwhelmed during SK releases and they've been doing pre-orders in waves to help mitigate that, so IF Firestarter is announced and you see it shows sold out, check back later in the day for another drop. Again I'll post any specific updates about that in this forum thread.
The shopping experience for books and slipcases on the site is now shopify based for a better user experience!
Did you guys know that our very own forum moderator, Ralph Mulleins, is a published author? He writes under the pen name Adam Kester and his new book titled When a Rabbit Screams is available as an ebook for just 99 cents! I picked up a copy myself a few days ago and it's next up on my reading list. A great way to support a fellow collector for the price of...well... I'm not even sure what else you can get for just 99 cents these days, a coke maybe :)
If you haven't seen, Lividian Publications is doing a pre-order for Carrie's Legacy which features art and essays from numerous writers offering their unique perspective on the novel's lasting impact on popular culture, the publishing world, and the horror genre. The print run will be limited to only as many copies as are pre-ordered. (note this is NOT signed by King)
I got a chance to talk to Robert Wiener at ComicCon last week about a few things. Including how many resellers have Artist Editions of The Wind Through the Keyhole at over double the issue price while there are still copies in stock AT issue price straight from DMG. Robert said that at the current sales pace he would likely be out of copies by the end of the year so I wanted to put a PSA out for everyone that if you still want to get a copy of TWTTKH for $75 instead of the $150-$200 that everyone else is selling copies for, you should do it sooner rather than later.
I've been informed that our long time newsletter service, madmimi, is closing up shop at the end of August. This means I have to find a new newsletter provider ASAP. I've already signed up for some demo accounts at other companies to try them out. They all have the ability to import everyone's email addresses so I THINK that aside from some minor visual changes you guys won't notice a difference but I also know changes don't always go seamlessly the first time around....IF YOU DON'T GET A NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 1ST please check your spam folders and reach out to me to make sure you're still subscribed.
I'm thrilled to be able to share that the San Diego Comic-Con will be hosting a Stephen King panel this year and I've been invited to be one of the panelists! The Needful Things: Collecting Stephen King pannel will be Sunday July 28th 1pm-2pm in room 29AB. With me are Hans-Ake Lilja, David Williamson, and Robert Wiener from DMG! Full Comic Con schedule posted here . If you're headed to Comic-Con this year I'd love to see you at the panel and say hello to you in person!
Jerome Smith, the owner of thedarktower.org passed away a few days ago. Please take a minute to think of all he did for the community and likely for you individually, if not directly then via his amazing site.
I have something really neat to share with you. Fellow collector Daniel Carey recently went thru both the Philtrum Press and Viking editions of The Eyes of the Dragon and detailed out every... single... change.... in the text between these two editions! I'm talking over 800 differences between the two. So many that he also put together a shorter summary version for those that just want to see the main highlights. I've converted these to documents to PDF and have links to them on the information pages of the Philtrum Press and 1st edition info pages of the books. Head on over for some fascinating reading!
A few weeks ago I discovered an excellent but little known YouTube channel SKFirstEditions run by fellow collectors Mark and Noah. Among other topics, they have a fantastic video series on identifying US & UK 1st editions as well as a series on limited editions. It's got a little something for everyone but especially for you newer collectors. I'd highly recommend you take a few minutes to check it out. In fact I was so impressed with what Mark and Noah are doing that I reached out and I'm pleased to announce that over the next few weeks/months we're going to partner with SKFirstEditions to embed relevant videos from them directly onto the information pages of the site! We'll need a little time to settle on the right format and get the pages populated but I expect a number of 1st edition pages to have the new content by the next newsletter, stay tuned!
Veryfinebooks put up a nice collectors guide that some of you newer collectors out the may find helpful.
Kris from the SK Rare Editions Facebook group reached out to let me know a little bit about the group. It's a very active group of almost 3,000 collectors and is run specifically with rare SK items in mind. A lot of buying/selling and sharing of photos going on along with regular contests. If you're on FB do yourself a favor and check them out.
If you're looking for a little eye candy, VeryFineBooks has the ultimate SK collection up for sale for a cool 1.25 million. I have mentioned this before but now there are a number of photos up, so if you've very wanted to see two of the most pristine 1st edition Salem's Lots you're ever going to see, or possibly the only two page remarqued Gunslinger you're going to see, head on over and take a look. As Bob Barker used to say - "All this can be yours, if the price is right" :) |
