Joe Hill, Author

[becca69]

They said it will print in full-color with foil stamping on the spine. Glad I ordered one.

[goathunter]

Instead of saying that it's a great thing the slipcase wasn't included, shouldn't you be asking why wasn't the slipcase included with a $125 book? Especially considering that again, bigger names with smaller print runs have a) cheaper prices or b) came with a slipcase.

I'm not singling you out specifically, though I'm replying to your email: when people gripe about book costs, they never seem to take into account what the author is getting paid. I have no knowledge of the money side of any of these deals, but I do know that the cost of the book includes how much the author is being paid for the rights to publish that edition, as well as profit for the publisher. Maybe Joe Hill was paid more than Simmons was? Maybe he asked for more? Maybe he was offered more? That's between the publisher(s) and the author(s). But it's the one thing that buyers never seem to take into consideration when they're complaining about how much a book costs.

Hunter

[WeDealInLead]

Actually, I understand that completely. You have to understand where I'm coming from. This book doesn't seem to have any of the qualities that book in that range usually have. This was $125 + $30 if you want the slipcase + shipping x 2. It's a nice looking book but when you look at it, do you see anything that is (physically) worth the extra cost? You're right, we don't know what the agreement is and what ammount we're talking about. I'm talking about the bottom line here and that is, you as a consumer got less. Another bottom line is, if people are happy, that's all that matters and don't let the grouchy ol' me get anyone down.

[CyberGhostface]

On the bright side it seems to be selling for three times the purchase price on eBay so if you're not happy with it chances are someone will be glad to pay you a hefty sum to get it off your hands.

[Comrade Alex]

Hi, can somebody who already received SubPress NOS42 post an exact measurements of the book, pls? I'm wondering if NOS42 US1/1 will fit properly into SubPress slipcase... Thanks

[Joe315]

I'm pretty sure the sub press edition is bigger, height and width, then the us trade.
See post #898

http://forum.cemeterydance.com/showt...ll=1#post58721

[RC65]

The Sub Press edition is definitely larger in every aspect than the US 1/1; you'd have significant gaps in both width and height if you put the trade 1/1 in the limited slipcase.

[Comrade Alex]

Got it! Thanks

[sgc1999]

Us trade is 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 x 1 3/4

s/l is approximately 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 2 1/2

UK trade 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 2

[CyberGhostface]

FWIW jeffrey.whiley@ntlworld.com makes Joe Hill slipcases if you want to get in touch with him.

[RC65]

There's also this option: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hard-Cover-S...item3f297b64c9

[bdwyer19]

There's also this option: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hard-Cover-S...item3f297b64c9

The quality of those look pretty good. Just too bad he can't add the author or book title to the case.

[Patrick]

Actually, I understand that completely. You have to understand where I'm coming from. This book doesn't seem to have any of the qualities that book in that range usually have. This was $125 + $30 if you want the slipcase + shipping x 2. It's a nice looking book but when you look at it, do you see anything that is (physically) worth the extra cost? You're right, we don't know what the agreement is and what ammount we're talking about. I'm talking about the bottom line here and that is, you as a consumer got less. Another bottom line is, if people are happy, that's all that matters and don't let the grouchy ol' me get anyone down.

In this case, I don't mind the all-in product cost so much. However I find having to place a separate order and pay a separate extra shipping charge annoying. I like the concept some publishers use: In the original offering, you have two price points based on the choice of including or excluding a slipcase. Order and pay once, avoid double shipping charges, and move on.

[CyberGhostface]

So to those who've read it, what did you think of the bonus material in NOS4A2?

And for those who haven't, the comicbook Wraith is basically the same story with some new material thrown in.

[RC65]

So to those who've read it, what did you think of the bonus material in NOS4A2?

I read it a few days ago, and as I was with the novel, was blown away. Best thing I've read in months, chilling and absolutely absorbing -- and was just the bonus tack-on. If there's a better writer working the genre today, I don't know who it is. I hate to be such a Hill fanboy, but goddamn, he's good.

One odd thing I noticed in the bonus novella is that he periodically spoke in contractions, which, as we know from the novel, he doesn't do. Not sure why the difference, or whether or not it was even intentional on Hill's part.

[CyberGhostface]

I think it's a shame Hill cut it out and that most people won't be able to read it (or even know about it). Plus even for people who do have it you'd have to handle a very expensive book to read it. I mean I get why he cut it out as it does take away the mystery of a number of things from the book but...

Also yeah I definitely think Hill's one of the best writers working today. He's in a class of his own.

[Gris]

Has anyone heard whether there is going to be an omnibus (either TPB or HC) for the Wraith comics?

I would really rather have a HC like I do for walking dead and Locke & Key.

[CyberGhostface]

I can only guess but I imagine they would as IDW has also given a HC release for The Cape.

[sgc1999]

Has anyone heard whether there is going to be an omnibus (either TPB or HC) for the Wraith comics?

I would really rather have a HC like I do for walking dead and Locke & Key.

I would definitely bet money on that for sure. Might be a while. Same for the locke and key series when its finally complete.
I think its better to have one omnibus and have joe sign it at an appearance.

[Dan]

From PS Publishing:
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A TIME when I’d kind of decided I was going to pull the plug on the deluxe edition of Marie O’Regan’s and Paul Kane’s A Carnivale of Horror because the signing sheets had gone AWOL in a monstrously big way and I just could not face going back to those authors who had signed and asking them to do it again. And then, out of the blue, I got a message from Rio Youers (God bless ‘im, I say and by golly I do mean it) to say the sheets had turned up in his local Post Office. This was 23 August . . . around one entire year since they set off on their travels. So, like I say, prior to that email from Rio, I was all set to make the announcement and refund all the folks who had pre-paid (bless 'em). Since then, there was just Rio, Joe Hill and Tom Monteleone to do the job. Needless to say, I was a little nervous about these things going out in the mail yet again but they did. They finally wound up with Tom and he brought them across to Brighton for World Fantasy (Tom, I never bought you that beer, mate: next time, promise!)

It comes to about $75 delivered to US.

[Comrade Alex]

http://www.pspublishing.co.uk/a-carn...ane-1407-p.asp

[Scoogs]

The Bradbury and Hill signatures alone make that work picking up.

[Stockerlone]

The Bradbury and Hill signatures alone make that work picking up.

Nice book... but... is it signed from all authors or from all living authors?

[Scoogs]

Considering the signature pages were "lost" for a year with only three people left to sign them, I'm hoping that means Bradbury signed them well before he passed.
The product page just says "100 signed by the contributors."

[Patrick]

Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered a copy.