This is exciting news. Last year, a baker’s dozen writers produced a round-robin novella that was published in installments in the Cemetery Dance weekly newsletter. Ray Garton started the tale and passed it off to Tom Piccirilli, who passed it off…and so on, until Bob Morrish had the unenviable task of trying to wrap this story up. There was no outline, no plotting recommendations, and only a general guideline about how long each installment should be. Each writer took what came before and went in whatever direction we wanted.
CD announced today that the story, now titled Looking Glass, will be the first entry in their new Signature Series. Here’s their description of this new line:
This unique series of art-oriented, high-end collectible books will be designed for the collector, with the lowest print runs of ANY book we publish. These books will NOT to be sold via wholesale distributors or to libraries. In fact, we won’t even be printing review copies of these titles since their print runs will be so limited!
The books in the Cemetery Dance Signature Series will be designed around ORIGINAL stories by horror’s best and brightest authors. These novelettes will be between 10,000 and 20,000 words in length, and we say the books will “designed around” the stories because the books in this series will feature more interior artwork, spot artwork, and other illustrations than anything else we publish!In addition to all the interior artwork, each title in the Signature Series will have illustrated endpapers and a unique “art based” signature sheet. Each book will be bound in high quality cloth with unique stamping designed by the artist. These books will have a smaller, more compact trim size, too — for this series we’ll be working with your favorite Cemetery Dance artists to create unique works of art!
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Here are the contributors to Looking Glass: Ray Garton, Tom Piccirilli, Brian Keene, Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Al Sarrantonio, Bev Vincent, Thomas F. Monteleone, Joe Hill, John Skipp, Dominick Cancilla, Kealan Patrick Burke, and Robert Morrish, all of whom will be signing the book. CD is now “working with an artist to create an amazing collectible based around this surreal tale of mystery and horror!”
I’m looking forward to this one myself — quite an impressive list of contributors, eh?
