Uncovered: The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer by Nathan Collins

Artwork for the twelfth and final book in the Lewis Barnavelt series by Nathan Collins is now available for viewing.  The cover of The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer shows Lewis running from a figure cloaked in red and spinning a fiery numeral 3.

Uncovered: The House where Nobody Lived by Nathan Collins

Artist and book illustrator Nathan Collins posted the image of his latest work, The House where Nobody Lived, to the Twitter yesterday. Similar to his previous book covers in the series this one is full of color and the big bad (Madame Pele, in this case) is front and center and larger than life. Aloha!

The Gargoyle in the Dump

And now for something completely different - and unexpected: The Gargoyle in the Dump is a recently discovered, never-before-published story by John Bellairs to be published September 2015 from Open Road Media.

Open Road Acquires E-Reads

Publishers Weekly has more on Open Road Integrated Media's somewhat-recent acquisition of e-Reads, the electronic book company founded in 1999 by literary agent Richard Curtis:

Book News: Glades Heist

The fourth book in Ken McKea’s Jim Dallas series was released July 3:

Alert: Anthony Monday & eReads

Spend your holiday season in Hoosac!  eReads, the oldest independent digital publisher in the field bringing out-of-print books back in electronic formats, has released the first book in the Anthony Monday series.

Book News: Eden Feint

The third book in the Jim Dallas series has hit Amazon – and perhaps soon your Kindle, too?

Book News: Cuban Dagger

Brad Strickland announced via Twitter that the second Jim Dallas adventure – Cuban Dagger – is now available through your Kindle!

Alert: New Titles from SF Gateway

We suppose we knew this was eventually going to happen, and it appears it did while we away last month. British publisher SF Gateway released the final four books in the Johnny Dixon series for those readers who a) live outside the United States and Canada and b) prefer electronic books. Much like American publisher eReads released the four Strickland-involved Dixon books earlier this year, SF Gateway has done the same – keeping with their traditional yellow covers, of course.  The first eight books were released by SF Gateway late last year.

Book News: Atlanta Bones

Brad Strickland announced via Twitter that you can now read the new “Florida thriller” novel, Atlanta Bones, available now for your Kindle.

Alert: Johnny Dixon & eReads

We’ve discovered the four additional books in the Johnny Dixon series have been released by eReads. The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie and the three titles written by Brad Strickland - The Hand of Necromancer, The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder and The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost - all have colorful covers similar to the other titles in the eReads editions of the series.

Alert: Johnny Dixon & SF Gateway

In what probably will be our last post for 2011, we make note of yet another round of Bellairs e-books. Yes, we mentioned the American editions published by eReads earlier this summer and now we’re pleased to pass word along about the UK counterparts.

Alert: Johnny Dixon & eReads

We often wonder what John’s reaction would have been to the Internet (to Wikipedia, to YouTube, to iSchtuff, and even the CompleatBellairs) and the rise of mobile electronic devices.

For someone who wrote a celebration of olfaction by describing a book as smelling like Old Spice talcum powder (and adding that “books that smelled that way were usually fun to read” [The House with a Clock in its Walls; 19]), it might be unfathomable for a book to exist without smells, without textures, without the chance of paper cuts, and without...well...paper.

Book Alert: Magic Mirrors

Magic Mirrors, the new John Bellairs omnibus, is now available for purchase from the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA). Want a copy of The Face in the Frost with Marilyn Fitschen’s original artwork? Want to relive the adventures of The Pedant and the Shuffly? Want to finally see St. Fidgeta back in print after all these years?

Book Alert: Magic Mirrors

There is news this holiday season of what appears to be a new John Bellairs anthology on the horizon. This one is a collection of his non-YA books entitled (appropriately enough) Magic Mirrors. The anthology looks to include:

Book Alert: The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer

The cover art for The Sign of the Sinister Sorcerer by Bart Goldman has been revealed.

Book Alert: The House Where Nobody Lived

>Amazon notes that you can now pre-order the new Lewis Barnavelt book by Brad Strickland, The House Where Nobody Lived, scheduled for release in October, 2006.