The Dabel Brothers have released a five-page preview of the graphic novel adaptation of Storm Front! Check it out here, and look for issue #1 at a comic book store near you November 12th.
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Welcome to the Jungle Trade Hits Today!
The trade edition of Welcome to the Jungle is here! Find it at your favourite bookstore or comics shop today!
The trade compile all four issues of the Storm Front prequel, written by Jim Butcher and pencilled by Ardian Syaf. It’s available in two editions: The first (above, left), released through Del Rey, will be available at your local bookstores and comics stores, as well as online retailers like Amazon. The second (above, right), released through Diamond, will only be available in comics shops. It’s the Dabels’ gesture of thanks to comics shops for helping to make the series such a rousing success!
Check out a review from Fantasy Book Critic, then enter his WttJ Giveaway!
Purchase your copy from the Jim-Butcher.com store, or find comics shops near you with Diamond’s Comic Store Locator tool. Discuss this news post on the forum here!
In other news, an important announcement from Subterranean Press:
We’ve now received enough orders that the first printing of Backup is sold out. If you want to be assured a copy, you need to order one before we finish shipping wholesale and online bookstore orders. We don’t know yet if a second printing will be authorized.
Order from the Jim-Butcher.com store via Amazon or directly from Subterranean Press.
Backup shipping update
Subterranean Press gives us a shipping update:
“Our shippers are making great progress and should have all individual orders for the limited edition of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novelette, Backup, in the mails by the weekend, or Monday at the latest. Then they’ll turn their attention to shipping individual orders of the trade hardcover edition, before moving on to our backlog of lettered editions. Keep your eyes on this page for more updates!” — Subterranean Press
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Dresden Audio Release Dates!
At long last, we have the details for the remaining Dresden Files audio books!
Fans of the previous audio books will be thrilled to learn James Marsters has been signed to read the audios of
DEATH MASKS
BLOOD RITES
DEAD BEAT
PROVEN GUILTY
WHITE NIGHT
and
TURN COAT
Although our release dates are tentative/subject to change, the plan is to release the audios of PROVEN GUILTY, WHITE NIGHT, and TURN COAT simultaneous with the hardcover of TURN COAT in April 2009.
The audio of DEATH MASKS would be released simultaneous with our hardcover reissue in November 2009, while the audios of BLOOD RITES and DEAD BEAT would be released simultaneous with our hardcover reissue of BLOOD RITES in July 2010.
We’ll keep you updated on the release schedule if anything changes. We’ll also post links to the Jim-Butcher.com store as soon as they are available for preorder.
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Backup questions answered
The previous entry about Backup prompted a flurry of questions from fans! I spoke with Bill Schafer of Subterranean Press, and here is his response.
I asked:
Many fans are curious about “Backup” orders placed through Amazon and other online retailers. The other stores still list the release date as 10/31 or 11/1, whereas it looks like fans that ordered directly from you might receive their copies a week or more before then. Do you know if Amazon plans to ship out their orders as soon as they receive the books, or if they intend to wait until the set release date?
Also, your website mentioned that you guys spaced on creating a new design for the Limited Edition’s dust jacket, and we’ve gotten a bunch of questions as to what that entails! They’re curious about if there will be a dust jacket at all, or if you’ve considered having one designed after the fact and sending it separately to the fans that ordered the Limited Edition. They’re also curious as to whether the Lettered edition will have a separate cover design.
He replied:
Here’s how shipping is planned. We’ll be sending out all of the copies of BACKUP, trade and limited edition, ordered through us. After that, we have to ship out the five lettered editions sitting in our warehouses, because folks have been waiting so long for those. Following the lettered edition shipping, we’ll then ship the large online retailer and wholesaler orders for BACKUP — so indeed, those who ordered direct will receive their copies a bit before bookstores. I can’t speak for certain, but it’s likely Amazon, etc. will ship their copies as soon as they receive and process them, and not hold the books until the announced release date. They’ve not held books before, so I see no reason they’ll do so this time.
I haven’t considered having new dust jackets done for the limited edition of BACKUP. We’ll turn our thoughts to a way to make it up to fans after all the shipping is done. The lettered edition will indeed have a dustjacket on it, the same one as the rest of the copies.
While you’re reminding folks of stuff, you might want to mention that we will NOT be filling large online retailer or wholesaler orders for STORM FRONT. Oh, and on the plus side, we’re already working on FOOL MOON and GRAVE PERIL. We have fully designed versions of those and are sending them out to be proofed, and talking to Vincent Chong about when he can fit illustrating them into his schedule.
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