Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Dejah Thoris in her first solo adventure

 

The First Novel to Feature
Dejah Thoris® as the Main Character!

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (Tarzana, California) Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company founded by the creator of Tarzan® and John Carter of Mars®, is excited to announce A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins, a brand-new tale of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe by noted science fiction author Ann Tonsor Zeddies, and the first novel ever to feature the incomparable Martian princess Dejah Thoris in the lead role.

Dejah Thoris, fairest daughter of Helium—and indeed, of all Barsoom—comes to life in the pages of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins, as she sets off on the first adventure of her young life, plunging headlong into a murky den of treachery and deadly peril.

Preorders of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins may now be placed directly from ERB, Inc. Softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a limited Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate, will be available in a simultaneous release. The book features wonderful wraparound cover art by award-winning artist Douglas Klauba.

A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins is expected to ship to customers in early Summer 2024.

INTRIGUE IN THE COURT OF ZOR

Born to an ancient line of noble and courageous forebears, Dejah Thoris, young and headstrong princess of the mighty empire of Helium, longs for a life of excitement and purpose beyond the cloistered walls of her royal palace. When a foreign ambassador arrives with an invitation to visit his city-state in hopes of fostering diplomatic relations, the princess defies the protests of her father and jed, traveling to the shadowy metropolis of Zor as Helium’s emissary. But Dejah Thoris soon finds that her hosts are not like the gallant folk of Helium, and before she knows it, their nefarious machinations ensnare her in a tangled web of artifice, perfidy, and murder—and a treacherous plot that portends tragedy not only for her own family, but for the entire Heliumetic empire.

Bonus Novella: “John Carter of Mars®: Swords of the Mind” by Geary Gravel

John Carter is baffled when he encounters his son's badly damaged flier racing through the Martian skies with no one on board. The mystery only deepens when he traces the lost ship to its last port of call and finds himself battling for his life in a city of illusions—where the peril is all too real!

Bonus Trading Card—While Supplies Last!

All preorders of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins placed directly from ERB, Inc.’s online store will come with an exclusive collectible ERB Universe trading card featuring Carthoris, stalwart son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. Collect all of the trading cards by preordering each ERB Universe novel directly from ERBurroughs.com!

Hardcover Limited Collector’s Edition

The hardcover Collector’s Edition features a special ERB Universe bookplate signed by authors Ann Tonsor Zeddies and Geary Gravel, as well as a facsimile autograph of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and includes a second exclusive ERB Universe trading card spotlighting Dejah Thoris and featuring Douglas Klauba’s cover art for A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins (in addition to the Carthoris trading card). The Collector’s Edition is limited to only 200 copies.

Enter a universe of adventure and preorder your copy of A Princess of Mars: Shadow of the Assassins today!

About the Authors

Ann Tonsor Zeddies first encountered the ERB Universe as a child, when an old professor who lived down the street allowed her to choose a volume from his shelves. She chose Tarzan of the Apes. Later, she read the adventures of John Carter aloud to her young son. She is the author of six science fiction novels, two of which were Philip K. Dick Award nominees. Her short fiction includes stories in The Ultimate Silver Surfer and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She lives in Michigan with her husband, near the shores of an inland sea.

Geary Gravel is the author of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novel John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten; the Philip K. Dick Award finalist The Alchemists; and the novels The Pathfinders, A Key for the Nonesuch, and Return of the Breakneck Boys. He has written several novelizations, including Hook, based on the Steven Spielberg film, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, based on the animated movie. He lives in western Massachusetts, where he worked for decades as a Sign Language Interpreter for the Deaf.

About the Cover Artist

An award-winning illustrator, Douglas Klauba was born and raised in Chicago, and is a graduate of the American Academy of Art. His paintings have been included in the art annuals of Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, the Society of Illustrators, and Imagine FX magazine. He was Artist Guest of Honor at the 2016 Burroughs Bibliophiles Dum-Dum convention, and he previously provided artwork for the books Tarzan Trilogy, Untamed Pellucidar, Dark Tides of Mars: A Novel of Barsoom, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold, The Girl from Hollywood Centennial Edition, and Tarzan and the Forest of Stone, all published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

 

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

THE WOMAN OF COLOR'S TALE BY BRIAN A. HOPKINS


 Published by Yard Dog Press, $14.25 paper, $23.25 hardcover, 9781945941474. Available from www.yarddogpress.com and Amazon.com.

Val Morrow is on a bus trip to the Grand Canyon. She is trying to get over a loss and in a page taken from THE CANTERBURY TALES, Val has a story that starts in the Highlands of Scotland.

Allister Buchanan is captured after the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and is taken to the Port of Liverpool where is to be sent to the New World as a slave.

When he is carried to the Reliant, he is almost dead due to his treatment by his captor. It is here he is befriended by Tariq, who is an Overseer of the slaves but has plans that include Buchanan to become free and escape slavery or die.

It is here Hopkins excels in his narrative of the adventure of their escape, His research is meticulous in that his descriptions of the weapons used during this time are drawn so well that you can picture it and almost smell the gunpowder from the flash of the firearms and see the sharp cuts of the swords as the flesh is drawn apart.

Hopkins knowledge of sailing procedures as their adventures on the stolen ship, the Serpente and battle tactics are very important in the major chase/battle scenes that cover a good portion of Val's narrative to her fellow travelers.

Brian is in his best form as he uses his words to paint a landscape that your minds-eye converts it into a technicolor movie in full 4k resolution. This is nothing new to constant readers of his work, but will only gain more readers as they discover his talent.

The book also has a touch of magic, a taste of brutality, a wisp of love, and historically correct language. This is a bit different from his normal subject matter, but it is a welcomed addition to his overall body of work.

The Buchanan name is not new in his writings and this one calls for more adventures of the Scot as he is a character that would tell you that he only wants to live his life, but would not run you through if you did.

Brian, you need to give us more!

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

The Moon Maid: The Centennial Edition

 

Now Shipping from Our Friends at ERB Books!

The Moon Maid: The Centennial Edition is now available and ready to ship immediately from ERB Books!

Richard Lupoff called The Moon Maid trilogy Burroughs’ “masterpiece of science fiction.” You are invited to order this very special edition of The Moon Maid, published for the first time in hardback in three separate volumes with 20,000 words not found in the 1926 A. C. McClurg first edition.

Each book in the set is printed on archival paper, Symth sewn, bound in a leather cover, double stamped in gold, and wrapped in an original dust jacket. The set is housed, with a collector’s portfolio, in a decorated leather clam-shell case. The three volumes are:

Volume 1: The Moon Maid™ 
Volume 2: The Moon Men
Volume 3: The Red Hawk

The edition is limited to 600 numbered and 52 lettered sets signed by the contributors. It is the fourth matching set in the “New World” series launched by ERB Books in 2020 with A Princess of Mars®—each of which celebrates the first appearance of one of ERB’s newly created realms filled with fantastic kingdoms, cultures, and creatures. This trilogy set commemorates both the first publication of The Moon Maid in Argosy All-Story Weekly in 1923 and the 100th Anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.

Each volume in the set is unique with its own book cover design, illustrated endpapers, frontispiece and title pages. The Moon Maid trilogy will feature a total of 100 illustrations from over 20 different artists past and present and contain 20+ tipped in color plates, 30+ full page b&w illustrations and 40+ spot b&w illustrations.

A partial list of artists includes Jamie Chase, William Stout, Mark Schultz, Sanjulian, Bob Eggleton, Thomas Yeates, Daren Bader, Doug Klauba, Lawrence Schwinger, Reed Crandall, Mike Hoffman, Iain McCaig, Joe Jusko, J. Allen St. John, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, and Roy Krenkel.

The case not only houses the books but a vintage-style collector’s portfolio with rare, curated replica items for The Moon Maid. These include the first pages of the manuscripts for each novella in the trilogy, pages and drawings from ERB’s notebook, letters and a telegram between ERB and his editor, 1920’s ERB Inc. advertising and numerous 11x17 reproductions of some of the best pieces of art from the book.

Artwork by P. J. Monahan

Price for the numbered edition (#1–600): $349.99
for the lettered edition (A–ZZ): $449.99

  • Ships now!
  • Payment plans available – contact jim@erbbooks.com
  • Those who ordered At the Earth’s Core will receive the same number/letter set for The Moon Maid. Please confirm your set number when you order.
  • International orders can now be made through ERBBooks.com.

Order The Moon Maid: The Centennial Edition today from ERB Books!

 

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Now available from Amazon

 

 

 
Ebook, trade paper and hardcover are available.
 
I'll have a review up as soon as my copy gets here.


Sunday, January 28, 2024

Brian Lumley, 1937 - 2024

 

With a heavy heart, I share the info that my friend and long time collaborator -I did the art-on the US versions of NECROSCOPE books since 1987, has passed away....
Please feel free to share this post, but please if you have my telephone number don't call as I don't know when I'll be able to handle them.
 
It saddens me to have to tell you all that:
International Best Selling Author Brian Lumley sadly passed away at his home this January. He was the winner of many prestigious awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer’s Association in 2010. Famous for his groundbreaking Necroscope® series, he went on to become one of the top writers in the Horror field. Although Brian had crossed genres between Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy, Brian had many other series under his belt such as: The Primal Lands, Hero of Dreams, Psychomech, Titus Crow, etc. And of course, all the Mythos stories with his own twist.
 
After a 22-year stint as a Royal Military Policeman, he had a long and prosperous lifetime of doing what he loved to do, bringing continued enjoyment to all his readers and listeners. Brian has written approximately 60 books along with many, many short stories, and novellas.
 
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Ann (Silky) Lumley, his daughter Julie and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
 
He may be gone but his legacy will live on in the hearts of us all. Especially me.
 
Barbara Ann Lumley
January 28, 2024
December 2, 1937 - January 2024
Gone But Certainly Not Forgotten
 
on a more personal note, I met Brian and Silkey at one of the DragonCons when they were able to make it to the US. Brian was set up for a signing session and was sharing a room with this fellow who was in comics, Stan Lee. The interesting part was that Brian's line was longer. Brian had time after finishing everyone in their line to sit and talk while waiting to see if anyone came in before his time was over. He and Silky were very pleasant and accommodating. Several weeks after the Con, I received a package in the mail and Brian send a couple of the volumes we had discussed in their UK editions. 

A terue gentleman and he will be missed.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

News from Brian A Hopkins

 


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: COVER REVEAL!
I think it's time we talk about my next book:
THE WOMAN OF COLOR'S TALE
I don't have a release date for you, but we should know that soon. The wonderful folks at Yard Dog Press are pretty quick once a project comes together, and they now have pretty much everything in hand. I should have probably waited before making the announcement, but I am just too excited about this book. Can't keep my mouth shut any longer.
I teased quite a bit about the book while I was writing it, so I won't go into a lot of intimate details now ... just trust me when I say it's going to lift your knickers. Here's your first look at the cover art.
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...The Serpente was gently heeled to port, rolling waves breaking at her bow to ripple the length of her waterline, trailing abaft her stern in a foamy “V.” The sea was a roiling indigo landscape, tipped in crimson where her waves broke in spindrift. Breathing deep of the fresh air, Buchanan thought then that he could grow to love the sea. Love the ship, with the wind on her sails, the rigging taut, the sea dark and surging with immeasurable power, everything humming in a salty harmony. To reconfigure and restrict one’s world to the span of a vessel’s deck, the open ocean, and all that sky overhead might not be a bad trade. To test oneself against something so beautiful and dangerous in equal measure, it felt in that moment like a calling, something larger than himself. He knew he would recall to the end of his days what he was feeling, the music and mystery of it all.
He was alive.
He realized that he was the farthest from home that he’d ever been. The Scottish Highlands and all that he had ever known were lost in his wake. New countries, even new continents, lay before him. He knew that with each new land under his feet, he would grow and change, just as he had done when he first set foot on the Serpente. His life had been forever altered when he answered Clan Buchanan’s call at Culloden, and though he would still change that decision if he could, foregoing all that he’d suffered, he couldn’t argue that in the end he would be the better for it … if he survived the days to come.
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THE WOMAN OF COLOR'S TALE, a short novel by four-time Bram Stoker Award winner Brian A. Hopkins, coming soon from Yard Dog Press. (Available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover.)
UPDATE: Yard Dog says MARCH 1st. Woohoo!