Sunday, May 18, 2008

Grant Morrison: The Early Years Not Available Much Longer

I don't know if I'm supposed to officially announce this or not, but my first book, Grant Morrison: The Early Years, will soon be available through Diamond and ONLY through Diamond. After it goes through the whole Previews catalog this summer and ordering that month and into comic shops in November and all of that, it might be available again via other venues, but that won't be until late 2008, or early 2009. I'll have more details about ordering via Diamond once that gets ironed out, but if you've been waiting to buy my book, you only have a short time to order it through Amazon (just click on the picture of the book on the right of this blog), otherwise you'll have to wait and ask your local comic shop to get it from Diamond.

Note: In other words, this is the last chance to get the first printing of the book. The Diamond version will be slightly different, with a revised cover design, a few minor rewordings, and a new appendix in which I discuss Morrison's first "Future Shocks" story. So it's up to you: get the original version now, or wait until late 2008 to get the slightly revised edition. Just so you know what's what.

Also, the Teenagers from the Future book is still in the pipeline, and we haven't finished the completely final version yet, so if you got one of the advance copies at NYCC you're lucky, because the rest of the world may not see it for a few months. That book may or may not end up with Diamond as well. I'll keep you posted.

3 comments:

Matthew E said...

Also, the Teenagers from the Future book is still in the pipeline, and we haven't finished the completely final version yet

We haven't? Why not? What's up?

Marc Caputo said...

Wow - I have "convention" copies of both books. I better increase the security measures in my apartment. Sitting on a gold-mine of rarity here!

Seriously, though, Tim, that's great news on the Morrison book. I'm thinking that the relatively narrow focus of Diamond will increase the spotlight on your book, right? Or am I am idiot?

No, don't answer that.

Timothy Callahan said...

Matthew: We just need to fix something on the back cover and some typos in the chapters. So it takes some time to go back and forth with the printer on corrections--plus we're waiting to see if Diamond's going to carry it exclusively at first.

Marc: The Morrison book will get some more attention come this summer. Wait and see.