Since posting just a few days back about the cover of Nightmares with the Bible it has now been posted on the Rowman & Littlefield website (more on that in a moment).I’m pleased with the cover because it includes a photo I took.It’s a little blurry, but that adds to the effect.In the days before my commuting began, I could easily stay awake until regular hours and one autumn weekend we arrived home to find the spooky house next door all lit up, under a full moon.I appreciated the eerie look of the situation and snapped this photo, which I’ve used a few times on this blog.I’m not sure the house next door was haunted, but it sure looked like it. More to the point, it reminds me of the poster for The Exorcist. It has always been a dream of mine to have one of my photos appear on a book cover.
I also received the happy news that the book is with the printers.That means it will soon be available.It will be expensive, but I should be receiving a discount code that I will be glad to share.“Library pricing” is something publishers unfortunately have to do to make books pay themselves off.In the past several years so many books have been appearing that the bottom has fallen out of the academic library market.Too much supply, to put it in capitalist terms.Many publishers, however, will give discounts to individuals who want to buy a copy.All you have to do is ask the author.(I don’t have the discount code yet, but I will be glad to share it once I’ve received it.)
Nightmares with the Bible is being published by Fortress Academic.A few years ago Fortress Press partnered with Lexington Books to handle their library market books, including those in the series Horror and Scripture, in which Nightmares appears.Lexington Books is an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield.It’s sometimes difficult to keep track of publishing houses since there has been a lot of consolidation over the centuries, accelerating in recent years.Publishers don’t sell as many individual books as they used to and with Amazon’s arrival a new shift in the market took place.It tends to favor trade publishers over academic ones.In any case, that means even books written for trade readerships, like Nightmares, are priced for libraries.If you have access to an academic library please recommend they buy a copy.If the book succeeds in that venue a case can be made for a paperback edition.In the meantime, the book should be, barring an apocalypse, out on schedule.
