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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 23, 2023 10:37:40 GMT
 The other Crabs book Smith did before he passed away. And that's all I can say about it because it is the hardest to find of the series anywhere online. What gives? How can such a new book be so hard to get? |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 23, 2023 11:35:05 GMT
The other Crabs book Smith did before he passed away. And that's all I can say about it because it is the hardest to find of the series anywhere online. What gives? How can such a new book be so hard to get? As far as I remember were these small print numbers or Ebook only, and all (or most) of those Black Hill productions have been pulled as Ebooks. This happens more often as one would think. |
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Post by sadako on Nov 23, 2023 14:14:18 GMT
Don’t they want the money? Can Guy Smith’s estate release the ebook titles in other ways?
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Post by andydecker on Nov 23, 2023 15:27:37 GMT
Don’t they want the money? Can Guy Smith’s estate release the ebook titles in other ways? Who can say? As I have seen, the current few Smith books still available are by a publisher called Sinister Horror Company. I guess that the estate either doesn't get enough money for the rights, that no publisher wants them or that the books sold so bad at the time of Smith's death that they don't bother. IMHO it didn't bode well that Black Hill Books and the Smith website were gone so fast. |
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Post by sadako on Nov 23, 2023 16:07:10 GMT
With the silly high prices that the early crab books are fetching, I’m sure the collectors will want to collect ALL the stories he did.
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Post by sadako on Nov 23, 2023 16:23:51 GMT
And the Sinister Horror Company appear to be winding down and closing now. But co-founder Justin Park has said that he’s going to keep their Guy Smith titles in circulation.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 23, 2023 18:21:40 GMT
Don’t they want the money? Can Guy Smith’s estate release the ebook titles in other ways? Who can say? As I have seen, the current few Smith books still available are by a publisher called Sinister Horror Company. I guess that the estate either doesn't get enough money for the rights, that no publisher wants them or that the books sold so bad at the time of Smith's death that they don't bother. IMHO it didn't bode well that Black Hill Books and the Smith website were gone so fast. It didn't help that, during his ill-advised collaboration with Ghostwriter publications, GNS began farming out work to other authors so you could no longer be sure he was actually writing his own books. I doubt I'm the only one who lost interest around then. |
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Post by sadako on Nov 23, 2023 19:15:13 GMT
Ghost writers!?! What? That’s not on. Anyone know which titles?
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Post by dem bones on Nov 23, 2023 20:41:30 GMT
I'm sure others - Justin Park most likely - will know the ins and outs. Looking back through a grim thread, looks like it wasn't GNS farmed out the work, but the one-man show (?) that was ghostwriter publications. Antmusic's post here summarizes where we were at in 2010. |
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 23, 2023 20:58:23 GMT
The other Crabs book Smith did before he passed away. And that's all I can say about it because it is the hardest to find of the series anywhere online. What gives? How can such a new book be so hard to get? As far as I remember were these small print numbers or Ebook only, and all (or most) of those Black Hill productions have been pulled as Ebooks. This happens more often as one would think. Which is odd, as I have a physical copy of The Charnel Caves. Was Killer Crabs: The Return the only one of the two only available as an eBook...? |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 23, 2023 21:51:10 GMT
As far as I remember were these small print numbers or Ebook only, and all (or most) of those Black Hill productions have been pulled as Ebooks. This happens more often as one would think. Which is odd, as I have a physical copy of The Charnel Caves. Was Killer Crabs: The Return the only one of the two only available as an eBook...? ISFDB lists this also as a tradepaperback, So what do I know? Maybe I remembered wrong. I didn't bought any of the later novels so I can't look it up.
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Post by kooshmeister on Nov 25, 2023 20:24:31 GMT
Odd. Oh well. I'll keep a lookout. Thanks for all the info, guys.
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