A Distant Sound of Thunder

Just a reminder to those of you slavering for the release of the next in Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series that the fifth book, Wolves of the Calla, comes out today. Or at least, I bloody well hope it does. Unlike many other high profile, highly anticipated works (like say, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which we had for like a month before we could sell it), we haven't received our shipment yet. This is especially odd considering that the release date of November 4th has been advertised all over the place. Hopefully, ours is going to be in nice and early this morning.

For those of you interested in the specifics, this is going to be a thick fucker, weighing in at over 700 pages, for $52 Canadian ($35 US). ...and, if you haven't already clued in, unlike the other four in the series, this one is being released to the public as a hardcover original (co-published by Donald Grant and Simon & Schuster). The other four were all trade paperback originals, with a non-trade hardcover offered exlusively through Donald Grant. For comics fans, you should also note that this one's being illustrated by Bernie Wrightson.