The Essential Ronald Kelly Collection

[srboone]

Completed my collection of the Essentials line to date, just need 7 and 8 when they're published

Sweet! Nice going, Rob!

[RJK1981]

Thanks, very happy to have been able to afford to get them all now. It's too bad I didn't have the money before so I could get a matching set of the whole line and get the free book at the end, but oh well, I'll hopefully be able to purchase the next 2 as they come out and will have ordered 5 of the 8 direct from the publisher and have matching numbers for the final 4. Was also able to get Restless Shadows, his novel released in Thunderstorm's Black Voltage line, so have been able to get all of his books published by them now since I bought Undertaker's Moon shortly after it was published thanks to the good people on the forums here mentioning him and his books there. Had to choose between Undertaker's Moon and Fear and decided on UM since it was the first in the line and I liked how that one sounded more. Glad I chose that one, too, since the one of that I see on the secondary market right now is over $100!

[RJK1981]

Oops, forgot about their edition of Timber Gray, so I have all but that one.

Had that typed up before I went to bed but fell asleep and forgot to send it, lol

[srboone]

I added Twelve Gauge to GR if anybody want to add it their library.

[RJK1981]

?? It was already on there, unless you added earlier and only now mentioned it now.

Checked my book list and I added it to my to-read list on Sept. 24

[srboone]

Hmmm. All I found was Father's Little Helper. Oh well. It's not like the same book hasn't been entered multiple times before on GR!

EDIT: HA! I mispelled it. That's why!

[rjmyers]

Just received Burnt Magnolia and got the bright idea to scan the spine art on the dust jackets of each book in the collection. As you know, each book contains one slice of a larger piece of art that comes to life when the books are placed side by side. Here is the completed work:

rk_essential_spine_art.jpg

Seems like each novel is represented by something in this piece. Can you identify them all?

[bsaenz24]

Very cool!!

[srboone]

Paul at Thunderstorm emailed me a JPG of that piece (he said the image was five years old and he had to search an old hard drive at his printer to find it!). Pretty neat.

[bookworm 1]

I just received my copy of Sets quartet for buying the whole series. This book looks great as well. I have been very busy lately but will try to update my collection thread soon.