The Essential Ronald Kelly Collection

[Ronald Kelly]

Beginning in September of 2011, Thunderstorm Books will publish the Essential Ronald Kelly Collection. This accumilative set will include all 8 of the original Zebra novels published between 1990 and 1996. Each edition will boast full-color covers by Alex McVey, a brand-new bonus novella or extra-long short story linked to characters and locations in the original novel, and a "Writing of" feature on how I came up with the idea for the novel and the creative process behind it. The books will also feature spines which -- set side-by-side -- form a panoramic piece of Alex McVey artwork. All the books in the Essential Collection will be a "Supercell" series and will be of the same size and high-quality production values of the Black Voltage titles.

Book One of the Essentials will be:



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Book Two of the Essentials will be:



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[bsaenz24]

I have been waiting ssssssooooooooo long for these books in hardback period!! And now to have them coming in deluxe signe limited with bonus stories/novellas!! That's just perfect!!

[Antmusic]

Brad, we've been waiting "ssssssooooooooo" long, but Ron's been waiting SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOO LONG! ! ! ! ! !

[JDar.]

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WOW - love the idea of the spine art . . . . and Alex McVey is one of my fave artists.

[srboone]

Love the idea of the spine art, especially since the spine of ATB did not have the title on in. Will a slipcase be made to house them, to show it off, Ron?

[Ronald Kelly]

No plans for a slipcase yet, Squire. It would be a whopper of one. Each book will be pretty thick... at around 350 to 450 pages each.

[srboone]

Hey, maybe you could convince them to make some Ronald Kelly bust bookends! How awesome (and egomaniacal) would that be!

[Antmusic]

Yeah... it would look something like this:

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[Antmusic]

On second thought, that would REALLY creep out anyone that visits...

[Ronald Kelly]

That creeps ME out, Robert!

(If you do make a pair, could you give me more hair and a little less gray, please?)

[Ben Staad]

Yeah... it would look something like this:

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Ummmm...with all due respect to Mr.Kelly I think I will pass on these! LOL

[gsconquest]

I've been wanting to check out Mr. Kelly's work. Now it looks like I will have plenty opportunity. Congratulations to you also, Mr. Kelly, for having this set done. From what I have read on these forums it seems like you are well overdue for this type of recognition.

[bsaenz24]

Ron just posted that Fear and Undertaker's Moon are both available for shipping!!! Awesome news!!!!


http://thunderstormbooks.com/fear.php

http://www.thunderstormbooks.com/undertaker.php

[Ronald Kelly]

Dang, hoss... you beat me to the punch!

Thanks for posting it, Brad. I'm right excited about it myself!!

[bsaenz24]

Sorry Ron...couldn't help myself...but in all fairness, I TOLD YOU I was excited!!!