A group of booksellers, Bookstagrammers, BookTokers, podcasters, influencers, and deep horror fiction fans have declared today, October 1, to be Stephen Graham Jones Day (#SGJday), coinciding with the publication date for six out-of-print titles by horror lit icon Stephen Graham Jones that are being brought back to life by Open Road Integrated Media.
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Calling themselves the "Beautiful Sinners" after Jones's book All the Beautiful Sinners, the organizers of SGJ Day have created marketing materials, manufactured buttons, scheduled events and coordinated sweepstakes. Some of the events leading up to and in celebration of SGJ Day include a Blair Witch Project anniversary screening, a sweepstakes for signed copies of SGJ books and SGJ Day merch, a virtual SGJ Day party, and the release of a short video from Jones himself today.
"I mostly just hope that people find something there to laugh about, to cringe away from, something to let them feel less alone for a few pages," Jones said. "That's all I ever want, really."
The six books are Zombie Bake-Off, The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti, Three Miles Past, After the People Lights Have Gone Off, It Came from Del Rio, and Sterling City. They're being published as part of Open Road's Re-Discovery Lit (Re-Lit) initiative to make deserving oop books available again.
"Our mission is to use technology to enable books to be discovered--and rediscovered--by readers," David Steinberger, CEO of Open Road, said. "Republishing out-of-print works by Stephen Graham Jones is a great example of delivering on that mission."