No matter how much time we spend at any ComicCon, we never get to see everybody we were hoping to meet—but we were very glad when, not too long after arriving at this year’s New York ComicCon, we found that Sarah Langan (right) was in the autographing area, signing copies of The Missing, which was pretty much the best new horror novel we read last year, and The Keeper. (Don’t take our word for it; she won 2007’s Bram Stoker Award for outstanding novel, and just a few months ago, Terrence Rafferty gave it a rave NYTBR review. Langan let us know that her third novel, Audrey’s Door, is coming out later this year, and it abandons the Maine setting of The Missing and The Keeper for New York’s Upper West Side, as a woman moves into a haunted apartment building…
We also ran into Jackie Kessler, who had first told us about Black & White, a superhero novel she co-wrote with Caitlin Kittredge, last summer when she attended our impromptu workshop on story pitching. The two authors were signing ARCs of the novel in the Bantam Spectra booth Saturday afternoon, and we snapped up one of the first copies.