Why are some of McCammons novels out-of-print?
In 1997, the publishing rights to McCammon’s first four novels came up for renewal. Despite an offer from Pocket Books to keep publishing them, McCammon felt that it was time to retire those books. I believe this quote from the October 1988 I Cover the War interview pretty much sums up why McCammon declined the offer from Pocket Books: “I always hear about writers who’ve written four books that end up in a drawer, and their fifth book is the one that gets published. The first book I ever wrote was published, flaws and all. For better or worse, I was allowed to learn to write in public. I think those books are simply early efforts. You have to take them as they are. I don’t think they’re very deep or anything; I think they’re okay, but they simply represent where I was at that particular time.
