Feb 11
My John Carpenter essay is up and running on the…well, Essay page. Taken from the latest issue of everyone’s favorite cinematic mag Penny Blood. And I’ve finally posted a long-overdue Comic-Con pic:
When steampunk is done well, it makes me want to write steampunk. Anyone know the origin of these characters?
In other news, I’ve taken a very brief hiatus from Jetcomx, soon to return once I complete edits on several projects. Discussions of Winger will have to wait until then. [...]
More»Feb 10
Non-Fiction > Film > Penny Blood
John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy
If horror fans can agree on one thing, it is their lowly place within the hierarchy of genre. We are a disrespected lot, cast into the slum of the art world, labeled as either maladjusted teens playing out frustration by ogling the slaughter of nubile coeds, or lonely gore-hounds with social anxiety and traumatic childhoods. The prevailing opinion is that any director can create horror—toss a ball of butcher knives into [...]
More»Jan 30
Call it the book that will not die. Four years after publication in the States, “Gods of Aberdeen” finally hits Russian bookstores. And the cover is…well…awesome?
I don’t know who that shirtless guy is, but I think it might be Dio. Holding what looks like a dreamcatcher. Whatever the case, I’m relieved to announce the last overseas incarnation of GOA is complete. Marly’s foreign rights crew worked wonders, and in their honor I’m including various covers of GOA [...]
More»Jan 15
‘Fraid not. All is quiet, as one would expect in the belly of winter. I’m busy at work on my next book, and busy at work converting my shed to a writing studio. Neighbors threaten to teach me ice skating on the frozen lake at the end of our street, but I resist. I’d rather sled.
More»Jan 2
My first tour journal reads a little greener than I’d like to admit, but I was green. So there you have it.
Below you’ll find my archived tour journal, beginning with the very first public reading of Gods of Aberdeen at a mall in Newton, MA. The best part of my too-long tour was the Italy jaunt, and reading it over I realize I didn’t convey how much fun I was having. I was too blinded by stress. I had also [...]
More»Jan 2
If you’re interested in why I started writing Gods of Aberdeen the answer is simple: it was a story I wanted to read.
But it didn’t begin that way. It began as a mental image, one thirty-second scene conceived sometime around my junior year of college. A young boy, dressed in a threadbare coat, carrying a duffel bag with all his possessions, trudging across a snow-covered lawn. All the usual gothic imagery applies – swirling winter sky, bare trees clacking in [...]
More»Dec 19
Today marks the first official snow here in Holliston, not a dusting but an honest amount requiring shovels and salt. At long last I get to see what the locals have been warning me about. Of course it’s hard to impress a Buffalonian with snow, so if this were the really old days I’d shake my fist at the leaden sky and challenge the winter gods to let loose. But this isn’t the really old days, and I’d much rather [...]
More»Nov 28
It’s been a little under a year with this site in its current incarnation, and the time has come for something new. Easier navigation, a more accessible news section, and an on-deck circle for my next book, Jack the Bastard. Yes, Jack is moving slowly. But it moves. We’re in the pre-marketing marketing phase, which means my publicist and I are laying the plans to take Jack from obscurity to hey-take-a-look-at-this.
Hi Micah:
I picked up your first novel from a friend’s [...]
More»Nov 21
A few items of note: Penny Blood issue #11 is available for pre-order. My essay on John Carpenter is sure to cast new light on the genius of his “Apocalypse Trilogy,” but pick up the mag for its piece on Savoy Books. To wit: “The first insurgence—as Savoy Books—was as mass-market publishers of imaginative fiction and art, the first UK house to cater to non-generic readers like ourselves who did not see a dividing line between high art and popular [...]
More»Nov 8
It’s been quiet out here–by “out here” I mean my living room. Work proceeds slowly and obsessively on the next book. The dog needs to be walked. True Blood has me hooked. And I wore a zombie mask for Halloween that scared several children to near-tears. Death Studios sure knows how to scare ‘em. Updates will be scarce until I’ve finished a first draft. Yeah, it’s that kind of book.
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