Guest Blogger: Donna Galanti Is there a writer gene and is storytelling genetic? NY Times Best Selling Author Jonathan Maberry thinks so. As a student in his Write a Novel in 9 Months class he noted that we either have the urge to write or we don’t. I believe this …
Guest Blogger: Marie Lamba Fiction writers can create a story out of anything, and every character they put down on paper can have their own conflict, their own storyline. This is both a blessing and a curse. When writing my new paranormal novel DRAWN, I knew I was creating what, …
I’m guest blogging over at “Biff Bam Pop!, a website devoted to the world of pop culture, from comic books and video games, to movies, books, and music. I’m talking about Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter and Clarice Starling and what makes them such an intriguing couple in their own twisted way. And I’ve …
Guest Blogger: Jonathan Maberry DUST & DECAY (Simon & Schuster) is the second in my series of post-apocalyptic thrillers set fifteen years after a zombie plague has wiped out most of mankind. Okay…if you’re still reading this then you haven’t been scared off by words like ‘post-apocalyptic’ and ‘zombie’. Good …
To throw something a little fun into the mix, I decided to blog about the funniest, unique or most interesting search engine keywords/phrases that brought people to my site and to include others. Here’s what we discovered. From Jen Forbus at Jen’s Book Thoughts, a book blog that covers the world of …
For WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE, we interviewed tons of experts about the struggle of good vs evil in film, comics, pop culture, world myth, literature, and the real world. Here’s what some of them have to say about which monsters in film or mythology touched their hearts. DOUG SCHOONER—King Kong …
Guest Blogger: Joe McKinney Zombies are the monster world’s equivalent of a good pair of blue jeans: they go well with just about anything. In recent years, they’ve gone up against everybody from the police and the military to superheroes, the cast of Star Wars, vampires and unicorns. They’ve even …
The finalists for the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards were announced this morning by the Horror Writers Association, and I can not begin to express how excited I am that my book WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE (co-written with Jonathan Maberry) made the list for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction. A huge congratulations to all the …
For WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE, we interviewed tons of experts aboutthe struggle of good vs evil in film, comics, pop culture, world myth, literature, and the real world. Here’s what some of them have to say about why people are so fascinated with storytelling about good vs evil? DOUG SCHOONER—People …
Guest Blogger: Sophie Littlefield Thanks for having me, Janice! I am so intrigued by the work you and Jonathan Maberry do in your book (WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE), where you examine the age-old good versus evil theme in fiction. I’ve thought a lot about the concept of evil in monsters. …
