Interview 5.5.5.: Norman Partridge

I’m debuting a new semi-regular feature over at Examiner.com today – an interview series I call Interview 5.5.5. The premise is simple: I’m grilling top genre authors with five questions each on five specific topics, and running the interview on the blog over five consecutive days. I’m pleased to kick things off with Norman Partridge, author of Dark Harvest, Lesser Demons and the upcoming Johnny Halloween. Click on over and check out Day One now….or The October Boy will visit you.

Somebody’s talking……

I completed the nonfiction update today by going back through and adding links to all the recent interviews I’ve done at Dark Scribe Magazine, as well as on my spec fiction blog for Examiner.com. Lots of good stuff there from Kim Paffenroth, Ellen Datlow, Maurice Broaddus and many more. Head on up to the nonfiction tab at the top of this page to check ’em out.

Speaking of interviews, I’ve got a biggie on the horizon – a sprawling chat with one of my new favorites that’s so big it’s going to take five days to run it all. It will appear on the Examiner blog, but stay tuned here for an announcement of when…and who.

Norman Prentiss talks INVISIBLE FENCES

Just a quick note to point you in the direction of my new interview with Norman Prentiss, centered mainly on his upcoming Cemetery Dance release Invisible Fences. This is a break-out work for the author, in my humble opinion. Check it out.

Looking back, looking ahead

Been a busy couple of months – not busy updating this website, obviously, but busy nonetheless. I’ve been itching to get back here and write about some of the stuff coming up that I’m looking forward to, but haven’t had the time. I don’t really have the time today, but I couldn’t stay away another minute longer.

So, indulge me if you will as I give you a whirlwind tour of what I’ve been doing, what’s coming up, and a couple of things I’m anticipating.

I’ve been slowly building the content over at my Spec Fiction blog for Examiner.com – some cools interviews recently with guys like Jonathan Maberry, who recently adapted the remake of The Wolfman in novel form. I’ll be adding those links to the nonfiction page over the next couple of days. Also, I’ve joined the staff of Horrorworld as the site’s interviewer. I’ll be talking with a new author each month, beginning in April with Roger Ma, author of The Zombie Combat Manual. I’ll make a not here as soon as that one goes live.

As always, new reviews are going up regularly at Dark Scribe, including a belated look at Stephen King’s Under the Dome. I’ve got several in the pipeline there – and will have a look at King’s just-announced surprise novella, Blockade Billy, appearing there as soon as my review copy arrives.

Movie-wise, I finally saw Black Dynamite after months of anticipation, and had a ball with it. I’m looking forward to the upcoming remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street, although not as much as I’m looking forward to the Blu-ray edition of the original, which comes out April 6. If the HD format does for Nightmare what it did for the original Halloween and Friday the 13th, then I’ll be a happy horror fan.

Here’s the trailer for the new Nightmare, just to whet our appetites:

From everything I’ve read, the people behind this remake are looking to take Freddy back the real (and surreal) horror of the first film, and away from the wisecracking anti-hero he eventually became. I hope they get it right, and I hope that the actual movie isn’t simply the exact replica of Wes Craven’s original that the trailers suggest it might be. Jackie Earl Haley seems the perfect choice to fill Robert Englund’s shoes, though.

Okay, that’s it for now. Hopefully it won’t be two months before I’m back again.

Keeping It Irreal

My interview with former town crier/current irrealism novelist D. Harlan Wilson is now available at Dark Scribe Magazine.

I’ve signed up for a load of book reviews over the next month or so, so keep an eye here for a note on when they are available. Also, I’m planning a couple of posts on movies I’m looking forward to as we wrap up the summer theater season. Things are starting to gear up for my favorite time of year, so you’ll see anything here from football rants to grilling recipes to Halloween stuff – stay tuned.