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A couple of interviews and another 20 minutes of me talking…

I was recently interviewed by Michelle Baker for her www.successcircuit.com site, and you can read it here. I hope you enjoy it. Michelle asked some very interesting questions, which made for a great conversation.

And here, for your Sunday afternoon viewing pleasure (though there’s not much pleasure in looking at my mug) is the third part of my conversation about characters and plot development with Suzanne Robb and Emma Ennis of the Fresh and Untitled podcast.

Keep an eye on this site this week – some great stuff coming up, including details of how you could be a part of Infected Books’ YEAR OF THE ZOMBIE. There’s an interview with Adam Baker – author of KILLCHAIN, the first YoZ novella – live on the site right now.

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The 5th Wave – in cinemas today

THE 5TH WAVE hits cinema screens around the world today. If you remember, last summer I was asked by Wattpad and Sony to write a UK-based story set in the world of the book/ film, and you can read it by clicking on the widget below.

And here’s the trailer for the movie which stars Chloë Grace Moretz and Liev Schreiber

 

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The HATER movie is in good hands

Great to see Ed Barratt’s HOOK PICTURES listed as one of The Telegraph’s 50 most creative companies in England. Have faith, friends – the long-awaited HATER movie is in good hands!

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The Rover

My first film recommendation of 2016 and wow, what a belter I have for you today. is a bleak and surprising dystopian tale which features a superb performance from the ever-reliable . Watch the trailer and click the link below for my thoughts.

10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves’ brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.

So far so cliched, right? Wrong. This is a movie which caught me completely by surprise. Pearce is on top form here as a broken man who’ll stop at nothing to retrieve his stolen car. Set in the Australian outback, the movie naturally lends itself to the inevitable MAD MAX comparisons, but anyone who thinks that is way off the mark. This is something else entirely.

I loved the look and, more particularly, the feel of THE ROVER. The backstory is rightly sparse, and all we know is that the film takes place ten years after a global economic collapse. Whilst most dystopian movies take place either as the shit is hitting the fan or once it’s well and truly dropped, THE ROVER seems to exist in an unsettling nether-land between the two. There are glimpses of civilization and of society continuing to function, and yet there are far more telltale signs that the end really is well-and-truly nigh.

Pearce (here playing a man who’s so badly damaged that he makes the character he played at the end of look like a children’s entertainer), is ably supported by poster-boy image which initially propelled him to stardom. Pattinson is great as the abandoned brother of one of the gang who stole the car – a frightened, wide-eyed survivor with learning difficulties whose innocence seems out of place in this unforgiving landscape.

Excellent direction, subtle effects, an atmospheric soundtrack, beautiful cinematography and a superb ending I didn’t see coming combine to make this a film I’d recommend in a heartbeat.

THE ROVER is available on DVD and Bluray now. It’s also streaming on Amazon Prime in the US and UK.

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What Works for Me – Characters and Plot Development part #2

As promised, here’s the second part of my conversation with Suzanne Robb and Emma Ennis of the Fresh and Untitled podcast.

Such great people to talk to. As I’ve already said, we talked and talked. There are two more parts to follow, and I hope you’re enjoying listening as much as we did chatting.

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2016 is Year of the Zombie

Happy New Year, all! As promised, today sees the launch of Infected Books’ YEAR OF THE ZOMBIE, and have we got a great story to kick off the project. I’m thrilled to announce that our first author is the brilliant ADAM BAKER with KILLCHAIN, a novella set in the world of his best-selling books OUTPOST, JUGGERNAUT, TERMINUS and IMPACT.

Elize arrives in Mogadishu with instructions to assassinate a Russian embassy official. She has tactical command of a US kill-team, CIA operatives, rookies and veterans of a dozen war zones. It should be a straightforward hit but her luck is about to run out. She will soon find herself trapped in a city gone to hell, struggling to complete her mission in the face of betrayal, a spreading pandemic and a population hungry for flesh…

KILLCHAIN is available now from Amazon. A print collection of all the novellas will be available at the end of the year, and you can find out more about YEAR OF THE ZOMBIE over at www.infectedbooks.co.uk. Don’t forget, we’ve got space for one more author… our ‘Pitch and Page’ competition will be launching shortly.

Here’s to an awesome, rot-filled 2016!

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German edition of TRUST released today

The German language edition of TRUST is released today by Voodoo Press. TRUST is a book I’m very proud of. It’s different from most of my other stuff, and it was the first of my pre-HATER Infected Books novels to be rewritten and re-released. There’s been movie interest in the novel from time to time and I think of all my books not under option, it’s the story I’d most like to see on screen. It deliberately goes against all the typical alien contact cliches, and I think original cover artist CRAIG PATON said it best when he called TRUST an anti-science-fiction novel.

To learn more about the book (and to read the first half of the story online), visit www.trustdavidmoody.com or click the image below.

The German edition of the novel is available now from Amazon.de and other retailers, and signed copies of the UK version (including one copy of the ultra-rare limited edition hardcover with additional bonus content) can be picked up from www.infectedbooks.co.uk.

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Scream Issue 34

Hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and are looking forward to New Year. I am. I’ve a lot of stuff in the pipeline for 2016, and it’s been too quiet around here for too long.

One of the great things about the holidays, I find, is that I get chance to catch up on a few of the films I’ve missed or that I’ve been meaning to watch again. My pile of as yet unwatched Blu-ray discs (which, I’m ashamed to admit, still includes a few of the gifts I received last Christmas) has substantially increased in size. I’m particularly looking forward to re-watching the final QUATERMASS series from 1979, and to working my way through the entire NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series in HD.

I’m particularly looking forward to watching the NIGHTMARE films again. Coincidentally, this morning the latest issue of SCREAM MAGAZINE dropped through my letterbox, which includes a fascinating interview with Mark Patton, the star of the second ELM STREET movie. As usual, there’s plenty of other stuff in the mag, including a look back at the Hammer cult classic VAMPIRE CIRCUS, and features on Turkish horror, CHILDREN OF THE CORN, and much more. As always, SCREAM comes with the Moody seal of approval.

To get your hands on a copy of SCREAM, visit www.screamhorrormag.com. You can also pick up the magazine from any branch of HMV, Forbidden Planet, or any of the newsagents listed here. SCREAM is also available digitally as iSCREAM. You can also follow SCREAM on Facebook and Twitter @ScreamHorrorMag.

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THE FRONT: SCREAMING EAGLES

Congratulations to Tim Long on the release of THE FRONT: SCREAMING EAGLES, the first book in the World War II series I’m honoured to be writing alongside Tim and Craig DiLouie. I think Tim summed it up perfectly when he described THE FRONT as ‘Band of Brothers meets Dead Snow‘.

SCREAMING EAGLES is available now, and I’m currently working on book two, RED DEVILS which will be out in early 2016. To celebrate the release, SCREAMING EAGLES is available for 99c for the next couple of days. To add to the fun, Craig and I have reduced the price of a couple of our books too. You can currently grab ISOLATION and Craig’s CRASH DIVE for pennies too!

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What Works for Me – Characters and Plot Development

I’ve been meaning to write about characters and plotting as a ‘What Works for Me’ piece for some time. When the brilliant Suzanne Robb and equally brilliant Emma Ennis interviewed me on the subject for their Fresh and Untitled podcast, I decided it would be easier to link to their video instead of writing a post from scratch. Thing is, we talked… and talked. A three hour interview has now been cut down into handy twenty minute segments, the first of which is here:

Three more to follow shortly!

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