Edgar Cantero's Blog, page 10

Hangover

Just a few words in the aftermath of the Meddling Tour: THANK YOU. To the stores, to my hosts, and to every fan who came by. It was amazing to meet you. I am oozing endorphines.

Photo by @masterbookmonster
To those who couldn't make it, there should be at least a few doodled paperbacks of Meddling Kids available in Subtext, Boswell and Bookpeople. To those in other cities: stay tuned.

My question is in six parts and actually an interview

While I'm packing for the big Meddling Tour starting tomorrow, make sure to check this preliminary interview with Matt Wild before I have a chat with him at the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee on June 14. Did you know Nate almost never made it to the book? It's a fact now, cause I said it in an interview.

Catch me at Boswell or any of the other venues this week, and ask your own questions! I change my mind on a daily basis!

Photo by @gandalfandunicorns

My Denver Comic Con schedule

I'm going to be in Denver for three days, speaking in public, in my third language, and without a script about several subjects I have never thought about for too long. So if I were you, I wouldn't miss it.

Friday June 15, 20181:30 pm to 2:20 pm
Scared Silly. Room 402/403 - Authors2:30 pm to 3:20 pm
Our Secret Monstrous Obsession. Room 402/403 - Authors4:00 pm to 4:50 pm
Signing @ Author Signing Booth 2Saturday June 16, 201812:00 pm to 12:50 pm
Query Rescue: Fine Tuning Your First Author Impressio...

Edgar (aún) trabaja en El Jueves!

Vuelve mi serie autobiográfica a la página de tiras de El Jueves, en la que se alternan viñetas de varios autores distintos cada semana — por ahora: Furillo, Kiko da Silva, Philippe Lejeune, Jorge Parras y... (tachán, tacháaaan...) ¡Guille Martínez-Vela!

Lástima que en la redacción a alguien se le hayan traspapelado mis entregas y haya publicado una que no tocaba. Cosas que pasan. Para compensar el error, hoy me paso un poco el contrato de exclusividad por el forro y os anticipo las tir...

And now for some extras

I just received my copies of the Meddling Kids paperback, published by Anchor Books. They're smol. They're shiny.

And they're two pages longer.


On sale May 29. :)

Event Alert: Meddling Tour!

The paperback edition of Meddling Kids is due on May 29: perfect excuse to tick off a few states in my bucket list! I will read, I will sign, I will struggle not to mix three different accents in the same sentence—and fail spectacularly! Get your gang together, jump into your sleuthmobile and join me!


June 13 @ Subtext Books (6 West 5th Street, St. Paul, MN)

June 14 @ Boswell Books (2559 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI)

June 15-17 @ Denver Comic Con with Tattered Cover (Colorado Convention Center,...

This post will be mostly images

The UK edition of Meddling Kids, published by Titan Books, on sale April 3. 


The US paperback edition of Meddling Kids by Anchor Books, coming May 29. It's the same, only smaller! (DISCLAIMER: NO, IT ISN'T. It's actually a few pages fatter because of all the extra content.)

And last but not least...


This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us. The new novel, courtesy of Doubleday, to land on July 31 (not Fall anymore, children!)

That's it for now. Next post will be mostly text, because I have...

& Blanc

So, as I was telling you the other day, by early 2013 I had finished a manuscript in Spanish, with Noir as the setting and, in my opinion, an interesting enough private eye. Eyes. It's complicated.

While I was writing it though, my English debut The Supernatural Enhancements was sold to Doubleday. The size of that deal, added to the fact that I was being thoroughly ignored by publishers in Barcelona, forced me to focus on my work in English. However, I didn't give up on the other languages. Th...

Noir

For years now I've been a regular contributor to Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves. In late 2010 I began publishing a series of super short stories under the title Noir. They built upon detective fiction clichés (the dramatic sunlight through closed blinders, the laid-back private eye narrating in the first person) allowing me to skip through the descriptions and jump into the jokes. I guess I'd been reading Raymond Chandler at the time and wanted to try it. They looked like this.

I don't f...

Meddling Freebies #3: Teen Sleuth Rules

An idea for a series of badges: the rules of teen detective fiction (mild spoilers: all of them are struck out in Meddling Kids). These never went past the Photoshop stage.




By the way, if you don't own your MK copy yet, or want to own an extraordinarily dirty one, Doubleday is throwing a holiday giveaway of signed books! Signed, doodled and pencil-colored by an author with very little real work to do. Follow @doubledaybooks on Instagram for a chance to win now! The girls will be given away tod...