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Coming October 29

I'm releasing a horror story this Halloween. All new. Teens and up. PDF. For free. Here.

Stay tuned. 
 

Txutxemància

Mètodes d'endevinació moderns, capítol n. (Coses que vaig fer per a El Jueves, ara en català). #Ciència

I tried translating this to English, but failed: candy referents are too local.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Make It

My last book was published four years ago today.

That was one amazing summer. This Body's first edition and the Meddling Kids paperback came out in the same month. The photographic evidence of that period on my phone is a stream of hotel rooms, bookstores, comic cons, and Kimrean cosplayers. I had the time of my life.

And then.

There is a pervasive habit of discussing a writer's success, or any artist's, by saying that they "made it". I always bridle at questions using that phrasing. First, ...

This

 

Image credit: Kerin Cunningham

Well, fuck

Heaven Park, the work previously known as the Disaster in Progress that was my endeavor for over four years, is not happening. 

Although the book was signed on with a publisher back in September 2020, long delays on their side had already put a huge strain on my relationship with the editor, who earlier this year finally slotted the book for publication in September 2023. Three years from acquisition to launch is already unprecedented and untenable for authors as contracts are laid out today. But...

5K

Here's a stat I've been watching for a while now: Meddling Kids just reached five thousand five-star ratings on Goodreads.

That's...amazing. I get sales reports too, but those numbers only say, "What you do works." These say, "What you do, 5,000 people love." 

For context: my debut novel sold less than 1,000 copies. My second, less than 500. Put together, I doubt 5,000 people ever read them, let alone liked them. Of course I'm not comparing markets or perfomances; that would be unfair to bo...

The Mas Garbí

On February 3, 1874, a platoon of volunteers from the 16th Infantry Battalion of the Carlist Catalan army en route from Hostalric to join the siege of Santa Coloma de Farners was held off by a hailstorm at the Mas Garbí. The masovers (farm tenants), though loyal to the republic, knew better than to deny them shelter. The troops ransacked the pantries and terrorized the women and children, except for an old woman by the hearth, clad in tattered robes and a cowl, whom they assumed to be deaf after...

Our names

Just found in the depths of my hard drive; I think it was never shared here: A.Z. Kimrean's own introduction in a pre-release letter to booksellers accompanying the ARCs of This Body's Not Big Enough For Both of Us (2018). Consider it a New Year's treat. Let 2022 be the end of the evil trilogy.

"The Eye has now seen. And this is its verdict."

And suddenly the video and audio smash back in. There is a jumble of flashes and cries just slow enough to follow, each scene shown from infinite angles, the echo of each voice overlapping the next. There is no coherent narrative, no story, no time sequence. There is only an illusion of time. There is a city on fire. There is a boat in the storm. There are protesters lying prone, and cops stomping their heads. There are airborne gas canisters and a masked girl with a baseball bat. There are fami...