Edgar Cantero's Blog, page 9

Some thousands of words about covers

So I want to share something with you today, but first, some backstory.

Recently, during a panel at Denver Comic Con, some authors discussed whether book cover artists actually read the books they illustrate. My position was that mine did, at least since I publish in the US.

I know this isn't always the case. Never was, never will be. It's how the industry works. For my first novel, Dormir amb Winona Ryder, with a big Catalan publisher, designers sent me five proposals that were, at best, illu...

Santa Must Die

It's been eleven years since I wrote this holiday-themed page for El Jueves. It was one of my first contributions to that magazine, and it's still one of my all-time favorites, so I just translated it to English. Art is by the beautiful Catalan cartoonist Gras.


2018 has been a(nother) terrible year nationally (goes for both my countries), but very good personally. Thank you to those of you who made it so. Happy holidays.

The Process

Often in panels and Q&A's comes up a question about the writing process, so it's reasonable to think this might interest somebody.



Rules I usually follow when I write
- I start writing long before I have a plan, the minute I come up with a first paragraph. I don't do lay-outs or synopsis. Usually all I have is a premise, and an idea for a climax; I'll come up with the middle as I go.

- I write in the order people will read it, never skip ahead. Not a chapter, not a graph. If I'm stuck think...

The Meddler

So let's say you read Meddling Kids . Let's say you liked it.

Let's say you thought, "I wish there was a sequel."


"The Meddler." A quick short story set in the aftermath of Meddling Kids. Part of the Spooky Short Stories collection by Penguin Random House, now online. For free. Please enjoy.

WARNING: Huge spoilers for Meddling Kids ahead.

Event Alert: New York Comic Con!

My schedule for NYCC 2018. Check yours, see if we can meet.

SIGNING- Sunday, October 7, 12-1 pm
- Penguin Random House Booth (2104)

PANEL: "Weirdness Accessible"- Sunday, July 20, 1:30 pm.
- Room 1A18

All locations at Javits Center. 655 W 34th St, New York, NY

Dark Corners

 
I'm excited to have contributed a story—my first short story in English!—to Dark Corners, a new collection of horror fiction coming out on September 27, featuring all original works by big authors like  Lisa Unger, Joyce Carol Oates, Jennifer McMahon, Emily Raboteau, Adam Haslett, and Brandi Reeds.

My story is called There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed.  It's about this big effing trapdoor spider under someone's bed, so don't you dare say I don't deliver.  And...

Event Alert: Bookmarks Festival!

I'll be attending Bookmarks' 14th Annual Festival of Books and Authors on September 8 in Winston-Salem, NC. There'll be panels and readings and signings and sumptuous author dinners and unspeakable late night requests to room service. Or so I heard. Anyway, you should totally catch me for some of the first three things. Most events on Saturday are free too, so swing by, and bring me something to draw on!

- Saturday, September 8th. Winston-Salem. North Carolina. More info here.

A Mid-Tour Message

Last Tuesday was A.Z. Kimrean's birthday. Their first novel release date, and their actual birthday too. I just decided that. It's canon now.


I was in Houston at the time. I'd had an event in Jersey City the previous day, I flew on to Dallas on the next. It's been a crazy week. It's being a crazy summer. But as Kimrean's spokesperson (yeah, like they need more voices) let me take this break to say, thank you. To the bookstores who are hosting the events and betting so much in this new book, of...

Event Alert: San Diego Comic Con!

Are you going? Because I'll be going. Will you be in cosplay? I won't. I'm supposed to be working.

SIGNING- Thursday, July 19, 10:30 am
- KDPG booth (1515-I)

PANEL + SIGNING: "The Thrill of the Chase: Pursuing the Truth"- Friday, July 20, 3 pm.
- Room 29AB
- Post-panel signing starting 4.30 pm at Autographing Area 9

ATTENTION: Copies of my new novel This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us will be sold at the KDPG booth. Not the ARC—the real hardcover book, ahead of its official release day! Be th...

Event Alert: #Problematic Tour!

The Kimreans hit the stores on July 31, and I'll be hitting the road with them! Come meet the twins, see me try to read as the stupid text keeps blasting through fourth walls like a wrecking ball and get your copy of This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us doodled, signed, and fresh from the press. See you!