Paul Tremblay's Blog, page 30
October 22, 2009
Phantom redesign
I co-edited a literary horror anthology of original fiction with Sean Wallace. It'll be available in bookstores in Mid-november. Check out the lovely creepy cover!
October 20, 2009
Boston Book Fest, Horror Writing Workshop, and Louie!
Between school and neck deep in prep for the fest and a workshop, I give thee a quick update to a neglected blog.
–Reminder to Bostonians that Saturday is the free book festival. I'm giving a ten minute presentation on The Little Sleep and how it relates to my own missing body part. Details here.
–Emerson college lit mag (run entirely by undergrads) Gangsters in Concrete, invited me to run a horror writing workshop for Tuesday night the 27th. The following night, I judge a scary story...
October 18, 2009
A feature in the Stoughton Journal, my local paper
The Stoughton Journal ran an interview/feature in it's most recent issue. See local man here.
Thanks to Kate Foley for the piece, and Allison Carroll for the spiffy photo.
One piece of errata to clear up: I was not a double math major. Even I am not that masochistic. I was a double major, but mathematics and humanities. Humanities!
October 14, 2009
Recent reads from Jessica Anthony, Kevin Wilson, and David Small
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony: Wildly imaginative, funny, and sad first novel that documents the odd ancestry and odder life of Rovar Pfliegman, a diminutive Hungarian who sells meat out of a stalled bus in the middle of a field in Virginia. It gets weirder and more wonderful from there. So says Rovar, in some of the best coupling of lines I've read this year:
"I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect.
But at least I don't live in decent...
October 12, 2009
Paranormal Activity: I saw it and lived!
I caught a 11:55 am screening of the movie with family folk: Mary and Debbie. They knew very little about the movie, only that "everyone said is was really scary." I have to admit, I'd worked myself up in preparation for this flick, seeing as I first read about it on Lucius Shepard's blog more than a year ago. I scare easily, and endeavored to combat scaring easily. Seeing the movie at 11:55 am on a sunny day seemed like step one to managing da fear. The three of us also spent time chanting...
October 8, 2009
Quick, to the digimobile!
The digimobile promotes online downloading of audiobooks via your local library. There was such an event in Rhode Island recently, and BBC Audiobooks American hosted myself and the narrator of the audio-version of The Little Sleep. Big thanks to Tara and everyone at the BBC.
Images!
October 5, 2009
Author Simon Lewis on No Sleep till Wonderland
"Snappy prose, a brilliantly original detective and a cast of sharply drawn low lifes—Paul Tremblay mixes it up with style. In the end, No Sleep till Wonderland is much more than just a crime book—it's all about the narrator's unique take on the world. Thoroughly recommended."—Simon Lewis, author of Bad Traffic
Yay! Thanks, Simon!
October 3, 2009
Boston Book Festival, Oct 24th: Now for something completely different
Boston is hosting it's first book festival free to the public. Yay! Festival participants include Ken Burns, Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Haigh, John Hodgeman, Kathleen Kent, Reif Larsen, Dennis Lehane, Kim McLarin, Tom Perrotta, Richard Russo, and many more.
More yay: they're foolishly letting me take part.
And Now for Something Completely Different:
What do a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus in suburban Virginia, a narcoleptic South Boston private investigator, and Kafka's Gregor...
September 30, 2009
No Sleep till Wonderland pre-order on Amazon
While the novel does not feature zombies, werewolves, or vampires randomly inserted into the action, it's a good book. I swear.
Pre-order all you want; right here.
September 27, 2009
Recent Reads: People of the Book, graphic Farhenheit 451, and (cough) Zomnibus
Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book: Hanna Heath is a prickly rare-book expert/restoration guru from Australia, and she's called into the middle of the Bosnian war to a beleaguered museum to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah: one of the first Jewish religious books to be filled with colorful images. Hanna uncovers and researches wine stains, hairs, and other discoveries, and a fictionalized history of a book that managed to survive wars, the inquisition, and book purges unfolds. While the...
