Paul Michael Anderson's Blog: The Dumping Ground, Part Deux, page 2

Cover Reveal!

Soooo, I have been radio silent here,  but things have been afoot!

Namely, this!

My next book, my first standalone book–called, ahem, Standalone–is coming in September from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing.  It’s about slashers and alienation and the Multiverse.

Here’s the cover copy:

They are killers. They are monsters. They are evil.

They stalk through summer camps, abandoned hospitals, rundown schools, and isolated houses, hunting anyone foolish enough to visit these places, leaving behind...

The Ticking of the Deathwatch: Revisiting Insomnia

NOTE: For a few years, Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance was doing a big Stephen King re-read (one of three venues doing that, including The Guardian and Grady Hendrix’s read over at Tor.com), but stalled out in 2017 just before The Talisman (Chizmar, uh, started just writing with King instead of merely reading him).  Each essay came with a guest essay by another writer and I had turned in two essays, one for The Talisman, which I posted here last week because fuck it, why not–and one on Inso...

…And All Manner of Things Will Be Well: Revisiting The Talisman

NOTE: For a few years, Richard Chizmar of Cemetery Dance was doing a big Stephen King re-read (one of three venues doing that, including The Guardian and Grady Hendrix’s read over at Tor.com), but stalled out in 2017 just before The Talisman (Chizmar, uh, started just writing with King instead of merely reading him).  Each essay came with a guest essay by another writer and I had turned in an essay for the first collaboration between King and Peter Straub. For your reading pleasure, here’s th...

New Stories & The Reason They Exist!

So, uh, this is awkward.  Kinda.  In a good way.  I promise.

As a writer who does most of his work in the short form, it’s a matter of sending a story to a market (or turning in a requested story by a deadline), and then, if it’s accepted, waiting around for whenever it comes out so you can promote the ever-loving fuck out of it.  Months and, at times, years may pass between writing and publication.

And then you have those times when, like, a half-dozen goddamn stories all hit the market with...

It’s the Author’s Preferred Edition of BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN! Whee!

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Really fast–go read this from my editor Michael Bailey.  Go ahead, I’ll wait.

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All right now?

Oh, this is fantastic, friends and neighbors.  I’ve been waiting for this 2nd edition since Written Backwards dissolved its relationship with Dark Regions Press, which had been in the works for a while.  And, now, it’s ready to drop next week, on the 24th?  Jesus Christ, guys.

The edition above, cover included, is how I initially envisioned the book, all the way back in the fall of 2015.  I wanted...

Max Booth III & Lori Michelle Made the Mistake of Inviting Me onto Castle Rock Radio

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Hey!

I was a shit for not posting this earlier, but Max Booth III & Lori Michelle, the hosts of Castle Rock Radio: A Stephen King Podcast (and the runners of Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, who sometimes like me) invited me on to talk about one of the “lost” Stephen King stories, a vignette called “Squad D”.

I wound up not promoting the thing when it dropped not because it was a bad interview or a poor time for all involved, but we wound up talking about writer Harlan Ellison a fair amo...

A Fresh Can of Updates Opened Just for You (This Is Horror! Ashes & Entropy! Suspended in Dusk 2! War on Christmas! The 2nd edition of BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN!)

Hey!

A bunch of stuff has happened, is going to happen, has been revealed!

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1.- This is Horror!

Recently, I was featured on the This Is Horror podcast, a longtime goal of mine and as fun as I’d hoped.  Hosts Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella were fun and inviting and we had a blast of a conversation.

You can listen to Part 1 here.

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And you can listen to Part 2 here.

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(I really want to be on again, so take a listen and tell Michael and Bob how much you loved it, so they’ll ask me on agai...

My Process (Because I’m Nothing If Not a Bandwagon Jumper)

One of my literary soulmates, Bracken MacLeod, posted this morning about his “process” when it comes to writing.  He did in a response to a social media post from his friend, who is, to use the illustrative phrase, a “pantser”–meaning, they get an idea and they just run with it.  MacLeod isn’t a pantser…but I am.

Sorta.

In one of the “definitive” editions to American Gods, writer Neil Gaiman talked about the process of writing the novel, expressing relief after he had written it that now he k...

Being an Editor of Anthologies and Magazines in 2018:

Quick message to those dudes–always dudes because of course it fucking is–who rail against “forced” diversity in trying to get beyond just straight white dudes in the Table of Contents:

To be an editor means to seek diversity so that readers can see/experience different angles or perspectives or viewpoints (or whatever in the fuck you want to call it) on a specific theme.  To not seek that diversity is to be lazy, at best, and morally repugnant at worst. 

Doesn’t matter if you’re a little no...

Quick Bits: The Early 2018 Edition

Oh. Heya.  Popping in for a few minutes of:

1. …Imma gonna have a new story out!

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My story “Wants and Needs” will be in Simon Dewar’s Suspended in Dusk II.  It has wendigos, blizzards, and bereft parents, if that’s your thing.  It’ll be out sometime this summer; click the title to see more info/who else is in the book.

2. New interview!

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Curtis Freeman over at Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews asked me a few questions and I answered them and managed to fit in references to ASPCA commercials while s...