Clark Smeltzer
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Brian Keene:
Hey, Brian, I just finished reading Ghoul and this was the first time in my life I've read a book with a character that shared my name. I have to say, I wish he'd met a more grisly end at the hands of the ghoul, but at least he got what's coming to him. Naturally, I have to ask how you chose the name?
Brian Keene
Ha! That's pretty awesome. All of the characters in Ghoul (with the exception of Nelson LeHorn's cameo) were named by me walking through the cemetery where I used to play as a kid, and picking a first name off a tombstone, and then a last name off another tombstone. So there was a Clark and there was a Smeltzer, and mash them together, and it's you! ;-)
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A Goodreads user
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Brian Keene:
If someone floated a movie contract your way to adapt one of your books, and you had two options - $500,000, but they can do what they want with it, or $50,000 but you have full creative control, everything from scripting and casting to location and wardrobe, which would you go for?
Jonathan Echevarria
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Brian Keene:
When are you going to write another zombie..... LOL, I can't ask you that question with a serious face. No seriously my real question is about your second self published short story collection called "All Dark, All of the Time: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene vol 2." Will it still come out early in 2015? ^_^ Thanks again for being so awesome to your fans.
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