Hi its Tom Myers. Cool interview. And as a film buff, Lance I say you should definitely revisit Requiem. The shortening vignettes as the ending is just beautiful, if tragic.
Hey there Tom. I likely will, it was just absolutely not the right time with things happening in my extended family. Sometimes living the horror is enough - escapism is made to help us make a plan to escape the prison, not remain in it.
I suppose it could go either way. It really depends on how it's done, but you can always make the hyper specific into the universal. I'm sure a novel set during the Spanish Flu could have gone either way as well (and, frankly, the pandemic books by Scalzi, St. John Mandell, King, and Wendig were downright prophetic). I mean the main subject of Les Miserables is the June Rebellion. Rather a trite moment in history by most account. And yet Hugo wrote one of the greatest novels of all time. So it depends on the treatment. You're not wrong, though, about the desperation to market. That's the difference between the crowd, the critic, and the muse. Always follow the in-spiration
@LancelotSchaubert it's also interesting that he brought up 9/11 and all the work associated after that, because thats exactly what I thought of after Holly and these other works by great writers were coming out. They should have made it a good work first, and then attach an issue. But if it just seems to be issue based that they tried to attach a less compelling story to. I dont think a read a single recent one that got that formula right with covid. Idk, just my opinion.
@LancelotSchaubert I think if a writer gave it more time for a more complete perspective of the covid era, say 5 or 10 years wait first, it would work a lot better.
Wow, how did you manage to get him on? Grady Hendrix is amazing, and probably the most knowledgeable walking encyclopedias of horror information.
Stay tuned. Other cool folks en route or even in the archive: lanceschaubert.org/articles/interviews/
Hi its Tom Myers. Cool interview. And as a film buff, Lance I say you should definitely revisit Requiem. The shortening vignettes as the ending is just beautiful, if tragic.
Hey there Tom. I likely will, it was just absolutely not the right time with things happening in my extended family. Sometimes living the horror is enough - escapism is made to help us make a plan to escape the prison, not remain in it.
Also, so glad he removed covid related stuff. I notice that a lot of authors rushed to do it to be relevant but now it just appears dated and trite.
I suppose it could go either way. It really depends on how it's done, but you can always make the hyper specific into the universal. I'm sure a novel set during the Spanish Flu could have gone either way as well (and, frankly, the pandemic books by Scalzi, St. John Mandell, King, and Wendig were downright prophetic). I mean the main subject of Les Miserables is the June Rebellion. Rather a trite moment in history by most account. And yet Hugo wrote one of the greatest novels of all time.
So it depends on the treatment.
You're not wrong, though, about the desperation to market. That's the difference between the crowd, the critic, and the muse. Always follow the in-spiration
@LancelotSchaubert it's also interesting that he brought up 9/11 and all the work associated after that, because thats exactly what I thought of after Holly and these other works by great writers were coming out. They should have made it a good work first, and then attach an issue. But if it just seems to be issue based that they tried to attach a less compelling story to. I dont think a read a single recent one that got that formula right with covid. Idk, just my opinion.
@LancelotSchaubert I think if a writer gave it more time for a more complete perspective of the covid era, say 5 or 10 years wait first, it would work a lot better.