Category Archives: Drive-by Interviews
The Coffin-maker’s Drive-by: Angela Slatter
Oh, honestly, you know what I look like!
To save me from the ignominy of talking to myself, Stephen Jones kindly asked me questions. Here’s the opening of “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”, which is my A Book
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The Forgotten Books Drive-by: Rjurik Davidson
During the day, mild-mannered Rjurik Davidson lives in the guise of Associate Editor of Overland magazine. During the deepest watches of the night, he writes … short stories, essays, screenplays and reviews. Also, apparently, a novel (huzzah!):
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The Sad, Dark Drive-by: Michael Marshall Smith
MMS on the left, Stephen Jones (our mutual editor) on ze right
Michael Marshall Smith writes thrillers under the nom de plume of Michael Marshall – including the international best sellers The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead.
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The Debut Drive-by: Jaime Lee Moyer
Jaime Lee Moyer lives in San Antonio with writer Marshall Payne, three cats, three guitars and a growing collection of books and music.
Her first novel, DELIA’S SHADOW, will be published by TOR Books in February 2013. Her novels
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The Problem Drive-by: Reggie Oliver
The very lovely and award-winning REGGIE OLIVER has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. Besides plays, his publications include the authorised biography of Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, published by Bloomsbury in 1998,
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The Livings Drive-by, I presume: Martin Livings
Martin Livings is another one of those nice, talented Perth people. His debut novel, Carnies, was published by Hachette in 2006 and has been optioned as a feature film this year. He’s the father of over sixty
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The Getting It Wrong Drive-by: Ramsey Campbell
Photo by Peter Coleborn
I do not blithely throw the word ‘legendary’ around, so you know Ramsey Campbell deserves it.
The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, his first collection was published in 1964 by the
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The Tangled Drive-by: Chris Lynch
Chris Lynch is a writer, editor, reviewer, critic, poet, teacher and photographer. He is a Clarion South survivor from 07. Clarions affect everyone differently – some get tattoos, dye their hair, leaves their partners, others give up writing altogether – Chris walked across Japan. He is
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The Charcloth, Firesteel and Flint Drive-by: Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of (among others) Silk, The Five Cups, The Red Tree, Murder of Angels and the novelisation of the film, Beowulf. She’s also produced over one hundred short stories
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The Concrete Drive-by: Gary McMahon
I first read Gary McMahon’s work when I reviewed his Spectral Press novella, What They Hear in the Dark*, and found myself unable to sleep comfortably for a few nights as the nastier side of my imagination had been activated and I
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