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Joe

I am madness maddened. Ye cannot swerve me.

About Me

  • Buy CHASING THE DEAD
  • Listen to a sample of the CHASING THE DEAD audio!
  • Check out the Scary Parent blog!
  • Read the New York Times Review! "Remember this debut novelist's name, you'll hear it again"
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    My Interests

    My wife and kids. Writing scary stories, staying up late and waking up early, wondering about the scratching sounds inside the walls

    I'd like to meet:

    The whole wide world

    Music:

    Ike Reilly, Buffalo Tom, Tragically Hip, Lloyd Cole, Magnapop, Peter Murphy, Richard Ashcroft, Verve, Sugar, Bob Mould, Husker Du, The Replacements, Audioslave, Coal Chamber, Monster Magnet, the Black Keys

    Movies:

    The Descent, The Hills Have Eyes, The Evil Dead, Ginger Snaps 1-3, Jaws, The Sting, Alien, Adaptation, Miller's Crossing, Feast, The Shining, City of Lost Children, Angel Heart, The Thing, Ancient Evil 2

    Television:

    Masters of Horror, Deadwood, Entourage, Sopranos

    Books:

    Blood Meridian, The Shining, Slayground, Black Wings Has My Angel, The Shadow of the Wind

    Heroes:

    Anybody who can recite Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice" while doing forty pushups on top of a moving car after six tequila shots.

    My Blog

    The New York Times reviews Chasing the Dead

    Terrence Rafferty reviews Chasing the Dead in today's New York Times Book Review.   It's not the most glowing critique, but I'm still pretty excited to be in the Times, just the same.&n...
    Posted by Joe on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:56:00 PST

    When Do I Need an Agent?

    This past weekend, I got a question that I've heard before, which is, when is it time to find an agent?  There's plenty of information about this online already.  There are whole blogs by a...
    Posted by Joe on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:35:00 PST

    Finder

    As far back as I can remember I've been good at finding things.  Wallets, wedding rings, the catcher's mitt your uncle gave you when you were eleven -- if you've misplaced it sometime in the rece...
    Posted by Joe on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:48:00 PST

    Chasing the Dead Audiobook Wins 2006 Listen-Up Award!

    Hey Gang: I'm so excited about this.  I just found out today that the Tantor Audio edition of Chasing the Dead, narrated by the wonderful Renee Raudman, just won a 2006 Listen-Up Award from Publi...
    Posted by Joe on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:05:00 PST

    Philly 2007

    New Year's Day in Philadelphia and it's raining in Fishtown.  Your wife has gone to Ikea.  You and the boy borrow your sister-in-law's car and drive into center city, headed to Borders on Br...
    Posted by Joe on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:42:00 PST

    Christmas Pie

    Eli Breen loved fat girls.  In the beginning, yes, he'd viewed them in their crudest light, as God's consolation prize to the lonely man, the shy and not-quite-handsome wallflower, the homely sc...
    Posted by Joe on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:51:00 PST

    Interview with Peter Abrahams

    Peter Abrahams is one of my all-time favorite writers.  He writes some of the best dialogue and characters in the genre, and his work just keeps getting better.  Last week Peter was kind eno...
    Posted by Joe on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:58:00 PST

    My New Hole and What I Put There

    I opened a YouTube account the other day.  It all came out of the sinkhole my kids found in my backyard.  If you haven't watched the "Sinkhole" video on my site, now's the time.  Go ahe...
    Posted by Joe on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:59:00 PST

    After Midnight

    I'm writing this in the basement of the hospital where I work.  It's about 1:30 in the morning, and I'm the only one down here--the only one I know about, anyway. Hospitals can be creepy places a...
    Posted by Joe on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:41:00 PST

    Martha's Boneyard and Beyond

    So, I just literally returned from my micro-tour of New England.  The signing/TV interview/panel on Martha's Vineyard was great.  New England is flat-out the place to be this time of year, i...
    Posted by Joe on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:34:00 PST