Sunday, June 30, 2013

Take a Ride on the Roller Coaster With the World's Tallest Loop [feedly]


 
 
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Take a Ride on the Roller Coaster With the World's Tallest Loop

Full Throttle is a brand new roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. But it's not just any new thrill ride—it features the tallest vertical loop in the world. And this gravity-defying first-person perspective footage of the new loop de loop will twist your stomach into a Gordian Knot.

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Google Not Required to Delete Search Results With Personal Info [feedly]


 
 
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Google Not Required to Delete Search Results With Personal Info
The EU's Central Court of Justice today found that a search engine like Google is not required to remove links to someone's personal information, provided the publication of that data is legal.



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Leef Bridge is a USB stick that lets you transfer files between PC and Android seamlessly [feedly]


 
 
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Leef Bridge is a USB stick that lets you transfer files between PC and Android seamlessly
One of the biggest problems I've run into when it comes to file transfers is the cumbersome nature of it all. Whether it be having to tether my device to my PCs, eject and insert memory sticks, or deal with slow network-based transfers, it's always been a bit of a pain. That's why the newly-announced [...]



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iOS 7 adds HDR to iPad’s camera for the first time [feedly]


 
 
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iOS 7 adds HDR to iPad's camera for the first time

We discovered a good handful of new features in iOS 7's second beta yesterday, but perhaps one of the most interesting is one we didn't pick up on straight away. With the number of people using iPads to take pictures growing all the time, it seems Apple has decided to add an extra dimension to iPadography. Along with iOS 7's new camera user interface...




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Barnes & Noble Is Going to Stop Making Nook Tablets [feedly]


 
 
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Barnes & Noble Is Going to Stop Making Nook Tablets

Barnes & Noble Is Going to Stop Making Nook Tablets

Barnes & Noble has announced that it's going to leave manufacturing of its Color tablet line up to third party manufacturers.

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Holy Crap It's Good This Airplane Wasn't Flying When Its Engine Exploded [feedly]


 
 
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Holy Crap It's Good This Airplane Wasn't Flying When Its Engine Exploded

Yesterday this Airbus A330 was zipping down the runway of Manchester Airport, UK, ready to take off and head to the Dominican Republic. And then, holy crap, its engine exploded.

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Bigfoot Croons Audiences in ‘Sasquatched! The Musical’ [feedly]


 
 
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Bigfoot Croons Audiences in 'Sasquatched! The Musical'
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He's been the subject of folk tales for centuries and he's been in the movies for decades, he's even battled pranksters in beef jerky commercials, but now Bigfoot is taking his act to the stage and leaving audiences as the ones howling with his show-stoppingly golden singing voice in Sasquatched! The Musical.

Sasquatched! The Musical makes its world premiere Tuesday, July 9, and concludes after four more performances July 14, at the 2013 New York Musical Theater Festival.

The musical is about a sasquatch named Arthur who gets lost in Columbia National Park and befriends a young boy named Sam. The pair then encounter oddball locals, dodge a TV crew on the hunt for Bigfoot, and bust out into songs to help move the story along.

While the debut of the musical is in New York, theater companies around the United States are already expressing interest in doing their own productions of Sasquatched!. In other words, Bigfoot might one day be crooning on a stage in your town.

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We dropped Phil Darg, writer of Sasquatched! The Musical, a few questions about the show via email, and here's what he had to say:

Why did you choose to use a Sasquatch as one of the main characters in the story?

Darg: There seems to be a fascination with this topic in recent years; I also thought that it was a great unconventional tie-in to a musical, and an original approach to creating a musical which would have enormous popular appeal.

Phil Darg, Writer of Sasquatched! The Musical

Phil Darg, Writer of Sasquatched! The Musical

Could you elaborate on the role Arthur plays in the story?

Darg: Arthur is a most unexpected character: he is an intelligent, talking Sasquatch who behaves in a dignified and gentle manner; it's the humans around him who are the ones acting irrational (making the point that humans are not as rational as they sometimes think they are). Arthur gets lost in the forests of Columbia National Park, befriends a young boy, and then eludes the quirky humans who are trying to hunt him down.

Does Arthur sing and dance in this production?

Darg: Yes – indeed Arthur does sing. However, his songs are dignified and are not extreme in terms of their style (i.e., not really "show tunes" and not really rock).

Are you a Bigfoot enthusiast? Do you watch TV shows about Bigfoot, read about it, or maybe go "Squatchin'," in your free time? 

Darg: I find the topic interesting – but don't spend a lot of time examining it. The TV show portrayed in the musical is NOT based on any existing TV show. In fact, it was only AFTER I wrote the show that I discovered that there were so many investigative TV shows that did things like this (i.e., search for Bigfoot).

What are your thoughts on the existence of Sasquatch? Believe or not?

Darg: Ah, just like the existence of Bigfoot, this question remains a mystery – although I will state that my wife and I got lost on the slopes of Mount Rainier back in 2002, and we encountered a large hairy creature who turned out to be surprisingly friendly. ;)

Check out the songs "Eight Feet Tall and He Smelled Like a Skunk" and "Shake the Camera and Run" from Sasquatched! The Musical.

More Weird Musicals to Behold

While Sasquatched! The Musical might be the first Bigfoot-themed musical, it's certainly not the first off-beat production dealing with aliens, creatures, or other supernatural beings. Here are a few other musicals with unusual themes:

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Via Galactica (Premiered in 1972)

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Billed as Broadway's only trampoline musical, Via Galactica is also known as one of the first musicals to lose a cool million dollars during it's short-lived run. The story is about a colony of inhabitants living on an asteroid in 2972. The space-themed production was universally panned, despite acting great Raul Julia being a cast member, but the soundtrack has developed somewhat of a fanbase over the years. The composer of the music was Galt MacDermot, who is best known for doing the music for the highly successful counter-culture musical, Hair. The story was written by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross.

Via Galactica, Title Song 

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Evil Dead: The Musical (Premiered in 2003)

Evil Dead the Musical

Evil Dead has been one of horror's most popular cult films in cinema history, but who would have imagined someone would take the story and turn it into a Broadway-style musical? The story is about a group of young people who head to a remote cabin for some rest and relaxation, but instead encounter haunted trees, a talking moose head, and then possessions and zombification afflict them one by one. The story also hinges upon a book called The Necronomicon, a fictional book brought to the literary world by science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft who alleged it was written by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred. Productions of Evil Dead: The Musical are usually accompanied by a "Splatter Zone" where audience members are guaranteed to be hit with blood spray. Evil Dead: The musical was written by George Reinblatt, who now writes for The Burn with Jeff Ross on Comedy Central. (I've personally seen a production of this, and can't recommend it enough.)

Do the Necronomicon 

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Bat Boy: The Musical (Premiered in 1997)

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The folks at Weekly World News were the wizards of the grocery store, checkout line tabloid scene for many years, and one of their most popular stories was of a half-bat, half-boy creature who escaped from a scientific laboratory in West Virginia. In Bat Boy: The Musical, he's found in a cave by a small group of young partiers just out to have a good time. As the story unfolds, some want him dead, some want to adopt him, and others learn they have an even deeper connection with the mysterious being. This story gets very twisted as it reaches its climax. Bat Boy: The Musical was written by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming. Phil Darg, writer of Sasquatched! The Musical, claims this is one of the inspirations for his singing Bigfoot production. (I can say from experience, it's hard to leave Bat Boy: The Musical and not have, "Hold me Bat Boy, touch me Bat Boy," playing over and over in your head.)

Hold Me, Bat Boy 

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Rocky Horror Picture Show (Premiered in 1975)

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Perhaps the most famous off-beat musical ever produced, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is one of those works nearly every community theater attempts to put on at least once. Presuming most people have at least seen the film, I'll leave the plot synopsis vague, but it's about a young couple who encounters a house full of freaks. As the plot gets more twisted, we learn several of those freaks are actually aliens from outer space who aren't afraid to wave around a ray gun and issue threats to those around them. It was written by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien.

I'm Going Home

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This Simple First Aid Kit Will Let You Save Yourself Single-Handedly [feedly]


 
 
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This Simple First Aid Kit Will Let You Save Yourself Single-Handedly

This Simple First Aid Kit Will Let You Save Yourself Single-Handedly

For most accidents around the home, all you really need is a simple first aid kit—and preferably one that's easy to use. Designed by Gabriele Meldaikyte, the Home First Aid Kit only needs one free hand, and is intended to be easy for even children to use.

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Holy Giant Insects! [feedly]


 
 
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Holy Giant Insects!
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A self-confessed "flying saucer junkie," Danielle was a woman I met a few years ago and who lived in the town of Aztec, New Mexico – the alleged site of a crashed UFO in March 1948. It's a controversial story that has as many believers as it does disbelievers. Danielle told me that living in a town with its own crashed UFO legend was "a dream." At least two or three times a month, no less, she would head out to Hart Canyon.

This is the impact point where the UFO allegedly came down, along with its crew of small, humanoid entities. Danielle would stroll around, "dig the ground up in case there's anything still there," and ponder upon that most controversial of all tales from the long-gone "Golden Age" of Ufology.

Aside from being distinctly moved every time she visited the alleged crash site where the legendary little men of Aztec were said to have been found back in March 1948, Danielle did not experience anything out of the ordinary. At least, not until 2004. On a particular day in May of that year she once again drove to the canyon and spent the afternoon sitting on the mesa, deep in thought again about the controversial tale.

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Suddenly, from an area to the left of her, and flying at a height of "several hundred feet," a small black helicopter, of all things, began to slowly close in. Black helicopters were, and still are, an integral part of the more paranoid and controversial fringes of ufological lore. According to many researchers they are piloted by elite groups of military personnel whose secret task it is to respond in quick time to sensitive UFO-related events, such as crashes.

Not only that: there were many reports of black and unmarked helicopters having been seen in the direct vicinity of cattle mutilations in New Mexico in the mid-to-late 1970s. Again, theories abounded that there was a link of a distinctly ufological kind. The helicopters, it was suggested, were connected to clandestine projects that monitored the nefarious activities of hostile extraterrestrials as they extracted bovine body-parts, organs and blood as part of some dark and diabolical alien agenda.

Danielle continued that as the helicopter got closer to Hart Canyon she could see a small calf suspended beneath it by a couple of ropes. This is getting very interesting, I thought: perhaps I was going to uncover prime evidence of some sort of dark and official link to the cattle mutilation controversy, after all. The story didn't quite play out in the fashion that I anticipated, however. Do they ever?

As the helicopter got ever closer, Danielle somewhat reticently explained to me, she could see that it was, in actuality, nothing of the sort. Rather, the "helicopter" was a black-colored, and monstrously huge, flying insect of about eight to ten feet in length. What she first thought were the distant whirls of its rotor-blades, were in fact rapidly beating wings. And the calf was not hanging by "a couple of ropes" either. Rather, it was held in a vice-like grip by a pair of powerful-looking, black-colored limbs.

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Outwardly, I eagerly nodded as Danielle related the story. Inwardly, I was groaning: giant insects kidnapping, mutilating and killing cattle? I half expected Danielle to tell me that, shortly afterwards, Godzilla himself came storming across the landscape and the two engaged in battle while summarily trashing the town of Aztec – Tokyo-style – in the process.

Yet, Danielle was so earnest that I sat back and listened to her controversial tale. As she continued to watch, appalled, horrified and terrified, the flying monster flew over Hart Canyon at "a really, really low" level and "came into land" atop an adjacent hill. But not before it dropped the calf's body to the ground and presumably then indulged in a tasty feast.

Twenty minutes later, or thereabouts, the beast took to the skies again and was soon lost as it soared ever higher into the late afternoon skies over Aztec. And there was more, too. Danielle continued that she had come to the unique conclusion that the so-called UFO crash at Aztec in 1948 was nothing of the sort. Rather, she elaborated, the military had "shot down" one of these monster insects as it flew over the mesa. It was this, rather than anything extraterrestrial, she concluded, that the military had secretly retrieved from Hart Canyon.

"And what about the reports of alien bodies found at the scene?" I asked. Danielle had an immediate and ingenious answer: "I think they were probably its babies – gestating in an egg sac."

Danielle's theories were certainly novel and decidedly alternative. I had to wonder, however, if her tales, either consciously or unconsciously, were based upon pre-existing scenarios that bore an uncanny resemblance to hers? Them! was a 1954 black-and-white science fiction movie starring James Whitmore, James Arness and Joan Weldon that told the story of monstrous, Cadillac-sized, radioactive ants that lived deep under the deserts of New Mexico, and whose main activity seemed to be slaughtering the inhabitants of a small town near Alamogordo.

Maybe Them! was indeed Danielle's inspiration. Or, just maybe, it wasn't. Long before humankind was on the scene, some devilishly huge insects were roamed around the planet. For example, back in prehistoric times there lived a dragonfly known as Meganeura monyi. It had a wingspan in excess of three feet, and its territory extended from the United States to Canada and Scotland.

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Precisely what it dined upon is still a matter of debate among scientists, as no fossilized examples of its mouth and jaw survive. But if a meat-eater, then a dragonfly with a wingspan of three-feet would be a formidable foe – even for a person, never mind a cow or calf. Then, in 2001, geologists from Ohio State University found in an old mine at the location of Ohio State Routes 7 and 11, the ancient remains of nothing less than a five-foot-long centipede.

Moving on, and just a few years later, a fossilized, eight-foot-long sea scorpion – an arthropod, a group to which both spiders and insects belong – called Jaekelopterus rhenaniae was discovered in a German quarry. The creature, the scientific community concluded, would have been a formidable and vicious predator. Indeed, would you like to take on an eight-foot-long sea scorpion?

Was it possible that Danielle had indeed solved the animal mutilation mystery? Were such bizarre and grisly killings not the work of marauding extraterrestrials or government-sponsored bio-warfare experts, but large and predatory beasts presumed to have become extinct millions of years ago? I do not know. But I do know one thing: her story is such a fantastically entertaining and amazing one that I hope it really does have monstrous merit!




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This Wooden Bicycle Is Beautifully Impractical [feedly]


 
 
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This Wooden Bicycle Is Beautifully Impractical

There's a natural charm to cycling that allows you to feel at one with the environment that surrounds you—but if that's not enough, maybe you need this bike that's made from the environment that surrounds you.

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Sony's SmartWatch 2 Promises to Be Better This Time [feedly]


 
 
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Sony's SmartWatch 2 Promises to Be Better This Time

We really wanted to love Sony's SmartWatch last year, but we couldn't. Which is to say, it made us want to bite our own arms off. Sony is back at it again, though, and thankfully the sequel looks like a real improvement over the previous generation.

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SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Bestselling Science Fiction Thriller/Horror Author Jonathan Maberry [feedly]


 
 
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SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Bestselling Science Fiction Thriller/Horror Author Jonathan Maberry

Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, writing teacher and more. His novels include Ghost Road Blues, winner of the 2006 Stoker Award for Best first Novel, the novelization of The Wolfman, Patient Zero, the first in his Joe Ledger series which was optioned for TV, Marvel comics including Wolverine, Punisher. In nonfiction, The Cryptopedia, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction. And ZOMBIE CSU: The Forensics Of The Living Dead, which won the Heinzman and Black Quill Awards and was nominated for a Stoker Award. Jonathan is a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers), and a member of SFWA, MWA and HWA. His latest and 5th Joe Ledger book, Extinction Machine is out from St. Martins, a very fun action-thriller read. He can be found on Goodreads, Twitter as @JonathanMaberry and via his website at JonathanMaberry.com.


SFFWRTCHT: First things first, where'd your interest in speculative fiction come from?

Jonathan Maberry: I met Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson when I was a kid. They gave me a lot of time and advice about writing and reading.

SFFWRTCHT: What an introduction. Who are some of your favorite authors and books that inspire you?

JM: I read all across genre lines. Favorites include Kevin J. Anderson, James Lee Burke, Graham Masterton… Genre switching and crossing is a great way to keep from ever getting stale.

SFFWRTCHT: When did you decide to become a storyteller and how did you get your start?

JM: I've wanted to tell stories since I had my first cogent thought. Used to tell stories with toys when I was little. Didn't know I wanted to write fiction, though. Spent most of my career writing articles, how-to books and textbooks. Started selling articles while still in college. Then wrote several textbooks while teaching at Temple U. Mostly on jujutsu, women's self-defense, etc. Then did some books on monster folklore for mainstream. Got interested in fiction around 2004.

SFFWRTCHT: How'd you learn craft? Trial and error? Formal study? Workshops?

JM: I learned magazine writing in college. Fiction was something I taught myself.

SFFWRTCHT: What carries over from magazine writing to fiction, and what doesn't?

JM: Magazine training gives you focus, discipline, good research skills and speed. It also removes that whole writer as prima donna thing.

SFFWRTCHT: Joe Ledger is an ex-military officer turn secret government agent working for the Department of Military Sciences. He's fought zombies, albino twins, morphogenetic monsters and now alien-human hybrids and UFOs. The Ledger books are essentially thrillers with speculative elements. Where'd the idea for the Joe Ledger series and DMS come from?

JM: Joe Ledger was born in a diner. He and Mr. Church started talking in my head while I was drinking coffee. If you're not a writer, that's a real cry for help. If you are a writer, that's a new character needing your attention. I've always loved thrillers. And horror. And SF. And science. The Ledger books collide all of that. Some of the short stories step over into supernatural, but generally not the novels. Just weird science.

SFFWRTCHT: Which came first: world, plot, character?

JM: It's always character first with me.

SFFWRTCHT: How long did the first novel take to write?

JM: First novel took 18 months and many rewrites. Now it's 2-3 months.

SFFWRTCHT: What is the DMS and what kinds of tasks is it charged with?

JM: The Department of Military Sciences is geeks and shooters vs. terrorists with cutting-edge science weapons.

SFFWRTCHT: What do you think are the essentials to writing good thrillers?

JM: Solid science and realistic characters are key. Also, thinking it through and trying to get inside the head of your readers. Trusting how smart they are. Also, a sense of fun matters to thrillers. Otherwise they get too grim and ponderous.

SFFWRTCHT: How do the structure of words or sentences build tension in thrillers?

JM: Language is the clay of fiction. If you understand how language works, you get to build great stories. All writers should endeavor to explore the depths, variations and nuances of language.

SFFWRTCHT: What were some of your inspirations for worldbuilding and characters?

JM: For world-building I have to thank Frank Herbert (Dune) and James Lee Burke. But also, James Rollins, who is a friend and colleague, is a great inspiration for world-building. Probably the most important thing, though, is to build the story in this world as much as possible.

SFFWRTCHT: Your output it quite prolific. Do you write on a set daily schedule or do have a different process?

JM: I write about eight to ten hours a day. When traveling or on tour, I make sure I catch up. Writing every day is crucial to the development of skill and storytelling confidence.

SFFWRTCHT: How much research do you do when writing? Before, after, during?

JM: I research for months before each book. I read, talk to experts, go to labs, bases, etc.

SFFWRTCHT: Outline or stream of consciousness when you write?

JM: I'm a structure guy. I outline and storyboard, then allow the story to evolve in the writing.

SFFWRTCHT: Do you have any writing rituals or tools? Scrivener? Word? Something else? Do you write to music or silence?

JM: I use Word and that's it. For novels, short stories and comic scripts. Just Word. As for ambience. I usually listen to music, but I can write anywhere. Loud or silent. Movement or still. Very little seems to knock me out of my groove. I can write in the middle of heavy traffic. I don't buy into the writer as a temperamental artiste. A writer is an artist, sure, but also a craftsman and professional.

SFFWRTCHT: How many books do you write in a year? You obviously keep busy.

JM: I write three novels per year, and also comics and short stories. Since 2005, I've written sixteen novels, fifty short stories, six nonfiction books and eleven graphic novel collections.

SFFWRTCHT: Speaking of readers, how long did it take you to get a good sense of who your core audience is?

JM: Pretty quick. I talk to my readers all the time via social media and live events. We geek out together. I'm a reader as much as I'm a writer. Of course, I want to talk to other readers!

SFFWRTCHT: You adapted a film script for the new movie WOLFMAN into a novelization for Tor Books. Tell us about that process please?

JM: They gave me the script and nothing else. I didn't even see the movie until after the book was out. So…left to my own devices, I did some research and then wrote a gothic novel. And had fun. I loved the subject matter, and that helped.

SFFWRTCHT: It's good that you had a script. I've heard some tie-in writers aren't even allowed that.

JM: Yeah, and I can thank my agent for insisting on that.

SFFWRTCHT: Will we see a full Sam Hunter novel and/or series?

JM: Sam Hunter returns in a novella in LIMBUS, INC, due out from JournalStone later this month. And a Joe Ledger/Sam Hunter story is not out of the question. Joe is in a Cthulhu story later this year in an anthology edited by S.T. Joshi.

SFFWRTCHT: Let's talk a bit about your young adult series Benny Imura Zombie Hunter. Where'd that idea come from?

JM: I've wanted to write a post-apocalyptic zombie story since seeing Night of the Living Dead at age ten, when it first opened! Rot & Ruin was born when an editor, Christopher Golden, asked me to write a novella for The New Dead anthology. After writing the novella, I realized that there was a larger story to tell. It's now a quadrology. It takes place fourteen years after the Zombie Apocalypse. We're now in development for a Rot & Ruin movie. The fourth book in the series, Fire & Ash, debuts in August, debuts in August.

SFFWRTCHT: What are the challenges to writing YA vs. adult?

JM: The biggest challenge is to be smart enough to write for today's teens. They're scary smart. The most important thing, though, is tell an honest story, straight from the heart and mind. And have fun doing it.

SFFWRTCHT: Do you change vocabulary at all other than vernacular in dialogue?

JM: I'm less potty-mouthed in my YA. Everything else is the same as in my adult fiction.

SFFWRTCHT: Real quick tell us about Pine Deep your postapocalyptic series.

JM: Pine Deep is the most haunted town in America. Very bad things happen there. Worse things live there… The story deals with an ancient evil that's gathering together an army of the dead. The series kicks off with Ghost Road Blues, then Dead Man's Song and Bad Moon Rising. They were my first three novels. And I love those damn books. Apart from the trilogy, there are a bunch of Pine Deep short stories. One is out now. Let me grab a free link to Property Condemned, a Pine Deep prequel story from Nightmare Magazine ("Property Condemned")

SFFWRTCHT: Did you per chance get that idea while driving through a cemetery late one night?

JM: I got the Pine Deep idea when I was a teenager, drinking in cornfields in New Hope, PA.

SFFWRTCHT: In letting the characters have free rein –have you ever had to intervene and save someone you didn't want to die?

JM: Never. If a character is in harm's way, then he's in harm's way. As long as it serves the story and isn't a cheap shot.

SFFWRTCHT: You also hold monthly Writer's Coffeehouses at your local Barnes & Noble where writers can network. What inspired that?

JM: Writers thrive around other writers, and become moody and strange when left alone too long. I started the Writers Coffeehouse to get writers to communicate, share ideas, network, and meet like minds. We've been running it for years now. We get about 80-100 people each month. It currently meets at the Willow Grove B&N in Pennsylvania, the last Sunday of each month, noon to 3. Totally free. We have a free Yahoo Group, too. WritersCoffeehouseOnline. I love to see writers helping each other and working together. A lot gets accomplished that way.

SFFWRTCHT: I wish I lived closer. It sounds awesome. Writers helping each other is what SFFWRTCHT is all about. What's the best and worst writing advice you've ever gotten?

JM: Worst writing advice was 'shoot for a low-level agent 'cause they're the only ones who'll take a new writer'. Ha! Shoot high! Best advice: From Ray Bradbury: "A writer writes. Try anything. Try everything." Best advice I got from Richard Matheson: "Writing is an art, publishing is a business. Learn both, be good at both."

SFFWRTCHT: What's the best way for a writer to get feedback on their work?

JM: One to one peer critiques are good. I dislike group critiques. Or, ask several people: a reader, a writer, a teacher to each read your work.

SFFWRTCHT: Last question: What future projects are you working on that we can look forward to?

JM: A new Sam Hunter story in Limbus, Inc. late this month… A slew of Joe Ledger short stories this year. Links on my Facebook pages. And Extinction Machine is out, the latest Joe Ledger book.




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