RE: These days I enjoy writing novellas. It has been said that the novella is the best vessel for a horror story, and I tend to agree. I used to enjoy writing short stories the most, but it seems my ideas are larger in scale now. Really, I like to write a story and see where it goes, regardless of length.
RE: Positive responses are great, but I like to think I’m going to write what I want to write and how I want to write regardless of positive or negative responses. If anything, I sometimes get caught up in wanting to follow some of the trends. I had wanted to get away from extreme horror, for instance, but there seems to be an explosion of that particular sub-genre, so I ‘ve been writing some more books in that vein. I think I would have anyway, though.
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RE: I’m not the most adventurous eater, though I do enjoy gourmet food, and I enjoy cooking. I was at a German deli in Big Bear, California (or was it Mammoth?), when the man who owned the place offered me something to taste, but wouldn’t tell me what it was. Turned out it was headcheese, and it tasted really good. Headcheese is probably the strangest thing I’ve eaten, mostly because I think of that scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre when the hitchhiker is telling everyone how they make headcheese.
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RE: No, I haven’t. With certain stories I try to write the most screwed up things I can muster, and still it doesn’t hold a candle to the masters of gross. I mean, a good story isn’t just about how nasty the gore is, but that’s one of the fun parts about writing this stuff. People get bent about the dog dying, so I decided to write a book called Baby Fights. I mean, I find the stuff in Baby Fights far more offensive than a damn dog dying, but who knows. Baby Fights will be out in a few months.
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RB: Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of Mastodon, Gojira, Queens of the Stone Age, Anthrax, and Cypress Hill. Top three live bands are Ghost, Mercyful Fate, and . . . the third is hard, because I’ve seen a lot of great bands. Probably Motley Crue. Vince Niel sounded great, despite some of the videos that show how bad his vocals have become. I guess we got lucky that night! The first time I bought cassette tapes I remember getting Metallica’s …And Justice For All and Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits. Before that I had always been given tapes and I was a little thief, stealing plenty of them from Tower Records until I got caught.
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