by Jason Bovberg | Oct 6, 2021 | Interviews, Publishing
I still remember walking into Barnes & Noble one Tuesday in 2007 and finding a small, unassuming hardcover story collection called Dead Boys. I’d never heard of the author—some serious-looking cat named Richard Lange—but the dust jacket boasted enticing...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 5, 2021 | Interviews, Loser Baby, Publishing
Hey all, here’s an interview I did about LOSER BABY for the fledgling website WriteStart. You can see it in its original form at the WriteStart site. The writer of the interview poses similar questions to various writers, getting various takes on the same...
by Jason Bovberg | May 4, 2021 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
I became aware of Eric Beetner while visiting my usual southern California haunts a few years back—specifically, Book Carnival, a wonderful bookshop in Orange that I used to visit in my college years for signings with authors like Dan Simmons and Robert McCammon and...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 22, 2016 | Interviews, Journalism
I first became aware of Brian Hodge in the early 1990s, when I was working at a B. Dalton Bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Dell Abyss line of horror novels, under the direction of Bantam editor Jeanne Cavelos, had just started blowing up the genre, infusing...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 20, 2016 | Horror, Interviews, Journalism
(This interview was conducted in 2003 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary DVD release of Cronos, Guillermo del Toro’s first film.) You know who Guillermo del Toro is, right? If you’re a fan of DVD and horror films, he’s the Dude. You’ve...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 10, 2015 | Interviews, Journalism
If you’re a crime-fiction aficionado of any taste and distinction, you recognize Robert Leininger’s Killing Suki Flood (St. Martin’s) as a work of singular voice and power. It flashed like heat-lightning back in 1991, enlivening the genre with its neo-noir...
