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 | Apr 28, 2021 | Publishing, Reviews
I’ve been a Joe R. Lansdale fan since … well, not quite the beginning of his career, but pretty close. I remember picking up his groundbreaking weird western Dead in the West at a Fangoria Weekend of Horrors around 1986, and that wasn’t long after he burst onto the...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog, Books, Publishing, The Naked Dame
As we await the summer publication of Loser Baby, I plan to host a number of giveaways on this site. I’ll be tempting you not only with my own books but also with some treasures from my private library, from classic pulp novels to signed first editions of modern...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 14, 2021 | Books, Loser Baby, Publishing
So what have you been up to for the past year? It feels as if there’s something that’s been happening that has kinda gotten in the way of the normal flow of our lives. It’s on the tip of my tongue. Huh. Anyway, I’ve taken the year-long...
by Jason Bovberg | Oct 21, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Canadian author Andrew Pyper burst onto the crime-fiction scene with his horrific whodunnit Lost Girls, about two teenaged girls killed in northern Ontario—and the supernatural history of the town in which they’re murdered. It was one of those debuts that makes you...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 15, 2020 | Publishing, Reviews
Are you a fan of Spike Jonz’s Being John Malkovich? How about his film Adaptation? If so, you’re familiar with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, the out-of-leftfield writer who seems to live inside his own head. His writing is always a trippy wander through a...
