Josh Malerman, author of "Goblin" interviewed by Jennifer Anne Gordon and Allison Hubbard
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\\nJosh Malerman is an American author of novels and short stories. Before publishing his debut novel Bird Box with ECCO/HarperCollins, he wrote fourteen novels, never having shopped one of them.
\\nBeing the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung, Malerman toured the country for six years, as the band played an average of 250 shows a year, and Malerman wrote many of the rough drafts for these novels in the passenger seat between cities on tour. He says this about those days: \\u201cI never saw the books with dollar signs in my eyes. It was no hobby, that\\u2019s for sure, it was the real thing and always has been, but I was happy, then, simply writing, and while I blindly assumed they\\u2019d be published one day, I had no idea how something like that occurred.\\u201d As the pile of rough drafts grew, so did the questions as to what he was planning on doing with them. Malerman often says that he lived long in a \\u201cglorious delusion\\u201d in which he took part in phantom interviews, pretended to have an agent, debated with fictitious editors, and placed invisible hardcover books upon his shelves.
\\nIt wasn\\u2019t until a friend from high school, Dave Simmer, contacted him that those delusions became reality. Simmer, having worked with authors and properties in Hollywood, asked Malerman\\u2019s permission to send one of his books to some people he knew in the book business. Malerman heartily agreed and the pair sent out Goblin, a collection of novellas that all take place in the titular city of Goblin. From there, a team was assembled and Malerman suddenly found himself speaking with a real agent and debating with actual editors. He says this of the part Simmer played in his career: \\u201cThere were two things at play at that point in time; one, Dave was a ghostly benefactor, golden hearted and smart, descending from the sky to help me. And two, what may sound like some luck couldn\\u2019t have become fortunate if I wasn\\u2019t armed with a dozen novels to talk shop with.\\u201d
\\nA limited edition of Goblin is set for publication on Halloween of 2017, through Earthling Publications. Bird Box was released in 2014 and many short stories and novellas have followed. Black Mad Wheel (ECCO/HarperCollins) is slated for May of 2017 and Malerman now has the task of juggling between the twenty-seven already written novels and whatever new ideas come going forward. Cemetery Dance is set to publish a hardcover limited edition of On This, the Day of the Pig in late 2017. Del Rey (Penguin/Random House) has purchased the rights to Unbury Carol, a fantastic horror-western to be published in April of 2018. The High Strung are working on a new album and Malerman is working on a new book, freehand this time, in an attempt to get back to how he used to write rough drafts.
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