{"id":8220,"date":"2015-07-07T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2015-07-07T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T15:34:28","slug":"an-interview-with-josh-malerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/an-interview-with-josh-malerman\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Josh Malerman"},"content":{"rendered":"

An\u00a0Interview with Josh Malerman<\/span><\/h1>\n

Josh Malerman<\/a>\u00a0is the author of Bird Box<\/a><\/em>, a standout, Stoker Award-nominated horror debut. He is also the lead singer and songwriter for the band The High Strung<\/a>. Bird Box<\/em> continues to receive acclaim and win new fans more than a year after its initial release, and we’re pleased that the author was able to take some time away from preparing his follow-up novel to talk with Cemetery Dance Online.<\/p>\n

(Interview conducted by Blu Gilliand<\/a>)<\/p>\n

CEMETERY DANCE ONLINE: Bird Box<\/em> was your debut novel – was it your first published work? Are there short stories floating around out there fans should be obsessively trying to find?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Malerman\"JOSH MALERMAN: Bird Box<\/em> is my first published book, the first one to come out, yes. Since then I\u2019ve released a couple stories; Ghastle and Yule<\/em> (a novella you can get on Kindle or in the back of the UK paperback of Bird Box<\/em>) and \u201cA Fiddlehead Party on Carpenter\u2019s Farm\u201d (a short story in the great anthology Shadows Over Main Street<\/em>.) But the next twelve months or so will be better in this way. A novella on Halloween, three short stories, and the follow up to Bird Box<\/em> with HarperCollins\/ECCO.<\/p>\n

I understand that you wrote a large number of novels – 15-17? – before\u00a0Bird Box<\/em>\u00a0was published. Did you\u00a0submit those anywhere, or was\u00a0Bird Box<\/em>\u00a0the first one you felt was ready to go out in\u00a0the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t shop any of them and I don\u2019t have a great explanation for why. Maybe it\u2019s because I was on the road so much, 240 shows a year for something close to seven years. Maybe that\u2019s it. Or maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m just a weird guy. I\u2019m not sure what it was that kept me from shopping the books. I\u2019m definitely not shy. I think I was just in love. With writing, with reading, with horror. I used to interview myself, have meetings with imaginary editors, pull volumes of my own stories off invisible shelves. I would finish a rough draft, post something about it, and start thinking of the next one.<\/p>\n

A friend from high school called me one day, said he\u2019d like to read one of the books. He told me he knew a lawyer who represented authors. That phone call ended up being the key that opened the door to publishing for me. Without it, I\u2019d probably still be doing what I was doing before, which is actually very close to what I\u2019m doing right now. But there\u2019s no question that ECCO\/HarperCollins changed my life.<\/p>\n

I realize this all sounds insane. What do you mean you didn\u2019t shop the fifteen books you wrote? But I didn\u2019t care about that. Not in that way. I believed it was all going to happen the way it is now, but I had no business believing that then. And yet, I wasn\u2019t so righteous, either. I wasn\u2019t trying to avoid the life of a published author. Here: imagine you were asking a ten year old the same question: Danny, why aren\u2019t you shopping these comic books you\u2019re writing? That\u2019s pretty much where I was at. Where I\u2019m still at. I\u2019m motivated to write books the same way a five year old is motivated to draw cartoons.<\/p>\n

What happened to those other novels? Any thoughts on revisiting them, reworking them for future publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna\u2019 release every one of them. Bird Box<\/em>, to me, was\/is an episode in a bigger body of work. None of the books are linked, it\u2019s not like that, but I see them all as novel-episodes of the same big show. Bird Box<\/em> is no better\/worse than any of the others. But I love her so. And I thought she\u2019d make a good introduction, a good debut.<\/p>\n

\"bird-box\"I read in another interview with you that you wrote the first draft of\u00a0Bird Box<\/em>\u00a0in 26 days, and that the\u00a0manuscript had no indentations, no chapter breaks, no quotation marks, and was all in italics. How did that unorthodox approach help you get the story out of your head, and how did it shape subsequent drafts?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ah, it was dreamy as hell. Nightmarish and fast. Foggy, strange, scary. I didn\u2019t set out to write an experimental draft but that\u2019s sure as hell what it is. There\u2019s something lo-fi about that draft and I think lo-fi is always scarier than hi-fi. A shitty, crackly microphone makes you wonder what\u2019s going on in the vocal booth. A grainy film makes you wonder who made it? The rough draft of Bird Box<\/em> was like this. And yet, the final draft, the one we have now, is just as misty, just as ghostly, and certainly scarier overall.<\/p>\n

Which do you prefer – writing, or re-writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Haha. You kiddin\u2019? The rough drafts are fantastic manic benders. 3,000 4,000 words a day. A blur of heaven and hell and people and places and monsters and colors and chaos. And the rewrites? Too real for me. And yet, the rewrites are where the book soars. Where it becomes something special. So\u2026 I don\u2019t know. I have enough Ed Wood in me to live and die by the rough drafts. But I\u2019m grateful for my editor, too. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

How does being a musician shape your writing, and vice-versa?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to think the answer to this was \u201cnothing.\u201d But that\u2019s totally not true. I write to a beat, a rhythm, internal, every time. Some people call that pacing or some people call it voice. But for me it\u2019s beat. Every book you write comes with its own drum set and you gotta\u2019 play it with every scene, every sentence. Mine\u2019s blue. Without a logo. Some sparkling silver on the rims.<\/p>\n

Are there themes that you find yourself examining in your prose AND in your music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019d like to write a double-album that was packed with sci-fi shorts\u2026 tiny wild ideas that work as songs. The songs wouldn\u2019t need any beginnings, middles, or ends. MAN WASHES HOUSE WITH MIND is good enough for me. I\u2019m not sure if the two mediums share themes, but I know I funnel the same spirit into both.<\/p>\n

Do you think you’ll ever transition to either music or writing full time? Would it be possible to give up one or the other?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done both full-time forever. I was writing stories and poems when the boys asked me to play in the band. And I was writing novels in the passenger seat when we were touring the country. I don\u2019t know. Maybe it\u2019s because I don\u2019t have any kids, but I\u2019ve discovered that there is enough time in the day to write books and songs, make movies and write more books, all at once.<\/p>\n

In a move that I assume was influenced by your background performing on stage, you did a number of live readings for\u00a0Bird Box<\/em>\u00a0that might be more accurately described as performance\u00a0pieces, accompanied by your fiance Allison Laako and featuring blindfolds for the audience<\/a>. What was the appeal for you to do something like that other than a straight reading, and what kind of feedback did you get from those who attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When ECCO\/HarperCollins told me I\u2019d be touring, my first thought was something like what the band does; I imagined myself driving from town to town for a full year, reading for a few people a night, meeting the world at once. But the idea of me standing a podium sounded terrible. The blindfold idea was partly because, back then, I was pretty horrified to get up in front of people and read. I\u2019m over that now. I like it now. But for a minute there the idea of a public reading, with no band to back me up, scared the shit out of me. In the end, the blindfolds solved all my problems. And the feedback has been great. I\u2019ll never do a straight one, that\u2019s for sure. I\u2019m already thinking of how to present book 2.<\/p>\n

Bird Box<\/em>\u00a0has been out for more than a year, but the attention and accolades keep rolling in. What kind of pressure does that put on you in preparing a follow-up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

None. Not in that way. I wanna\u2019 write a great book and I want it to come out as soon as possible, so sometimes I feel a time crunch. But as to\u00a0writing something to follow up Bird Box,<\/em>\u00a0I feel free and good about it. Like I said earlier, they\u2019re all episodes to me. Not sequels. But part of the same show. I can\u2019t wait for episode 2 to come out.<\/p>\n

What’s next from Josh Malerman?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book 2 for HarperCollins. Tentatively called Every Good Boy Does Fine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A novella (a physical copy) set for release on Halloween through the website This is Horror. Tentatively called We Should Introduce Ourselves<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A novella called I Can Taste the Blood<\/em> in an anthology by the same name, coming out on Grey Matter Press.<\/p>\n

A pair of short stories \u201cDanny\u201d and \u201cThe Bigger Bedroom\u201d (the former is part of Simon and Schuster\u2019s Scary Out There<\/em> (edited by Jonathan Maberry) and the latter will be included in Michael Bailey\u2019s Chiral Mad 3<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s a lot happening\u2026 and I\u2019m working on others now. Like I said before, there is enough time in the day. And if you\u2019re in love with it? Then time is silly anyway, and doesn\u2019t register the same way it does when you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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