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‘Con’ Man: Adam Cesare on Fans, Cons
\nand ‘The Con Season’<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"ConSeason\"Adam Cesare’s new novel,\u00a0The Con Season<\/em>, is available to read for free right now—well, the first couple of chapters, anyway. If you want to read the rest, you first have to do your part in helping it get published.<\/p>\n

Like many authors (such as Norman Prentiss<\/a>), Cesare is testing the waters of the Kindle Scout program with his latest work. Readers can check out a portion of the book and throw a nomination its way if they would like to see it published. Cesare talks more about the program in our interview, but suffice to say that it’s another innovative approach to publishing made possible by today’s technology.<\/p>\n

You can check out\u00a0The Con Season <\/em>at Amazon<\/a>, but before you do, take a few moments and enjoy this\u00a0chat with Cesare, who talks about the slightly unreal world of horror conventions, the mindset of horror film and literature fandom, and much more.
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(Interview conducted by Blu Gilliand<\/a>)<\/p>\n

CEMETERY DANCE ONLINE: I’ll lead off with a question I’m almost afraid to ask….what inspired\u00a0The Con Season<\/i>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

ADAM CESARE: The elevator pitch for the book is: a group of B-movie celebrities are tricked into attending a convention that is actually a cover for a real life \u201cinteractive\u201d slasher movie.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were multiple sources of inspiration. I\u2019m not the kind of writer who tends to have lightning strikes of \u201cinspiration\u201d or whatever. I usually have to work at my ideas gradually, put little bunches of clay onto the skeleton of a genre or a theme and then stand back once they become a book.<\/span><\/p>\n

But two things mainly influenced <\/span>The Con Season<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\n

The first one is the obvious one: I\u2019ve been going to horror (and scifi and comic) conventions since I was a child. I love that world, because I was raised in it. But it\u2019s also a little like growing up in the circus. My worldview might be forever skewed now.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second influence may be the less obvious one, if you\u2019re reading just the log-line of the book. The \u201cconvention\u201d in the story shares a lot of similarities to real events. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m fascinated by interactive theater, escape rooms, zombie runs, all that stuff. It seems like we\u2019d be getting further away from all these real, immersive forms of entertainment, but they\u2019re becoming more and more popular. The idea was: what if you signed up for an escape room or a haunted attraction but the people running it weren\u2019t at all thinking about your safety? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of your work—I’m thinking specifically of\u00a0Tribesmen\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Video Night—<\/i>is fueled by\/concerned with cult movies and VHS video nasties. The Con Season<\/i>\u00a0continues that train of thought by featuring characters that make those kinds of movies. What is it about the world of low-budget horror that makes it such a rich environment for you to mine for stories?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hmmmm, good question. I think originality (or as close as we can get when *nearly* everything has been done) in horror is arrived at by taking familiar tropes, breaking them apart, then sticking the pieces together in unexpected ways or with a tone or viewpoint that hasn\u2019t been done before. It\u2019s kind of like Lego sets. Where I have my \u201cCannibal Island\u201d playset over here and then my \u201cRegan\u2019s Possession Funtime Bedroom\u201d set over there, and then I dismantle both of them and build them into something (hopefully) new. Or maybe it\u2019s not like Lego at all and that was a terrible analogy…<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you think you’ll dive into filmmaking yourself one day, or are you happy behind the keyboard?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know. \u201cFilmmaking\u201d puts me in a mind of, like, being on a set and making movies. I severely doubt I\u2019ll ever be trying that. But I certainly would be game for getting movies made while staying behind a keyboard. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written a bunch of scripts and treatments. And there\u2019s been some <\/span>mild<\/span><\/i> interest in turning one or two of my books into movies. But spec scripts and \u201cmild interest\u201d don\u2019t pay the bills, so I\u2019m not going to count any of those chickens before they hatch. <\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m no expert on the movie industry, but I know enough to know that it\u2019s very hard to get a movie made, even when talks are in progress. And these are the most cursory of talks.<\/span><\/p>\n

What was your worst convention experience? And, just to balance it out, what was your best?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Putting me on the spot!
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Yeah, the book is about a hellacious con experience, but I\u2019ve actually got to strain to think of a non-excellent experience in my own con-going. I love being at cons, whether I\u2019m selling books or just walking around.<\/span><\/p>\n

But there was this one time…<\/span><\/p>\n

I was behind a publisher\u2019s table, it was late in the day so I was kind of exhausted, and this indie filmmaker walks up (people would know him, but I\u2019m not naming names), points at the table, and says something like, \u201cWow, you guys are selling out!\u201d in a sarcastic way. <\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I said anything to him, was just kind of taken aback at his dickishness and squinted in his direction. He said a half-hearted \u201cLighten up, I was joking\u201d and moved on. Kind of shows how authors are really the low men and women on the totem pole when you\u2019re vending at a con.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the clincher to that story is that I sold out of every title I had at that show. And I bet that broski had to haul a trunkful of his DVDs back home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best con experience? Probably the one I\u2019m going to have next week, July 21st-24th, slinging books with my buddies Scott Cole and Matt Serafini at Scares That Care Weekend<\/a> in Williamsburg, Virginia! \u00a0Is this how plugs work? I don\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did you choose to take\u00a0The Con Season\u00a0<\/i>into the Kindle Scout program? What are the benefits of this program for you, as a writer, and was there anything about this particular story that seemed “right” for the program?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also a good question, because I\u2019m finding out as I\u2019m going through this campaign that a lot of folks don\u2019t know what Kindle Scout is. And I\u2019m not an expert or anything, but the gist as I understand it is:<\/span><\/p>\n

People browse the site, read a few excerpts and synopses to pick out books they like (up to three at a time), then when the campaign for those books end (authors have 30 days to get their votes) the Kindle Press editors decide which books get a publishing contract. So nominations are not the only factor in getting an editor\u2019s attention, but they do help. <\/span><\/p>\n

And everyone who nominates the book gets a <\/span>free <\/span><\/i>copy, if it ends up being nominated.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the \u201cwhat is it?\u201d out of the way, I\u2019ve got to say that the reason I chose to go the Kindle Scout route with <\/span>The Con Season<\/span><\/i> is exposure. I could have worked with a small press or just self-published the book (which is daunting in its own way), but with this novel I wanted to experiment. <\/span><\/p>\n

And why did I choose <\/span>The Con Season<\/span><\/i> and not one of my other titles to try this out with? I don\u2019t know, really. The story is kind of more Kindle Scout-friendly than a lot of my other books, because it\u2019s got a little bit more of a traditional suspense novel thread running through the center of it. But maybe it\u2019s just because I really believe in this title. <\/span><\/p>\n

As of this writing we\u2019re five\u00a0days into the campaign, and I\u2019m overwhelmed by the support from my friends and readers. But even cooler is that I\u2019ve already had people share the link and rally behind <\/span>The Con Season<\/span><\/i> who have <\/span>never <\/b><\/em>read or heard of any of my other work. For them this isn\u2019t just \u201cone more book by that weird guy in my twitter feed.\u201d My work is a whole new entity to these folks and that\u2019s really cool. In that sense, I feel like I\u2019m already a winner from the Kindle Scout program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFeel like a winner\u201d but am not actually a winner. I would so so <\/span>so <\/span><\/i>appreciate it if anyone reading this could check out the book and toss it a nomination if they like what they see<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You write a fascinating column for us here at Cemetery Dance Online<\/i><\/a> that examines that dark place where horror films and horror literature meet (and in which you wantonly\u2014and rightfully\u2014ignore suggested word counts)—why do you think these two forms of media feed off of each other so well, especially when it comes to the horror genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to ignore that dig at my luscious word counts and focus on the question…<\/span><\/p>\n

Because the fan pools for both horror lit and horror film are comparatively small, as mainstream fandoms go. Horror movies open big (look at <\/span>The Conjuring 2<\/span><\/i>) but my black t-shirted brothers and sisters are definitely a minority when you compare them to, say, scifi fans and readers. A lot of people \u201clike\u201d horror movies and horror books (sometimes those readers are so horrorphobic that they\u2019ll apply the \u201cthriller\u201d label where it doesn\u2019t belong), but few people LOVE them like we do. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s very common to see someone build their wardrobe and general life aesthetic around Doctor Who<\/em> or Star Wars<\/em>. <\/span>Kill List<\/span><\/i>? Not as much (though I would and I will).<\/span><\/p>\n

And one of my hobby horses, something that kinda baffles me when I go to cons, is the people who I\u2019ll try to rope in to the table that tell me \u201cI like to watch horror, not read it.\u201d That\u2019s a real quote that I\u2019ve heard a bunch of times, verbatim. And yeah everyone\u2019s entitled to an opinion, blah blah blah, but I can\u2019t help but feel that both \u201cscenes\u201d would benefit from a little cross-pollination.<\/span><\/p>\n

The phenomenon goes both ways, too. I\u2019ll sometime\u2019s hear crotchety horror authors (of all ages, really), talking about how modern horror movies are crap (usually in an attempt to get people to check out their, uh, maybe-crap books) but if you engage them with \u201cwell have you seen [x]?\u201d you find out that they don\u2019t<\/span> watch<\/span><\/i> modern horror films.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was a long answer. (*Editor’s Note: 263 words.)<\/strong> What was the question?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"AllNightTerror300You’re a busy, busy man (although your columns almost always arrive on time)—what all do you have in the works right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost always?! <\/span>Almost <\/span><\/i>always? (BTW my next column might be late.)<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got too many things in the works. I\u2019m really excited about my next novel but don\u2019t want to talk about it yet and jinx it. Not to play the guilt game but I\u2019ll be able to write the new book a lot faster if people go over to Kindle Scout and nominate <\/span>The Con Season<\/span><\/i>. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

This weekend I\u2019ve got a book out with Sinister Grin Press<\/a> that I co-wrote with Matt Serafini<\/a>. It\u2019s a collection of short stories called All-Night Terror<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s actually a reissue of an e-book from 2013. But it\u2019s now getting a paperback release and we\u2019ve gone back and added 4 new short stories to it. Even if you have the old version, it\u2019s now almost double the length.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks so much for talking with me, Blu!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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