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Posts Tagged ‘awesomeness’

Three Parts Dead : The Cover!

I’m thrilled to be able to share the final cover for Three Parts Dead—which you’ll see on shelves at your local book shop on October 2!

 I cannot say enough good things about this cover.  I love the painting (by Chris McGrath, who does covers for the Dresden Files books!), the design, the quote (from Jerry Pournelle!), the city, the color scheme…  Tara’s almost exactly as I pictured her; she’s gorgeous, but she also looks human (and her pose is a pose  human beings can adopt).  Even the glowing glyphs, more like circuits than runes, fit perfectly with my vision (and descriptions) of the world.  I went into this process with a “well, let’s see what happens” approach, and I’m so happy about the results.  The team at Tor rocks!

There’s another piece of new information in the log line of this post: I have a release date!  Three Parts Dead debuts on October 2.  Mark your calendars!  Start your engines!  Rev up your time machines!  (Note: if you have a time machine, can you give me a lift to the 22nd century?  I need to pick up some Future Milk.  Thanks for the help—I owe you one.)

That’s all for now, but watch this space for further developments about Three Parts Dead, my other books, and general insanity!

Juan of the Dead

The trailer for Juan of the Dead, Cuba’s first horror film, just blew me away.

There are a couple teasers floating around youtube that play up the entrepreneurial “We kill your loved ones so you don’t have to” aspect of the plot: this one, for example.

Juan of the Dead, like Attack the Block, looks set to play with monster movie cinematic vocabulary using settings that are less comfortable, less upper-middle-class, and, frankly, less white than those of the traditional US-made horror film. I only slept for a handful of hours last night, which leaves me barely competent to write this sentence, let alone discuss the implications of these movies and the ways they’re embellishing, enlivening, and ennobling (what I often think are) tired genres – or to compare them with new American takes on similar material, like Zombieland and Super 8. Let’s just say that Juan of the Dead and Attack the Block have me more excited about horror films than I’ve been for at least a decade.