Imaginarium 2012

The Best Canadian Speculative Writing Anthology

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Interviews

Deborah Mills, Woodcarver

interviewed by
Sarah Ennals

An interview with Deborah Mills, woodcarver, whose images grace the covers of The Choir Boats and The Indigo Pheasant

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Martin Springett

interviewed by
Sarah Ennals

Our new Art Director, Sarah Ennals, caught up with Martin Springett and discussed his collaboration with ChiZine Publications on the 2011 titles, The Pattern Scars and Napier's Bones.

ENNALS:  . . . You were saying that you did get to read [The Pattern Scars] first?

SPRINGETT: Oh yes, yeah, [Caitlin Sweet] gave me not necessarily an unedited manuscript, because she’d been through it first, and Sandra obviously went and did her thing. So this is what I worked off of. It certainly barrelled along, I loved reading it; and at the end—of course my work day is very flexible—I work when I want, as long as I get the work done it can be at any time of day. So I finished it and sat down on the couch and picked up my sketchbook, and I had, lately, wanted to get into the whole thing of improvising: directly, with a pen, not sketching.

A Devil’s Dozen for Livia Llewellyn

interviewed by
Stephen Studach

SS: How did you become like this, were you born perversely imaginative or have you evolved that way?

LL: I don’t consider my imagination to be perverse in any way – it is what it is, much like the imagination of most artists. I think many, if not all, artists and creative types are – to steal from Lady Gaga – born this way. But imagination also evolves, depending on upbringing and circumstance. So it’s a little of both.

A Devil’s Dozen for Richard Farnsworth

interviewed by
Stephen Studach

SS: In the Geoffrey Household story ‘Taboo’ one of the characters says “I don’t say a man can turn himself into a wolf—the Blessed Virgin protect us!—but I know why he’d want to.” Can you relate to that statement?

Stephen Graham Jones: A Cornucopia of Dark Wonders

interviewed by
Mark McLaughlin

I first learned of the work of Stephen Graham Jones when my friend and frequent collaborator Michael McCarty told me, "You'd love this great book I'm reading - it's a novel called Demon Theory. It has tons of great footnotes."

I was immediately intrigued: a novel with tons of great footnotes? Wouldn't all those footnotes be distracting? I read the book and Michael was right - it was filled with footnotes that were just as entertaining as the body of the novel.

Interview with Stewart O’Nan

interviewed by
Mark McLaughlin

Q:Your first book, In the Walled City, was a short story collection. Have you considered doing more short fiction collections?

A: Yeah, I still write stories whenever they come up. I'll even pop one out when I'm working on a novel, and of course Everyday People is a novel-in-stories. I've got another collection's worth of published ones together, but it will probably wait till I don't have a novel ready to go.

Deep Cuts

interviewed by
Edward Whitt

Employing the unique, darkly humorous, and powerful noir voice that is his trademark, Tom Piccirilli continually demonstrates why he's become a must-read author for admirers of both crime and horror fiction. His last two mass market paperback crime novels Shadow Season and The Coldest Mile were both nominated for the coveted Thriller Award, given out by the International Thriller Writers, with TCM taking the prize home. His latest release is Every Shallow Cut, a literary noir novella, available now from Chizine Publications.

Tom Piccirilli

interviewed by
Mark McLaughlin

You've probably heard of showbiz types who were considered a triple threat because they could act, write and direct.

Writer Tom Piccirilli makes those folks look like sad, lazy underachievers. He is what you'd call a Septuple Champion. The title is usually applied to an athlete who has won seven crowns, belts or titles - but in this case, I use it to highlight Tom's seven astounding talents. Over the years, Tom has been or currently is:

That’s Somebody’s Mother

interviewed by
Mark McLaughlin

These days, zombies are popping up in books and movies like wild mushrooms in a forest after a thunderstorm.

Authors are even retrofitting zombies into literary classics – the most popular example being the novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Can Gone with the Zombie Wind and Zombie Quixote be far behind?

Interview with Poppy Z. Brite

Q: What is the best part of being a writer?

A: Getting to make a living from spending time with your imaginary friends.

Q: Is it true that you said that the Bram Stoker Awards of the HWA are an "embarrassment." If so, why do you feel that way?

A: I probably said it at some point, but I don't wish to dig up old nastiness. The Stokers don't really mean anything to me one way or the other these days.

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