Well, if you were hoping to see the next panels from Dystopia, U.S.A. -- sorry to disappoint.
There is more. Lots more.
Just not today.
Because the comics are kind of disturbing.
Sometimes, the most normal things can instigate the severest discomfort. But I think that's the whole point (I may not be expressing in the most elegant way) about "dark" literature.
Remember all those corny sci-fi movies from the 50s -- when small town America was shivering in paroxysms of terror over Communism? Nothing like blood-sucking aliens or giant ants to sooth the nerves -- you know, something you could easily identify and kill.
And that little "experiment" of mine I started about two weeks ago -- the one where I wasn't going to start working on anything new?
As Stark McClellan reasons to his brother, Bosten, in Stick (coming in October), "That experiment didn't last long, did it?"
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Is this like a cryptic way of telling us you're taking a break?
I seriously have to wonder what the hell you'd do if you didn't write books. Was there a time in your life when you didn't write at all?
There was for me, and it was not a nice place.
Jonathan, no. Quite the opposite. I was hoping to take a break, but I've actually found myself launching into two new projects.
Matthew - I honestly don't think there was any long stretch of not writing. I got really nervous after I wrote and sold my first book -- scared that maybe I wouldn't be able to write anything else. I think that happens to a significant amount of writers, and the thought terrified me. I got past it though.
Tip for writers: your second book is immeasurably more difficult to write than your first. After that, it's kind of like being a pregnant guppy. They just keep coming out.
Aw, man. The bugs in Marbury are no problem for me, but the image of you spewing like a fertile fish . . . Gotta go scrub my short-term memory.
(I'm wishing for a graphic novel to come out.)
Hah! You're hilarious. And thanks for that. I actually worry sometimes that I'll only ever have one novel worthy idea, which may be why this first one's an intended series.
Or unintended, depending on how you want to look at it.
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