Samhain Guest Author: Jonathan Janz

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Happy Friday, Everyone! While you all are probably swaying to the bass-heavy music of some pulsing, throbbing nightclub, I’m giving my four-year-old medicine for her fever.

Jealous, aren’t you?

Anyway, filmmaker/author/very cool dude Frazer Lee interviewed me on his blog, and I thought some of you might want to hear my thoughts on my debut novel, the current state of the horror genre, and Uncle Jim of the AbsoluteWrite forums.

So without further ado, click the link at the top for the Q&A!

FrazerLee.com

Fellow Samhain Horror author Jonathan Janz just published his modern-gothic nightmare ‘The Sorrows‘ in ebook (the trade paperback follows in 2012) and has already announced his next, the sublimely-titled and cover-illustrated ‘House of Skin‘. Mr Janz took time out of his busy schedule to answer a few questions for my blog and I’m very glad he did as the answers are very insightful indeed. So, without further ado, take it away Mr Janz!

1. Your novel ‘The Sorrows’ debuts as part of the Samhain Horror line this December. Can you tell us about the novel and the inspiration behind it?

Absolutely! The synopsis, of course, can be found at the Samhain Horror website and just about anywhere else books are sold, but I don’t want to give you a canned answer. Therefore, I’ll say that The Sorrows, while completely original and unique, is essentially a fresh…

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2 thoughts on “Samhain Guest Author: Jonathan Janz”

  2. Thanks, Meli! I appreciate your reading the interview!

    And you’re right about working my butt off. I enjoy everything I do, but I often feel like I need an extra ten or so hours each day. 🙂

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Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, and in a way, that explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012”. The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Samhain Horror will also publish his third novel, The Darkest Lullaby, in April. Savage Species will be his fourth full-length work. Look for his fifth novel, a vampire western called Dust Devils, in early 2014. He has also written three novellas (The Clearing of Travis Coble, Old Order, and Witching Hour Theatre) and several short stories. His primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. You can learn more about Jonathan at www.jonathanjanz.com. You can also find him on Facebook, via @jonathanjanz on Twitter, or on his Goodreads and Amazon author pages.