Anything that you might associate with Victoriana and steampunk? Those are my primary interests. I also love anything that has to do with the creepy suburban 1970's - think "The Ice Storm" or "The Virgin Suicides". :) I also love Greco-Roman and Near Eastern history and archaeology, Celtic history and mythology (I AM Celtic - Welsh, Irish and Scottish - so it's not some bullshit faux-New Age interest), and the history of the discovery and colonization of the Pacific Northwest. My parents were adopted into the local Tlingit tribe while they lived in Ketchikan, Alaska during the 1950's, so I grew up knowing about Raven and Wolf before the baby Jesus - I'm interested in the tribes of Alaska and upper British Columbia, the Salishan nation (lower BC and the PNW), and other tribes of the West Coast. I also love Nikola Tesla, anything Joss Whedonesque, and: I have a thing for cowboys. Seriously, if you don't love cowboys, you're probably a little dead in your heart. And other places....
Music
My taste in music is a bit behind the current generation - but I'm ancient, so that's to be expected. :) I listen to a lot of dance music while I'm writing: trance, drum and bass, Ministry of Sound, Paul Oakenfold, Hed Kandi, D.J. Spooky, VNV Nation, Armin van Buuren are favorites to write to. I also love jazz and blues: Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughn, John Coltraine, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker. I have a huge selection of classical music and movie soundtrack CD's - too numerous to mention. And I listen to a lot of 70's shit, and a lot of late 70's-early 80's punk and New Wave.
Movies
I prefer horror, sf, fantasy, anime, and what people might call "weird" movies. I watch hundreds of movies every year, but there are only a few that I love so much that I'd watch them until my eyes fell out. It's an eclectic list, to say the least: The 400 Blows, M, Ben Hur, Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Splendor, Alien, Dead Ringers, Star Wars, Eraserhead, Richard III, Rosemary's Baby, The Longest Day, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Paris Texas, Institute Benjamenta, Dead Ringers, Dressed to Kill, Until the End of the World, Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, The Lord of the Rings, Legend, Dune, Psycho, Rear Window, Times Square, Angel Heart, Blade Runner. And so help me God, there's a special place in my heart for Dodgeball. I'm so sorry....
Television
I tend to buy DVD sets rather than watch shows on TV (I can't stand commercials). A few favorites: The Outer Limits TOS, The Avengers (Emma Peel years), Star Trek TOS, Kolchak TOS, The X-Files, Millennium, BtVS, Angel, Law & Order, 24, Lost, Carnivale, Rome, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Sealab 2021, Batman: Beyond, The Office, Weeds, Aeon Flux, The L Word, Firefly, Ultraviolet, MI5, the Prime Suspect series, I Claudius, Battlestar Galactica (new version), Babylon 5, The Jon Stewart Show, Chapelle Show, The Colbert Report. I also watch a lot of anime series.
Books
I'll list authors: China Miéville, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Graham Joyce, H.P. Lovecraft, Holly Black, Tad Williams, Dan Simmons, M.T. Anderson, Joyce Carol Oates, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Samuel R. Delany, Michael Swanwick, Dawn Powell, Kelly Link, Laird Barron, Justine Larbalestier, Emile Zola, Anaïs Nin, Thomas Ligotti, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Alfred Bester, Neal Stephenson, Cherie Priest, Chester Himes, Elizabeth Bear, Catherine M. Valente, Stephen King, Simon Logan, Jon Krakauer, Camille Paglia, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine.
About me: By day, I'm a mild-mannered secretary. At night, I write horror, dark fantasy and erotica, with a bit of Lovecraft mythos and steampunk thrown in. I write about young girls, long-horned demons, the suburban Pacific Northwest in the 1970's, Nikola Tesla, giant biomechanical insects, and lots of consensual human-on-creature sex. No, you haven't heard of me - my so-called "career" is in its infancy. However, I do have a few things that have and will be published:
"The Unattainable": a short story in Cowboy Lover: Erotic Stories of the Wild West, Thunder's Mouth Press. "The Unattainable" will be reprinted in Maxim Jakubowski's Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 8, coming out in 2009.
"Take Your Daughters to Work": a dark fantasy/Mythos story in Subterranean #6, 2007. "Daughters" will be reprinted at Apex Online later this year.
"Brimstone Orange": a flash fiction short published in ChiZine, April 2005 issue. "Brimstone Orange" has also been podcast on PseudoPod.
I have a writing blog located at my website, and my personal blogging is done over at my livejournal. I'm a graduate of Clarion 2006. I was also in a little vampire movie called Strange Things Happen at Sundown - that capped off 20 years of acting (mostly Shakespeare/classical) before I turned to writing.
Who I'd like to meet: I don't plan on "meeting" people here - this is for networking with professional writers, editors, publishers, and book distributors. I also have a love of graphic art, fine art, and music, so I'll probably friend a number of artists here as well.
Do NOT contact me if you're looking for a girlfriend or looking for casual sex. I'm not going to be friending any more bands or musicians, either - sorry, but that's just how it is. If you email or PM me, and I don't know who you are, assume that your message has been deleted unread.
Just over two weeks away is the Dances of Vice Festival II in New York, from August 22-24, 2008! Featuring Voltaire and his skeletal orchestra, The Deadfly Ensemble, Fern Knight, Desert Sin, live harpsichord and Baroque opera, Steampunk - Rococo - Victorian - 1920-30s fashion shows, art, magic, vendors, and more!
Tickets are now available through the festival website. Advance ticket discounts end soon!
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Ghost Road Blues just won the Stoker Award for “First Novel”. Check it out!
JONATHAN MABERRY
Bram Stoker Award-winning author of GHOST ROAD BLUES (Pinnacle Books)
Look for the sequel, DEAD MAN’S SONG, available July 3 everywhere.
Author website: www.jonathanmaberry.com
Email: info@jonathanmaberry.com
Also available: Vampire Universe (Citadel Press nonfiction; available now) and The Cryptopedia (an occult/paranormal dictionary available August, 2007)
Hey, thanks for being a friend to the anthology. And because you're a friend, I'll do my best to keep the mutants and marauders off your back while you're in the ruins searching for the last remaining cans of food.
What's the anthology? Glad you asked:
Wastelands
edited by John Joseph Adams
Night Shade Books, Summer 2007
Featuring really, really good post-apocalyptic stories from: George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Neal Barrett, Jr., James Van Pelt, Cory Doctorow, John Langan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Carol Emshwiller, Dale Bailey, Richard Kadrey, M. Rickert, Catherine Wells, Jack McDevitt, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, David Grigg, Tobias S. Buckell, Jerry Oltion, and more!
