Thanks, boys, for a helluva good time.
Blake
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This from a Horrorworld interview going live later this month
Q: There’s a lot of nervousness, excitement, and hand-wringing about the move toward electronic publishing. What’s your take — as a writer and as a reader — on this new digital age?
A: I love it and I’ve embraced it. I hate the piracy, but the leeches are always with us. I’ve put all titles from my backlist to which I still own e-rights up online as ebooks. As I write this I’ve just finished my contribution to a 4-way collaboration with Blake Crouch, Joe Konrath (as Jack Kilborn), and Jeff Strand. It’s a straight-to-ebook novel called Draculas, and we had a super-fun time writing it. If only all novels could be this easy and fast. 70k words in 5 weeks (plus 40k words of email). I’m glad to see I can still keep up with the younger guys. These are 3 excellent horror/thriller writers, turning in sharp, clean prose at an amazing rate. It’s real horror, lots of gore, tons of action, and a fair amount of humor. This begs to be filmed.
Paul
October 2, 2010
Even though these bonus features are about 92% e-mail fellatio, I’ll add one more slurp and say that this has indeed been a lot of fun to write.
Thanks to Joe for the idea, to Blake for taking on the hardest job, and to Paul for overall awesomeness.
But if we’re going to include behind-the-scenes e-mails for DRACULAS II, somebody needs to sleep with somebody else’s wife.
Jeff
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Joe wants to thank his wife Maria and son Talon for beta testing the book and yelling at him to make changes. He also thanks his co-authors for putting up with him, Carl Graves (cgdouble2@sbcglobal.net) for the cover art, and Rob Siders (Rob@52novels.com) for formatting this bad boy. Also, big props to the Amazon crew for their support and assistance: Alex Carr, Stephanie Derouin, Phil Finch, Terry Goodman, Victoria Griffith, Nader Kabbani, Jason Kuykendall, Brian Mitchell, Jeff Tollefson, and Sarah Tomashek.
Blake wants to thank his wife and kids for putting up with the six intense weeks during which this book was written (love you guys!), Chris Rapking for designing the amazing www.draculasthebook.com website, Jereoen ten Berge, Marcus Blakeston, Selena Kitt and Carmen Montgomery for their excellent proofreading, Suzanne Tyrpak for her tireless assistance on the marketing side of things, and of course, Joe, Jeff, and Paul, for a wild and amazing ride.
Jeff wants to thank his wife for letting him hang out with Joe again, even though he’s a bad influence, and Michael McBride for answering some crucial research questions about how to make a clown explode.
Paul wants to thank his co-authors for being so easy to work with and Jeff Bezos for making it all possible.
And finally, from all of us, a big thank you to everyone who helped spread the word and get this book off the ground, especially…
Gef Fox, Nenad Ristic, Steve Windwalker, Chris Blewitt, Marc Buhmann, Krist Rufty, KD James, Cherie Reich, Stephen Grogan, Dr.CPE, David Dodd, Gail Snyder, John McCarthy, Anthea Strezze, Douglas Dorow, Jason Otoski, Juli Monroe, A. Sadie Timm, Julie Smith, Christy Pinheiro-Silva, K.S. Elkins, Carolyn Lee, Paul McMurray, Traci Hohenstein, Steve Malley, Debbi Mack, James Reed, Missy Meyer, Gretchen Rix, Karly Kirkpatrick, Brian Spaeth, Roxanne McHenry, Kaoru Tanaka, Dennis Welch, Cynthia Briggs, Baboi Alin Lucian, Andrea Allison, Steve Lewis, LaDonna Bubak, Jessica Crooks, Greg Swanson, Robert Carraher, Aldo Calcagno, Brian H “The Chalkboard Dad,” Mary Stella, Tamera Martens, Jeroen ten Berge, HL Arledge, Jason Davis, Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott, Scott Marlowe, Stacy Krueger, Philip Hansen, Carl Obermeier, Steve Peterson, Tyler Kneisly, Sandra Gilbert, Ahmed Khalifa, Lamar Giles, LK Rigel, Misty Baker, Raven Corinn Carluk, David Villalva, James Reasoner, Frederick Altstadt, Anthony Grogan, Donnie Light, Kim Wright, Pauline Funa, Gerald Writer, Kipp Speicher, Jennifer Baker, Holly Barnes, Elizabeth White, Trish Gerstman, J.E. Taylor, Rob Cundall, John Smith, Joe Bishop, Daniel Barbier, Claudia Lefeve, Geoffrey Rabe, Ty Simmons, Mike Heppe, Daryl Sedore, Helen Letourneau, Rai Aren, Georgiann Hennelly, Debbie Gilliam, Rhonda, Brenda Sedore, Janene Irvine, John Hartness; Robert Cundall; Keith Gaston; Kyle W. Kerr; Mickey Reed, Katie Hardin, Eghe Precious, Steven Beltzer, Amanda Pickett, Karen Dyck, Lakisha Speltzer, Catherine Saxton, Dorlana Vann, Phoebe Conn, Matthew Dow Smith, Terri Dukes, Vicki K. Brown, Ilsa Bick, Karen McGrath, Tee Tate, Vannessa Grace, Yeva Wiest, Anthony Policastro, Shannhu, Joanie Raisovich, Tim Rich, E. Wylie, Judy Sizemore, Loretta Giacoletto, Sharon Anderson, Holly, Jaime Wasserman, Katie Hardin, Natasha Pixie, Melissa Zellmer, David Wisehart, Moses Siregar III, Heather Dudley, William Tombaugh, Kendall Gutierrez, Georgekutty Adappur, Barb Best, Bobbie Crawford-McCoy, Paula Phillips, Aaron Patterson, Mark Feggeler, Merrill Heath, Eileen Andrews, Cheryl Koch, Brian J. Hatcher, Christine Verstraete, Anthony S. Policastro, Colin Harvey, Christopher Payne, Deborah Smith, Elinor Estepa, Garrett Cook, Denise Lynn, Conrad Zero, Geoff Brown, CK Webb, Deborah Shlian, Gerald Rice, Debra Martin, Giovanni Tasco, Jess Gulbranson, Carson Buckingham, Graham Storrs, Jacqueline Hulse, Darcia Helle, Kristin Centorcelli, Karin Tillotson, Kate Jonez, Jim M. Munchel, Jamie DeBree, Ted Sturtz, Jim Gavin, Kona Gallagher, Kurt M. Criscione, Leslie Klinger, Jen Hilborne, Darryl Spong, Eileen C. Coleman, Lisa Nieland, Kimi Little, Jan D’Ambrosia, Malena Lott, Jim McLeod, Carla Rene, Nick Kelly, Rich Smith, Pat Bertram, Ruth Francisco, Tina Lonergan, Russell Brooks, Sarah Swann, Jon Spoelstra, Rick Hautala, Simon Wood, CJ West, Stacia Kelly, Sue Campbell, Sunny Bravin, Ed Parrott, KayAnna Kirby, Adrienne Crezo, A. Sadie Timm, Amy G. Vega, Rowena Cherry, Natalie Roberts, Tonia Mccrae, Tom Randklev, Willow Polson, Norm Cowie, Jason Davis, Kevin McLaughlin, Cole Drewes, Sean Wright, Sally Bosco, Kristopher Cowell, Helen Hanson, Bill Gagliani, Bella Street, Barbara Silkstone, Giovanni Gelati, Alex Wilhelm, Lillian Slusar, Nancy Slusar, Larry Zieminski, Nicole Wilde, Tanya, Linda Boulanger, Jeff Bryan, Joe Nassise, Rick Taubold, Judy Nichols, Tammy Souch, and Julie Achterhoff.
COMING IN 2011
DRACULAS 2
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