Tristan Vick
  • Books
  • Daughter of Wolves
  • Blog
  • Series
    • Chronicles of Jegra
    • Valandra
    • Bitten
    • Scarecrow & Lady Kingston
  • Design
  • Books
  • Daughter of Wolves
  • Blog
  • Series
    • Chronicles of Jegra
    • Valandra
    • Bitten
    • Scarecrow & Lady Kingston
  • Design

Writerly Things

The Official Blog of Author Tristan Vick

Micro Interview #2: Jonathan Maberry

5/6/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
I was lucky to snag a bit of Jonathan Maberry's time, even as he is one of the busiest and most prolific writers in the buiz. He also happens to be one of the nicest and most generous as well.

As if you didn't already know, Maberry is a NY Times Bestseller and 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner. He is the author of the popular Rot & Ruin YA zombie series as well as the every popular Joe Ledger thrillers. He's written for Marvel comics, Dark Horse comics, and IDW Publishing.

Please join me in this latest installment of micro interviews.

Q1: How many books did it take until you felt like you came into your own as a writer? 
 
JONATHAN MABERRY: That’s actually a more complex question than you might think because I’ve written so many different kinds of books. When I was writing college textbooks back in the 1990s, I got found my groove with ESM: EFFECTIVE SURVIVAL METHODS, a women’s self-defense textbook that was used in dozens of colleges. In 2000 I wrote a big, sprawling nonfiction book about supernatural predators in folklore and world myth called, THE VAMPIRE SLAYERS’ FIELD GUIDE TO THE UNDEAD; but the mojo was slightly off because it was the only thing I’d ever written under a pen name (Shane MacDougall…long story). As for fiction, I think I really came into my own with my third novel, BAD MOON RISING, the final book in the Pine Deep Trilogy. I rocked that one.
 
Q2: Can you share with us one catchy phrase from a WIP or a recent release? 
 
JONATHAN MABERRY: This is a line from KILL SWITCH, my latest ‘Joe Ledger’ thriller: When giant violent albino penguins are the least extraordinary issue of the day, then your day has slipped a gear.  
 
Q3: What's a writing tip you'd give an aspiring writer that you had to learn on your own the hard way that nobody had told you about early on but you wish they would have?
 
JONATHAN MABERRY: Learn both the craft of writing and the business of publishing. Know each deeply, be good at both. That’s the way you’ll be able to turn a hobby or a passion into a lifestyle. I can look back at my career trajectory and see that the point in my life where I learned –really learned—how publishing works, was when my career went from neutral to pedal-to-the-metal fast lane. So, yeah…do that.
 
For more info regarding Jonathan Maberry and his work, please check out his official author website and blog at: www.jonathanmaberry.com 

If you'd like to subscribe to the free Maberry newsletter click on the link: 
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com/contact.cfm 


You can also find Jonathan Maberry on social media at: 

www.facebook.com/jonathanmaberry  

www.twitter.com/jonathanmaberry


http://www.imdb.me/jonathanmaberry

​

Also by Jonathan Maberry

THE NIGHTSIDERS Bk 1: THE ORPHAN ARMY - Simon & Schuster 
ROT & RUIN series- Simon & Schuster
THE JOE LEDGER THRILLERS-  now in development by Lone Tree Entertainment and Vintage Picture Company!
BAD BLOOD -from Dark Horse Comics
X-FILES: a series of all-new anthologies  from IDW Publishing
V-WARS: IDW -anthology and comics; now in development for TV

GHOSTWALKERS -A Deadlands novel from TOR

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Tristan Vick

    By day I am an educator and a cultural ambassador. By night I entertain notions of being a literary master. In reality I am just a family man and ordinary guy who works hard and loves writing just about as much as I love my family. Just about.


    AVAILABLE NOW

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture

    Picture

    NEWSLETTER
    SUBSCRIBE


    Categories

    All

    Archives

    September 2021
    August 2021
    March 2021
    November 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    January 2020
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    September 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013

    RSS Feed

    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.