The Full Spectra

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Last month, I got a surprise request from my editor. No, she didn’t ask me to write the next Star Wars novel (though if you’re reading this, Juliet, I woudn’t mind!). But she did want to know if I would interview one of my fellow Spectra authors for November’s issue of the Spectra Pulse, my publisher’s newsletter. Feeling my old journalistic oats, I heartily agreed.

The subject of my interview, Tamara Siler Jones (of the esteemed Ghosts in the Snow and Threads of Malice) also interviewed yours truly–kind of a double-shot of authorbabble, in which we spilled our deepest, darkest secrets. Okay, maybe not our darkest secrets–but we did get to talk about our work, our lives, and why we like to write nasty, violent stuff in the dead of night.

If you’d like to read the full interview, click here. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

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  1. Alain B  October 22, 2005

    Hey Marc!

    I read your interview with Tamara Siler Jones and found it very interesting. It’s always fun when you can get to know the people who write the books you read a little better…

    …and you’ll now be able to say there are no drawbacks to having fans, since I’ve bought you a beer…actually make that 4. The only drawback to that is I wasn’t able to do it in person. I guess we can always work on that…

    For all of you out there, reading this in Internet land, Marc is a real beer aficionado, and particularly enjoys micro-brewed and imported brands, as I’ve had the opportunity to find out since we started exchanging emails a few months ago…along with being a great storyteller…and I’m sad to say he answers the notes I drop him much faster than I’ll reply to his most of the time…although I don’t know how long that will last after all of you read this…

    So don’t be shy and drop him a line or two when you have chance. And obviously, it will be great for you to share your experiences with Marc with his other fans, like myself, by adding to his blog. One of these days, we might even have a chance to meet at the annual Hammerjack convention ;-)).

    Until then, I can’t wait to read the stories about your experiences with Marc here…or anything else of interest you have to save about life and Hammerjack…and I’m sure he feels the same.

    Alain B
    Montreal, Canada

    P.S. If any of you are reading this in the Montreal area, I’d really like to know if there is some place I can find a brand called Scaldis Noel up here. It’s a Belgian beer brewed especially for the Holiday season, from what I was able to learn online, and comes Highly recommended by Marc.

  2. Nick Gray  October 30, 2005

    Marc,
    I just finished reading Hammerjack – quite a trip! It’s every bit as good as Gibson or Stephenson when they wrote their seminal cyber-culture pieces (Neuromancer and Snowcrash, titles provided for others who may read this). A great story, and so much better than most first-published works (or, for that matter, published titles by “established” authors). You have amazing talent, and I hope you contine to pursue it agressively.

    The only other authors I’ve read lately who held my attention this raptly were Richard Morgan and Alastair Reynolds (I’ve also developed a hometown fondness for Corey Doctorow, though I may be biased).

    Amazing work! You’re now on my permanant list of “buy as soon as seen” authors. I’m looking forward to your next novel!

    Good luck, and good fortune.

    Nick Gray

  3. Shy Writer  November 4, 2005

    I just finished HAMMERJACK as well. My comments echo Nick Gray’s, especially the Gibson reference but are written in the GETTING CLOSER thread by Steve Schneider.

    Shy,
    (Steve)