Happy New Year to you all!
You find me (on my daughter's 11th birthday) nursing a post-Christmas bout of flu. I have a hectic January ahead of me, with The Deluge to finish and deliver by the end of the month, and a short story to write for a bumper volume of Pete Crowther's PostScripts magazine, that is to be launched at the World Horror Convention in Toronto in March.
Night Visions 12 is now available from Subterranean Press (check out the cover and details on my Books page), and has been picking up some great reviews. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, and very kindly said about my three stories: "Mark Morris's contributions stand out in the volume, particularly 'The Story of April and Her Colours', narrated with eerie sweetness by the autistic protagonist, and the nightmarish 'What Nature Abhors', about one man's descent into a very personal hell."
Yep, that'll do me.
Following on from my last column, the Writers' Weekend in Wales at the beginning of December was fantastic, both in terms of fun and productivity. My very good chum Tim Lebbon and I thrashed out the basic plot for our proposed screenplay whilst sharing a bottle of Australian red in the kitchen on the Sunday night.
Why the kitchen? Well, it was my turn to cook, so as I chopped onions and chillies and the like in preparation for my Thai chicken curry, Tim scribbled down the thoughts and suggestions spewing at a rapid rate out of both our heads. Within an hour or so we had the basic plot fleshed out, since when we have been chucking notes back and forth between Yorkshire and Wales, refining and adding to our initial ideas. We're both excited about what we've come up with so far, and provided we get the screenplay right, I think it'll make a terrific - and very scary - movie.
Oh, and the curry wasn't bad either.
Okay, recent purchases include:
On CD, 'The Boatman's Call' by the very wonderful Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (£4.99 in the Borders sale), and on DVD, 'United 93' (which I missed at the cinema) and the series one, part one box set of the flawed but still hugely enjoyable Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood.
Your thoughts and comments on anything I've talked about here, or this website, or just horror or writing in general will always be welcomed and much appreciated, by the way. In fact, the first person who drops me a line via the site will get a free signed copy of The Immaculate.
Right, I'm now off to blow my nose and make myself a Lemsip...
Night Visions 12 is now available from Subterranean Press (check out the cover and details on my Books page), and has been picking up some great reviews. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, and very kindly said about my three stories: "Mark Morris's contributions stand out in the volume, particularly 'The Story of April and Her Colours', narrated with eerie sweetness by the autistic protagonist, and the nightmarish 'What Nature Abhors', about one man's descent into a very personal hell."
Yep, that'll do me.
Following on from my last column, the Writers' Weekend in Wales at the beginning of December was fantastic, both in terms of fun and productivity. My very good chum Tim Lebbon and I thrashed out the basic plot for our proposed screenplay whilst sharing a bottle of Australian red in the kitchen on the Sunday night.
Why the kitchen? Well, it was my turn to cook, so as I chopped onions and chillies and the like in preparation for my Thai chicken curry, Tim scribbled down the thoughts and suggestions spewing at a rapid rate out of both our heads. Within an hour or so we had the basic plot fleshed out, since when we have been chucking notes back and forth between Yorkshire and Wales, refining and adding to our initial ideas. We're both excited about what we've come up with so far, and provided we get the screenplay right, I think it'll make a terrific - and very scary - movie.
Oh, and the curry wasn't bad either.
Okay, recent purchases include:
On CD, 'The Boatman's Call' by the very wonderful Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (£4.99 in the Borders sale), and on DVD, 'United 93' (which I missed at the cinema) and the series one, part one box set of the flawed but still hugely enjoyable Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood.
Your thoughts and comments on anything I've talked about here, or this website, or just horror or writing in general will always be welcomed and much appreciated, by the way. In fact, the first person who drops me a line via the site will get a free signed copy of The Immaculate.
Right, I'm now off to blow my nose and make myself a Lemsip...
2 Comments:
Hi Mark, let me be the first to say 'hello', unless some bastard beats me to it by a few seconds. Good to see your website up and running, as a writer I've enjoyed for many many years now it's nice to see what you're currently up to. Hope the cold gets better soon, all the best to yourself and the family - Joseph Freeman, razorgang.com/joey
Hehehe.... you must have a job lot of them to give away, Marky!! And I'm going to hold you to signing the one you gave me the other week... :)
Mark Michalowskix
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