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Feb.15.2013
There are a few moments in a writer's life that stand out as landmarks. Holding that first published book in your hands is one of them. The first check is nice, too. Then as each successive book is published, getting it and turning it around, looking at the binding, examining the cover--these...
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Feb.01.2013
Today's February 1. My new supernatural thriller, Season of the Wolf, debuts this month.
I'd really like people to know about this book, since it's my first novel with publisher DarkFuse and something I've wanted to write for a decade. Plus, it's my fiftieth book, which seems like a reason to...
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Jan.27.2013
There's one month to go before the February 26 debut of my new supernatural thriller Season of the Wolf.
Early reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. TT Zuma at Horror World.org started his review with this: "This might be the most ambitious novel Jeff Mariotte has ever written. ...
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Jan.05.2013
There are a couple of new interviews with me up on the interwebs: not exclusively about the novels I'm releasing this spring (Season of the Wolf, River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, and Cold Black Hearts, all from DarkFuse, and Star Trek: The Folded World from Pocket Books, if you're keeping...
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Dec.09.2012
There are many things a working writer has to do that have nothing to do with writing.
Remembering to come over to Red Room to blog once in a while, for instance. Marketing/promotion are very much a part of the writing profession these days, more so than ever before, and those of us who neglect it...
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Dec.24.2011
I'm primarily known (where I'm known at all) as a novelist and as a comic book/graphic novel writer. I haven't published a whole lot of short fiction, partly because I haven't pursued that area, and partly because when I do get story ideas, they tend to be big, sprawling ones. Novels, in other...
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Sep.15.2011
This week, Red Room (or is it Redrum?) has suggested that we blog about vampires. When I read the invitation, I was conflicted. I have written and collaborated on hundreds of thousands of words about vampires: 11 novels based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off series Angel (including a Buffy/...
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Sep.11.2011
When terrorists attacked us on 9/11, I was in the middle of writing the novel that would become The Slab. It was a horror/suspense novel, full of violent acts and human beings in mortal danger. Contrary to my standard practice and constant advice, I was writing it without an outline, making...
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Aug.10.2011
A quick post to point to a longer post: I wrote a guest post for Kindle bestseller Scott Nicholson's blog, all about my somewhat belated entry into the e-book world. You can find it here.
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Aug.05.2011
I'm not much known as a short story writer. I'm known--if at all--as a novelist and/or a writer of comics. With good reason; the number of published short stories I've written can be counted on three or four hands. The first money I ever made from writing came from a short story, when I was in...
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Jul.04.2011
When I wrote my horror novel The Slab, it was after years of visiting the real-life area of California's Imperial Valley where the novel takes place. During those trips to one of America's most bizarre, sun-blasted landscapes, strange things happened--strange things that eventually made me sit...
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Jul.02.2011
Okay, I've been slow to embrace the e-book.
Since 1980, I haven't had a job that hasn't revolved around books--printed books--and publishing and writing and words. I've worked in just about every aspect of those fields, and I'm admittedly biased toward books printed on paper.
But the world is...
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Jun.18.2011
Back in 1966 and 1967, Brian Wilson was recording tracks for the legendary, never-released Beach Boys album SMiLE. Part of the reason it was never released was that Brian was by then deep into the madness that would disrupt his life and career--madness that seems inextricably linked to his...
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Jun.10.2011
Back in 2001, I was writing a horror novel set around Slab City and the Salton Sea in California’s Imperial Valley. To be called The Slab, the book would deal with the horror of Alzheimer’s disease, and the terrible things that human beings do to one another, in addition to the supernatural...
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May.16.2010
One of the real delights of writing tie-in fiction is being able to add one's own little touches to the overall quilt of stories that exist about beloved fictional characters. During my career, I've been invited to write about a wide spectrum of the characters I grew up loving, including...
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About Jeffrey
Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the award-winning writer of more than thirty novels, including supernatural thrillers River Runs Red, Missing White Girl, the teen horror quartet Witch Season, horror epic The Slab, and many more. In addition, he writes comic books (...
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Nuclear Information Resource Service, Natural Resources Defense Council, Move-On.org,