Deal Sharing Aunt: Doyle After Death by John Shirley Giveaway and Interview

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Doyle After Death by John Shirley Giveaway and Interview

Title: Doyle After Death

Author: John Shirley

Genre: Fiction/Mystery/Detective

Publication Date: October 22, 2013

Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins

Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.

Synopsis

From award-winning author John Shirley comes an inventive whodunit featuring the master of mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
When Nicholas Fogg, an unsuccessful private investigator, dies on the job, he learns that the afterlife is not what he expected. Disappointed—but not too surprised—to find himself in the very dead town of Garden Rest, he befriends the famous Arthur Conan Doyle to crack a case from beyond the grave and solve the ultimate riddle: Is it possible to be murdered if you are already dead?

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About the Author

John Shirley is the author of numerous books and many, many short stories. His novels include Bleak History, Crawlers, Demons, In Darkness Waiting, and seminal cyberpunk works City Come A-Walkin', and the A Song Called Youth trilogy of Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. His collections include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-winning Black Butterflies, Living Shadows: Stories: New & Pre-owned, and In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley. He also writes for screen (The Crow) and television. As a musicianShirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others.

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Interview with the Author:

Interview Questions

1. How long on average does it take you to write a book?

There’s no average, each project is different. Some are relatively rapid. It took quite a while to write Doyle after Death because I had to figure out how to approach so unique a setting... and how that setting worked, in terms of internal logic.

2. What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book?

Making Doyle After Death’s setting a place that seemed palpable, solid, real, while at the same time making sure the reader understood it as an afterlife world. It has its own rules, and those had to be established. I’ve just begun to create it, really...

3. Do you get writer's block? What do you do to get out of it?

I just make myself write without any expectations—that is, whatever comes to mind. At first! Because I can always delete later. So sometimes I have to trick myself into the narrative state of mind, that way. I also have to be my own cheerleader. “Dammit, you can do this, you’re good!” Believing in yourself is key—but you also have to be able to accept criticism and edits.

4. Using DOYLE as an acronym, name 5 things that describe yourself. Example D=Daring etc.

If I must. Determined Objective Yin/Yang Lepidoptera Evolving

5. Do you listen to music when you write? What do you listen to?

Yes. Mostly rocknroll that’s not too lyric-oriented (or, for example, Rammstein which is in German), which creates mood and energy, everything from certain Jimi Hendrix to Blue Oyster Cult to Rolling Stones to the Stooges. But I am also capable of listening to John Coltrane or Eric Dolphy or Stravinsky or Beethoven while writing. It kind of depends on *what* I’m writing. Every text has an implied musical resonance...