HORROR AUTHOR INTERVIEW: MJ GARDNER
30/11/2016
 MJ Gardner is a web developer by day, who lays in bed at night and wonders, what if....? The result is fantasy, horror and science fiction stories that are mostly (but not all) dark.
MJ currently lives in Windsor, ON, Canada with her partner of 14 years, two cats, and her son. "Your garden variety noir anti-hero will quite often have a murky and troubled past, but I wanted to give my protagonist something a little further afield to allow the curtain to rise from noir to dark fantasy"  Following the release of ‘The Rib From Which I Remake The World’ (reviewed by us over here) , Ed kindly agreed to talk to us about the writing of this extraordinary novel.
Ed Kurtz is the author of The Rib From Which I remake the World, Nausea, Angels of The Abyss, The Forty-Two, and A Wind of Knives, as well as numerous short stories. His work has appeared in Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Beat to a Pulp, Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, and several anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories 2014. Ed resides in Minnesota. Visit Ed Kurtz online at edkurtzbooks.com.  Benjamin Wilkins worked in the film and television industry in Los Angeles for over a decade and even managed to write, direct and produce a little no-budget indie feature film entitled Pretty Dead hailed by Dread Central as “The movie Paranormal Activity should have been: Intelligent, unique and completely enthralling.”
Then he had a kid and more or less turned his back on the Hollywood scene. He now works with the David Lynch MFA Film Program at the Maharishi University of Management and writes in Fairfield, Iowa with his wife, son and their two pugs. Chronicles from the Long Apocalypse: Transcendence is his first published novel. by Paul Heath  Nicolas, you co-wrote the script and came up with the original idea. I just wanted to chat about the origins of The Neon Demon? NWR: I wanted to make a film about beauty. So I thought what if I made it into a teenage horror film. But then I wanted to do it as a comedy as well and add a lot of camp, because I love camp and vulgarity. Then it also had to have a little bit of science fiction and a bit of melodrama. How does it all start for you? There quite a vivid image right at the beginning of the film of Elle Fanning's character on a couch with her throat cut and her eyes wide open - which really sticks in your memory.... |
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