{"id":1022,"date":"2013-11-22T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2013-11-22T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T16:06:40","slug":"cars-cards-carbines-author-spotlight-nick-mamatas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/22\/cars-cards-carbines-author-spotlight-nick-mamatas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars, Cards & Carbines Author Spotlight – Nick Mamatas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EXIF_JPEG_T422\"<\/a> Nick Mamatas<\/b> is the author of several novels, including the recent Love is the Law<\/i> and The Last Weekend<\/i>. His short fiction has appeared in slicks such as the men’s magazine Razor <\/i>and the music magazine Spex<\/i>, in leading SF publications including Asimov’s Science Fiction<\/i> and Tor.com<\/a>, and in the 2013 volume of Best American Mystery Stories<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I first met Nick at one of the big conventions, World Fantasy I believe, and I was already familiar with his work from horror fiction podcast Pseudopod<\/em>. His book Starve Better<\/em>\"campaign<\/a><\/strong> has some good advice for writers chasing the freelance life, and his first novel Move Under Ground,<\/em> <\/em>published in 2006, was an excellent Lovecraftian tale. We are excited to have Nick with us on this project.<\/p>\n

TH: What writers are some of your biggest influences?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: JD Salinger (I’ve finally started admitting this, not even having realized it until it was pointed out to me), Harlan Ellison, Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut…<\/p>\n

TH: What are some of your guilty pleasures?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: I don’t feel guilty about pleasure, really.<\/p>\n

TH: What has been your favorite project to date and why? What was so satisfying and exciting about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: It’s always the last thing I’ve done that’s my favorite, until it turns sour from familiarity and I have to move on to something else. So my just-released novel LOVE IS THE LAW, which is almost a proper noir crime novel (with only a dash of hypothetical supernaturalism), is my current favorite.<\/p>\n

TH: What are you working on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: A crime novel about Greek fascists in New York.<\/p>\n

TH: What attracted you to the Cars, Cards & Carbines anthology project?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: Seventeen days ago, my wife had a child. So, a. diaper money. And b. the possibility of writing a crime story about the three C’s in the title. There are very few diaper-money-paying outlets for short crime fiction, so I jump on any opportunity to get one in!<\/p>\n

TH: What genre or mash-up of story are you most likely to contribute to the anthology? Do you have a story already in mind? <\/strong><\/p>\n

NM: I have no idea, but someone playing Go Fish is going to get a bullet in the head.<\/p>\n

Please support our Kickstarter project.<\/a> Without the support of people like you, yes, you, dear Reader, this project will not happen. If you can’t back it, you can help by spreading the word. Thank you.<\/p>\n

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