Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger known as "The Velvet"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
agent bullied clutch market money needs program trying
You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.
covering five full hundred novels obviously pages people six three weaving written
I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.
change ingrained psyche
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
almost humor
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
broke haunted people
People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.
default lock people prefer spacecraft time
Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
creature largely longer romantic scary tragic vampires
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
charting everybody supposed
You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?
highly recommend
I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group.
facts good truth
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
book car lots louis mostly talking uncle westerns
My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers.