Kurt DinanFeb 3, 20152 minPiecemeal Manifesto: The IntroductionSelling THE WATER TOWER 5 led to a weird sort of crisis of conscience for me. I was excited to get started on the next novel, ready to w...
Kurt DinanDec 9, 20143 minThe Water Tower 5 Sold!Yes, it finally happened. Yesterday I got word from Super Agent Kerry Sparks that she had finalized a deal with Sourcebooks to publish m...
Kurt DinanAug 26, 20144 minI Signed with an Agent Today! (Or a Slush Pile Success Story.)So, after failing to get a literary agent for my first novel, Lucky Town, today I signed with Kerry Sparks of LGR (Levine, Greenburg, Ros...
Kurt DinanMar 7, 20141 minOur Greatest Living Writing Rock Star? That’s easy.In preparing for a class I’m teaching this trimester – Best Sellers – I re-ran across this fantastic video of Neil Gaiman espousing the i...
Kurt DinanFeb 10, 20143 minWhere I’ve Been, What I’ve Been DoingSo it looks like it’s been six months since I’ve written here. I’ll bring everyone up to date: I just finished my novel, The Water Tower...
Kurt DinanAug 9, 201311 minA Conversation with Ian RogersIs Ian Rogers the nicest guy in horror? Probably. I don’t know anyone who has anything bad to say about him, and to be honest, I don’t ...
Kurt DinanJun 5, 20138 minA Conversation with John MantoothJohn Mantooth is not only one of my best friends, he’s also easily one of the best writers I know. The dude’s got voice, and that’s – wh...
Kurt DinanOct 17, 201211 minA Conversation with Paul TremblayWhen I first started writing seven (or so) years ago, a lot was made of finding a mentor. I understood the idea – having someone out the...
Kurt DinanOct 8, 20129 minA Conversation with Sam W. AndersonLike Erik Williams, who I interviewed a month or so back, I met Sam W. Anderson in Baltimore a handful of years ago. He’s sort of like m...
Kurt DinanSep 20, 20125 minHow Searching for a Literary Agent Has Made Me a Headcase – Part IISo after all of the rejections, here’s what happened: I felt like a failure. How could I not? I spent four years on the novel, fully bel...
Kurt DinanSep 19, 20124 minHow Searching for a Literary Agent has Made Me a Headcase – Part II have a lot on my mind (for once) and need vomit it all out. I’m waaaay out of sorts writing-wise for various reasons, and have decided...
Kurt DinanSep 17, 20129 minA Conversation with Erik WilliamsI first met Erik Williams back in – hmmmm – 2002 (?) in Baltimore at a writer’s workshop. I was new to writing then, showing up at a wor...
Kurt DinanMay 31, 20127 minA Conversation with Fred VenturiniI met Fred Venturini at the World Horror Con in Austin, Texas back in 2011. He was talking with Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones, ...
Kurt DinanMay 12, 20129 minA Conversation with Daryl GregoryDaryl Gregory is the author of three (fantastic) novels, a collection of short stories, and a couple of comic series. I suppose his nove...
Kurt DinanMay 7, 20122 minWhere I AmWriting Update: So, about a month and a half ago I finished the sixth (and hopefully final) draft of Lucky Town, my 74K YA novel about a ...
Kurt DinanOct 31, 20116 minThe Colour Out of Glitter: The Rise and Fall and Rise of CanadianHorror’s First Boy Band
Kurt DinanSep 13, 20113 minA Few ReviewsBeen away awhile. I suck at this blogging thing. In better news though, the (novel) writing is going well, so there’s that. Some Review...