Author: Andrew Pyper

Okay, so I’ve got some news. Not necessarily earth-shattering, unless of course it’s the earth under the house in which I write this, which feels like it’s trembling, ever so slightly.

After thinking about it for some years, writing it over another year, then editing the bejesus out of it, followed by a long debate over its title…my new book is finished(ish)!!

The title? The Only Child. When’s it out? It will be published on June 1 in Canada and the U.S. by Simon & Schuster Canada and Simon & Schuster, respectively. It will come out with Orion in the U.K. a couple weeks later.

More soon on what the book is about and all that, but for now, yes, happy.

This is funny. I, along with a number of other authors, taped segments for a web series called “Make Me Read,” where the writers try to convince young comedians to read their book. Here’s my segment:

My amazing Brazilian publisher, DarkSide Books, is publishing their edition of The Damned (Os Condenados) in June and I have to say it looks like they’ve done another great job of it.  Here’s the posts to the book trailer, info page, and the author pic they’ve done (I personally like the way hell’s fire warms my cheek).

Os Condenados – Publisher’s Info Page

A while back I did a wide-ranging interview with the screenwriter and professor Amnon Buchbinder for his massive, collective online project about narrative called The Biology of Story.  The whole project is now up and available now, and you should check it out.  My page is here (at the link), but you can easily navigate to other topics, people, tips and approaches not only to novels and written stories but TV and filmmaking.

The Biology of Story

I participated in a documentary airing on Vision TV (and elsewhere) titled Hell: A Survivor’s Guide.

Here’s a clip:

Hell: A Survivor’s Guide

Came home from vacation to find these beauties!

(The paperback edition of The Damned is out in Canada and the U.S. on Feb. 9).

Finally going through the nest of stuff in my office’s cubbyhole and came across a photo of me at the desk where I wrote The Wildfire Season.

This was in the summer of 2004, in a 12×12 apartment (room? closet?) we rented in the Log Skyscraper (google it to see) in downtown Whitehorse, Yukon.  An amazing summer: paddled down the Yukon River, wrote a book, proposed marriage.  Best of my life, come to think of it.

I like lists.  Best Ofs and Most Oftens and Worst Evers.  They don’t necessarily bear great meaning, but they provoke conversation, and the creation of more lists.

The Demonologist made a list the other day, so naturally I thought I’d share the news (and perhaps provoke conversation).  The BuzzFeed Community voted on and created “23 Under-rated Horror Novels You Have to Read ASAP.”  Check it out and see what you think.

23 Underrated Horror Novels You Have to Read ASAP