Sandman Slim
James Stark was a promising magician when he got sent to hell 11 years ago. Now, after surviving all sorts of torment, he's back to kill the "friends" who betrayed him. This is a dark, angry book, but...
View ArticleThe Joy of Junk
Without realizing it, I'd learned what school and the straight literary world had been hinting at my whole life, that the imagination was bad and childish. Imagination was something all right for...
View ArticleWriting a Series; or, The Characters Who Just Won’t Die, Dammit
Devil Said Bang is the fourth Sandman Slim book. As I write this, I'm currently working on book five, Kill City Blues. When I started out, the last thing I thought I'd be writing was a series or...
View ArticleDeathbed Confessions
I write because I'm deeply afraid of a couple of things. My first fear is dying an amusing death. You know, the kind that ends up as filler in newspaper back pages. Someone falls asleep under a combine...
View ArticleCosmology 101
Before I started the Sandman Slim series I wrote Butcher Bird, a book that also told the story of a trip to Hell and a meeting with Lucifer. I started building a library of books on mythology,...
View ArticleI’m the Guinea Pig
I just tore my office apart. I bought a new filing cabinet and three new sets of bookshelves. In the past I've been a book hoarder, keeping every single research book I ever used, as well as novels I...
View ArticleLearn the Rules. There Are No Rules.
"Where do you get your ideas?" is still the question I get asked most as an author. The second-most-asked question is "How do you write a book?" The answer to both questions is simple: I don't know....
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Richard Kadrey
Describe your latest book. The Getaway God is the sixth book in the Sandman Slim series. In it, the very unholy nephilim, James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has made a few enemies. None, though, are as...
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