CONGRATULATIONS to the following ten winners of the Cold War draw. The winners were drawn completely at random from a number generator and have bagged a signed copy of Cold War, an ice cream bar stress reliever, and a personalized note from the author revealing something dark and disturbing about his past that he's never revealed to anyone. Rachel Miller Corrina Rhcp Morse John Cope Shawn Wayne Langhans Margaret Hamnett Tammy Fotinos Ben Fitts Gaz McGuffman John Lundberg Tyler Kenneth Spragg AND, because John is such a generous and loving and caring and wholesome (he totally doesn't have me at ..read more

Up next in our INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHOR SERIES is William Higgs III! William has written one of the bizarrest bizarro tales we've had the pleasure of publishing. SCANLON'S OVERPASS will be out later this year. Q: What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? A: I’ve always loved language. I started reading and writing pretty early on as a kid and never really stopped. As I got older, I gravitated to stuff like Burroughs, Vonnegut, and Pynchon, and a lot of my early experiments in writing came out of that. However, I didn’t get serious about writing until I read Raymond Chandle ..read more

#7 in our Interview With an Author series is bizarro veteran, Mark Zirbel! Mark's story, SHITHOLE USA released last November and has been causing (brown) waves ever since! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? I’ve always been writing! I wrote chapter books in grade school that my mom would type up and staple together for me likes zines. In high school, I wrote articles and drew cartoons for the school paper. In college, I got interested in screenplays. Post-college, I started writing short stories, which eventually led to my Wonderland Award-nominated collection, CYBE ..read more

#6 In our INTERVIEW WITH AN AUTHOR series is Dustin Reade! Now, it's no secret that we're huge Reade readers, so here's a little more Reade to read! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? I was a weird kid, and my interests skewed heavily in a darker direction than my friends, so I followed most of my interests alone. Also, I was a big reader, so the extra time to myself was spent reading whatever I could find in the local library that seemed left of center. Nonfiction books on vampires and monsters. Cryptids and paranormal stuff. Lots of horror films. Early circus side ..read more

#5 In our Interview with an Author series is Leo X. Robertson, talented filmmaker and author of WEIRD FAUNA OF THE MULTIVERSE and the upcoming JESUS OF SCUMBURG. Check it out! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? I’m a process engineer by day, so that and writing go hand in hand of course I started writing after losing my mum, because I needed some sort of outlet, and she as an English teacher loved books, so it seemed fitting. She also would have read everything of mine, so it’s best that she can’t! What’s are your top three books? Bizarro, or otherwise. We Need t ..read more

Gregory L. Norris is first up in our new series - Interview with an Author. Enjoy! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? Gregory: I grew up on a healthy diet of creature double features and classic SF TV. When I was ten, sitting in the living room of the enchanted cottage where I lived the first thirteen years of my life, I was captivated by Gerry Anderson’s Space:1999 and picked up my pen the very next day. I wrote off and on in my early teens—every one of those stories, to this day, are archived in my filing cabinets. But the summer I turned fifteen, a series of wonder ..read more

#2 In our Interview with an Author series is Bizarro superstar, Kevin Shamel! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? My background usually has trees in it. Not lately, being stuck in the fucking desert, but usually. I’ve always written. I always wanted to write books. I considered it a dream fulfilled just to have one book published. What are your top three books? Bizarro, or otherwise. This is too loaded a question, really. I can’t remember, and three is too few. I love obscure bizarro books most people haven’t read and heaps that others also love. I like a lot of esote ..read more

#3 In our Interview with an Author series is Kevin Stadt, author of the upcoming WARPED BROOD. Check it out! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? *It's the old cliché…as a kid I always had my nose in a book. Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, stuff like that. I think I wanted to write almost as long as I can remember. I dabbled with it a little in college, but then after I finished school I decided to go for it. And I've been super lucky, because my job gives me four (!) months of vacation a year—so there's plenty of time to write. What’s are your top three boo ..read more

#4 In our Interview with an Author series is Carl Fuerst, author of the recently released THE FALLING CRYSTAL PALACE. Check it out! What’s your background, what compelled you to start writing? I grew up a pretty normal kid in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. My dad worked for the railroad; my mom worked at a few places, mostly a grocery store. I always felt drawn to storytelling, and I’m not sure why, but I bet it didn’t hurt that I spent a lot of time alone in a childhood home that was filled with books. I’ve always been attracted to the weird and eerie, and I like how reading and writing ..read more