My AMA is now active on WeirdLit reddit… here:
I’ll keep answering questions until the questions stop. Hope to see you!
A Collection of Armageddon House Links
As I get ready to start the Reddit Weird Lit AMA soon, I thought it might be useful to assemble a page of links relevant to the book.
PLACES TO ORDER THE BOOK:
Direct from Undertow (paperback)
Barnes & Noble paperback
Amazon paperback
Amazon Kindle Unlimited ebook
Bookshop.org paperback
Powells.com paperback
LISTING ON GOODREADS:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53287687-armageddon-house
I’ll start compiling links to reviews and interviews soon. Hope to see you over on Reddit… Happy release day to Armageddon House!
Armageddon Now
Today’s the day, Armageddon House release day!
This may be a strange time to release a book about people confined together, going slightly crazy. But these are the times we’ve got, like it or not.
Today I’ll try to find ways to raise awareness of the book, so you may see more photos, links to reviews, and that sort of thing. The main activity for the day will be the AMA over on the WeirdLit subreddit at 1PM Pacific, 4PM Eastern. I hope plenty of people will stop by and ask questions, even if (or especially if) the questions aren’t about this book, or even about my writing at all. That’s the fun of an AMA, finding out whether the guitar player in your favorite band thinks Lebron could beat Wilt Chamberlain in his prime, one-on-one, or which Mario Kart game is the best.
On release day, I want to thank the Undertow Publications team that made this happen, especially Michael Kelly who oversaw and directed the whole project, and Vince Haig who did an amazing job on the cover art and layout.
Here you go, my little book, it’s time. No longer coming soon, now ready to leave the nest and venture into the world! I hope if you pick up the book and enjoy it, you might consider letting me know, but even better than that would be telling other readers.
Armageddon Tomorrow
The official release day for Armageddon House is tomorrow, May 12.
I’ll be doing an AMA or “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit’s WeirdLit subreddit, as mentioned here:
https://griffinwords.com/2020/05/06/reddit-ama-on-release-day/
I gave the time as 1PM but that’s Pacific time — so it’s 4PM if you’re in the Eastern time zone, and if you’re in Central or Mountain, you’re probably accustomed to having to do the math to figure out what time to tune in to things.
I hope to have plenty of people drop by and ask all sorts of questions. The most interesting AMAs to me are the ones where the questions fall outside the zone of the usual interview questions. As I mentioned in the pre-announcement page…
We can discuss writers and writing, publishers and publishing, whether or not it’s about me.
You can ask me to list my favorite 80s music, the best weird movies, my favorite single malt, or to justify which track and field event I think is the hardest. But not until May 12th!
I’ve taken a day off from work, and I’ll try to come up with other ideas to draw attention to the book, such as maybe a live video reading, or possibly posting audio of reading the first few chapters.
It’ll be very exciting to have the book out there in the world!
Armageddon House as Penguin Classic
There’s a “Penguin Classics Cover Generator” web site here, the output of which has been taking over Twitter & Facebook this morning. Though I usually don’t jump aboard with internet viral/meme kind of stuff, I thought it might be fun to make an alternative version of Armageddon House as part of the Penguin Classic series.
This uses an old photo of mine, part of a series of decaying industrial structures, and I think it actually works pretty well.
I also did one for Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone, which uses a public domain image of the planet Mars obtained from NASA’s image archive. To me, it looks like human skin that’s been tattooed and scarred.
I’m extremely happy with the covers my books already have — I’ve been unusually lucky in this regard, I think — but it’s still fun to play around with different presentations for the same texts.
Armageddon House Reviewed on The Outer Dark
Just weeks ago, I took part in The Outer Dark’s Quarantine Reading Series, along with Molly Tanzer, which you can listen to here if you missed it. This week’s installment of the Quarantine Readings series features Christina Sng and Mike Allen.
What’s more, this episode also includes a lengthy, detailed and quite enthusiastic review by Gordon B. White of Armageddon House. Wow, thanks, Gordon! I really appreciate all the time and attention that went into this.
The episode starts off with a nice salute to our friend, writer and editor Joe Pulver, by Gordon and Anya Martin. Joe is very much missed around here.
If you’re interested, you can check out the latest installment of The Outer Dark here. And special thanks once again to Gordon B. White, as well as Anya!
TOD 069 Quarantine Readings: Christina Sng and Mike Allen
Lovecraft eZine Chat After-Report
I thought the Lovecraft eZine chat last Sunday went very well, and it’s available to view on YouTube if you missed watching it live.
During the livestream, a few people complained about choppiness, but I watched it later on YouTube and it was smooth. I mean, the video stream was smooth, not me! Check it out:
John Langan made an appearance, and asked me lots of questions, along with host Mike Davis and the other panelists. We talked about Armageddon House, movie soundtracks, ambient music, Marvel versus DC comics, the goal John Langan and I shared of becoming a comic book artist, The Grimscribe’s Puppets, the influence of Laird Barron over absolutely everything, my own writing process, and especially about our great friend Joe Pulver.
I had a great time, and sincerely want to thank Mike and John and the regular panelists, as well as everyone who watched the chat live or viewed it later.
Reddit AMA on Release Day
I’ll be doing an AMA (that’s “Ask Me Anything”) on Reddit on May 12, which also happens to be release day for Armageddon House.
Specifically this is happening on the WeirdLit subreddit, which is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/
The pre-announcement is here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/comments/ge6x0f/announcement_michael_griffin_weird_fiction_author/
It starts at 1PM and I plan to keep on answering questions as long as people are asking them. Hope to see a few familiar faces/names in the mix!
A Week From Now
A week from now, Armageddon House will officially be out there in the world!
A few advance reviews have started to appear, and more should be appearing soon.
Are there any reviewers out there who would like to receive a review copy?
Any journalists or bloggers who would like to do an interview or other feature? If so, let me know!
On release day, I’ll be doing an AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) on the Weird Lit sub-Reddit HERE.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/
I’ll probably also do some kind of live and/or recorded reading from the book too.
Third Time’s the Charm With Lovecraft eZine
We’ve had a couple of postponements to my appearance on the Lovecraft eZine chat, but it’s on for today at 3PM Pacific time. Third time’s the charm!
Here’s a direct link for those of you wishing to view the stream in real time:
https://youtu.be/jf64tNIJRHM
For everyone else, the video stream will be archived soon after the show’s completion, and after a while there will be an MP3 audio version available.
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