I was recently interviewed by Gordon B. White, and the finished interview has just been posted on hellnotes.com
We talked a lot about my new collection, The Human Alchemy, and more specifically about my focus on sensory detail and setting, particularly locations in Oregon. I thought Gordon’s questions were especially interesting and gave me a lot to think about.
Link:
https://hellnotes.com/interview-with-michael-griffin-author-of-the-human-alchemy/
The first part of my interview with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella of This Is Horror is now available for everyone, not just Patreon contributors, HERE.
The whole conversation was a lot of fun, and this represents just the first half, so there will be more in another week our so. In this part we talk about focusing on creative work, and sometimes taking a break from it, differences between music-making and writing, and the nuts and bolts of assembling a short story collection… among other things.
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A couple weeks back, I spent a few hours recording an interview with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella for their This Is Horror Podcast.
This Is Horror Patreon subscribers will have earlier access to the interview, while everybody else will get part one on Monday June 25 and part two on Monday July 2. I’ll post direct links when those are generally available, but for now you can check out the podcast HERE.
If you’re a Patron subscriber, you can start HERE. I had a lot of fun recording this interview, and want to thank Michael and Bob. The podcast is always worth a listen, so it was fun to have my chance to participate.
I participated in the last two episodes of The Outer Dark podcast hosted by Scott Nicolay.
Most recently, in episode 026, I discussed the two BizarroCon panels featured in the episode, and discussed Autumn Christian’s collection Ecstatic Inferno.
TOD 026 Two BizarroCon Panels: ‘The Road to Publication’ and ‘The Weird in a Post-Weird World’
In last week’s episode 025, I made an appearance to talk about Bizarro Con, which had just finished at the time of the interview, and give a short review of John Claude Smith’s novel The Wilderness Within.
Hellnotes just posted this in-depth interview I did with Gordon B. White about my story “The Lure of Devouring Light.” Note that the interview concerns only the title story from my collection, and not the entire collection.
The interview includes spoilers, so don’t read this until after you’ve read the story! The story is available to read for free online at Apex Magazine, where the story was first published. In fact, this story was my first professional publication.
https://www.apex-magazine.com/the-lure-of-devouring-light/
Last time I looked, the byline on the post says it’s by Jess Landry, but the interview is definitely with Gordon B. White. That will probably be corrected.
I enjoyed this interview not only for Gordon’s very insightful and interesting questions, but for the opportunity to discuss one particular story in depth, and to allow for discussion from from the point of view of assuming that anyone reading has already finished the story. It was fun to go into detail about where the story came from, and to discuss the characters and their interactions in depth.
Here’s the link to the “Deep Cuts” interview with Gordon B. White at Hellnotes.com:
https://hellnotes.com/deep-cuts-michael-griffin-talks-the-lure-of-devouring-light/
My thanks to Gordon White and Hellnotes!
Hey, my recent interview with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro was just posted.
http://www.hexpublishers.com says:
“Read Alvaro Zinos-Amaro’s interview with author Michael Griffin in a new series of interviews on our e-zine, #WORDS. Here they discuss Griffin’s latest releases: Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone, and The Lure of Devouring Light. ”
http://www.hexpublishers.com/words_interview-with-michael-griffin.html
It’s called “The Places I Want to Visit: A Conversation with Michael Griffin (June 2017)” and I think it’s one of the more interesting interviews I’ve done. My thanks to Alvaro and to hexpublishers.com!
John Linwood Grant posted our interview on greydogtales.com yesterday. We went in some interesting directions with this set of questions and answers, discussing a number of angles I hadn’t previously addressed about my work.
Mystery and confusion are aspects I enjoy generally, and particularly in this story, I felt they were important, maybe even central.
I really enjoyed thinking about and responding the interview questions, and hope you’ll take a look. We spent a fair amount of time on both THE LURE OF DEVOURING LIGHT and HIEROGLYPHS OF BLOOD AND BONE.
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My thanks to John Linwood Grant for the interesting approach to interview questions, and the opportunity to spread the word about my work in general, and the new novel in particular.
I recently completed an interview with Gwendolyn Kiste, which has just been posted to Gwendolyn’s blog.
We talk a lot about the new novel Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone, about my collection The Lure of Devouring Light, and various other things past and present, such as the difference in my approach, writing short stories versus novels. Here’s the link:
I’d like to thank Gwendolyn for the opportunity, and the great questions!
Shane Douglas Keene, who just gave a wonderful rave review of The Lure of Devouring Light HERE, also recently interviewed me. That lengthy interview now appears on Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Maybe unsurprisingly, we talk a lot about the new book, but also spend a fair amount of time discussing ambient music and my record label Hypnos Recordings, the importance of setting and in particular the Pacific NW, upcoming projects, what it’s like to be published by Word Horde, and more. My thanks to Shane Douglas Keene for taking the time to put together the interview, and to Jim Mcleod for hosting it at Ginger Nuts of Horror.
Matthew Summers has just posted both a lengthy interview with me and a very flattering review of The Lure of Devouring Light on his blog, Smash Dragons.
The review uses terms like “tour de force” and ends with “Quiet horror told with the loudest of voices, this collection is a must read for anyone with even a remote interest in genre fiction.” I think it’s safe to say Matthew liked the book very much!
The interview was an enjoyable and interesting one for me, with some good questions. It’s mostly serious, but probably most people will be interested in seeing who I choose for my zombie apocalypse survival team, when limited to choosing only from weird/horror writers.
My sincere thanks to Matthew Summers for his efforts assembling the interview, and his kind and flattering appraisal of The Lure of Devouring Light.
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