Author Adam Millard

Today, one of the coolest authors in the field, one of the best editors to work for, and all around one cool cat, Adam Millard joins me! This man, can write, edit, design amazing covers, with the help of his gorgeous half, Zoe, run a press, and have family time. The Millard Clan are amazing people, and I am honored to have Adam here today! 

THE INTERVIEW:

As always, I love having you on my blog, tell us about your book, The Susceptibles.

The Susceptibles is a good, old-fashioned ghost story set in the present. A group of people – about a third of the population of a city – fall unconscious, and when they come round, it becomes apparent that they can see things, ghosts that had always been there but had remained unseen. There are four interlinking storylines, and lots of chills and surprises along the way. I really just wanted to write something other than zombies, and this book was a great way to do that.

Tells us about your book. Deathdealers.

Ahhh, Deathdealers is the first book in a series involving Alex Winterbone, a private investigator with terrible luck and a strange magnetism towards uncanny cases. Alex is recently divorced, a recovering alcoholic, and severely pissed off at the world for the hand he's been dealt. He would have been military if he didn't suffer terrible asthma, so he opted for a life investigating cheating spouses and tracking down missing pets. Things change, however, when a woman arrives at his office and asks for his help investigating the mysterious death of her sister. I love Alex Winterbone simply because he's not a nice person, and yet he has to help people in order to get paid.


What led you to write horror?

I've always loved the genre. As a young boy I would read Shaun Hutson, Richard Laymon and Stephen King. Everyone else my age was prattling on about Teenage Mutant Fucking Turtles or WWF Wrestling, and I was digging into IT or The Woods Are Dark. I knew that I was going to write when I was older, though at that point I wanted to be a film-critic. When I was thirteen, my mom gave me an Olympia typewriter – you remember? One font, and only black or red to choose from? - and I would sit up in my room and clack away for hours, writing silly space-operas and fan-fiction. I used to write it in a way that I could pull the paper out, staple it and fold it so it looked like a real book, and then I'd draw a cover, which would be terrible. I don't know what ever happened to those little pamphlets, but I would love to see one now.


How did Crowded Quarantine Publications come to be?

My wife and I decided to start CQP in early 2011, and we knew exactly the kind of thing we wanted to do. I had decided to put together and edit a few anthologies, and the best way for us to do that was by starting a company. Then we decided to open up for novel and novellas, and we started receiving some great work; too good to pass on. And so CQP was born, and it's going from strength-to-strength thanks to the awesome authors sending us great stuff.


Crowded Quarantine Publications is really coming along quite nicely. What kind of awesome titles can we look forward too from CQP?

We have Tales For The Toilet, which is an unthemed anthology, coming out in October. “Lust”, a novella by Douglas Vance Castagna is released on 10th September. Craig Saunders' novella, “The Walls Of Madness” is released on 15th October, and then moving into 2013 we have Ty Schwamberger's “Last Night Out”, Val Muller's novel “Faulkner's Apprentice”, Aurelio Rico Lopez III's second novella through us, “Cry Wolf”, and of course your wonderful Zombies-On-Everest novella “Smell Of The Dead.” And we have a few others we are just waiting on contracts from, which will be announced accordingly. It's been a very busy year, and next year promises to be even bigger and better.


Thank you, Adam for being here today!

Thanks for having me, Dale

Adam's Bio:

Life for Adam revolves around writing. If he isn't writing, then he is usually found with a book in his hand. He is also a true Metal-head who loves to play the guitar and has an overwhelming collection of music that make his wife’s ears bleed. He is a self-professed connoisseur of all films but with a disturbing enthusiasm for everything horror under his skin, quite literally, thanks to his other passion of tattoos and tattooing. Adam’s body boasts over 50 tattoos (some of which were inked by himself) with his back being a showcase for all the modern classic horror characters thanks to his brother, Clint’s, tattoo skills.