So the bones in there are all jacked, and from sports, I’ve also got some fried tendons in my fingers. Kind of made a career out of it for a while. The reason laptop keyboard hurt my hand, singular I guess, is that I’ve broken my right hand… either four or five times, it’s hard to remember. But, hands: all that writing-while-travelling means laptop work, which means a cramped little keyboard instead of my handy-dandy Kinesis Advantage 2, where I can type so fast and so naturally that it feels like telepathy to the screen, really. I can’t really handle the smell of coffee very well. I’m kind of a professional lobby writer, maybe-not coffee shops, though. In the before-times, I did so much writing on airplanes and in airports and at bus stops and in hotels and hotel lobbies, and just lobbies everywhere.
SGJ: Mostly what it’s meant is that my hands hurt a lot less. That’s not the world we live in, but, while reading a slasher, we can pretend for a little bit…ĭT: How has COVID changed your writing regimen, prolific as you are, now that leaving the house and office is largely voluntary? How is writing during a plague for an author primarily known for horror? I just love all the parts of horror, but the slasher, the slasher’s really special for me. I wrote this one, then another, and another. Before The Only Good Indians, I’d done two slasher novels, I guess- Demon Theory, The Last Final Girl-but I hadn’t said even close to all I wanted to say in and with and around the slasher. I realized, after Mongrels, that a big part of what made it work was that werewolves are so close to my heart. After writing two dozen or so books, how did you arrive at haunted people over haunted houses, and personified karma over a supernatural monster for The Only good Indians?
Atop that, there are twenty-five other books of his out in the world available for purchase.ĭT: The Only Good Indians very much falls off the page like Hemingway with a haunting (to boil it down for all readers without spoiling the story). If you haven’t read his work yet, you’re in luck: The Only Good Indians (Saga Press $26.99) was released last month, and his next book is due out in September. Stephen Graham Jones writes about cars, trucks, cowboys, Indians, slashers, zombies, and werewolves as fluently and fondly as your grandma talks about the intricacies of each of her grandchildren.
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