You can listen to the interview here. Cheers James!

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Interview on Unleashed

There are a few special items here which I’d like to draw your attention to…

I acquired a small batch of copies of the original Infected Books edition of AUTUMN for the recent Grimm Up North festival, and I’m selling off the surplus. Please get in quick – this is absolutely the last time the book will be available before its re-issue through Thomas Dunne Books in the US and Gollancz in the UK in September / October 2010.

Also, whilst clearing out I discovered a couple of copies of the original Infected Books release of HATER and a box of hardcover copies of Straight to You. Those of you who’ve followed me for a while will know that whilst I still love the concept of Straight to You, I think the book has dated badly and I’m more than happy to let these copies go. I haven’t wanted to set a specific price for these rare editions (only 500 copies of the Straight to You hardback were ever produced, so this is about as rare as it gets for me!). I’m happy to accept any sensible offers based on how much having the books would mean to you.

I hope this is interesting to some of you. If you have any questions or you want any more information, don’t hesitate to get in touch. Use this page here to contact me.

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Signed and rare books for sale

It was a cracking event with a well-supported screening of Autumn taking place on the Sunday. Dickon Tolson (who plays Carl in the movie) was also there and the two of us sat down for a Q&A session after the showing. Huge thanks to fellow author Iain McKinnon (remember that name – more news about Iain coming in the next couple of weeks) for stepping in at the last moment and hosting the session. The Q&A was taped, and as soon as the footage surfaces I’ll post a link.

Thanks to the organisers of the event for showing Autumn and for inviting me along. Thanks to them also for shoving us in a room with a load of props from the workshop of legendary monster maker Bob Keen. As a horror geek it was very cool to be interviewed surrounded by bits of dead animal and severed limbs from Dog Soldiers, Cenobites from Hellraiser and the like…!

Special thanks to those fans who came along to see the film – I really appreciate your support and I hope you enjoyed the event. It was great to meet you all and to finally put faces to the names and email addresses!

Congratulations to the organising team for putting together a very successful weekend. Congratulations also to Carl Whiteley and the Zombie-Aid team for successfully breaking a few zombie-related records on the Sunday: a UK record for the number of people taking part in a Thriller dance, a double zombie wedding and, finally, taking the world record for the number of zombies in a shopping mall (beating even the world-famous Monroeville Mall immortalised in Romero’s Dawn of the Dead!). As we left the festival the streets of Manchester were filling with more than 1800 zombies – a very surreal experience! I thought I’d be getting used to the undead by now…?!

Did you see the film, either at Grimmfest or on TV? Why not click here and add your thoughts to the discussions on the forum?

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Grimm Up North

In the meantime, a couple of new interviews are now available to listen to.

First off, Gregory Solis (author of Rise And Walk) put me in touch with Celina Andrade of Pirate Cat Radio in San Francisco and we spoke last week. You can download our conversation by clicking here…

Secondly, the final part of my interview with Vatikanet in Norway is available to listen to by clicking here.

Thanks to both Celina and Knut from Vatikanet for the great questions!

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

How did it get to be November already…?

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

Now, about that announcement for UK readers…

If I’m honest, I’m a little embarrassed about this after the build-up we’ve been giving to Grimm as the UK premier. What I’m going to tell you now is something that was arranged by the film’s distributors and I only found out about it a couple of days ago. On one hand I feel pretty awkward (particularly for those of you travelling to Grimm), but on the other hand, I’m really pleased because anyone in the UK will be able to watch the film much sooner than they’d probably have expected.

The AUTUMN movie will be shown on Zone Horror (Sky 319, Virgin Media 170, Freesat 138), on Saturday 24th October at 10:55pm. It’ll be repeated the following evening.

I hope many of you will watch it and enjoy it. As I’ve said previously, if you’re looking for a traditional zombie flick full of blood and guts, violence and flesh-eating then you’ll be disappointed. If you’re looking for something different… something creepier and more introspective, something unsettling as oppose to something repulsive… then you should enjoy the movie.

I’ll be posting another AUTUMN blog later this week. I hope many of you will enjoy the movie (either this weekend on TV or next weekend at Grimm) and that you’ll come back here when you’ve seen it to let me know what you thought.

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

New AUTUMN teaser…

Oh, and there’s something else: UK readers, brace yourselves for a surprising announcement tomorrow too…

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Exclusive AUTUMN teaser premier

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

New Interview online

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Autumn – fin du monde

To enter the competition, just visit this link and answer the very simple question…

And if you win, don’t forget to drop me an email to let me know so I can say hello at the event!

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Exclusive competition – win tickets to the UK premier of AUTUMN

As an added bonus, this year there will be a special showing of AUTUMN followed by a Q&A session (tickets available on the day).

Click the image below to find out more and if you’re in or around Hamilton on 24th October, please support this great event.

This is a post from David Moody's RSS feed. For regular updates about the HATER and AUTUMN books and films, subscribe to the feed today!

Hamilton Zombie Walk 2009 – 24th October