Archive for the ‘Don’t Stand So Close’ Category
Monday, March 19th, 2018
Eric Red chats to Kendall Reviews
Coffee is ready…
KR: Could you tell me a little about yourself please?
I’m a Los Angeles-based film director and screenwriter and novelist. I started in the motion picture business thirty years ago and have been writing novels for six years now.
KR: What do you like to do when not writing?
I love spending time with my wife and dogs and seeing friends. Otherwise I’m reading or watching movies.
KR: What is your favourite childhood book?
The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. I also loved the Dr. Suess books.
KR: What are you reading now?
Just finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and Without Fail by Lee Child, my favorite contemporary author, and am starting Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama.
KR: What is your favourite album, and does music play any role in your writing?
Hard to pick a favorite album but The Beatles are my favorite musicians. I have all their records on a playlist on iTunes I listen to constantly. When I’m writing, I listen to a lot of movie scores, especially by Jerry Goldsmith and Elmer Bernstein. Maybe it’s my movie background but film music inspires me when I write and gets me into the zone.
KR: Who were the authors that inspired you to write?
As a young author, in no order, Richard Price, Jim Harrison, John Irving and William Goldman. Given my books and films, those are probably not the authors people would expect, but these were the writers whose books spoke to me on a very deep level and made me want to be a writer.
KR:Â Do you work to an outline or plot or do you prefer to just see where an idea takes you?
I’m methodical. Because of my screenwriting background I’m a structure wonk rigorous about working out the story beats—for me character flows from story, not the other way around. First I come up with a three- or four-sentence summary of a novel because all books must begin with a great idea in my opinion. Then I write a one-page synopsis, after which I write a ten-page outline with a beginning, middle and end. Once I have that, I’m ready to start the book. And during this time I’m making pages and pages of notes, because ideas start coming to me constantly for a novel I’m hot on.
KR: What kind of research do you do, and how long do you spend researching before beginning a book?
The short answer is all the research necessary, but that depends on the book and the subject matter. My third novel IT WAITS BELOW was a science fiction thriller involving a submersible sub that dove to the bottom of the ocean, so I spent months interviewing one of the top pilots of those kind of subs and oceanographic scientists to get all the details right. On the other hand, my first novel DON’T STAND SO CLOSE was a high school coming-of-age thriller and most of the research involved remembering my own high school experiences.
To read the rest of the interview, go to http://bit.ly/2IxLMBT
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
Posted in Don't Stand So Close, It Waits Below, SST Publications, book signings, conventions, crime books, dark fantasy, eric red, fantasy, festivals, ghost town writer's retreat, horror, horror books, jack ketchum, mystery books, novels, road thriller, screenwriting, serial killer, the guns of santa sangre, the men who walk like wolves, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, thriller books, weird west, werewolf, werewolf western, western, white knuckle | Comments Off
Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
We talk about my new novel THE WOLVES OF EL DIABLO, western and horror books and films, and lots of other fun stuff: http://bit.ly/2upNDC2
Posted in 100 Feet, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, Film, It Waits Below, JoBlo.com, SST Publications, Wyoming, action, bad moon, blog, blu ray, buzzard, cemetery dance, colorblind, dark delicacies, dark discoveries magazine, dark fantasy, do not disturb, eric red, erotic, fantasy, ghost, gunfighters, horror, horror films, horror movies, in the mix, interview, john gallagher, kindle, little nasties, monster, mystery, mystery books, near dark, novels, paul fry, podcast, procedural, radio show, road thriller, science fiction, screenwriting, serial killer, short story, shroud magazine, space, steam train, strange fruit, submarine, the buzzard, the claws of rio muerto, the guns of santa sangre, the men who walk like wolves, the red corner, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, thriller books, traveling carnival, trucker, undersea, vampires, website, weird tales magazine, weird west, werewolf, werewolf western, western, white knuckle | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 18th, 2016
Posted in 100 Feet, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, Film, It Waits Below, Uncategorized, bad moon, eric red, fangoria, near dark, novels, strange fruit, the guns of santa sangre, the hitcher, the wolves of el diablo, white knuckle | Comments Off
Friday, July 15th, 2016
I’ll be doing a BAD MOON Blu Ray signing with star Michael Pare, special makeup effects designer Steve Johnson, and composer Daniel Licht at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank this Tuesday, July 19th at 7:00 PM.
The address is 3512 W Magnolia Blvd. Burbank CA 91505.  Stop by and visit.
Thanks, as always, to Del and Sue Howison!
Posted in 100 Feet, Body Parts, Cohen And Tate, Don't Stand So Close, Film, It Waits Below, Los Angeles, Wild Work, action, bad moon, blog, blu ray, dark delicacies, eric red, horror, horror films, horror movies, monster, near dark, novels, samhain publishing, screenwriting, signings, the guns of santa sangre, the hitcher, the red corner, thriller, werewolf, white knuckle | Comments Off
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Guest List: Eric Red’s Top 5 Truck Movies
Eric Red, author of the new truck-thriller novel White Knuckle , has written such vehicular-minded movies as Near Dark , The Hitcher and Cohen and Tate (the last of which he also directed). Now he takes the wheel of Flick Attack’s first-ever Guest List!
Big rigs, the tractor-trailer 18-wheelers we see rolling along the American highways, belong in movies. There’s something bigger-than-life about the huge, rumbling, mythic diesels driven by those modern day cowboys, The Men Behind the Wheel. It was a lifelong fascination with these giant trucks and the colorful world of truckers that inspired my new high-octane thriller novel, White Knuckle, a mystery tale about an FBI agent on a cross-country hunt for a prolific serial killer/interstate truck driver. It’s surprising more films aren’t made about the epic world of the long hauler, but several truck movies have delivered on the exciting cinematic dimensions of big rigs. Here are my personal top-five favorites:
1. Duel (1971)
The mac daddy of all truck movies. A businessman four-wheeler overtakes a big rig on the highway in his car and, for the rest of the film, the menacing truck tries to kill him. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this ultimate present-tense thriller has no subplot, has no character backstory and we never even really see the truck driver. It’s a pure linear exercise in vehicular cat-and-mouse ratcheting suspense, with the scariest tractor-trailer 18-wheeler in movies — more animal than machine.
2. The Wages of Fear (1953)
The genius of this French thriller, about four truckers in South America on a suicide mission driving two truckloads of volatile explosive nitroglycerin through the jungle, is that it’s a vehicular action movie that moves at 5 mph. That’s about as fast as the heroes drive, because one bump and they get blown up. Honorable mention to William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, the 1977 muscular Hollywood remake, with its astonishing sequence of a nitro truck crossing a collapsing rope bridge during a hurricane rainstorm.
Read the full article at:Â http://bit.ly/29oqeq0
Posted in Don't Stand So Close, FBI, Film, It Waits Below, SST Publications, Uncategorized, action, blog, eric red, horror, mystery, near dark, novels, salvage, samhain publishing, serial killer, the guns of santa sangre, the hitcher, thriller, trucker, website, white knuckle | Comments Off
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
My books DON’T STAND SO CLOSE, THE GUNS OF SANTA SANGRE, IT WAITS BELOW, and WHITE KNUCKLE are on the library shelves in Tennessee.
The address is 219 E Elm St, Nashville, IL 62263
Posted in Don't Stand So Close, FBI, It Waits Below, SST Publications, cowboys, eric red, horror, libraries, monster, mystery, novels, samhain publishing, serial killer, space, submarine, the guns of santa sangre, thriller, trucker, undersea, weird west, werewolf, western, white knuckle | Comments Off
Friday, April 29th, 2016
Posted in Arrow In The Head, Don't Stand So Close, FBI, It Waits Below, JoBlo.com, Los Angeles, Novella, SST Publications, action, alien, antarctic press, audiobooks, blog, bookgasm, buzzard, cemetery dance, colorblind, cowboys, curfew, dark delicacies, dark discoveries magazine, dark lucidity, do not disturb, edge of sundown, eric red, erotic, erotica, evil jester press, freaks, gunfighters, horror, horror novel reviews, in the mix, john gallagher, lansing state journal, little nasties, monster, mystery, novels, paul fry, procedural, salvage, samhain publishing, science fiction, serial killer, short story, shroud magazine, sideshow, space, steam train, strange fruit, submarine, the buzzard, the claws of rio muerto, the guns of santa sangre, the horror fiction review, the horror review, the red corner, the wolves of el diablo, thriller, toll road, traveling carnival, trucker, undersea, weird tales magazine, weird west, werewolf, western | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
To see all my novels, and short stories in anthologies and magazines, go to: amazon.com/author/ericred
Posted in Don't Stand So Close, It Waits Below, Novella, SST Publications, Uncategorized, Wild Work, antarctic press, cemetery dance, containment, dark discoveries magazine, edge of sundown, eric red, evil jester press, graphic novels, horror, monster, mystery, paul fry, samhain publishing, science fiction, serial killer, short story, shroud magazine, space, strange fruit, the guns of santa sangre, thriller, weird tales magazine, werewolf, western, white knuckle, zombies, zombies-in-space | Comments Off
Friday, March 6th, 2015
“Eric Red’s first novel is a powerful concoction of one part coming-of-age story, one part erotic thriller, and the sexiest and most twisted villain ever to give a homework assignment.” – Ray Garton, author of LIVE GIRLS and FRANKENSTORM.
DON’T STAND SO CLOSE is available in hardcover, trade paperback and eBook on Amazon at http://amzn.to/J0h2KH or from the publisher at http://bit.ly/18LdreT
Posted in Don't Stand So Close, Ray Garton, SST Publications, eric red, erotic, novels, paul fry, thriller, young adult | Comments Off
