Emily Clauser
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David Wong:
What is your favorite book? Did anything inspire you to start writing JDATE?
David Wong
Favorite all-time book is probably Confederacy of Dunces, I've spent my life trying to match that level of screwball comedy and clockwork precision (the way all of the ridiculous plot threads collide at the end is just astounding to behold). As far as influences, in interviews I'll emphasize Douglas Adams and Lovecraft but the truth is when I started JDATE I was reading a ton of Dean Koontz. Don't tell anyone. Fun fact: the shadow people showed up in the online version of JDATE a few months before they turned up in Koontz' Odd Thomas. We were both writing a comedy horror series about them at the same time (though our explanation and backstory for them were of course wildly different).
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Friday
asked
David Wong:
By terrible happenstance I walked into a Czech cafeteria, on the big wall TV I saw something that burned my psyche. a Music video for a song called "Informer" by Snow. I had honestly thought that such a thing was only a fiction, created for a twisted horror novel, by a sick mind. Please tell me that it escaped from your mind into reality, or is reality actually so abhorrent that it happened on its own?
Dylan
asked
David Wong:
When will your next book be released? I've been told FV&FS is getting a sequel, and will be your next book, which I find very exciting, I loved the first one. It's already been a whole 4 months or so since JDatE 3: WtHDIJR came out tho, so I'm going into withdrawal, and hoping I won't have to wait 2 years between books this time, because the wait between FV&FS and JDatE 3 was a long laughless length in literature.
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