About F. Paul Wilson (FPW)
Paul was born and raised in New Jersey where he misspent his youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed on the radio, and watching Soupy Sales and Shock Theatre with Zacherley.
He is the author of more than thirty books: six science fiction novels (HEALER, WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS, AN ENEMY OF THE STATE, DYDEETOWN WORLD, THE TERY, SIMS), nine horror thrillers (THE KEEP, THE TOMB, THE TOUCH, REBORN, REPRISAL, NIGHTWORLD, BLACK WIND, SIBS, MIDNIGHT MASS), three contemporary thrillers (THE SELECT, IMPLANT, DEEP AS THE MARROW) and a number of collaborations. In 1998 he resurrected his popular antihero, Repairman Jack, and has chronicled his adventures in LEGACIES, CONSPIRACIES, ALL THE RAGE, HOSTS, THE HAUNTED AIR, GATEWAYS, CRISSCROSS, and HARBINGERS.
Short stories from his first 20 years as a writer are collected in SOFT & OTHERS (1989) and THE BARRENS & OTHERS (1998). A third collection is in the works. He has edited two anthologies: FREAK SHOW (1992) and DIAGNOSIS: TERMINAL (1996).
THE KEEP and THE TOMB both appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; THE TOMB received the 1984 Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. His novelette “Aftershock” won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. DYDEETOWN WORLD was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others. He is listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America.
His novel THE KEEP was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) by Paramount in 1983. THE TOMB is in development as “Repairman Jack” by Beacon Films and hopefully will not suffer a similar fate. His original teleplay "Glim-Glim" aired on Monsters in 1989 and is currently in reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel. An adaptation of his short story "Menage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997. He has written for stage, screen, and interactive media as well.
October 7
NYC Collectable Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo
Holiday Inn on 57th Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues
Noonish: I’ll be signing whatever books are put before me
November 1-4
World Fantasy Convention
Saratoga Springs, NY
Readers (that would be you) continually ask if I'll be signing sometime in their neighborhood. Below are the locations in the foreseeable future. Stop by if one is convenient.
October 11
8:00pm
Barnes & Noble
2200 Garden State Plaza
Paramus, NJ 07652
Phone: 201-712-1166
October 17
7-9pm
Reading at KGB Bar
85 E. 4th Street, NYC
a cool place
October 18
7:00pm
Ocean County Library
101 Washington Street
Toms River, NJ 08753
Tel. 732-349-6200
October 24
Washington, DC
(store to come)
October 25
Eagle Eye Books
2076 N Decatur Rd
Decatur, GA 30033
404-451-7112
October 26
4pm
Redmond Regional Library
15990 N.E. 85th,
Redmond, WA 98052
425-885-1861
October 26 - (later)
University Books (location TBA)
October 27
2:00pm
Dark Delicacies
4213 W. Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA
888-DARKDEL or 818-556-6660
October 28
3:00pm
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia Street San Francisco CA 94110
415 824-8203
October 29
7:30pm
Books Inc
301 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
650-428-1234
October 30
7:00pm
Powell's
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, OR
November 1-4
World Fantasy Convention
Saratoga Springs, NY
November 13-15 (Exact date TBA)
The Arizona Library Association Conference
Mesa, AZ
...or at least the last 6 months or so of it - and only the bits that have to do with writing. Don't worry, I won't annoy you with news of my children's birthdays or pictures of my cat. (Wait...I don't have a cat.)
>8/30-9/2 - guesting at Heather Graham's New Orleans workshop. I agreed to this for a number of reasons. First off, I like Heather a lot - she's truly good people. Second, I'd get to drum in a pick-up band with a bunch of folks from the Killer-Thriller Band, and third, the attendees would be mostly from the romance wing, very few of whom would have read me or even heard of me. I liked the challenge of seeing if I could win them over. At this point I don't know if I did, but I had a great time, met a lot of nice readers and tyro writers (mostly women - lots of estrogen in those rooms). I meet Molly Bolden, who has to be the world's wackiest, most outspoken bookseller. Gotta love her.
>8/29 - well, I found out the reason for the BLOODLINE pub date change: some special promotion deal with Barnes & Noble that wouldn't have been possible with the October date. For some reason the B&N buyers and I have not been on the best of terms over the years - very little of my backlist on their shelves. This might change all that.
>8/29 - a forty-minute phone interview with Brice McVicar for =Rue Morgue=.
>8/28 - I learn today that the BLOODLINE street date has been moved up to September 18. Don't know why yet.
>8/28 - today's the official publication date of the HARBINGERS paperback.
>8/28 - received an invitation to the Midwest Booksellers trade show the first weekend in October, but I have to turn it down. I'm already committed to the Paperback Expo in NYC.
>8/27 - finish the Matheson tribute and am fairly satisfied with it. (It's got a nice twist.)
>8/24 - receive my author copies of BLACK WIND and they are stunning.
>8/23 - Monica Kuebler of =Rue Morgue= magazine emails asking for an interview for their Halloween issue. But of course. It's a cool mag.
>8/22 - Gard Goldsmith interviewed me on 107.7 FM in Concord, NH. Here's a RECORDING of the broadcast:
>8/20 - send some ARCs of BLOODLINE to Nanci Kalanta of Horrorworld for a promotion she'll run in September.
>8/17 - Seattle is added to the BLOODLINE tour.
>8/15 - I'm invited to sign at the Northeast Independent Booksellers convention in Providence, RI on September 29. I accept.
>8/12 - I'm invited to a 25th Anniversary screening of "The Keep" in London on December 8. I remind the inviter that it will also be the 25th anniversary of my incessant whining and bitching about the film.
>8/9 - too far behind for Horrorfind . . . glad I'm staying home. Some folks there I'd like to see, but after Thrillerfest, NECon, and San Diego Comicon back to back, I'm conventioned out.
>8/8 - start my Richard Matheson tribute story - a sequel to "The Distributor."
>8/8 - email from Susan Chang. I wanted to call the YA Repairman Jack series "You Don't Know Jack" but the publisher thinks the pre-existing game of the same name will cause confusion. We may call it simply: JACK.
>8/7 - a call from Suzann Ellis, head of production at Beacon (see "Repairman Jack - the movie" below)
>8/7 - receive a link to a special area of the Dark Delicacies website which I will pass along. As many of you already know, Shocklines is going out of the bookselling business. (Don't worry, all pending orders will be filled.) Dark Delicacies will be taking over as the source of signed / inscribed copies of the Repairman Jack trade editions. They're taking preorders on BLOODLINE now: Signed Bloodline
I'll sign them when I pass through on tour and Del and Sue will send them out immediately after.
>8/3 - email from Eileen Hutton of Brilliance Audio: the narrator for the audio version of BLOODLINE wants to know how to pronounce Rasalom. I write back: RAH-sah-lahm.
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