Register
Home > Forums > John Dies at the End > Interviews and Press and Stuff for John Dies at the End
Pointless Waste of Time
Search forums | Inbox | Profile | Signature
+  Cracked.com Forums - Pointless Waste of Time
|-+  Writers and Readers
| |-+  John Dies at the End
| | |-+  Interviews and Press and Stuff for John Dies at the End		 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Interviews and Press and Stuff for John Dies at the End  (Read 2467 times)
David Wong
Administrator

Karma: 2731
Offline Offline



View Profile WWW
« on: October 01, 2009, 08:48 AM »
I'll save all those links here, though I wonder how many interviews I'll do before I just start doing the exact same answers every time.

Interview with HorrorCrush.com

Interview at FanboyPlanet

SciFi Overdrive radio show (Oct 10th episode, second hour)

Decibel Magazine

REVIEWS:

Publisher's Weekly Review

JDatE in Library Journal's 11 Horror Novels to read this Halloween

Review in January Magazine

The Onion AV Club

Fangoria's November 2009 issue, not available online yet.

Amazon reviews - have you left yours?

Barnes and Noble reviews - we have an embarrassingly small number of these
« Last Edit: November 12, 2009, 10:33 AM by David Wong » Logged
I am Cracked Editor David Wong, and author of John Dies at the End.
LeCompte
Funk Master

Karma: 128
Offline Offline


I am morally obligated to destroy you.


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2009, 09:15 AM »
I'm just waiting to see a copy on the shelves with an Oprah's Book Club sticker on the cover.
Logged
Snake Face
Sir Postsalot

Karma: 164
Offline Offline


I will fuck your face with mine.

Kovacs+Walter
View Profile
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 09:36 AM »
I can't wait to see the international versions of this book. John Cheese saying "LE FUCK!" will have me in stitches.
Logged
Quote from: Navigator2001Plus on September 06, 2009, 04:55 AM
One time spermus tried to rape my ass with his dick, but I turned the tables on him when I raped his dick with my ass.
oball
PWoT Moderator

Karma: 2421
Online Online


Back off, man. I'm a scientist.


View Profile
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 09:52 AM »
Excellent interview.  I like how it's both informative and funny.  "IMAGINE IF SATAN WAS HAMBURGLAR" indeed.

I actually have a copy of Song of Kali lying around my room that I bought a month ago and haven't got round to reading yet.  After your recommendation it's jumped to the head of the queue.
Logged
I got your number
I steal your thunder
I got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm

The smoothest rascal on the list.
David Wong
Administrator

Karma: 2731
Offline Offline



View Profile WWW
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 12:27 PM »
I did a broadcast interview just now (taped, it's a late-night show) for a radio show called Sci-Fi Overdive.

http://scifioverdrive.com/

Supposed to air a week from tomorrow at midnight I think.

That was the first broadcast interview I've done in my life, and I now realize why on talk shows they always have a cup of water sitting around. Your mouth goes dry and glues itself shut.

Seriously there's like five different instances where I ended a sentence in mid-thought, purely because my tongue was glued to the top of my mouth and I could no longer speak coherently.

I repeated the post-it note anecdote since oball seemed to like it. I figure if I keep filtering these down to just the bits that work, like a dozen interviews from now I'll be really entertaining to listen to.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 12:35 PM by David Wong » Logged
I am Cracked Editor David Wong, and author of John Dies at the End.
PiFiend
Relatively new

Karma: -10
Offline Offline



View Profile
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2009, 06:37 AM »
i don't suppose anybody taped it so the rest of the internet could listen? if not they'll probably upload it to their site in a week or two.
Logged
David Wong
Administrator

Karma: 2731
Offline Offline



View Profile WWW
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2009, 01:37 PM »
Yeah they'll have it up on their site eventually.
Logged
I am Cracked Editor David Wong, and author of John Dies at the End.
sonofblacula
Relatively new

Karma: -1
Offline Offline



View Profile
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2009, 11:13 PM »
The podcast with Dave's interview is up, in case anyone else was foaming at the bit.

http://www.lifestyletalkradio.com/weekend_hosts/archives/sfod.shtml
Logged
CantCatchMe
PWoT Moderator

Karma: 349
Offline Offline


Dream about me.

CantCatchMeX
View Profile
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2009, 06:52 PM »
Man, that guy's radio voice is up to 11.
Logged
Quote from: Norm MacDonald
In Virginia, police are looking for a stripper who stabbed a man for telling her she was too fat to strip. Police warn that the woman is armed and extremely fat.
Peace Frog
Purveyor of Dick Jokes

Karma: 244
Offline Offline


Still looking for the edit button


View Profile
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2009, 07:11 PM »
In case anyone was wondering, Wong doesn't appear until the second hour, which is a seperate download.
Logged
Quote from: John Cheese on July 28, 2009, 05:40 PM
We're a board of people who pride themselves on not being clinically fucking retarded.
JohnnyParadise
Regular poster

Karma: 96
Offline Offline


A man who behaves like a beast, shall never know the pain of being a man.


View Profile
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2009, 02:18 PM »
I really enjoyed that. The DJ's voice was positively ghoulish everytime he said "John Dies at the End". Seemed like a nice guy though.
Logged
Frob
Purveyor of Dick Jokes

Karma: 87
Offline Offline


The poster fomerly a llama


View Profile
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2009, 02:04 AM »
I don't know how I imagined you would sound, but it was probably the complete opposite of that. I like how some of the DJ's questions were just one sentence statements followed by an awkward silence, but you handled the whole thing really well. Your description of what cracked tries to do, and pretty much everything else you spoke about, was very interesting, it's just a shame it aired at like 3 AM (according to the download link). Are you doing any more radio interviews? Or maybe something on the teevee?
Logged
Quote from: "spermus"
Reading brings pleasure only to the reader, just like rape.
sonofblacula
Relatively new

Karma: -1
Offline Offline



View Profile
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2009, 02:06 AM »
Two things I noticed:

First, the DJ almost certainly never got past the cover of the book.

Second, you sound exactly like my brother Matt. My family is from Blue Ridge by the way, and Matt is a veteran beer truck driver in Terre Haute. He has many awesome stories involving either late night beer deliveries, or his stint as an 80s hair metal band frontsman. I think Matt would either get along famously with John, or the two of them would wordlessly enter into a bare-knuckle boxing match to the death at their first meeting.

...are you Matt, "David"?
Logged
David Wong
Administrator

Karma: 2731
Offline Offline



View Profile WWW
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2009, 12:23 AM »
The Onion weighs in:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/david-wong-john-dies-at-the-end,34403/
Logged
I am Cracked Editor David Wong, and author of John Dies at the End.
Maw
Regular poster

Karma: 16
Offline Offline


Where am I? What day is it? Where are my pants?


View Profile
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2009, 07:10 AM »
Here's Fanboy Planet's promised interview with Don Coscarelli: http://www.fanboyplanet.com/interviews/mc-doncoscarelli.php

Quote
Don Coscarelli: I am now finishing up the screenplay and beginning the search for funding. Remember something though, just because a creative work sparks my enthusiasm does not necessarily mean that the big shots at the studios will stand up and salute. What I value about David's work is it's sheer originality, and that is not really the currency Hollywood trades in.
Logged
I want a sweet ass drumset. A sweet-ass drumset would be cool too.
Frob
Purveyor of Dick Jokes

Karma: 87
Offline Offline


The poster fomerly a llama


View Profile
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2009, 04:11 AM »
Quote
Derek McCaw: How did you discover this book?

Don Coscarelli: John Dies at the End was the first project selected for me by a "bot". My guilty pleasure is post-apocalyptic zombie novels and I had bought a couple from a terrific small publisher called Permuted Press. One day in my email I received a bot email from amazon which read, "If you liked the book Dying to Live you'll love John Dies at the End. The description of John Dies hooked me, especially the notion of a street drug called Soy Sauce that allows users to drift between dimensions. I ordered it immediately.

Wow, a match so perfect was made by an Amazon bot. I'm sure Coscarelli would have noticed JDATE at some point, but an algorithm designed to sell more things got to him first.
Logged
Quote from: "spermus"
Reading brings pleasure only to the reader, just like rape.
Finlander
Purveyor of Dick Jokes

Karma: 55
Offline Offline


Finland, Finland, Finland, The country where I want to be


View Profile
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2009, 05:03 AM »
Quote
Derek McCaw: What did you do and say to convince David Wong that you were actually Don Coscarelli?

Don Coscarelli: I guess David didn't believe it was me. I can be persistent so I just kept emailing, weekly and then daily. Days would go by and my wife would look over and see this hang-dog expression on my face and ask if that Wong character had ever replied. It was terrific to finally speak with him as I really believe David (or Jason, if you will) is one of the most talented young writers I've ever come across. Although they write in completely different styles and genres, it felt a lot like the first time I spoke with the terrific Joe Lansdale.


This is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. The idea of Wong suddenly realising "Oh shit, this guy really is Don Coscarelli" about someone he thought was a spammer warmed my icy heart.
Logged
Quote from: stressbunny on November 21, 2009, 04:30 PM

Finlander needs no encouragement. None.
Pages: [1] Print 
Jump to:  
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 2.0 RC1.2 | SMF © 2006–2009, Simple Machines LLC Powered by SMF 1.1.8 | SMF © 2006, Simple Machines LLC Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!

Copyright © 2005 - 2009 Cracked Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. CRACKED, CRACKED.COM and the "CRACKED" logo are trademarks owned by Cracked Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved.

Powered by SMF 2.0 RC1.2 | SMF © 2006–2009, Simple Machines LLC