Amps On 11

A non-writing post. It's a miracle. Airbourne's new album No Guts No Glory is out soon. I've already listened to it and it continues in the same fine Australian hard rock tradition of AC/DC and Rose Tattoo that made their first album a winner. Below is the video for the first single, "No Way But The Hard Way."

Pre-order The Killing Kind

My next novel from Leisure Books, The Killing Kind, is now available for pre-order at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Kind-Bryan-Smith/dp/0843963565/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2

So go on and order a copy or two, or, hell, three or four. One for you, one for your SO, one for your dog, whatever. And, just throwing this out there, little known fact, Amazon is totally cool with it if you want order, say, a thousand copies for personal use. So, hey, go ahead, if that's what you really want to do. I won't stop you.

Dark Ones draft completed

So yesterday I finally typed 'The End' on the first draft of The Dark Ones. At a shade under 130,000 words, it's way too long. I have to cut it down to 90,000. Most of the cuts will come in the first third of the book, where I maybe took a bit too long getting to the point. By the time I've cut it down, it should be a lean and mean read. For the first time, though, I think I'll save the full thing in a separate file in the event I ever want to look into the possibility of an unexpurgated version.

It's looking like this one will be released in January, 2011, just six months after the release of The Killing Kind. The thinking is to build my momentum by tightening the gap between books. I wasn't aware that I actually had any mo, but it was a cool thing to hear nonetheless.

And here's a bit of information on the publisher doing the limited edition of Depraved:

http://horrorgy.com/blog/2010/01/27/introducing-altar-13-new-horror-publisher/

Depraved limited edition in the works

Attention Depraved fans. I have sold the limited edition rights to this recent Leisure release. It will be a high-end collector's edition. Details, including the publisher, to follow in a week or two, as I have agreed to wait for the publisher to make their official announcement before saying anything else.

Lists redux

Depraved makes yet another year end best list, this time from Famous Monsters of Filmland:

http://www.famousmonstersoffilmland.com/my-top-ten-books-of-2009/

One Depraved Year

Depraved has made a couple of year end best lists for 2009. There's this one from author Brian Keene:

http://www.briankeene.com/?p=3185

And this one from Shroud Magazine:

http://shroudmagazinebookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/12/shroud-magazines-20-recommended-reads_30.html

For many months before Depraved came out I did a lot of going on and about how I believed it was my best novel yet, so it's cool to see that conviction validated to some degree by things like this.

Interview

Below is a link to a recent interview I did with Rhonda Wilson of Monsterlibrarian.com. This was published online a couple weeks ago, I believe, but I'm just now getting around to posting it here because I have been slowed down in just everything by the holiday season. Bring on the damn new year.

http://monsterlibrarian.com/BryanSmithinterview.htm