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Extensive interview with Conrad Williams
Posted by Paul Raven on June 6th, 2008 at 7:23
Just a quickie for Friday – Fantasy Book Critic has a lengthy internet-chinwag with renowned horror author Conrad Williams, whose PS Publishing novella The Scalding Rooms is on the Shirley Jackson Awards shortlist this year. Williams has a healthy lack of false modesty on the issue of awards, it seems:
“I’m lucky to have won a few gongs and they mean more to me than they probably should, but I can’t help it. I see it as a vindication of what I’m trying to do. They are enormously encouraging things. And of course, it looks good on a book. The British Fantasy Society award was special because it was my first, voted for by my peers. And the International Horror Guild means a lot to me because it was juried, and because I beat Stephen King, a massive influence on me when I was starting out, in order to win it.”
There aren’t many folk who can say they’ve beaten Stephen King on his own turf! Let’s hope Conrad Williams adds another ornament to the mantelpiece when the Shirley Jackson Awards are announced.
In the meantime, there are a last final few copies of Williams‘ The Scalding Rooms in the warehouse – click through now before they get away!
- The Scalding Rooms – jacketed hardcover – £25.00 ($50.00 approx.) – nearly sold out!
- The Scalding Rooms – hardcover – £10.00 ($20.00 approx.) – nearly sold out!
[Hat tip 'n' mad props to Ed Ashby - cheers, Ed!]