Q&A with Garrett Cook discussion

If you think werewolves are hiding in your toilet and you want to find out about me or my brand of Experimental Neopulp Bizarro ask a question here.

Werewolves don't like heaps of snow so there's none in my outhouse. Thanks for the invite. How is everything going with you?

Been better, been worse from time to time. But at least Lon Chaney Jr. isn't waiting for me in the bathroom.

Well that's good anyway. Yeah, I go through waves too. For a while I'll be all gung-ho and then I'll go 'why am I beating my head against this brick wall?' Several feet of snow have been keeping me distracted the last few days.

Much as I hate snow, I do prefer it to grey oblivion.

Garrett wrote: "If you think werewolves are hiding in your toilet and you want to find out about me or my brand of Experimental Neopulp Bizarro ask a question here."

Okay, I'll ask about your brand of Exp. Neop. Biz.: What is that?

Since you've read Archelon Ranch, you've had a sampling of it. I like to combine experimental narratives with pulpy plot elements and intense themes. I'm influenced by pulp and cult cinema, but I want to write the smartest, strangest stuff I can. Things that are meant for pop culture occur in work that's literary and pulpy at the same time. This is a big priority for me. For example, while my upcoming book Jimmy Plush, Teddy Bear Detective, has an absurd pulp plot it is an examination of manhood, heroism and self that goes to some very dark and deep places.

Well then, maybe you should add a little snow. That way, at least it won't LOOK too dark. ;)