December 2, 2009
An interview with Cooper Renner
at The Collagist:
“Running Night” is part of a short collection which is substantially finished, but it falls within a larger grouping of Malta-related lycanthropic work which is ongoing. The first entry, in terms of being written, is the novel A Death by the Sea, which I drafted during NaNoWriMo in 2008. Four sections of it have been published (New York Tyrant, Keyhole, Anemone Sidecar, Unscroll), and I’d love to find a publisher for the whole thing. Anyway, that started the Malta ball rolling for me. Once I got my mind really wrapped up in this world, ideas kept coming. The framework for the story collection, which I’m calling Dr Fenech’s Guide to Lycanthropy in Malta (1913), is that the doctor is collecting old tales from older men and women on Malta and Gozo and hoping to publish them in England.
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Thank you, hon.
It’s cool that you speak of inspiration from a book that Phil sent you.
Great interview, Coop – I blushed at the mention, or was it a hot flush!