{"id":32109,"date":"2023-02-09T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=32109"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:39:30","slug":"keene-and-sangiovanni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/09\/keene-and-sangiovanni\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborate over breakfast with Brian Keene and Mary SanGiovanni in Episode 191 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who’s listened to more than a few episodes of Eating the Fantastic already knows — collaboration confuses me. Tell me two writers have managed to work together on the same project without blood on the floor and a lifelong feud and I’m baffled. So when I learned previous guests of the show Brian Keene<\/a> and Mary SanGiovanni<\/a> had collaborated on the short story collection Things Left Behind<\/em>, released last year by Thunderstorm Books, I knew we’d have to chat about it.<\/p>\n

We met for breakfast at Martinsburg, West Virginia’s Blue White Grill<\/a>, which has been serving diner food since the ’50s.<\/p>\n

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Brian\u2019s published more than 40 novels, including the best-selling The Rising<\/em>, and he\u2019s the winner of the 2014 World Horror Grand Master Award, while Mary is the author of The Hollower <\/em>trilogy, the first volume of which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. There\u2019s a whole lot more to know about each of them, as you\u2019ll learn if you listen to those two earlier episodes.<\/p>\n

We discussed how being intimidated by each other helps their collaborative process, their different tolerances for writing gore (and how that’s changed over time), the romantic reason (up until this episode known to only one of them) their collaborative short story collection came about, which of them once wrote 45,000 words in a day, how they came to agree on a joint dedication, who gives each story its final polish (and who get the final say on sending it to market), how Brian attempted to bleed all over Mary’s upcoming Alien<\/em> novel, the way they approach their own deaths, their honeymoon book tour hitting every state but Alaska and Hawaii, their upcoming collaborative novel, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us — <\/p>\n

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2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n