Dale and I talk with Alex Carr from Amazon’s Omnivoracious about the conception of Survivors’ Club, about the “Ceti Alpha V earworm from hell” as Dale calls it that we sent borrowing into the DC offices, and the characters that keep surprising us. AC: Each of these characters represents an archetype in horror—how did you decide […]
My TEDxJohannesburg talk is up – on why I write, the power of reading, the transportive nature of stories, which I cover by getting into a whole bunch of stories about my weird novel research adventures. “Lauren writes stories for a living. In her own household, in fact, stories are sacred. So sacred that she would […]
Dale and I had an interesting chat with Zac Thompson of Bloody Disgusting about Survivors’ Club, 80’s horror tropes, and our amazing illustrator and co-creator, Ryan Kelly. Here’s a snippet of the conversation on the intimacy of horror: Bloody-Disgusting: What is it about a group of survivors that made you want to tell this story? How are they uniquely suited (or […]
Dale Halvorsen and I chatted with Paste about the Survivors’ Club series we are working on and our writing and plotting sessions, which Dale told them are “like creepy playtime”. Dale talked about Bill Sienkiewcz’s work and how his head exploded like a scene out of David Cronenberg’s Scanners when Vertigo suggested Sienkiewiwcz do our covers, and we had […]
Thrilled to hear from my Spanish publisher, Siruela, that Monstruos rotos (Broken Monsters) has sold out and is going for a second printing. Thank you Spain! Here is a picture of me with dried protea antlers to celebrate. Spanish newspaper El Pais interviewed me about the book and noir in general, If you click through […]
The original horror comic I’m co-writing with Dale Halvorsen aka Joey Hi-Fi, with gorgeous, creepy, compelling art by Ryan Kelly, cinematic colors by Eva de la Cruz and lettering by Clem Robins, is getting some very nice shouts from comics pros we love! Survivors’ Club tells the story of six people who survived real-life horror […]
Love getting mail from Leonardo DiCaprio and the Appian Way team! Even if it is a month late Christmas card thanks to the SA postal system. Appian Way are developing The Shining Girls as a movie together with MRC.
The people of Brand South Africa wrote up this list of “31 books every South Africa should read“. I’m honoured that they included Zoo City, together with Nadine Gordimer, legend Zakes Mda, Breyten Breytenbach, and so many other brilliant local writers of our past and present. Here’s what Brand South Africa has to say about Zoo City: […]