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The Splattered!@%#! Q & A

WEEK 8 - 02/22/2010

James Roy Daley

 

OK, I'll be honest. Sometimes I'm like a monkey that get's distracted when it see's something NEW. I like Art. I appreciate Art and when I saw the cover of James Roy Daley's book The Dead Parade, I was that monkey once again! I mean, c'mon that is an awesome cover!

 

I figured any book with a cover like that and a name like The Dead Parade has got to be awesome, so I asked James to do one of our weekly Splattered!@%#! Q & A's.

 

He obliged and also sent along a PDF of The Dead Parade, so I could check it out myself. I have yet to read it, but will soon and will let you know what I think. I hope it is a little more creative than some of his Q & A answers, but that's a whole other story!

 

No, in all actuality I've heard nothing but good things about The Dead Parade. As a matter of fact, here are some of the Amazon.com reviews...

 

--Thank you for the gruesome nightmares!--

--bloody, gruesome and sick...but in that GOOD way!--

--One of the best Debut Novels I have read...--

--Twisted, evil, devious...delightful--

--Scaring the demons out of you--

 

Well, I'm a Horror fan, so that sounds pretty cool to me!

 

I'll tell you what. I'll let you know what I think. You go to Amazon.com, get a copy for yourself and tell me what you think. We''ll make our own decisons and talk about it later because on February 22, 2010 James Roy Daley is our Week 8 Splattered!@%#! Q & A!

 

 

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All Photo's where borrowed from James' MySpace pages, for photo credit information, please check there!

 

Drummer, Writer & A-1 Q & A answerer James Roy Daley.

Author of the horror novel 'The Dead Parade' .

WEEK 8-The Splattered!@%#! Q & A with James Roy Daley

 

 

SplatterTribe: Introduce and compare yourself to something you would see in your average (non-dead) parade and explain why the comparison.

 

James Roy Daley: Okay – My name is James Roy Daley and I don’t know. The last Parade I saw was the Santa Claus Parade back when I was five years old. I guess I’m like Santa, because… uh… I live in Canada, near the North Pole?

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: For anyone who has no idea who you are, give a little resume on James Roy Daley.

 

James Roy Daley: I’m a musician turned filmmaker turned writer. I’m currently writing my forth novel and editing my first anthology. The anthology is called the Best New Zombie Tales. My first novel, The Dead Parade, is currently available in 1100 stores across America and has been getting nothing but great reviews. Bad Moon Books will be releasing it as a limited edition hardcover in March of 2010, with cover art by Eerie Von (Misfits, Danzig, Samhain). Find it online here:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Parade-James-Roy-Daley/dp/1934861103

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: OK, let's jump right into your book the Dead Parade, I think it has the most awesome cover I have ever seen. Who is the artist and how did it end up the cover?

 

James Roy Daley: Yeah – the cover’s great. It was done by Nicolas Caesar. Nick runs something called the Scary Art Collective, which is a place for artists of the macabre.

 

I didn't start thinking about the cover until after the book was written and the contract was signed. I'm not sure why. Looking back, it seems only logical that every writer fresh off the turnip truck would be thinking about how awesome the cover was going to look, right around the time they hit page nine. Maybe I didn't think about the cover because I've been in the entertainment industry awhile and I've learned to put first things first. Maybe I was focused on writing a good book instead. Either way, here I am and here it is. Is the cover a good one? I think so. Is the book a good one? Hell, I don't know. By the time any true artist finishes something their opinion is no longer valid. But I'm getting off track here. The point is, when the book was finished and the contract was signed I thought, I wonder what the cover will look like. Then a week or two later it hit me: what if it looks like shit?

 

Lets face it, some of the covers out there are brutal. And I don't mean brutally scary, I mean brutally stupid looking. I started to get nightmares about my cover. I kept thinking of some of the things I've seen on the message boards––guys posting covers that looked like they'd been created in a grade three art class the day before Halloween. And what makes it so much worse, is that there are usually about thirty posts after it saying, "Oh man, I really like that cover." Excuse me, what? That cover is visually obtuse.

 

I decided to take the bull by the horns. I searched for my own cover. Of course, this little resolution came with its own set of problems now, didn't it?

 

 

 


What, exactly, did I want?

I broke it down like this: Either A) - Get something that was really nice, something my mother would think didn't look too bad and all of the artsy-fartsy guys could appreciate. Or B) - Get something that would make horror fans say "that looks cool."

I remembered being a kid in grade nine––buying those H. P. Lovecraft books because the covers were scaring the shit out of me. And, with that, it was decided. I wanted something that looked cool. Why be artsy-fartsy on the outside if I plan on ripping your throat out on the inside?

In the end I put Nicolas and my publisher together and hoped for the best.

 

 


SplatterTribe: If you had to describe The Dead Parade in 20 words or less, how would you describe it?

 

James Roy Daley: The Dead Parade is the knowledge I obtained in film school with the desire to write like early Stephen King.

 

 


SplatterTribe: How do you define each of the following words?

 

James Roy Daley:

-Music- Art for your ears.

-Entertainment- Something that takes you away from the real world.
 -Art- The fruit of creation.
 -Life- The thing that happens after birth and before death.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Finish the following sentences for me...

 

James Roy Daley:

-If you don't like James Roy Daley you can......... join the crowd.

-I cannot stand......... high-pitched noise.

-There isn't anything cooler than......... the Fonz

 

 

 

SplatterTribe:  Do you believe in and or had any experiences with...

 

James Roy Daley:

-Ghosts?  Yes.

-UFOs?  No.

-Sasquatch?No.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: How, when and where do you do most of your writing?

 

James Roy Daley: I do most of my writing in my room, on the computer, late at night.

 

 


SplatterTribe: Make one combined sentence out of the following words:

 

-trash

-parade

-splatter

-magazine

-zipper

-gift

 

James Roy Daley: When you put the words trash, parade, splatter, magazine, zipper and gift together in a sentence, you’ve created one sad-ass sentence.

 

(Tribe Note: And even more important than that, you get one lame-ass answer!..............OHHH!........... BAMM!................. WARNING!............ WARNING!............ Third Degree BURN on SplatterTribe.TV! Can someone get this man some Aloe?!)

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: We have a Proverb Of The Week on the SplatterTribe Message Board and it is sometimes hard coming up with one. Do you have a good Proverb we can use?

 

James Roy Daley: As a matter of fact…no. Like you said, it’s hard coming up with a good one.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: What visually comes to mind when you hear the word SplatterTribe?

 

James Roy Daley: Very dirty group sex

 

 

 

SplatterTribe:  Any chances of working that into a story?

 

James Roy Daley: Probably not, but I’ll get back to you on that.

 

(Tribe Note: BTW, back in question 4 when I said something about 20 words or less, I was only talking about that particular question! Juss.....Sayin'!)

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: I ask everyone I interview if they have a good random question to ask a future interviewee. It can be serious, tongue in cheek or whatever. This one comes from Tyler Coe, Guitarist and son for Country Music Legend David Allen Coe and his question is...

 

---What is the scariest nightmare you've ever had?

 

James Roy Daley: When I was five I dreamt that thousands of snakes were under my bed.

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Do you have a good random question I can ask a future interviewee?

 

James Roy Daley: Sure. Ever think of giving up?

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Do you have a question you would like to ask me?

 

James Roy Daley: Sure. Do you buy small press books?

 

(Tribe Note: Uhm, sure I do......I buy them all the time......Uhm, yeah, small press books. I got a whole collection of them........They're like press books, only small. Yeah I love those little things! They are adorable!)

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: What are the best stories you have ever read besides your own?

 

James Roy Daley: The most underrated horror writer today is Rio Youers; he’s worth checking out.

 

 


SplatterTribe: Story time. Can you turn this one line into a paragraph?

 

-I woke up that monday morning and did not want to open my eyes because.....

 

James Roy Daley: Not a chance. The word ‘that’ is a needless word, the word ‘monday’ needs a capital M, and the ellipses on the end of the sentence should have three dots, not five. The sentence is fucked up beyond repair. If my car looked that bad, I’d send it to the junkyard ASAP.

 

(Tribe Note: OK, so maybe it is an oddly worded sentence. -BUT- 'That' would be the most important word in the sentence being that I'm talking about a particular Monday. Monday is just a spell check fix (but I'm sure you NEVER make any punctuation errors there, do ya there Mr. Perfect?) and the ellipses are not there to be part of the sentence. They are there to let you know where to begin your reply (mid sentence). Obviously, I didn't make that OBVIOUS enough for ya though, huh?

 

Let's look at it like this though. You have three ellipses for the story and two extra's for you to find somewhere to shove! Wait.........There's a few more........And even more...........  I have an idea! Maybe you can shove them where your creativity area is supposed to be located. I think your book must have depleted it, because with the looks of some of this Q & A, you have plenty of room in there for a couple of ellipses! If not, I'm sure you can find somewhere to shove'm! ...WAIT.... .............There's some more..........)

 

(Tribe Note-Note: ..............

...............LOOK.....................

...............................MORE.....

........ELLIPSES..............B... ...............B......Bur.....B.........

Bur...B....BURN...................

...............................................)

 

 

 

SplatterTribe: Any closing comments concerning anything you want said, known, printed or shown?

 

James Roy Daley: Naw. You’ve been great. Thanks for having me.

Cheers!

 

(Tribe Note: Uhm.....Wow if that Q & A doesn't make you want to read 'The Dead Parade', I don't know what will!!! Seriously though, everybody do check out 'The Dead Parade'! It has gotten a lot better reviews than this Q & A is gonna get!

No, no, no, actually, I'm just having a little fun James. Welcome to the Tribe! We Love Ya! I'm sure we just got alot more eventful with your presence!)

 

Get yourself a copy of The Dead Parade at.....

 

amazon.com/Dead-Parade-James-Roy-Daley/dp/1934861103

 

myspace.com/thedeadparadebook

 

jamesroydaley.com

 

 

 

 

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