Joe Hill, Author Of The Fireman NPRby Joe Hill. Novelist Joe Hill has a pronouncement to make The world is really divided into two kinds of people. People who adore plague novels and wimps. And even if youre one of those wimps, Hills newest apocalyptic plague novel called The Fireman may catch your attention with its strange premise. A highly contagious pathogen is burning across the country its known colloquially as Dragonscale, for the lovely black and gold marks that appear on your body but eventually, youll burst into flames. My story focuses on a single person, Harper. NPRs Rachel Martin. She knows that theres a chance for her baby to be born healthy, if she can just last nine months. So she determines to survive, even with the world going up in flames around her. Interview Highlights. Bank Robber Game Full Version. On why he chose Harper as his main character. You know, Im not sure exactly why I settled on her. I know I wanted to write about pregnancy. I do think its kind of interesting, the idea of a life forming inside you and hijacking your bodys biology to serve its own ends. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. All Prizes Merchandise from Sega Arcade. By continuing to use our website you agree to our use of cookies to improve your experience. Halloween is the third episode of Series 3. It is Halloween in Pontypandy and a terrible storm. Andkon Arcade 1000 free flash games, updated weekly, and no popupsAnd when I began to think about the dragonscale as this sort of living organism painted on your skin, thats making use of your biology, I saw a connection to that. The other thing is, is Harper is very sunny and optimistic, and so many end of the world stories are grim and bleak, which is totally understandable cause its sort of a grim subject, but I like the idea of this plague as an unstoppable force pouring over the nation, and I sorta had this picture of Harper as the immoveable object it would dash itself against. On his dad, Stephen King. Gta San Andreas Hijack Save Game here. My book does carry a lot of echoes of The Stand, which is a novel that I adored, and you know, I sometimes joked that the book is The Stand if it was soaked in gasoline and set on fire. Joe Hill. I, you know, I hope hell keep at it and write some more stuff, because this is a guy whos got a real futureMy book does carry a lot of echoes of The Stand, which is a novel that I adored, and you know, I sometimes joked that the book is The Stand if it was soaked in gasoline and set on fire. On what it was about his family that stimulated creativity. Happiness, I think. It was a really happy family, and it sounds very 1. I read the Chronicles of Narnia, thats how I first read H. P. Lovecraft. Theres a great Jay Leno joke where Jay Leno says, you know, Stephen King says to the kids, lets all have a bedtime story, and the kids all go NOOOO Actually, my dad told hysterical bedtime stories I remember he wrote one called The Fart Cookies, which was about three children, Naomi, Owen and Joe, whose parents were sick, and they went to a witch for help. And she gave us cookies, and you ate them and you began to fart out of control. So he told the best bedtime stories in the history of bedtime stories. On his childhood fears. I was an anxious kid. I struggled with anxiety for years and years, into my 2. In a lot of ways, thats why I wound up writing as Joe Hill. When I was in college, I had an anxiety that I knew I wanted to be a writer, and I was afraid Id write mediocre fiction that would get published anyway. I needed to know for myself, for my own confidence that when I sold a story, that it sold for the right reasons, that an editor was genuinely psyched about it. What I really liked was ghost stories, and at a certain point, I realized, hey, no one knows who you are, and if you want to write a ghost story, you have permission now. Youre not Stephen Kings son anymore, youre just Joe Hill. But the truth is, I love my dad. Im an enormous Stephen King fan, we talk every day, and theres never going to be a writer whos influence is going to be on my work like his. On writing cliffhangers. If you dont have something like that at the end of the chapter, where people feel excitement to go on, theres a horrible danger that theyll put the book down and turn on You. Tube. I mean, have you ever looked at You. Tube All the cat videos and funny mashups and stuff Its a tough world out there You have to fight. You have to put the gas pedal down on the first page, and keep it there, or youll lose them.