My editor interviews me for her Facebook page
When I moved my trilogy over to Permuted Press, I had the privilege of getting to work with Felicia Sullivan, editor extraordinaire. She had actually taken a look at the original version of Into the Dark before it went to print and helped me out with some advice about it, which I appreciated a great deal. This was after we met at Horror Realm in September of 2010-shortly after the original release of Comes the Dark. But when she was assigned to edit my trilogy by Permuted, she dove into the novels and helped to polish them up to a greater extent than ever before. And she knows my secret-my kryptonite as it were-when it comes to my writing. No, I’m not going to tell you what that is! But it is something I have worked hard at correcting ever since she lent me this insight and I am far better for having realized this particular failing of mine.
Felicia has her own Facebook page and not too long ago she asked me if I would like to be interviewed by her. So we discussed my work, my perspective on writing, and what my plan is for the zombie apocalypse. (To bug out, or not to bug out…). It was a fun little interview, and I appreciated the chance to once again plug my work. That interview was posted on her page today.
So if you would be so kind, take a few minutes and head on over to her page, “like” it, and check out my interview with the lovely Felicia Sullivan.
https://www.facebook.com/indieeditor
March 12, 2013 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Dark Stories, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: comes the dark, editor, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Permuted Press, writer, writing, zombies | 1 Comment
Fellow author Suzanne Robb interviews me on her blog.
I got the chance to answer a few questions (in my normally snarky way) that fellow author, and editor, Suzanne Robb came up with for me. You may know Suzanne from her fantastic book, “Z-Boat”, or because of her numerous other short story projects. She is in the process of editing an anthology that I have a privilege of being a part of entitled “Read The End First”, which is about 24 different tales about the end of the world…one specific to each time zone. That should be coming out soon, and more details on that later. But enough about Suzanne! Check out her interview of yours truly over on her blog: http://suzannerobb.blogspot.ca/2012/04/paatrick-dorazio-his-thoughts-on.html, and check out some of Suzanne’s stories as well!
April 16, 2012 | Categories: My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: beyond the dark, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, short stories, vampires, werewolves, writer, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview with Hydra Publications
Recently, I had the opportunity to catch up with Frank Hall, a good friend of mine who runs Hydra Publications, a small press from Indiana that focuses on speculative fiction. I did an interview with him, which was a lot of fun, and we chatted about my projects, past, present, and future.
It was a lot of fun, and it is posted over at their website. You can check it out here: http://www.hydrapublications.com/2011/12/26/interview-with-patrick-dorazio/
December 26, 2011 | Categories: My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: editing, horror, interview, short stories, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
Check out Tim Long’s interview of yours truly!
Tim Long, a fellow zombie novelist and all around great guy shot me over some questions a little while back. Some were normal, some were odd, and some…well, just check it out. I chat about my books, about my zombie slaying skills (well, sort of), I ramble a bit, and I chat about a new project I’m involved with that Tim handed the reins over to me on. So I am handling my first editing project. I will provide more details down the road as the book shapes up a bit more and is ready for primetime, but for now, give a looksee at the info on it over on his website: http://timothywlong.com/an-interview-with-patrick-dorazio/.
Thanks Tim for a fun interview. Oh and do Tim a favor and check out what else he has on his blog. He is in the process of releasing a couple of books and has a some others that have been out for a while…all of which I have read, and all of which I can heartily recommend…though a couple of them are pretty odd. But Tim is a pretty odd guy. And that, my friends, is a good thing!
September 26, 2011 | Categories: My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: Apocalypse, beyond the dark, comedy, comes the dark, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, publishing, short stories, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview with The Functional Nerds!
I had the chance to answer a few questions from podcaster and fellow author Patrick Hester, who is, proudly, a Functional Nerd. What is a functional nerd, you ask? Once upon a time, a boss noted that, for a nerd, Patrick Hester still managed to ‘function’ within society – hence was born: The Functional Nerd.
We chatted about bizarro, The Dark Trilogy, me (ugh!), my life outside of writing, the pluses and minuses of the “big publishing house route” vs. “the small press publishers”, short story writing vs. novel writing, and of course, zombies! It was a blast to do. Patrick conducts a great interview. My thanks to him for his great questions, insights, and the conversation we had afterword that shed some light on some really cool conventions I wasn’t aware of that I might be checking out in the upcoming months and years.
Check it out here! http://functionalnerds.com/2011/08/episode-067-patrick-dorazio/.
August 2, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: Apocalypse, beyond the dark, Bizarro, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, Permuted Press, short stories, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
Buyzombie.com interviews yours truly
Kevin Walsh over at Buyzombie.com spent some time recently coming up with some pretty good questions for me in an interview after he’d written the final review for my trilogy. I want to thank him for the time and effort. It was a lot of fun. So check it out here: http://www.buyzombie.com/2011/07/14/undead-news/patrick-dorazio-interview/
July 14, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Dark Stories, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: beyond the dark, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
And heeeeeerrrrrrres the interview!
I just mentioned in my prior post that Rebecca Besser had reviewed Comes The Dark and also that she had interviewed me as well. Well, Rebecca is a busy blogger today, because she just posted my interview after posting her review earlier today. You can check it out here: http://blog.rebeccabesser.com/2011/07/06/interview-with-patrick-dorazio-author-of-comes-the-dark-the-first-book-of-the-dark-trilogy.aspx
Thanks once again to Rebecca for taking the time to do the interview. It was a lot of fun!
July 6, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Dark Stories, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: Apocalypse, beyond the dark, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, short stories, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview over at Killer Aphrodite
Monique-Cherie Snyman has taken the time to review both of the first two books of my trilogy, and her review of Beyond The Dark should be appearing quite soon. I’m really excited to see what she thinks of it as well as the Dark Stories that appear in the ebook format of the trilogy. The interview was a lot of fun, and appears on her website, Killer Aphrodite (don’t you just love that name?). So check it out here: http://networkedblogs.com/jC0eT. I’ll post here when her review of Beyond The Dark shows up there as well. And of course, I want to thank Monique for taking the time to interview me. It was my pleasure!
June 26, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Dark Stories, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences | Tags: beyond the dark, book review, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, kindle, Library of the Living Dead, zombies | Leave a comment
Review of The Dark Trilogy and Interview of yours truly on Zombiephiles
Ursula K. Raphael has reviewed all three of the books in my trilogy for Zombiephiles. When I asked her to check out the kindle version of The Dark Trilogy because of the addition of the fourth book of short stories (aka Dark Stories) she was more than happy to do so, and now she has taken the time to give a review of that book as well over on Zombiephiles. But she didn’t stop there. She also asked me a few questions about the trilogy and my writing experiences in general and posted it over on the site as well. It was fun answering her questions and I can’t thank her enough for taking the time to read not only the trilogy but a book of extra stories about that universe I created for these characters. So give it a looksee here: http://www.zombiephiles.com/zombies-ate-my-brains/beyond-the-dark-end-of-the-dark-trilogy-by-dorazio-interview and once again, think about checking out The Dark Trilogy for the kindle, or if you have a different e-reader, head on over to smashwords to check it out. Of course, all three paperbacks are available as well for you folks that don’t like e-readers, so check those out as well!
June 20, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Dark Stories, Into The Dark | Tags: Apocalypse, beyond the dark, book review, comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, kindle, Library of the Living Dead, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview over at the Monkey Faced Demon Blog!
Mr. Moon interviews Patrick D’Orazio. Yep, the infamous Mr. Jonathan Moon, horror and bizarro writer (and editor) of epic magnitude, took the time out to ask me a few questions. Some of them were pretty normal, but a few…well, you’ll just have to see for yourself. I love the Deathmatch question. What? You don’t know what the Deathmatch question is? Well find out for yourself here: http://mrmoonblogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/mr-moon-interviews-patrick-dorazio.html. We talked about not only my books, but my short stories, my influences, and some other righteous topics.
It was a lot of fun checking in with Mr. Moon and I want to thank him for taking the time to do an interview with me that is coinciding with the release of Beyond the Dark. So please, check it out!
April 14, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts, The Shorts | Tags: beyond the dark, comes the dark, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, short stories, writer, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview with Shells Walter on Walter Rhein’s Blog
A little while back, author Shells Walter took the time out to do an interview with me for Walter Rhein’s blog. She asked me questions about my writing and the Dark trilogy. I enjoyed chatting with her and I hope you’ll check it out here: http://walterrhein.blogspot.com/2011/03/shells-chats-with-author-patrick.html. I want to thank Shells for the opportunity. It was a lot of fun!
March 12, 2011 | Categories: Beyond The Dark, Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: beyond the dark, comes the dark, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, short stories, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
I get interviewed by Joe McKinney!
I wanted to post a link to an interview I did, along with two other young guns in the zombie genre, with Joe McKinney, author of such books as Dead City and Apocalypse of the Dead. It was a real honor getting the chance to answer a few questions Mr. McKinney posed of me. He and Wayne Simmons, author of Drop Dead Gorgeous and Flu, have swapped blogs for the week, and so this interview appears on Wayne’s blog, which is doubly cool, since I really dig both these authors. So check out the Q & A I had with Joe, along with Lincoln Crisler and Lyle Perez, who he also interviewed. I am flattered to be in their company. Check it out here: http://waynesimmons.org/blog/?p=250
February 1, 2011 | Categories: Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Other folk's stuff..., Random Thoughts | Tags: comes the dark, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, short stories, writer, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
Check out my interview with Heather over at Doubleshot Reviews.
Heather over at Doubleshot Reviews was kind enough to interview me after reviewing Comes The Dark recently. So give it a looksee here: http://doubleshotreviews.com/2011/01/03/interview-with-patrick-dorazio/
January 3, 2011 | Categories: Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, Random Thoughts, The Shorts | Tags: comes the dark, Doubleshot Reviews, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Library of the Living Dead, short stories, zombies | Leave a comment
Check out my article on Flames Rising’s website about “Comes The Dark”
The folks over at Flames Rising let me take a swipe at talking about Comes The Dark and my writing experiences in general.
For folks not in the know, Flames Rising is an online resource for fans of Horror and Dark Fantasy entertainment. This horror fanzine offers reviews of Games, Fiction, Movies and more ranging from Top-Selling authors to the coolest Small Press and “indie” publishers. The popular Interviews at Flames Rising include Horror authors, artists and other creators of dark entertainment. So you should be checking them out!
And more to the point, check out my article, here: http://www.flamesrising.com/comes-the-dark-essay/
December 18, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: comes the dark, editing, horror, interview, Library of the Living Dead, publishing, short stories, writer, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
Check out my interview for Permuted Press!
I recently had the chance to answer some questions for Erika Gilbert for Permuted Press about my books, my experiences as an author, and on writing in general. It was fun to do and I hope you’ll check it out!
Hit this link to go to my interview: http://permutedpress.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-author-patrick-dorazio.html
Many thanks to Erika for asking the questions and Jacob over at Permuted Press for hosting the interview!
December 2, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, Into The Dark, My Writing Experiences | Tags: comes the dark, dark stories, horror, interview, Into The Dark, Permuted Press, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
My interview on Blog Talk Radio
My interview with Sonar 4 tonight, for those who didn’t get the chance to check it out live.
Lori Titus and Tonia Brown did a great job and it was a lot of fun talking about Comes The Dark, some of my short stories, and the absolutely horrendous book I wrote back in high school that remains locked away forever.
Check it out!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sonar4magtalkshow
September 26, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts, The Shorts | Tags: Apocalypse, Bizarro, comedy, comes the dark, cover art, horror, Horror Realm, interview, Library of Erotic Horror, Library of Fantasy, Library of Horror, Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Library of the Living Dead, science fiction, Superheroes, writer, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
Interview over at Living Dead Corner
I was recently interviewed by Mike Gardner over at Living Dead Corner about Comes The Dark as well as some of the short stories I’ve been working on. We also chatted about the upcoming sequel and the third installment in my trilogy, along with some other interesting topics. Take a look see over at: http://livingdeadcorner.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-author-patrick-dorazio.html
I want to thank Mike for taking the time to interview me and asking some great questions. It was fun doing the interview with another up and coming horror writer.
So click on over and check it out!
August 28, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, My Writing Experiences, The Shorts | Tags: comes the dark, horror, interview, short stories, writer, writing, zombies | Leave a comment
New Interview of yours truly posted
Matt Nord, aka Farmboy, aka Zombie Custodian, has just posted an interview we just did. So if you can stand to read some more of my babble about Comes The Dark and some of my short story stuff, take a looksee over at:
http://zombiecustodian.blogspot.com/
I would like to thank Matt for asking me to answer his questions. It still does amaze me that anyone out there is interested in anything I have to say on any subject whatsoever. It was a lot of fun.
August 23, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, My Writing Experiences | Tags: horror, interview, Library of the Living Dead, zombies | Leave a comment
Interview with That Book Place and book signing announced.
I was interviewed for a book signing I will be doing with my good friend, Ben Rogers on October 23rd at That Book Place in Madison, Indiana (www.thatbookplace.com) and it appears on their website, here: http://www.thatbookplace.com/interviews/56-interview-patrick-dorazio
I would like to that Beth, PR Guru Extraordinaire for setting up both the interview and the book signing, which will be a lot of fun. I would like to also thank Frank Hall from That Book Place for inviting us to sign books at his store.
July 29, 2010 | Categories: Comes The Dark, My Writing Experiences | Tags: Book signing, comes the dark, interview, Library of the Living Dead, writing, zombies | 2 Comments
My first interview!!!
Tim Long, Horror and Fantasy Writer Extraordinaire, was kind enough to include me in a interview he did with several different up and coming writers who are getting published in various Library of the Living Dead Press works.
It was a blast to do. There is plenty of other good stuff in his podcast for the horror fan, so check it out!
http://longtimedead.podomatic.com/
April 27, 2010 | Categories: My Writing Experiences, Random Thoughts | Tags: comes the dark, horror, interview, Library of the Living Dead, publishing, writing, zombies | 1 Comment
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