Craig Davidson

Welcome to the House of Mystery with your host, Alan R. Warren.

Tonight's guests are Nick Cutter and Erik D'Souza.

You're listening to KCAA 106.5 FM, Los Angeles.

Welcome back into the House of Mystery.

we've got to find out the end, of course.

That's the main thing that we want here.

So joining us, of course, is the Canadian horror writer, Nick Cutter, and he's got a new book called The Dorians.

So welcome, Nick.

I can't do that.

There's a horror writer that a lot of folks like named Nick Cutter.

He's a very talented writer.

He's very gross.

I doubt it.

I have seen Nick Cutter books at Walmart.

Really? They had his latest book.

And I know they've got his books at Barnes & Noble.

What was

it called again?

The Troop by Nick Cutter.

But again.

The last book you have read, Lindsay?

It's called The Troop by Nick Cutter.

And let me warn everybody, it is quite a ride.

It's a horror book.

It's October.

We got to be scaring ourselves.

So The Troop by Nick Cutter will keep you awake at night for sure.

So it's not just your choice of books to write.

It's just weird to read this one right now where everyone has gotten into injecting themselves so they can lose weight.

And [laughs] yeah, what, what happens to, uh, people in this book, The Troop by Nick Cutter [laughs] it gets my brain going like, "Oh, he was ahead of his time.

He should've put this book out r- right now." Right now 'cause if, if you're, uh, one of the people who is using a GLP-1, uh, type of product, I bet this book would really scare you, really scare you if you've been losing weight pretty rapidly [laughs].

It's, it's a pretty gruesome book too.

There's an enormous push for the writer more and more to be promoting their work and to be actively engaging engaging and so i think it's something a lot of us deal with you know how do we balance getting our work out there and getting interest but also not absolutely destroying our health and productivity and creativity

yeah i think um i was just talking with craig davidson uh nick cutter about this and i think his publisher kind of strong-armed him a little bit to get onto social media because of this very thing it's like yeah it does sell books and it's like i i totally get that from a business perspective i think in my case because i still have i'm still posting on there and you know my person that runs it will still send me photos of things or like if somebody sends me a dm i generally don't respond to dm's blanket unless it's like oh this specific person is reaching out for a podcast then i'll be like okay give them my email that kind of thing um so i still have quite a bit of a presence on there it's just kind of filtered through this person that runs it for me so in that case i don't think the publisher even has really noticed my lack of absence on there or whatever but i would say yeah it's hard to know because then i would say oh well if you're self-published then you don't have to worry about as much but no it's almost more important at that point for for self-promotion and everything so uh yeah if somebody if somebody has a person in their life whether it's like a partner or a close friend um yeah it's definitely a very very nice thing to have but if for people that aren't able to have that buffer i would just say really try to like lock down get an app that locks it down to a certain hour of the day there's tons of apps out there that do that and like will be like you can only use it at this time because even if you have the willpower to not look at it while you're writing, you're still using willpower to not look at it.

And that pull is draining you.

And so just knowing physically, like I couldn't even access it if I wanted to right now, that still helped me.

And I love a spooky story.

I'm reading something called The Troop right now, which is by Nick Cutter.

And it's so scary.

It's about this Boy Scout troop and this biological weapon that's a parasite.

It's a beautiful pivot, honestly.

We're turning to Craig Davidson's The Saturday Night Ghost Club.

I hadn't heard of this one before.

It's wonderful.