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Terrific Interview/Review/Giveaway – The Blood

D.J. MacHale — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:26 +0000

Check it out. A big thanks to Jean Vallesteros.

http://jeanbooknerd.blogspot.com/2012/04/nyt-best-selling-author-dj-machale.html

Blog of the Blood

D.J. MacHale — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:18:24 +0000

Here’s where you can discuss The Blood…and the overall story since it is has now all been published. But please…mark spoilers clearly. Don’t want to be giving away any surprises. In fact, if you haven’t read The Blood you should probably avoid this blog! ***BIG...Read More

Marsh or Cooper?

D.J. MacHale — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:12:26 +0000

Who do you identify more with? They are such opposites who are caught up in the same dilemma.

How Shannon drew Marshall Seaver

D.J. MacHale — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:57:39 +0000

A very talented reader created an illustration of Marsh and I thought it would be fun to post it. I think she’s great.

Morpheus Road #2 – The Title

D.J. MacHale — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:21:46 +0000

Okay, here goes.

If you’ve read “The Light”, then you can pretty much figure out what the title of the second book in the trilogy is going to be. We learned that the place where Marsh (and the rest of us) live is referred to as: “The Light”. In trying to get Marsh to find the poleax, Damon says that it’s in the Light, but the answer to where it is can be found is somewhere else and he threatens to send Marshall there. So the next stop along the Morpheus Road is the title of the second book:

Morpheus Road: The Black.

Many of you figured that out, though most thought it would be called “The Dark”. So the titles aren’t descriptions, they’re references to actual places. Which raises the question: What will the title of #3 be? I won’t discuss that until The Black comes out next year. But I will say this: As with “The Light”, once you’ve read “The Black” you’ll pretty much know what that title is going to be.

Back on to Morpheus Road #2…

D.J. MacHale — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:55:36 +0000

Finishing up the next draft.

Should I divulge the title?

Morpheus Road: The Light (Discussion)

D.J. MacHale — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:05:10 +0000

(CAREFUL, SPOILERS AHEAD)

Now that The Light has been out for a month, I figured it was okay to start a topic to discuss it.

For those who have read my Pendragon books, you know that I write stories that don’t always go where you think they’re going. Morpheus Road is no different. At the end of “The Light” there are some very big twists and story shifts . . . not the least of which is the reveal of what Gravedigger is all about. Or not about. Who thinks they know where the story is now headed?

MORPHEUS ROAD – The Trailer

D.J. MacHale — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:31:32 +0000

To honor being one month away from publication, we’ve put up a video trailer about Morpheus Road. This will be shown in some theaters in late May, but you can see it here first. Go to the video section of the djmachalebooks.com website. (And turn...Read More

Irrational fears

D.J. MacHale — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:31:18 +0000

We all have irrational fears, not to mention rational ones. Me? I don’t do well with snakes, but they pretty much fall into the rational variety. Anything that can sneak up on you and deliver a lethal bite is worthy of my terror.

Of the irrational sort, I am afraid of clowns. In a big way. I’m a classic Bozo-phobe. I can even trace it back to an incident when I was about two years old and was taken to see a movie in a theater for the very first time. It was a matinee, back in the day when parents would drop kids off for the afternoon, unsupervised. Basically, it was anarchy. In between the Huey, Dewey and Louie cartoon and The Shaggy Dog, a special live appearance was made by Clarabell the clown. For those who don’t know, Clarabell was Howdy Doody’s sidekick. He didn’t speak (a particularly strange affectation embraced by some clowns) and only communicated through the honking of various horns. So this creep comes charging down the aisle, the kids go ballistic, and my brain exploded.

So it may be an irrational fear, but at least I have an excuse.

What irrational fears do you have?

What was the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?

D.J. MacHale — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:16:10 +0000

I don’t know if this was the scariest movie ever made, but it scared me more than any other movie. When I was about eight my sister took me to a Disney flick (Sword in the Stone). No problem there. But the second feature was a horror film called Black Sabbath. I begged my sister to stay for the second movie. Big mistake. I don’t remember much about it other than there were three stories and one was about a Medium who died and a visiting nurse stole her ring and the Medium (who was hideous looking) came back from the dead to get it back. I had nightmares for years about that witch-looking thing popping out from under my bed. What movie scared you the most?