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For Immediate Release
THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR Friendship Reborn Through Dark Scribe Magazine Award
From all outward appearances, James A. Moore and Jeff Strand, co-authors of THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR, couldn't have been happier. Behind the scenes, however, their relationship was a maelstrom of fiery rage, cruel deception, and rancid jealousy.
"By the end of it, just hearing the name 'Jeff Strand' made me want to vomit all over my jeans," said Moore, chuckling at the memory. "He was simply an awful, awful human being, and collaborating with him on that novel was like having somebody ignite a chimpanzee and shove the burning monkey up one of my nostrils. Just flat-out painful, you know what I mean?"
Strand concurred. "There were challenges in our working relationship, no doubt about it. I read his first chapter and I'm all like, WTF? Because I was familiar with Jim's previously published work, and I didn't recall it sucking. It was like that with every chapter. An endless avalanche of suck."
"Here's the thing," said Moore. "You tend to elevate the level of your work when you're writing with a quality individual. When I wrote with Chris Golden, my stuff rocked! When you write with Jeff Strand...well, it's important for a novel to have balance. If it's one great chapter, one crap chapter, one great chapter, one crap chapter, and so on, the reader's going to get motion sickness. I was just ensuring continuity."
That said, Moore and Strand kept their mutual hatred secret for the long thirteen years it took for the project to reach fruition...to all but Paul Miller, owner of Earthling Publications.
"Oh, jeez, you wouldn't believe what I had to go through with those two," said Paul Miller, drinking an unidentified beverage from a double-sized flask. "Every two minutes I'm hearing 'Jeff is doing this!' and 'Jim is doing that!' and I was about ready to bash their frickin' heads together. I had dreams about it. Sweet, sweet dreams where their heads smashed together and their gooey brains splattered out the top and I danced on their corpses and laughed and laughed and laughed." Miller paused for another gulp of his beverage. "It was a difficult time."
Ultimately, the book was completed. After a "light" rewrite to fix "minor areas of concern" to make the book "into something even remotely publishable," THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR was made available by Earthling Publications to universal acclaim, if one excludes Publishers Weekly from the universe.
Horror World called it "one of the freshest and most entertaining novels in recent years," while GoreZone magazine described it as "over two hundred pages of non-stop, in your face, gore-drenched action." FearZone said "If you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead in the theaters, you'll absolutely love this book," and Horror-Web said "James A. Moore and Jeff Strand are a literary dream team. Devout readers of the genre are in for a real treat."
Despite the kind words, Moore and Strand still pretty much hated each other's guts.
In public, they played the role of happy co-authors, with Strand even offering up a charming and amusing contribution to the James A. Moore Roast at NECon 2007. "But if you look at the pictures, you'll see the disgust in my eyes," said Strand. "The audience saw Jim Moore, unwilling roast victim. I saw Jim Moore, the bastard who'd slept with my mistress not thirty minutes prior."
"She was a very naughty girl," said Jim Moore with a devilish grin.
But then the impossible happened. Dark Scribe Magazine announced its first annual Black Quill Awards, and THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Small Press Chill. Elated, Strand made call after call to share the news...but nobody was home. "I had to talk to somebody," he said, "and finally I got to Jim Moore's name and thought, what the heck?"
The two spoke for hours, offering tearful apologies, sharing fond memories of good times during their pre-collaborative days, and honoring each other's requests on webcam.
"This award fixed our friendship," said Moore. "Fans of the first novel can now look forward to THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR II, THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR III, THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR 4 (we decided, like the HALLOWEEN series, that we didn't want to alienate dumber readers by using IV), THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR 5, THE HAUNTED FOREST TOUR: MUMBLECRUST'S VENGEANCE, and then a reimagining of the original HAUNTED FOREST TOUR with a younger cast."
"Jim is awesome," said Strand. "Just...awesome."
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