{"id":19321,"date":"2003-03-20T20:21:01","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:34:51","slug":"steve-niles-is-quite-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19321","title":{"rendered":"Steve Niles is Quite a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/\/z032003niles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Steve Niles<\/b> is quite a writer.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he should be though since he&#8217;s been making a living at it for about fifteen years. What? You haven&#8217;t heard of him? Sure you have! I wrote a<b> ZONE<\/b> piece on <b>Steve<\/b> way back on January 4th, after I read his novel, <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977526\/craizabls\/002-5019288-9248823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guns, Drugs and Monsters<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>I was so impressed with <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977526\/craizabls\/002-5019288-9248823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guns, Drugs and Monsters<\/a><\/u> that I immediately bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/097122823X\/craizabls\/002-2068293-3882450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savage Membrane<\/a>, the first <b>Cal McDonald<\/b> novel. It was just as good! There are more <b>Cal McDonald<\/b> novels in the works, as well as a series from <b>Dark Horse Comics<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Steve<\/b> is also the author of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977550\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30 Days of Night<\/a><\/b>, a vampire graphic novel that <b>Ben Templesmith<\/b> illustrated. It has just gone into it&#8217;s third printing, and was optioned [for a cool million bucks] by <b>Sam Raimi<\/b>&#8216;s production company! Plus <b>Steve<\/b> get&#8217;s to write the screenplay!<\/p>\n<p>You might think that all of this has gone to <b>Steve<\/b>&#8216;s head. You&#8217;d be wrong. I got to meet<b> Steve<\/b> at <b>MegaCon <\/b>and he was very kind, gracious, and appreciative of his fans. Read <del>this interview <\/del>with <b>Steve<\/b>, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steveniles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his website<\/a> [tell him I sent ya!] and then order his books. You&#8217;ll be glad you did because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Steve Niles<\/b> is quite a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Niles is quite a writer. I guess he should be though since he&#8217;s been making a living at it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,56,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-comics","category-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27076,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions\/27076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}