What Motivated Close Liaisons?
In a word, balloons. I’m referring to “Familiar Stranger,” which takes up two-thirds of the novella. Like me, the protag Cassandra can’t pass a gift shop without stopping in to…
Healthcare Workers and Zombies
Before I wrote Steel Rose and City of Brotherly Death, I wondered how healthcare workers would handle zombies. What would my role as a respiratory therapist entail in a zombie…
Here There Be Monsters
The traditional zombie is a mindless creature that knows nothing except an insatiable craving for human flesh. Perhaps a virus or chemical destroyed key brain cells, the ones that control…
Where Paul DeBlassie III, Author of The Unholy, Gets his Ideas
Ideas come from the deep repository of the collective unconscious mind that inspires images and symbols during the fantasies of waking life and during dreams and nightmares. Mainly, it’s the…
The Genesis of Tom Johnson’s Three Go Back
Most of my life I’ve had a deep interest in paleontology and entomology. In school, while we were reading Shakespeare, I was thinking about bugs. During History class, I wondered…
Further on Rod Marsden’s Desk Job
I hate injustice especially when it is disguised as fair play. At the time I was looking for inspiration to start a new book a news report on television caught…