Talking Scared 95 – J.M. Miro and Throwing Your Arms Around the Monsters
This week we go to magic school, but there isn’t a f***ing owl or a talking hat in sight.
Instead, it’s a much more macabre affair, as J. M. Miro begins his trilogy of dark sorcery with Ordinary Monsters.
J. M. goes by a different name in his other, more prosaic writing life, but here, with us, in the blood and the shadows he writes as his second self. Which is a long-winded and torturous way to say this is a pseudonym.
We talk about the creative and practical reasons behind that, as well as his tragic family history, his obsession with Victorian London, female detectives in history and how to write a compelling action scene.
And we manage to do all that without saying a single hateful or prejudiced thing. Imagine!
Enjoy!
Ordinary Monsters was published on June 7th by Bloomsbury and Flatiron Books
Other books discussed in this episode include:
- By Gaslight (2016), by Steven Price (AKA J.M. Miro)
- Lampedusa (2019), by Steven Price
- Blood Meridian (1985), by Cormac McCarthy
- The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), by Patricia A. McKillip
- Washington Black (2018), by Esi Edugyan
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