User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Novel Workshop with Peter Straub/@comment-4715955-20171118031232/@comment-26030957-20171118034423

Aw, come on, Mike, Poe's Children wasn't that bad of an anthology!

I read it when it came out, years ago now. The story about the jazz musician was actually really good. I'll be honest with you, but don't tell anyone else this, just between me and you, I might have an issue or two with some Straub work. Ghost Story just meandered and meandered and really wasn't even about ghosts at all. But he is a legend who helped define modern horror. I sure loved the collaboration he did with King: The Talisman. Though I'm afraid what I might think if I read it now, some thirty or more years later.

I'm just really looking forward to working on my manuscript and outline for this new project. I hear they tear you apart ruthlessly. Which I feel this project really needs right now in its infancy.

It's put on by Borderlands Press so there's going to be a lot of industry people involved, like you said, talking to long time published authors and editors.

I'll let you know how it goes, brother!