I love working in Shakespeare's world and bollocksing-up his language. And Pocket from Fool and The Serpent of Venice. I've knocked around the idea of bringing back Bleu from Sacré Bleu, but not so much because readers love her, because she's a bit of a villain, but because I love researching the art and history her story is built around. If you're going to ask readers to believe in pony-sized dogs from hell hunting down a Subaru, you have to take the next step and ask them to believe that affordable rents could exist.Īside from the cast of Secondhand Souls, are there any other characters you’re planning to revisit someday? Like maybe the angel Raziel from Lamb? Please?
You can't let lack of imaginary money stop you. When I started writing about San Francisco, though, in '95, it was a little more feasible for working people to live in the city.
It's not much easier to find a reasonably priced apartment in Paris, London, or New York, either. It's gotten worse over the years until it's absolutely ridiculous now. Isn’t the Bay Area a little pricey for the undead? You set lots of your vampire/monster/ghost books in San Francisco. The fact that they're huge, indestructible, and ferocious, yet deeply silly, makes them fun to write. Plus, Bummer and Lazarus are based on real dogs who lived in San Francisco in the late 1800s (Mark Twain wrote Bummer's obituary for the San Francisco Examiner), and Hellhounds are also a part of underworld mythology that I thought would be fun to explore. I like both cats and dogs, but cats don't really inspire the loyalty and dedication that dogs do. Why no guardian cats? Is it that they’d happily watch us die? The Emperor’s “faithful dogs,” Bummer and Lazarus, are also back. The Hellhounds are back in Secondhand Souls, too, protecting 7-year-old Sophie from the bad guys. I finally found a way to come at the story so I wouldn't be writing the same book twice, so I went at it. So many people had been asking for more with those characters for so long that I had been continually thinking about it, but always when I was working on something else, set in some other place. What made you want to revisit characters like Charlie, Lily, Detective Rivera, and Minty Fresh? Was it for the sheer pleasure of writing about someone named “Minty Fresh”?
Secondhand Souls picks up where A Dirty Job leaves off. Here, the author chats about the undead, the ridiculousness of big-city rents, and the danger of hooking up with dragons. Luckily for fans of Christopher Moore’s earlier work, A Dirty Job, the natty vermin - along with a host of other weird, fiendish charmers - are back in Secondhand Souls, which comes out today from HarperCollins. A world without velvet-pantalooned squirrel people is one not worth living in.
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