From there, a team was assembled and Malerman suddenly found himself speaking with a real agent and debating with actual editors.
Malerman heartily agreed and the pair sent out Goblin, a collection of novellas that all take place in the titular city of Goblin. Simmer, having worked with authors and properties in Hollywood, asked Malerman’s permission to send one of his books to some people he knew in the book business. It wasn’t until a friend from high school, Dave Simmer, contacted him that those delusions became reality. Malerman often says that he lived long in a “glorious delusion” in which he took part in phantom interviews, pretended to have an agent, debated with fictitious editors, and placed invisible hardcover books upon his shelves. It was no hobby, that’s for sure, it was the real thing and always has been, but I was happy, then, simply writing, and while I blindly assumed they’d be published one day, I had no idea how something like that occurred.”Īs the pile of rough drafts grew, so did the questions as to what he was planning on doing with them. He says this about those days: “I never saw the books with dollar signs in my eyes. Before publishing his debut novel Bird Box with ECCO/HarperCollins, he wrote fourteen novels, never having shopped one of them.īeing the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung, Malerman toured the country for six years, as the band played an average of 250 shows a year, and Malerman wrote many of the rough drafts for these novels in the passenger seat between cities on tour. Josh Malerman is an American author of novels and short stories.
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