Glen Hirshberg continues to knock it out of the park with GOOD GIRLS, the second in his brilliant Motherless Children series. This is why vampire fiction will never die.”
Posted by Jonathan Maberry on Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Tag: Good Girls
The Electric Review on GOOD GIRLS
Head on over to the Electric Review to read what John Aiello has to say about Good Girls.
Coming Back from San Francisco
Spent 36 hours (12 of them driving) floating up the coast to the Bay to do a reading. I ate things I never do anymore and miss (hello, Zachary’s stuffed spinach and mushroom), drifted in the parks among the Easter egg hunters and the homeless, ghosted up and down Haight-Ashbury and the Castro (where my friend Andrew isn’t anymore) and in and out of record and bookshops with new stories coming, the way they always do when I’m drifting and ghosting.
When I went to the signing, I got met with hugs and stories from Jude and Alan, the owners of the resurrected Borderlands, and we swapped survivors’ stories like the survivors we really all are, I guess, now, and they seemed genuinely happy to see me, and the store looks terrific.
But only three people came, this time, one a former student from a decade ago (so great to see and talk to you again, Siena), plus another couple I managed to lure over with my reading, and Jude said it was the holiday weekend, and I told her you can’t predict these things, and it’s a long game, and all those things really are true, and they told me they want me back as soon as I want to come up.Still, I started home a little blue, despite the blue in the bay in the late afternoon.
Six hours later I was home with my family, and I found the review below. Which, did, I admit, chase what was left of the blue away. There hadn’t been so very much of it in the first place:
“…the novel hearkens back to great vampire novels of the past including Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot and even the brilliant Dracula by Bram Stoker’s. Good Girls manages to take some very heavy and dark topics and apply them to a collection of very real, very engaging characters….Good Girls is a reminder of what kind of literary quality it takes to make good suspense and horror. Good Girls returns to the defining elements which authors such as Poe, Lovecraft, and Shirley Jackson set up long ago while also staying true to the modern horror elements set up by masters like King and Straub.” N.C. Patterson, A Slice of Horror
Songwriter Thomas Anderson and GOOD GIRLS
Thomas Anderson–Thomas Anderson–one of my favorite songwriters, ever, and of the many artists I know who deserve more attention, he deserves it just about the most–and I have been corresponding and trading art for years, now. That has been its own reward. One of the best my own art has given me. But today he also gave me this, via his own page. It’s one I’m going to keep:
‘My buddy Glen Hirshberg has just released Good Girls–the second volume in his Motherless Children trilogy of vampire novels. In it, he creates a world of orphans where everyone–the living and the (un)dead–try to mend their broken families. Children, parents and lovers roam a blasted dystopia from the Mississippi Delta to the piney woods of New England, where vampires long for Victoria Spivey but settle for Ted Nugent, and everyone’s favorite podcast is by a dead girl. A land where nobody wins. But what you’re left with at the end, is what Nanci Griffith perhaps expressed best: There’s a light beyond these woods. Good Girls. Get yours today.'”Posted by Glen Hirshberg on Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Good Girls is Launched!
“Top notch writing, enjoyable prose, a twisted and demented story…. From the opening line, there’s magic in the words.” –Frank Michaels Errington, Cemetery Dance Online
“This hair-raising horror novel causes serious shivers with its portrait of humans and vampires pushed to their limits.” –Rob LeFevre, Shelf Awareness
Glen Reads at Mysterious Galaxy
Glen Hirshberg on Thorne and Cross Live
Listen to Glen talking to Tamara Thorne and Allistair Cross about his writing and his newest book, Good Girls, on Thorne and Cross Live.
RT Book Reviews names GOOD GIRLS a Top Pick, awards it 4 1/2 stars
Ian Mathers’ exceptionally thoughtful capsule review of Good Girls here:
“This is real, full-blooded horror in a sense that’s too rarely found; the gore is vivid, but more than just life and death is at stake. Our protagonists are brave, clever and loving–but that may not be nearly enough to save them.”
Read the full review here.
A starred rave for GOOD GIRLS in PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY
Publishers’ Weekly greeted Motherless Child with a starred, rave review a couple years ago. They’ve now greeted Good Girls the same way:
“Set in the immediate aftermath of the justly lauded Motherless Child, this intense novel weaves its themes of love, loss, family obligation, and personal sacrifice into another richly textured tale of supernatural horror…The novel’s suspenseful finale is a bravura display of storytelling finesse; its visceral horrors are intensified by the care that Hirshberg has taken to develop the emotional lives of the characters on whom the horrors are inflicted.”
Complete review here.
GOOD GIRLS comes to Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego
Glen is delighted to be returning to Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on Sunday, March 6th at 3:30 pm to read from and sign Good Girls, the sequel to Motherless Child.
Check out Mysterious Galaxy’s event page here for full details.
Hope to see you there (along with your family, friends, anyone you can lure to the fun…).
Good Girls Gala Launch at the Last Bookstore in LA
You are invited
Come join us for cake, wine, conversation, and, oh yeah, the unleashing of Good Girls on Friday, February 26th at 7 pm. Glen will be reading from the novel, talking about it (and more) with Lauren Candia of Shades and Shadows, and of course signing. Full details here, or visit the Last Bookstore Site.
Tell your friends. Or better still…bring ’em!
See you there.