![]() Like I met Grady Hendrix – who’s on the New York Times Bestseller list now no one had heard of him at the time. We’d take these concepts and give them to creatives. That was the first book that totally blew up. You can use 80 percent of Jane Austen’s work and only write 20 percent of new material. And that way, you don’t have to write a whole book. The assignment was to take the public domain text of Pride and Prejudice, add zombies to it, and rewrite it so the Napoleonic wars were a zombie war. One of the first ones that blew up for us was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. That was a struggle.īeing in Philly, we had access to a lot of great designers and other creatives, and what I would do was assign them to concepts. You think that there are just so many authors and so many manuscripts, but the gems are really hard to find! I needed to find something people would buy. It’s harder to find good manuscripts than you might think. We weren’t getting books from agents, and it was really hard to find established writers. In those early days at Quirk, we had no money. I was there for 18 years, and I eventually became the publisher. He was starting what would eventually become Quirk Books. Then I met a friend who wanted to start his own publishing house. Again, I was in this place where I wasn’t sure what I was going to do. My parents were living in central New Jersey, which was close to New York City, and I got a job at a publishing house in the city for very little pay, and I did that for a couple of years before I moved to Philadelphia. When I got out of school, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I could do worldbuilding with just words. When I got to college, I realized I didn’t have to do all the programming stuff. I think I was originally attracted to computer science because I liked making my own video games, telling stories and world building. When I got to college, I changed to English which seemed like this crazy, impractical thing to do. I was going to be a computer science major because that seemed like a nice practical major, and I was a self-taught programmer in high school. My background syncs up really well with Stranger Things season 1: D&D, Cujo, all of that. Jason: I was always one of those kids making comic books always writing and drawing. Jason is a really great guy, and even through dropped signals on our video call and calls from a child stranded on the metro, we had a great conversation.īrandon: Before we talk about Hidden Pictures, I wanted to learn more about you. Jason Rekulak (pronounced: re-COOL-ik) was gracious enough to spend some time with me to talk about Hidden Pictures and his history as an author. You don’t just read, you live the story right alongside the main character. The pictures create an interactive and immersive experience, which sets this book way above the typical murder-mystery thoroughfare. This book is amazing, and I can’t say enough about how much I enjoyed it. Mallory suspects these pictures may be the clues to an unsolved murder from long ago, and as Teddy’s drawings grow to be more complex and lifelike, she fears everyone may be in danger of a supernatural force. ![]() Teddy starts drawing pictures of his “imaginary friend” and what looks to be the detailed depiction of a murder. What began as pictures of bunnies and trees evolves into something more creepy. Teddy never goes anywhere without his notebook and pencil because he loves drawing pictures of his everyday life. It’s everything a recovering addict needs to maintain sobriety. ![]() Teddy is an easy kid, and it doesn’t take long before he and Mallory form a tight bond. They let her live in their pool house, so in addition to a predictable schedule, she also has stable housing. This is the dream job, and exactly what she needs at this point in her life. The book begins when Mallory, fresh out of rehab, lands a job with an upper class family as the nanny for their five-year-old boy, Teddy. This book is the literal definition of a page turner. Published in 2022, Hidden Pictures straddles the line between horror and mystery, and it’s impossible to put down. ![]()
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