Christopher Moore's Blog

Here we go. Everything you need to know for anything, in yet another installment of AXE the AUTHORGUY!!!! Hillary writes: Hey AG: A duel to the death. You can have two of the following items with you and nothing else. Which would you choose and why: a cardboard tube a […]

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. -Truman Capote I still have no idea what that quote means, but I love it. I finished A Dirty Job tonight about about 7:30. For those of you playing the home game, it’s 115,000 […]

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You guys. I’m on the home stretch of the new book, so I know the Blog entries have been few and far between, but I’ll pick up soon. In the mean time, I’ve noticed that a fair amount of my e-mail has been eaten by my spam filter. While most of this is actually […]

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Well, my children, it’s been some time since I’ve answered your questions. I may have missed some, and some are just too silly for me to mess with, but here’s the latest batch. And as an update, I am seventeen days from having to turn the new book in to New York, and I […]

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Blowing up innocent people is wrong. No exceptions.

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So, you guys probably know that I’m going to be teaching at the Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference next week. Tim Sandlin, whose work I very much admire, e-mailed me early in the year and asked me if I wanted to come to Jackson Hole and sit on a panel with him and Nick Hornby on […]

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Jeff from England writes with several questions: 1. How long is a piece of string? Ans: Yes 2. What’s that got to do with the price of eggs? Ans: the chicken 3. How come no one has invented windows that automatically close when it rains so that your bed sheets don’t get […]

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It’s that time again, when all your questions are answered by a real professional, Author guy who has no practical life experience and instead sits in a office all day making little black marks appear on a screen… Katarina Navane Writes with several questions. 1. how much wood would a wood chuck chuck […]

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Here’s the toad on my deck eating the cat’s food. “Hey, do something, you’ve got thumbs!”

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Emergency Dance Party Used to break an akward moment, or just in times of boredom. One simply yells emergency dance party and counts down from five and starts beat boxing. Everyone there starts dancing for a period of about ten-thirty seconds. So then i whipped it out… cough…um, emergency dance party! Five, four, three, […]

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