Christopher Moore's Blog
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items: Evolution of a Book Cover
items: Anima Rising Tour – May 2025 with Ticket Links
items: New Book Alert – Anima Rising
items: Coming May ’25 – Anima Rising
items: Signed Books!
items: Razzmatazz – The Tour!
items: Razzmatazz
items: Shakespeare for Squirrels
items: Worst 1st Chapter Ever
items: Noir- Excerpt #2

Evolution of a Book Cover
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creator: chris
date: 2025-03-24T18:08:46Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: Anima Rising
subject: cover art
subject: designers
subject: Klimt
description: I’ve been very fortunate to have some really great cover art on the covers of my books, and I appreciate the compliments from you readers, although I really have very little to do with how they turn out, but I thought you might want to get a sense of the process from my point of […]
encoded: I’ve been very fortunate to have some really great cover art on the covers of my books, and I appreciate the compliments from you readers, although I really have very little to do with how they turn out, but I thought you might want to get a sense of the process from my point of view. (I really should talk to a book cover designer for this post, but I don’t actually know any, as they are kept in witness protection by the publisher.) I finished the manuscript for my next novel, Anima Rising, in the Fall of 2024, but we were discussing cover art months before that. The plot involves the Viennese painter, Gustav Klimt, who finds a woman floating the the Danube Canal early one morning on his way home from an all-nighter. The woman, drowned and naked, reminds him of his own paintings, and he’s fascinated with drawing her on the spot. It goes on from there. What drew me to Klimt as a character in the first place were his beautiful paintings, so I thought it would be great if we could use either an image of them, or use them as inspiration. Here are the Klimt images I sent to my editor as taking off points. <img width="1024" height="592" src="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-1024x592.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-1606" srcset="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-1024x592.jpeg 1024w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-300x173.jpeg 300w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-768x444.jpeg 768w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-1536x887.jpeg 1536w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/03/water-snakes-ii-2048x1183.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> Watersnakes, by Klimt. The woman in water immediately brings this and some other paintings to mind so I sent this to my editor as a taking off point. <img loading="lazy" wid…

Anima Rising Tour – May 2025 with Ticket Links
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creator: chris
date: 2025-03-05T17:21:31Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: MON MAY 12 San Francisco, CA Books Inc TUES MAY 13 Seattle, WA Third Place Books WEDS MAY 14 Portland, OR Powell’s Books THUR MAY 15 Tempe, AZ Changing Hands FRI MAY 16 Boulder, CO Boulder Bookstore @ First Congregational Church SUN MAY 18 Chicago, IL Anderson’s Bookshop MON MAY 19 Milwaukee, WI […]
encoded: MON MAY 12 San Francisco, CA Books Inc TUES MAY 13 Seattle, WA Third Place Books WEDS MAY 14 Portland, OR Powell’s Books THUR MAY 15 Tempe, AZ Changing Hands FRI MAY 16 Boulder, CO Boulder Bookstore @ First Congregational Church SUN MAY 18 Chicago, IL Anderson’s Bookshop MON MAY 19 Milwaukee, WI Boswell Book Company TUES MAY 20 San Diego, CA Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore WEDS MAY 21 Los Angeles, CA Vroman’s Bookstore FRI MAY 23 Petaluma, CA Copperfield’s Books FRI MAY 31 San Francisco, CA Bookshop West Portal SAT JUNE 7 Sheboygan, WI Wordhaven Books, 923 N 8th St, Sheboygan,WI 2PM – No Ticket Necessary https://www.wordhaven-bookhouse.com/calendar TUES JUNE 17 Santa Cruz, CA Bookshop Santa Cruz @ London Nelson Community Center

New Book Alert – Anima Rising
type: item
creator: chris
date: 2025-02-04T23:14:17Z
subject: Uncategorized
subject: Anima Rising
subject: Klimt
subject: Signed Books
subject: Tour

Coming May ’25 – Anima Rising
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creator: chris
date: 2024-10-24T21:51:17Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Order Links, tour, and more to come soon.
encoded: Order Links, tour, and more to come soon. <img loading="lazy" width="678" height="1024" src="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-678x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1589" srcset="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-678x1024.jpg 678w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-768x1160.jpg 768w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/10/Final-AnimaRising_Cover-1-scaled.jpg 1696w" sizes="(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px" />

Signed Books!
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creator: chris
date: 2022-06-01T21:53:20Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: As long as these links are up, you should be able to order signed books from my friend Donna, who started selling my books during the lock-down because she was unable to work. She’s keeping at it for as long as she needs and readers want. Most shipping is free in the United States. For […]
encoded: As long as these links are up, you should be able to order signed books from my friend Donna, who started selling my books during the lock-down because she was unable to work. She’s keeping at it for as long as she needs and readers want. Most shipping is free in the United States. For international shipping, contact Donna through the link on her Ebay page. Signed 1st edition copies of BOTH Noir and Razzmatazz https://www.ebay.com/itm/Christopher-Moore-Signd-Hardcover-Brand-New-Noir-and-Razzmatazz/394095229938 Signed 1st Edition of Noir https://www.ebay.com/itm/393989730540?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200818143230%26meid%3D9eb79fa6f8fc477097e9a7a98a17691e%26pid%3D101224%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D394095229938%26itm%3D393989730540%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DDefaultOrganicWeb&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1 Signed 1st edition of Razzmatazz https://www.ebay.com/itm/394095257167?hash=item5bc1e8664f:g:BSkAAOSwqrdik72k All contact about these titles should go directly through Donna, not the blog contact page.

Razzmatazz – The Tour!
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creator: stjohn
date: 2022-03-16T21:46:50Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Out Now! Chris’s latest novel Razzmatazz is out now! Check the dates below to find out where you can catch the man himself on his live tour! Thursday 6/16 SANTA CRUZ, CA Bookshop Santa Cruz 7:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Sunday 5/15 VIRTUAL Books Inc. 5:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Monday 5/16 SAN FRANCISCO, CA […]
encoded: Out Now! Chris’s latest novel Razzmatazz is out now! Check the dates below to find out where you can catch the man himself on his live tour! Thursday 6/16 SANTA CRUZ, CA Bookshop Santa Cruz 7:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Sunday 5/15 VIRTUAL Books Inc. 5:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Monday 5/16 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Books Inc 7:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Tuesday 5/17 PORTLAND, OR Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 7:00PM PT More Info Wednesday 5/18 SEATTLE, WA Third Place Books 7:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Thursday 5/19 SAN DIEGO, CA Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore 7:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed Friday 5/20 TEMPE, AZ Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe 7:00PM AZ TIME More Info *Ticketed Saturday 5/21 DENVER, CO Tattered Cover Bookstore 7:00PM MT More Info *Ticketed Monday 5/23 AUSTIN, TX BookPeople 7:00PM CT More Info *Ticketed Tuesday 5/24 SAN ANTONIO, TX Nowhere Bookshop @ Madison Square Presbyterian Church in conversation with Jenny Lawson 6:00PM CT More Info *Ticketed Thursday 5/26 PETALUMA, CA Copperfield’s Books Petluma 6:00PM PT More Info *Ticketed

Razzmatazz
type: item
creator: chris
date: 2021-12-25T04:19:16Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: (Here you go, kids. Christmas preview of the new novel, due out May 18th, 2022. Hope you like it. Happy Holidays.) PrologueA Dragon in Big Town So, about three hundred years ago, when the Qing dynasty isn’t even old enough to buy a beer, there comes a wave of barbarians out of the north with […]
encoded: (Here you go, kids. Christmas preview of the new novel, due out May 18th, 2022. Hope you like it. Happy Holidays.) <img loading="lazy" width="678" height="1024" src="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/image-678x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-1559" srcset="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/image-678x1024.png 678w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/image-199x300.png 199w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/image-768x1160.png 768w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/12/image.png 919w" sizes="(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px" /> Prologue A Dragon in Big Town So, about three hundred years ago, when the Qing dynasty isn’t even old enough to buy a beer, there comes a wave of barbarians out of the north with such fury and numbers that it kicks nine shades of shit out of the Emperor’s army, causing much embarrassment and fear among the aristocracy, and a large number of corpses among the peasants and military. You can’t walk a block without tripping over a widow or an orphan, the sky is black with the smoke of burning villages, and it is widely agreed throughout China that the soup of the day is Cream of Sadness. So the Emperor calls his ministers together and says: “Who are these mugs? Why do they vex me thus? And will no one rid me of them?” And one of his ministers, a toady whose name is lost to history, but let’s say he’s called Jeff, says: “These are the same mugs from the north that have invaded us regularly lo these many years.” But he does not say, “They vex you thus because you have opened up the aristocracy to anyone who can afford the ducats, including merchants and lawyers, so you have a kingdom very top-heavy with bums, but you have not spent any of that sweet cabbage on walls, weapons, or the training of soldiers.” Jeff does not say this because he is one of those selfsame bums of which he speaks. But he does say, “I hear o…

Shakespeare for Squirrels
type: item
creator: chris
date: 2020-02-13T02:30:29Z
subject: Writing
description: Chapter 1 – He is Drowned and These are Devils We’d been adrift for eight days when the ninny tried to eat the monkey. I lay in the bow of the boat, under the moonlight, slowly expiring from thirst and heartbreak, while the great beef-brained boy, Drool, made bumbling snatches for the monkey, who […]
encoded: <img loading="lazy" width="1024" height="474" src="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/S4S-cover-1024x474.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-1541" srcset="https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/S4S-cover-1024x474.jpg 1024w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/S4S-cover-300x139.jpg 300w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/S4S-cover-768x355.jpg 768w, https://blog.chrismoore.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/S4S-cover.jpg 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> Chapter 1 – He is Drowned and These are Devils We’d been adrift for eight days when the ninny tried to eat the monkey. I lay in the bow of the boat, under the moonlight, slowly expiring from thirst and heartbreak, while the great beef-brained boy, Drool, made bumbling snatches for the monkey, who was perched on the bowsprit behind my head, screeching and clawing at my jester’s hat, and jingling his bells in a festive manner. “Sit down, Drool, you’ll capsize us.” “Just one wee lick,” said the giant, grasping the air before him like an enormous baby reaching for his tiny monkey mother. The bow of the boat dove under Drools weight. Sea water splashed the monkey’s bottom; he shrieked and made as if to fling poo at the giant, but it had been eight days since any of us had eaten and he could birth no bum-babies for the flinging. “There will be no monkey-licking as long as I draw breath.” “I’ll just give him a bit of a squeeze, then?” “No,” said I. On the fourth day, after the water ran out, Drool had taken to squeezing Jeff (the monkey) like a wine skin and drinking his wee, but now the monkey was dry and I feared the next squeeze would produce little but a sanguine monkey marmalade. “I won’t hurt him,” said the oaf, so inept in the lie that he might as well have tied bells on the truth and chased it around the town square while beating a drum. Drool dropped back onto the seat at his end of the dingy, hi…

Worst 1st Chapter Ever
type: item
creator: chris
date: 2019-01-20T04:41:32Z
subject: Stuff
description: I wrote this for a San Francisco Sketchfest Performance on January 19th, 2019, for The Worst 1st Chapter Ever reading at the request of Paul and Storm, famous songwriter performer dudes, breaking two of my steadfast rules, reading in public and writing something bad on purpose. Oh well… Throwing Shade By Christopher Moore The Backwash […]
encoded: I wrote this for a San Francisco Sketchfest Performance on January 19th, 2019, for The Worst 1st Chapter Ever reading at the request of Paul and Storm, famous songwriter performer dudes, breaking two of my steadfast rules, reading in public and writing something bad on purpose. Oh well… Throwing Shade By Christopher Moore The Backwash dropped out of warp like one of those pellets drop out of an owl – the ones with desiccated mouse bones and fur and stuff –except the mouse bits were me and my support bot Scrote-9 and the 20 humanoid clone blanks in the hold that were going to expire before they could be imprinted and would melt into puddles of organic goo if we couldn’t find a buyer for them. Scrote rubbed her deely-bobbers on the impulse console, pulling the Backwash into low orbit over a level 9 merch planet called Durex Magnum7 and I strapped into the shuttle pod. “If I’m not back in two hours, come in blasting,” I told my faithful robot servant. “Affirmative, rotting protein bag,” affirmed Scrote-9. She’d been having trouble disguising her disdain for organic life forms lately and if she turned off the life support one more time I was going to have to do a memory wipe on her or chuck her into space while she was recharging like I had Scrotes one through eight. As I closed the shuttle pod hatch, I made a note to look into a different model of droid-pal, but when I thought of all the Scrote corp chargers and accessories I had that wouldn’t fit any other company’s units, I deleted the note and sent a reserve notice for the Scrot10 when it came out. Scrot-9 released the shuttle pod and it made a swoosh sound like one of the gas geysers of Mezazon 5, but which I couldn’t hear because there’s no motherfucking sound in space and because to counter the trauma of reentry and landing I had just pressed a neuro-derm against my neck and leaned against a plasteel screen as the neurochemicals, pheromones and nanobots combined to give me three minutes and fifty two seconds of t…

Noir- Excerpt #2
type: item
creator: chris
date: 2018-02-15T19:30:59Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Hey kids, as promised, here’s another excerpt of Noir, where you get to see a little more goings on between Sammy and the Cheese. It was supposed to be up for Valentines Day, but events and whatnot happened. Thanks for adding my stuff to your shelf on Goodreads and for following my author page on […]
encoded: Hey kids, as promised, here’s another excerpt of Noir, where you get to see a little more goings on between Sammy and the Cheese. It was supposed to be up for Valentines Day, but events and whatnot happened. Thanks for adding my stuff to your shelf on Goodreads and for following my author page on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Christopher-Moore/e/B000APFLHC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1518706568&sr=8-1 Laff in the Dark They got on the B-car at Geary Street and rode it for nearly an hour, laughing and smooching and commenting between them on everyone who got on or off at every stop, making up out rageous, silly stories about street pirates and bus stop witches, mentioning neither the war nor what had come before. They got off at Ocean Beach, between the Great Highway and Playland, where, as usual, a freezing wind whipped off the Pacific at about seven hundred miles per hour, whistling through the Ferris wheel and the roller coaster, and surprising more than somewhat those tourists who had come here for a balmy midsummer night’s dream, but discomfiting Sammy and the Cheese not a whit. They were locals, and knew what the author Jack London had said about Ocean Beach in 1902: “Holy fuck, you couldn’t get a match lit here to save your life.” Stilton wore her raincoat to protect her from the wind and Sammy wore a wool overcoat with a pint of Old Tennis Shoes in the pocket to protect against the cold. “So, what’s your pleasure?” Sammy asked as the streetcar clanged away. “I could put on the feedbag, if you don’t mind,” she said. “Sounds good. There’s a diner down by the merry-go-round, if you can stand diner food.” “I built up a tolerance. Let’s go.” They walked arm in arm to the Sea Lion Café, where they ordered burgers and Cokes from a counter guy in a paper hat. Sammy splashed a jigger or two of Old Tennis Shoes from the pint into their Cokes under the table. “More,” said the Cheese. Sammy slurped some cola off the top and splashed in more liquor—a bartender used to juggl…