More Extended Stay Bits
Extended Stay keeps chugging along! Here are some cool bits below this really cool spread of red-and-black covers.
Audio rights for the novel were acquired a few months ago, and the audiobook will be released in November. I’m a new but ardent convert to audiobooks, and cannot recommend Libby enough if you have a library card and want to experience an awesome novel while washing dishes or folding laundry. (I’m currently blown away by Zadie Smith’s commitment to doing all the voices and singing in The Fraud.)
I’m doing a few more events! Check out the Events page for more detailed info but I’m excited for this Friday 13th Horror Authors Night with some of my favorite Chicago folk who write dark stuff.
I’m super grateful to bookstagrammers like Ashley (aka spookishmommy) and Nina (aka the_wandering_reader/) for their continued support of the novel. I’ve embedded my two faves below but you should just follow them for all their awesome recommendations. Like, if you have not read Monstrilio? Do! So good! So sad! And I’ve got Ashley to thank for that one. OK: two awesome reels from Ashley and Nina, then more stuff:
It’s Latinx heritage month and it’s basically October! Extended Stay has popped up in some cool places, like this Goodreads list (54 New Books to Discover This Hispanic Heritage Month) and this Chicago Public Library list, plus some others.
I’m teaching a year-long class in 2024 for StoryStudio: Speculative Novel in a Year. Applications open October 17. Apply!
I am on Instagram, still! Mostly doodling on lunch bags. I am also on Threads. I am no longer on the other social media places. If you’re on either, follow! Or not!
Some Updates!
Hi! A bunch of stuff happened. Like,
I’m doing a reading on July 6 at the Jose Saramago Foundation, in Lisbon. (I’m part of this year’s Disquiet program.) If you’re in Lisbon, say hi!
Extended Stay showed up in this new CrimeReads list of Latinx Horror and Crime to check out in 2023.
I guest-edited this beautiful West Branch feature and got to introduce three amazing stories by three of my favorite emerging writers: Matthew Lloyd Richardson, Michelle go-un Lee, and Mike Prask.
Gavin Grant asked me 3 questions for the Small Beer Press blog.
Lina Chern included Extended Stay in a CrimeReads article about the joy of the bad decision! (In narratives!)
The New York Public Library included Extended Stay in a list of novels scarier than Scream VI!
I drew the katydid that posed for the cover of Steely Dan’s Katy Lied album (the katydid was actually a huge fan of the album)
Some EXTENDED STAY News & Events
Here are three really cool recent Extended Stay bits:
I was in conversation with Scott Dickensheets at The Desert Companion about the novel & its relationship to Las Vegas (linked here, but embedded below)
Extended Stay is part of The Chicago Review of Books’s Most Anticipated Chicago Books of 2023
It’s also included in Emily Hughes’s extensive, definitive list of 2023’s New Horror Books (and the cover sneaks into the page header, so I’ve included it below).
I’ll be doing some events! They’re all soon to be posted over here, but here’s a quick rundown:
On January 10, I’ll be in conversation at the Book Cellar with Eden Robins about her debut novel When Franny Stands Up.
On January 24, it’s Extended Stay’s book launch! At Women & Children First! I’ll be in conversation with Lindsay Hunter.
From March 4-5, I’ll be in Arizona for the Tucson Festival of Books! I’ll be doing a few things, but the schedule isn’t up yet.
From March 8-11, I’ll be in Seattle for AWP! On Friday, March 10, I’ll be in this panel, The 21st-Century Horror Novel, with Stephanie Feldman, Erika T. Wurth, and Addie Tsai.
Win a free copy of EXTENDED STAY!
You can win a copy of the book + a monster drawn on the back of a postcard! You can enter over at Goodreads! Details below!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Extended Stay
by Juan Martinez
Giveaway ends November 15, 2022.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Extended Stay cover!
The book will be out in spring 2023 from the Camino del Sol series by University of Arizona Press! I love the cover so much & I’m so happy I can share it now.