Author Interview - Daniel Kraus — Friendly City Books

Episode Summary

Rachel talks with author Daniel Kraus, about his new book (and one of Rachel's favorite reads of 2023) Whalefall!

Episode Notes

Daniel Kraus is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and graphic novels. He coauthored The Living Dead with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He has won two Odyssey Awards (for Rotters and Scowler), and The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. His books have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Bram Stoker finalists, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. Daniel lives with his wife in Chicago.

Daniel's new book Whalefall is scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Daniel Kraus is the author of many books including:

Whalefall (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
The Living Dead (with George A. Romero) (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)
The Shape of Water (with Guillermo del Toro) (libro.fm)
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch (bookshop.org) (libro.fm)

Thank you to Daniel Kraus for joining us for a remote podcast interview! Whalefall is one of Rachel's favorite books of 2023, so this was an especially exciting conversation for her.

PS: The movie that Rachel mentioned is WORM

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