| Chat with W D Gagliani |
 W D Gagliani is the author of the novels WOLF'S TRAP, WOLF'S GAMBIT, the upcoming WOLF'S BLUFF (Leisure Books, July 2010), and WOLF'S EDGE (Leisure Books, 2011). WOLF'S TRAP was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award in 2004.
Gagliani holds a Master's Degree in English from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where he also taught Creative Writing and Composition. Raised on thrillers and horror, he counts Alistair MacLean, Harry
Patterson/Jack Higgins, Duncan Kyle, Desmond Bagley, Ian Fleming, and Wilbur Smith among his childhood influences. Starting in the Seventies, he read Stephen King - and then Richard Laymon, Joe Lansdale, Edward Lee, Ray Garton, Skipp and Spector, Robert McCammon - and almost never looked back. Add Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, and a long list of other inspiring writers (see his website), and you get a sense of what drives him to write.
Besides the novels, he has published fiction and nonfiction in the anthologies Masters of Unreality (Germany), Malpractice: An Anthology of Bedside Terror, and Dark Passions: Hot Blood 13 (all with co-writer David Benton), plus Robert Bloch's Psychos, Wicked Karnival Halloween Horror, The Black Spiral: Twisted Tales of Terror, More Monsters From Memphis, Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas, Extremes 4: Darkest Africa, The Asylum 2: The Violent Ward, and The Midnighters Club, as well as publications including The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, BookPage, Bram Stoker Award-winning web site The Chiaroscuro (http://www.chizine.com
), Cemetery Dance, HorrorWorld, Hellnotes, Science Fiction Chronicle, 1000 Delights, BookLovers, Bare Bones and The Scream Factory, The Grimoire, Dark Muse, Horror Magazine, the SF&F Workshop Newsletter, WAM Magazine/WAM Studio 88 & 89, and various others.
Besides Progressive rock and keyboard instruments such as the synthesizer, the Hammond B-3 organ, and the Mellotron, W. D. Gagliani counts book reviewing and collecting, history and alternate history, and exotic weapons as special interests, along with occasionally writing about the writing process.
Raised in Genova, Italy, as well as Kenosha, Wisconsin, W. D. Gagliani now lives and writes in Milwaukee.
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International Thriller Writers article/interview:
http://www.thrillerwriters.org/2009/08/wolfs-gambit-by-wd-gagliani.html
WOLF'S TRAP special feature:
http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SpecialFeatures.cfm?Special_ID=2101 (An excerpt of WOLF'S TRAP can also be read here - click on cover)
WOLF'S GAMBIT special feature:
http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SpecialFeatures.cfm?Special_ID=2727 (An excerpt of WOLF'S GAMBIT can also be read here - click on cover)
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