The result is the novelFeral, a just-published collaboration between DeMonaco and authorBrian “B.K.”
Evenson, about a disease which turns men into rage-crazed beasts.
“Some people who hear the idea are like, ‘Oh, is it a zombie?'”
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“No, it’s not zombies at all, this is not the undead.
We’re creating a new monster called the Feral not zombies, not wolfmen.”
DeMonaco admits to being unnerved by writing a book with an overwhelmingly female cast of characters.
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“I gave early drafts to the women in my life saying, ‘Are we on point?'”
“It’s a scary thing to write for the other gender.
I was a little frightened.
And the women who read the early drafts were giving us great pointers.”
Why are you guys holding back?’
It’s not an overly sexual book, but they definitely helped us push it a little further."
He hopes to expand the world ofFeralin similar fashion.
“Brian and I have already been talking about what the second book would be,” he says.
“We’re hoping to get a trilogy going.
It [would be] nice to explore where the world would go.
Hopefully one day, I’ll get to make the movie of it.
That would be a dream if I can put it on the big screen.
But you never know.
Who the hell knowswhat’sgoing to happen?
I don’t!”
Feralis published by Blumhouse Books and is on sale now.
