{"id":80308,"date":"2025-08-19T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&#038;p=80308"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T19:02:07","slug":"watching-evil-dead-by-josh-malerman","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/watching-evil-dead-by-josh-malerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Evil Dead by Josh Malerman (signed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House, an impassioned book about a night that changed the author\u2019s life and put into perspective the writing life\u2014and how you too can be inspired to face the fears that might hold you back from doing your best work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fun, modern take on Stephen King\u2019s On Writing&#8230;Malerman\u2019s trustworthy insights and experiences will no doubt offer its readers who are struggling creatively a healthy dose of inspiration.\u201d\u2014Booklist, starred review<\/p>\n<p>One night, bestselling author Josh Malerman\u2014then just an aspiring writer\u2014watched Sam Raimi\u2019s Evil Dead with his fianc\u00e9e and two friends. It was a gathering that could\u2019ve gone unnoticed, another date night with a movie, but for Malerman, it became a landmark. It changed the course of his life, and it will inspire you to reflect on your own journey and to discover existing triumphs that are within you already.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the course of the night, Malerman reflects on his life, from his career as a musician to his stack of rough drafts, written prior to ever being published\u2014and on how meeting the love of his life, a fellow creative, opened him to new experiences and new ways of viewing the world they now quest through together.<\/p>\n<p>Malerman deploys his own story\u202fto help readers not only write their unwritten stories but celebrate their uncelebrated\u202fvictories: to find their voice, their vision, and their joie de vivre. By simply describing an uncommon and uncanny night,\u202fhe\u202fguides aspiring writers beyond the blank page to the immortal life of the writer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Signed by the author and dated 9\/16\/25, first edition first printing, NEW in dustjacket.<\/p>\n<p>Release Date: September 16, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Del Rey | ISBN: 9780593983270 | 224 pages | 8.6 X 5.7 X 0.9 inches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House, an impassioned book about a night that changed the author\u2019s life and put into perspective the writing life\u2014and how you too can be inspired to face the fears that might hold you back from doing your best work \u201cA fun, modern take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80309,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[155,125,369],"product_tag":[330,959,332],"class_list":["post-80308","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-detroit-michigan","product_cat-michigan-authors-illustrators","product_cat-signed-by-author","product_tag-josh-malerman","product_tag-signed-by-the-author","product_tag-signed-first-edition","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/80308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=80308"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=80308"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=80308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}