I’ve known Mark Billingham since 2002, but I feel as if we’re lifelong friends. When I heard he was going to move to Mulholland, I was sad for our mutual publisher but happy for Mark, if that makes sense. We share several enthusiasms, including the music of Elvis Costello and beer. I guess I should [...]
Category Archive for ‘Books’ 
Mark Billingham and Laura Lippman on themselves and everything else
Aug 18, 2010 in Books, Film, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Guns to Shape the Future
Aug 17, 2010 in Books, Mulholland Authors
The sensation, if you allow yourself experience it, is that of pressing your face up against the glass right at the rushing tip of the present as it plows headlong into the future. There is no wind, only a thrum of momentum from somewhere deeply hidden; yet the sense of speed is nauseating, teetering on [...]
Childhood Obsession Turned Bestselling Novel
Aug 16, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts
When I was about five years old, I became obsessed with Captain Kidd’s buried treasure. I didn’t know who Captain Kidd was, but I somehow knew he buried his treasure on Long Island, where I lived then and still live. I also didn’t know then how big Long Island was (it’s long), so I figured [...]
The Workplace, Wet or Dry
Aug 13, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts
When I first began to write as a kid, what I had in the way of an office was a notepad and a ballpoint pen and any place that was flat where I could work. This was when I was writing entirely for fun, without any knowledge of how something was marketed or sold, or [...]
Hey, Sinner Man, Where’d You Go?
Aug 12, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
You’ve probably heard the song. It’s a spiritual, and it starts out something like this: Hey sinner man, where you gonna run to? Hey sinner man, where you gonna run to? Hey sinner man, where you gonna run to? All on that day . . . In the verses that follow, we learn that ol’ [...]
Live Chat with Don Winslow
Aug 11, 2010 in Books, Live Chat
What follows is a transcript of the live chat with Don Winslow, author of Savages, a book that I think is the literary equivalent of narcotic stimulants. We’ll start with a few questions from me: Sarah Weinman: – So first I wanted to talk a bit about Savages opening chapter (or opening line) and, at [...]
Batman Is My Mr. Miyagi
Aug 11, 2010 in Books, Comic Books, Guest Posts
I write mysteries. I love writing mysteries. And I also write comic books. So when I was recently at Comi-Con, someone at one of the panels asked me how comics have influenced and/or seeped into my mystery and novel writing. Indeed, one of the editors at Mulholland Books asked if the action-packed nature of comics [...]
Don Winslow, Interviewed by Shane Salerno
Aug 10, 2010 in Books, Film, Guest Posts
Novelist Don Winslow and screenwriter Shane Salerno have known each other for a long time – eleven years to be exact. They have worked together, including creating the NBC TV series UC: Undercover, trust each other implicitly and often exchange early drafts of their work and talk on the phone every day, usually about film [...]
Making Sense of Nothing and Making Nothing of Sense: A Maundering on the Taxonomy of Writing and I Forget What Else
Aug 09, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts
“Fair is where you go to see the pigs race.” — James Luther Dickinson We are uncomfortable with works that can not be placed comfortably into a category. The English-speaking literary establishment has embraced the French word genre since the eighteenth century. We would do well to remind ourselves that the term, via the Latin [...]
