This week, we celebrate the release of The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell. Here, we have the continuation of the conversation with award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer Craig McDonald. Start with Part I if you missed yesterday’s post. Note: this interview was conducted in 2006. I’ve never seen much put out there regarding your [...]
Category Archive for ‘Books’ 
Casting Light On Shade: A Conversation with Daniel Woodrell, Part II
Apr 26, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News, Writing
A Dream Come True
Apr 21, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
So far this week, Marcia Clark has appeared on Good Morning America, NPR’s Morning Edition, WPIX and Good Day New York. The Los Angeles Times published a feature on the origins of her novel. The Richmond Times-Dispatch praises how “Clark develops her plot with ingenious twists and laces it with plenty of humor and a [...]
Putting the Thrill Back in the Legal Thriller: A Review of Guilt by Association
Apr 20, 2011 in Books, Mulholland News
Not too many years ago, an influential friend in the literary world told me, “Legal thrillers are out.” Having just published my first two novels, both featuring Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid, I desperately needed this death announcement to be premature. The problem, I argued, was an overabundance of bad legal thrillers that had [...]
A Conversation with Marcia Clark and Sebastian Rotella
Apr 19, 2011 in Books, Mulholland Authors
Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Marcia Clark, and reporter Sebastian Rotella, a former correspondent and bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires for the Los Angeles Times, both took the “write what you know” adage to heart when they sat down to write their first novels. Clark’s novel, Guilt By Association, out this week, [...]
Five Favorite Female Crime Fighters
Apr 18, 2011 in Books, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News
This week, the world will meet Rachel Knight, the heroine of Marcia Clark’s new novel GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. Marcia has provided us with 5 of her favorite female crime fighters.Tell us your favorites in the comments. We’ll choose 3 to receive signed first editions of GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. Don’t miss Marcia on Good Morning America [...]
A Conversation with Alafair Burke
Apr 13, 2011 in Books, Fiction, Guest Posts, Writing
Alafair Burke is a lawyer-turned novelist and the creator of two of the most memorable female crime fighters on the scene today: NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. Jen Forbus is a tastemaker in the crime fiction community and the force behind Jen’s Book Thoughts. Here, they discuss writing great [...]
The Spaces Between Stars
Apr 11, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News
My name’s Warren Ellis. I’m mostly a science fiction writer. I’m sometimes also a crime writer. These are essentially the same thing. Let me try and explain that. I don’t think HG Wells and Raymond Chandler ever met. I don’t know that they would have had a lot to say to each other if they [...]
Start Reading The Bayou Trilogy by Daniel Woodrell
Apr 07, 2011 in Books, Excerpts, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
This month we are re-publishing Daniel Woodrell’s three Rene Shade novels, Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, The Ones You Do in one beautiful package called THE BAYOU TRILOGY. We will be excerpting the first chapter of each of the 3 novels here over the next few weeks. We begin with Under the [...]
A Conversation with Michael Connelly
Apr 05, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Writing
Michael Connelly’s new legal thriller starring Mikey Haller, The Fifth Witness, hits bookstores today. Here, Connelly discusses the perils of writing about a defense attorney, the source of his courtroom knowledge and the connection between Mikey and Matthew McConaughey. Question: Michael, in The Fifth Witness, we learn that times have been tough for criminal defense [...]
The Invisible Hero: A Conversation between Zoë Ferraris and David Corbett
Apr 04, 2011 in Books, Uncategorized, Writing
David Corbett is a former private investigator the acclaimed author of four novels, including the most recent Do They Know I’m Running?. Zoë Ferraris is the award-winning author of Finding Nouf and City of Veils. Here, they discuss how fiction can break down cultural stereotypes, making “strangers” recognizable and the role of the hero in [...]
