A number of characters die in my new novel, Angel Baby. Ooops! Was that a spoiler? Well, it’ll be the last one, I promise. Anyway, from the beginning I knew that I wanted one particular death in the book to stand out, to resonate, to hurt. For inspiration, I returned to a few literary “last [...]
Category Archive for ‘Guest Posts’ 
You Are Here: Mapping Richard Lange’s Angel Baby
May 15, 2013 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Uncategorized
In my new novel, Angel Baby, Luz, the beautiful, young wife of a Mexican drug lord, makes a mad dash for freedom that takes her from Tijuana, Mexico to Compton, CA. The story unfolds in actual locations, and I’ve called out some of the more interesting sites on the map below. Body armor recommended if [...]
Songs That Evoke The Shining Girls
May 02, 2013 in Guest Posts, Music
Writers find inspiration everywhere: at the movies, through their headphones, or unfolding before them in real life. Lauren Beukes, whose forthcoming novel The Shining Girls has been recommended by the Evening Standard to those with “a Gone Girl shaped hole in your life,” has assembled here a playlist of songs that brought her book to [...]
The top five moments of my video gaming life, or, Du côté de chez Questor
Apr 18, 2013 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News, Video Games
Austin Grossman’s YOU has been praised in the Boston Globe as “razor sharp…a smart meditation on the nature of gaming” and by Tom Bissell in Harper’s as “some of the most startling, acute writing on video games yet essayed.” Find it in bookstores everywhere or pick it up from your e-tailer of choice this week! [...]
Doggone Justice
Apr 15, 2013 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Did you know today is Joe R. Lansdale Appreciation Day? To tie in with Horror Novel Reviews‘ day-long celebration, we’ll be reposting our greatest-of posts about Joe’s work and a few from the legend himself. Things have changed. The world has evolved. A punch in the mouth ain’t what it used to be. Once you were more apt [...]
On Joe Lansdale’s Edge of Dark Water
Apr 15, 2013 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Did you know today is Joe R. Lansdale Appreciation Day? To tie in with Horror Novel Reviews‘ day-long celebration, we’ll be reposting our greatest-of posts about Joe’s work and a few from the legend himself. When we passed along Joe R. Lansdale’s EDGE OF DARK WATER to Dan Simmons, we had high hopes he would like [...]
An Author’s Inspiration: On The Fate of Mercy Alban
Apr 02, 2013 in Guest Posts, Writing
I’m lucky enough to spend my days writing novels of gothic suspense in which family secrets and scandals bubble to the surface in big, old, haunted mansions. Ever since my first book hit the shelves a few years back, I’ll oftentimes find myself on panels with other authors at various book festivals and conferences, and [...]
Songs from The Shining Girls
Apr 01, 2013 in Guest Posts, Music
Reading The Shining Girls sends us careening through the twentieth century as we chase Harper, a time-traveling killer, from one era of Chicago to the next. Whenever we land, Lauren Beukes crafts a richly atmospheric scene, accurate right down to the music. Below, Beukes walks us through some of the songs mentioned in The Shining [...]
Rogue Review: Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
Mar 25, 2013 in Guest Posts
Today we welcome Ro Cuzon, a contributor for The Rogue Reader, as he reviews Ian Rankin’s bestselling new novel, Standing in Another Man’s Grave. Ian Rankin may be an acclaimed master of plot but it’s his prose that always hooks me first. It happened again last week within the very first sentences of his new [...]
What Is a Mystery?
Mar 18, 2013 in Guest Posts, Writing
Every once in awhile, when my (ahem) amazing job comes up in conversation, someone will ask me, if not: “What is a mystery?” outright, another question along similar lines. Could be someone curious how the category has evolved in the years since Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Dupin and Hercule Poirot. Or it could be an avid [...]
