In honor of New York Comic Con (where we’ll be today with the authors of BLACK LIGHT for their 6:15 PM panel “The Architects of Scare Season”), we present an excerpt from Kody Chamberlain’s new Image Comics debut, Sweets. Sweets is a five-issue series set just days before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall and follows New [...]
Category Archive for ‘Guest Posts’ 
Celebrate New York Comic Con with an Excerpt from Sweets by Kody Chamberlain
Oct 14, 2011 in Comic Books, Guest Posts
A Conversation with Denise Mina and Kate Atkinson
Oct 13, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Writing
As Denise Mina hits the US for her THE END OF THE WASP SEASON, she was interviewed by Kate Atkinson (CASE HISTORIES and STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG) on genre, character and the best place to write. Kate Atkinson: Do you have a lot of books planned ahead? Does it worry you that you’ll die [...]
A Conversation with Mark Waid, writer of Ruse and additional excerpts
Oct 11, 2011 in Comic Books, Guest Posts
We had a chance to chat with Mark Waid, author of Ruse about the Victorian setting, research, and unique thinking spots. And make sure you keep going after the jump to see additional excerpts from this innovative publication. If you missed Part I of the excerpts, they’re not to be missed. The setting of Victorian [...]
An Excerpt from Ruse: The Victorian Guide to Murder
Oct 10, 2011 in Comic Books, Guest Posts
Our friends at Marvel have been kind enough to give us an excerpt from their highly original new crime comic series Ruse by Mark Waid with illustrations by Mirco Pierfederici & Minck Oosterveer, the story of detective Simon Archerd and his beautiful but deadly partner in (solving) crimes Emma Bishop unraveling the most tightly knotted [...]
Reviews of Drive and Contagion
Oct 06, 2011 in Film, Guest Posts
Drive, the stylish, stylized thriller from Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn, is not for everyone. It’s moody and challenging, sparse in dialogue and dreamlike…and aggressive in its violence in a way that few films are. The retro vibe of the trailers’ Eurosynth score and the bold pink font of the posters are the first of [...]
A Spotlight on Black Light from Don Coscarelli
Oct 04, 2011 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland News
It’s publication week for BLACK LIGHT by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Stephen Romano. Today, producer/ director/ screenwriter and horror expert Don Coscarelli weighs in on what he calls “a damn fine horror novel.” I first became aware of Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan from their appearance on the reality series Project Greenlight. What stood [...]
Two Editors and an Author: A Conversation with Jonathan Galassi, John Schoenfelder and Matthew F. Jones
Oct 03, 2011 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Writing
To mark the publication of our first Mulholland Classic, A SINGLE SHOT by Matthew F. Jones, we connected Jones with his original editor for the book, Jonathan Galassi of Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and John Schoenfelder, the editor of the Mulholland Books re-publication, for a lively conversation about influences, editorial vision and the future. John [...]
My Seven Favorite Dystopias in Books and Film
Sep 30, 2011 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
My new novel, The Revisionists, is set in contemporary Washington and steeped in post-9/11 paranoia. One of the main characters, however, is a time traveler from the future. His job is to make sure that a horrible event ensues in Washington as dictated by History, in order to bring about his own Perfect Future. Which, [...]
A conversation with Thomas Mullen
Sep 28, 2011 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Thomas Mullen has written two great novels set in America’s past: The Last Town on Earth, which tells the story of a quarantined town in Washington state during the 1918 influenza epidemic, and The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, the story of two Depression-era bank robbers with an unusual gift for surviving bullet wounds. [...]
