We thought you might want to see a few photos of our authors enjoying the Bay area. Former LA Times colleagues Sebastian Rotella and Michael Connelly reconnected. Mark Billingham with Chris Mooney and Martyn Waites Fellow Los Angeles writers Marcia Clark and Michael Connelly joined by Zoe Ferraris. Duane Swierczynski with his agent David Hale [...]
Category Archive for ‘Mulholland Authors’ 
This Land is Noir Land
Oct 13, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
I’ve always wanted to drive cross-country. Would have done it in college, except for two small things: (a) no car, and (b) no money. But now that I own a motor vehicle (granted, a minivan) and have a little more folding green, I decided to take my family on a cross-country drive this past summer. [...]
The True Believer
Oct 12, 2010 in Books, Mulholland Authors
Every writer needs a true believer on his team. I am a literary agent, and I am a true believer. I am a creative partner and a business partner to a group of talented, ambitious, and hardworking authors. I’m a good editor, I know a lot of people who can publish your book or buy [...]
Sinking the Titanic
Oct 11, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News, Writing
Best interview question I’ve ever been asked: What’s the worst thing your parents think you’ve done? Not actually done, but that they think you’ve done. My answer: Heroin. I love doing research. It’s like cheating, but with permission. Here are some of the things I have done in the name of Research: learned to ride [...]
Jess Walter and Thomas Mullen on Character, Crime, Class, and the Whole Genre Thing
Oct 08, 2010 in Books, Mulholland Authors
Jess Walter writes about cops and feds, hapless realtors and laid-off journalists, poets and hit men. The protagonists of his three most recent novels are a mob informer living under Witness Protection and obsessed with his new voter registration card (Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award), an NYPD survivor of 9/11 with a memory [...]
The Meat of Children
Oct 06, 2010 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
And then those strange people flew those big planes into those big buildings. You remember that, yes? There was a vogue born in the aftermath, a fashion for declaring the death of things. As if actual deaths in the thousands were insufficient to the popular appetite for such things. Irony, particularly in the literary mode, [...]
Thank You for Smoking
Sep 14, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
It has often been said by crime writers (this one included) that the community of mystery writers is uniquely clubbable, and, while there are one or two crime writers of whom I would use that word in the same way it is applied to baby seals, I think that, generally speaking, this description is true. [...]
Why Mark Billingham is a Badass
Aug 26, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
Mark Billingham has been a crime-fiction sensation in the UK since his first novel, Sleepyhead, was published in 2001 to great acclaim and success. The protagonist of that book, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, has appeared in many subsequent novels and is now a beloved figure in British crime lit. Billingham earned his success. Raised in [...]
Mark Billingham and Laura Lippman on themselves and everything else
Aug 18, 2010 in Books, Film, Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors
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 [...]
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 [...]
