Slade's News
Michael Slade will be Guest of Honor at BLOODY WORDS XI, the mystery convention to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, from June 3 - 5, 2011.
Michael Slade will teach HOW TO WRITE A MYSTERY at the SURREY INTERNATIONAL WRITERS CONFERENCE, October 22 - 25, 2009. He taught the course at Simon Fraser University this summer.
Diana Gabaldon, Anne Perry, Jack Whyte, and kc dyer will join Slade for SHOCK THEATER: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.
Libraries Unlimited of Santa Barbara, California, has published the following guide:
- Jeff Abbott
- David Baldaci
- William Berhnardt
- Steve Berry
- Larry Bond
- Suzanne Brockmann
- Dale Brown
- Dan Brown
- Sandra Brown
- Edna Buchanan
- Lee Child
- Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston
- Tom Clancy
- Harlan Coben
- Margaret Coel
- Michael Connelly
- Robin Cook
- Stephen Coonts
- Robert Crais
- Michael Crichton
- Clive Cussler
- Jeffery Deaver
- Nelson DeMille
- Jack DuBrul
- Barry Eisler
- Linda Fairstein
- Christine Feehan
- Joseph Finder
- Ian Fleming
- Vince Flynn
- Ken Follett
- Frederick Forsyth
- Stephen Frey
- Alan Furst
- Lisa Gardner
- Tess Gerritsen
- W.E.B. Griffin
- James Grippando
- John Grisham
- Michael Gruber
- Laurel K. Hamilton
- Thomas Harris
- Jack Higgins
- Patricia Highsmith
- Tami Hoag
- Kay Hooper
- Linda Howard
- Stephen Hunter
- Greg Iles
- Jerry B. Jenkins
- Iris Johansen
- William F. Johnstone
- Alex Kava
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Dean R. Koontz
- John leCarre
- Dennis Lehane
- John Lescroart
- Laura Lippman
- Elizabeth Lowell
- Robert Ludlum
- Eric Lustbader
- John Lutz
- Gayle Lynds
- Philip Margolin
- Brad Meltzer
- Stephenie Meyer
- David Morrell
- J.J. Nance
- Peter O'Donnell
- Perri O'Shaughnessy
- T. Jefferson Parker
- James Patterson
- Richard North Patterson
- Ridley Pearson
- Thomas Perry
- Jodi Picoult
- Kathy Reichs
- Matthew Reilly
- John Ringo
- J.D. Robb
- James Rollins
- M.J. Rose
- S.J. Rozan
- John Sandford
- Lisa Scottoline
- M.R. Sellars
- Daniel Silva
- Michael Slade
- Karin Slaughter
- Wilbur Smith
- Erica Spindler
- Richard Stark
- S.M. Stirling
- Scott Turow
- Andrew Vachss
- Minette Walters
- David Weber
- Stephen White
- F. Paul Wilson
HEADHUNTER is ready for filming. Patrick Lussier will direct. He directed MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D, and is Wes Craven's longtime editor. The screenplay is by Wil Zmak, winner of the 2006 Writers Guild of Canada Best Feature Screenplay Award for THE DARK HOURS. Weather plays a major part in the story, so the film requires a fall-winter shoot.
FEARnet: Do you have a "dream project" you would like to direct? Lussier: Years ago, I read Michael Slade's book, HEADHUNTER. It's a brutal murder mystery that takes place in three different time periods, all centered around the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Coming from Canada, that is a big thing - my grandfather was a Mountie. It's a project I'd love to do.
Constable Herbert "Dickie" Childerstone, Lussier's grandfather, painted by his great-grandfather before WWII
Alice Cooper interview, THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, October 13, 2005: HEADHUNTER was really good. I mean, it was before CSI; the whole forensic thing about the psycho killer, that's what made it so gripping. It was just so strong and scary. I kept sayin', "How come this isn't a movie?"