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The Official Website
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The Official Website
“Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun in the world of the suspense novel, along comes one hell of a nasty spider called The Straw Men. It’s brilliantly written and scary as hell — a masterpiece.”
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to the webspace of New York Times and internationally-bestselling suspense novelist Michael Marshall, his alter ego, the horror and sf writer Michael Marshall Smith, and alter-alter ego, adventure suspense novelist Michael Rutger.
Michael's work includes the Straw Men thrillers (in television development), modern sf classics like Only Forward (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award) and Spares — along with Intruders, televised by BBCAmerica and starring Mira Sorvino, John Simm, and introducing Millie Bobby Brown. He is the only author to have won the BFS Short Story Award four times.
He is now additionally working as a screenwriter — and serving as Creative Director at The Blank Corporation, working on a slate of film and television projects in production and development.
Links will take you to information about the novels and short stories, a place to find eBooks, news on current projects and events, and his Substack. Icons at the bottom will take you to social sites like Twitter.
“It’s not the craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his stories that I object to. It’s not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It’s not even that way he can conjure people so real in so few words. It’s that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it’s pretty much guaranteed there will be some moment, scene or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I’ll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds.”
Contact
Contact
For film and TV rights or screenwriting work, contact Ellen Goldsmith-Vein at the Gotham Group.
For publishing-related enquiries, please contact Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown, UK or Jennifer Joel at ICM, NYC.
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