SHORT SHARP INTERVIEW: DANNY BOWMAN /HOGAN

 

SHORT SHARP INTERVIEW: DANNY BOWMAN /HOGAN

Danny Bowman/ Hogan is the author of Killer Tease and editor of PULP PRESS. http://www.pulppress.co.uk/


PDB) How autobiographical is your writing?

Danny) There's always a little of own experiences in my writing, for example the back story for Eloise Murphy in Killer Tease is that she used to be a skinhead girl, as her record collection indicates. I used to be a skinhead back in the day, see.

Also the path her life has followed is similar to mine, though I have never been a burlesque dancer, admittedly. In the upcoming Windowlicker Maker, Joe Tatum spends the first part of the book trying to deal with post traumatic stress disorder, which is something that I still struggle to cope with.

There are a lot of true stories made into fiction in the Windowlicker Maker incidentally, people ain't going to believe it when they read it, but it's true. A lot of the protagonist characters in my stories tend to express my own inner thoughts and feelings to a degree.

PDB) Who would write the soundtrack to your novel Killer Tease?

Danny)There'd be a lot of Agnostic Front, as that is mine and Eloise's favourite band. But I reckon a good opening song would be The Most Exhausted Potentate of Love by The Cramps.

I'd have to get my mates in the Anglo-Franco punk band Deadline in there as I promised them that I would.

In the scene where she dances at the Prince Albert to be either the Girl Can't Help it by Little Richard or Werewolf by The Frantics. 

Nick Cave and Morrissey will probably make an appearance as well as I tend to write a lot listening to those two joymongers.


PDB) Give me the SP on Pulp Press' merry band.

Danny) Pulp Press is all about bringing out energetic and entertaining reads in the old school pulp format, and specialise in revenge fiction.

We are currently open to submissions for 23,000 words efforts but it is advisable that any interested party get hold of a couple of one our titles so that they can see what kind of thing we're looking for. We don't give advances but do offer a much more sizeable royalty cut. We are particularly keen on getting some female writers involved at the moment because at present our catalogue looks like a damned boy's club.

This interview first appeared at PULP METAL MAGAZINE