Paul Wilborn in-conversation w/ Mark Mustian w/ Florida Hustle

About the book:

Aspiring filmmaker Michael Donnelly has two obsessions. One is Italian horror movies, and the other is Dawn Karston, a teen-age scream-queen, known for dying horribly in a string of cheap slasher flicks.

Michael, who shares a Palm Beach mansion with his defense contractor father, believes Dawn deserves better material and that he is just the 17-year-old for the job.

But obsession, like filmmaking, is a risky business. To Dawn and her LA manager, Michael’s comic book story boards, rendered in blood-red ink and mailed to the actor’s home address, look more like death threats than movie pitches.

About Paul:

A native of Tampa, Paul Wilborn collected multiple awards from the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors during a journalism career that included stints at the Tampa Tribune, The St. Petersburg Times and the Associated Press in Los Angeles. He won the Green Eyeshade Award from the Atlanta Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the South’s top writing prize. Based on a selection of his writing, Wilborn was chosen for the Paul Hansel Award, Florida’s top journalism prize. He was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

About Mark:

Mark Mustian is the president of the law firm Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., and has practiced public finance law for over thirty years. A former Tallahassee City Commissioner, he is the president of the Word of South Festival of Literature and Music in Tallahassee and the author of the novel The Gendarme, which has been published in ten languages.