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Christopher Golden Author of Angel comics

At the age of just 32 Christopher Golden is at a very happy place in his life. Not only is he an accomplished author in his own right with such novels as Of Saints and Shadows and Strangewood but he has been a contributing influence in the comic book industry with his early beginnings of Wolverine, The Crow, Blade and Spider-man just to name a few. Now he shares with us his latest adventures from his forthcoming novels entitled Pretty Maids All in a Row and Straight On ‘til Morning to upcoming comic Spike & Dru #3 and a novel series, Buffy: The Lost Slayer. The new line of Angel comics, On Sale Now! I recently had the pleasure of sharing an insightful conversation with this humorous man and he even gave us his thoughts on Nicholas Brendon as Spider-man and future character plots for Faith and Giles. After going over all of these things stacked high on his plate, I wondered how he kept it all together! “I don’t know,” he starts out. “I have it on paper in front of me somewhere. The thing is it all comes down to passion, honestly. With the comics and other things it’s really just a matter of only choosing to work on projects that you really enjoy. It’s easy to keep track of things if you care about them, the things you don’t care about, well, they fall by the way side.” Best known to us for his tremendous work on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, comics and support books such as The Watcher’s Guide and The Sunnydale Yearbook (with Nancy Holder), he now adds the Angel comic series along with the new Monster Book. This is a man who adamantly admits he loves horror! So you’ve got to wonder if he has an evil twin working on these projects simultaneously. “I prefer not to, but there are times when it’s inevitable. And in fact, recently I made a deal to do a new teen horror series for Pocket called Prowlers and that’s going to require that I will be working on at least two things simultaneously for the foreseeable future or at least until the middle of next summer.” "I think that the Buffy phenomenon is responsible for unifying my readers... " It’s interesting how the Buffy and Angel universe has evolved thanks to Joss Whedon - Buffy’s creator and now surrogate to its spin-off Angel. It seems it’s gone from ‘cult fashion’ quickly into the ‘main stream’ over the last two years. But are these the same fans that get hold of Chris’s books and comics and start to discover more about him and his other works? “I think that the Buffy phenomenon is responsible for unifying my readers,” he admits openly, “so, before Buffy, I had a lot of people who knew me for writing X-Men novels. And a lot of people who knew me for writing my original vampire novels starting with Of Saints and Shadows and for writing a couple of teens thrillers that I had done. But when Buffy came along, literally, it unified all of the readership, because Buffy appealed to all of the various groups I had previously written for and made them aware of all the other things I had done. Chris Golden at a recent convention. So that now, if I go to do a signing, I have people coming up with a variety of things that I do, and that’s certainly because of Buffy.” He also recognizes where some of those fans come from. “There is a staunchly loyal following mainly comprised of, or I should say, substantially comprised of members of the Bronze Posting Board community, who have been really supportive and really helpful in spreading the word to other Buffy fans about my other work. Which is really nice, and they’re very open minded.” Combining the worlds of Buffy and his other interests has taken Chris on a new journey with his forthcoming novel involving Sunnydale's favorite un-dead couple, as Chris informs us. “I think it’s a very interesting experiment what’s happening this fall with the Spike & Dru hard cover novel I’m finishing this week. It’s called Pretty Maids All In Row, and it’s an interesting experiment because here you have a book that is steeped in the Buffy universe mythology with the Council of Watchers, and Slayers and Slayers-in-waiting and all that kind of stuff, but does not have any of the regular characters except Spike and Drusilla. So, this is, I think a natural progression of where we’re going to see the Buffy universe going over time.” Go to Next Page >> Chris Golden tells a joke. (Yes, he's joking people.)