Red Right Hand

TYPE O NEGATIVE: BLOODY KISSES GRAPHIC NOVEL

2023-11-15T01:23:00.000-08:00

Legendary gothic metal band Type O Negative have partnered with award-winning publisher Z2 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's masterpiece, Bloody Kisses, with a lavish new graphic novel.

A collection of stories based on tracks from the original release, it includes "Too Late: Frozen" by founder and frontman for Black Veil Brides Andy Biersack, "Christian Woman" by author and lead vocalist of ~~Butcher Babies~~ Lords of Acid Carla Harvey, "Bloody Kisses" by Lacuna Coil frontwoman Cristina Scabbia, "Blood & Fire" by Fear Factory co-founder Burton C. Bell, and "Set Me on Fire" by Michael Patrick Sullivan (who is not known for fronting any bands, but his guitar work has been known to scare small cats).

With covers by Alan Robert and edited by Rantz A. Hoseley, it captures both the haunted edge and the dry, satirical humour that defined what many consider to be the definitive gothic metal album.

Avialable now directly from Z2 by clicking on the image. Also on Amazon.

THE AUSLANDER FILES - AVAILABLE NOW

2018-11-01T02:43:00.001-07:00

"Sullivan delivers old-fashioned, pulpy adventure with an iconic hero who’s all action and no name." - Eric Heisserer (screenwriter of Arrival)

WORLD WAR II: The United States is geared up for the war in Europe, unaware that a secret plan designed and overseen by Germany’s top covert agent will soon launch death and destruction across the entire country. When the plan’s mastermind awakens in a stateside motel room, he finds himself mysteriously robbed of his memories… and his allegiance to the Führer.

Racing against the clock, the spy who now calls himself The Auslander must piece together his own vast conspiracy, and fight the entire German spy network that he created – who are bent on killing him at all costs. This Pulp 2.0 collection of The Auslander’s adventures features two-fisted World War II thrillers in the pulse-pounding tradition of Ken Follett and Alistair MacLean.

The Auslander Files collects all the Auslander stories from Astonishing Adventures Magazine and an additional one, exclusive to this edition, all written in a slam-bang 40s pulp style. Now available on Amazon.com.

POP THERAPY

2018-11-01T02:33:00.001-07:00

Based on the work of psychologist Dr. Janina Scarlet, Pop Therapy was shot as a pilot for a web series that would depict the use of pop culture in talk therapy. While therapy is often portrayed inaccurately in films and television as a way to forward the the story, in Pop Therapy, it is the story.

Starring Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Wilson Lamont, co-created by Mindy Bledsoe and Michael Patrick Sullivan and produced by Hannah Dorsett and Jennifer Stone (Wizards of Waverly Place)

Premiered at Los Angeles Comic Con, October 28, 2018

2017-12-04T11:56:00.001-08:00

TENSPOTTING - AN OUT OF THE (POLICE) BOX ROM-COM

Says Doctor Who Magazine, "Tenspotting, Starring Chloe Dykstra, is a romantic comedy set at a Doctor Who convention, in which a young woman searches for her perfect '10'. It's superb!"

At last year's Doctor Who convention, Angel connected with a Tenth Doctor cosplayer but they were interrupted before she got his real name or number. Now, a year later, how does she find her perfect "ten" in a convention full of Doctor Who cosplayers? Her friend Tamara has a plan...

Official Selection: Wizard World Sacramento Film Festival, Grand Rapids Comic Con Film Festival, Geekfest, Dragon*Con Film Festival, Feautured Panel at Comickaze Los Angeles and Gallifrey One.

Also starring Tiffany Smith (Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal) and Kit Williamson (Mad Men). Written by Michael Patrick Sullivan and Emily Blake. Directed by Patrick Meaney.

Full film on YouTube.

THE AUSLANDER FILES

2016-12-24T23:04:00.004-08:00

“Sullivan delivers old-fashioned, pulpy adventure with an iconic hero who’s all action and no name.” – Eric Heisserer, screenwriter of Arrival, Lights Out, and Hours.

WORLD WAR II: The United States is geared up for the war in Europe, unaware that a secret plan designed and overseen by Germany’s top covert agent will soon launch death and destruction across the entire country. When the plan’s mastermind awakens in a stateside motel room, he finds himself mysteriously robbed of his memories… and his allegiance to the Führer.

Racing against the clock, the spy who now calls himself The Auslander must piece together his own vast conspiracy, and fight the entire German spy network that he created – who are bent on killing him at all costs. This Pulp 2.0 collection of The Auslander’s adventures features two-fisted World War II thrillers in the pulse-pounding tradition of Ken Follett and Alistair MacLean.

The Auslander Files collects all the Auslander stories from Astonishing Adventures Magazine and an additional one, exclusive to this edition, all written in a slam-bang 40s pulp style. Now available on Amazon.com.

2016-04-28T16:37:00.001-07:00

TENSPOTTING - AN OUT OF THE (POLICE) BOX ROM-COM

OCTOBER 21, 1979

2016-04-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

I had been tailing this East German agent for three weeks. At times I was sure he was on to me, like when lost me on Kurfürstenstrasse near the Hotel Berlin only for me to pick him up again outside the Bauhaus-Archiv.

I became adept at front-tailing him. A technique we developed in the "special service" of keeping tabs on a vehicle by driving in front of it. Risky, but it throws off suspicion. He could easily lose me with an unexpected turn but he suspects nothing, it seems. He never takes that turn. I'd know why soon enough.

In my rearview, I saw him eyeing a beergarten off Marburger Str and I beat him to it. We practically shared a Würzberger together, were it not for the room full of soccer fans celebrating a 5-1 win for the national team over Wales.

It wasn't until I tailed him out to Tegeler Forst and I took this photo (and he took a remarkably similar one) that I realized wasn't as good as I thought, and neither was he. We were assigned to follow each other. We've circled West Berlin for two months like a cat chasing its tail (no pun intended). I won't speculate which of us was the pussy in this scenario.

To this day, we still laugh about it over brats.

ZERO SIGHT SCREENING IN DTLA

2016-03-04T21:03:00.001-08:00

VyVy Nguyen in Zero Sight: Bad Call

On March 19th, in Downtown LA, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) will celebrate women in film at its latest red-carpet screening event in honor of Women’s History Month. Festivities include a reception and shorts programs showcasing female storytellers and female-driven stories which was produced by a crew mainly made up of women. And Zero Sight: Bad Call will be featured, (despite being written by me and my xy chromosomes). There'll be a Q&A with Director Liz Rizzo.

Also featured in the same evening, will be the post-apocalyptic western Hoss by Friend-of-the-Hand*, Christine Boylan. I contributed some cashy-money to this flick and it was money well-spent. It features Lindsay Fonseca from Agent Carter and there's horses.

Tickets and details at newfilmmakersla.com/events/events-programs/

*If I ever form a cult, I'm calling it Friends of the Hand.

TENSPOTTING: AN OUT OF THE (POLICE) BOX ROMANTIC COMEDY

2016-01-17T16:57:00.002-08:00

TENSPOTTING FEATURED in DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE

2015-12-14T15:45:00.002-08:00

Tenspotting has recently been featured in the official publication of all things Doctor Who.

Says Doctor Who Magazine, "Tenspotting, Starring Chloe Dykstra, is a romantic comedy set at a Doctor Who convention, in which a young woman searches for her perfect '10'. It's superb!"

Written by Michael Patrick Sullivan and Emily Blake and directed by Patrick Meaney. Also Starring Tiffany Smith (DC All Access) and Kit Williamson (Mad Men).

In the meantime, Team Tenspotting awaits word of possibly screening at Gallifrey One, the States' preeminent Doctor Who convention. Stay tuned.

2015-07-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

Starring Chloe Dykstra, Tiffany Smith and Kit Williamson. Written by Emily Blake & Michael Patrick Sullivan. Directed by Patrick Meaney.

TENSPOTTING IN ATLANTA

2015-06-27T23:57:00.002-07:00

Tenspotting has been accepted into the Dragon*Con Film Festival. Details when I've got 'em.

TENSPOTTING IN SACRAMENTO

2015-06-13T15:47:00.002-07:00

TENSPOTTING will next be screened at the Con Film Festival at Wizard World Sacramento on Saturday, June 20th. Click the pic for tickets and info.

STARMAN - COMING NEVER TO THE CW

2015-05-19T16:23:00.000-07:00

Never write IP you don't own.
Unless you really want to and know the risks.

I wrote an adaptation of DC Comics' Starman series that ran from 1994 and 2001 and is one of the best series that publisher ever...published. I did it partly because I wanted to and also to get a specific meeting. I got the meeting.

I wrote it in the style of the current DC shows currently airing on the CW. I read through scripts for both Arrow and The Flash and absorbed the writing style of show creators Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg. It presented the challenge of being built upon over 50 years of DC continuity, but I needed to adapt it to retain a similar feel without all that baggage. I think I did okay.

Since it has limited uses, I'm just gonna share it here. Click on the logo.

COMING SOON: TENSPOTTING

2015-01-24T07:45:00.003-08:00


Photo by @stephpressman.

Behold the fruits of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Two of our stars, Chloe Dykstra and Kit Williamson between takes in the Doctor Who convention bar set at XIX Studios.

Shooting has wrapped and Tenspotting is now in post. Look for it digitally and at your geekier film festivals soon.

UPDATE: April 6 at District Pub in North Hollywood - see the public premiere of Tenspotting at their monthly Doctor Who night.

Kickstarter backers will be receiving their Tenspotting links any minute.

ZERO SIGHT: BAD CALL

2014-12-13T23:25:00.006-08:00

Gamer girl Veronica gains possession of a very special cell phone. Text any name - anyone in the world - and that person will die. She'll need all her first-person-shooter game experience to try to put things right when a little too much wine results in her actually using it.

Official selection: Orlando Film Festival, Valley Film Festival, Ojai Film Festival, Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival and featured at New Filmmakers LA.

Written by Michael Patrick Sullivan. Directed by Liz Rizzo. Starring Vyvy Nguyen, Kerry Hite and Bayardo De Murguia

ZERO SIGHT at the VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL

2014-10-28T16:02:00.000-07:00

Zero Sight: Bad Call's next stop on the festival circuit is at the Valley Film Festival in North Hollywood. We'll be screening as part of the Girls on Film Short Program highlighting women filmmakers. While my chromosomes are of the XY variety, most of the cast and crew's are not. Barring devastating solar flares the destroy electronics around the world, I shall be in attendance.

The program screening begins at 8:00 PM on December 11, 2014 at the Laemmle NoHo 7 theater.

Tickets are available at the clicky box.

ZERO SIGHT in the ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL

2014-10-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

Zero Sight: Bad Call has been accepted to the Orlando Film Festival. If you're in Central Florida around October 22-26, Screw that mouse, go check out a thing I wrote.

Further Zero Sight news soon.

SITREP 3Q 2014

2014-09-01T15:25:00.001-07:00

Being a assessment of projects involving me that are currently ongoing, about to go on or already gone.

Tenspotting - This short rom com (co-written with Emily Blake) set at a Doctor Who convention is funded and will go before the cameras soon. It will star Chloe Dykstra (right), Tiffany Smith and Kit Williamson.

[TITLE REDACTED] - a half-hour pilot about [REDACTED] is on hold for talent availability.

#Tradecraft - This webseries about spies, conspiracies, and other secrets has shot two episodes which will be used as a proof-of-concept in attempting to secure financing.

Personal goal of writing one pilot per quarter is ahead of schedule. Three down.

Mastermind - The staging of my one-act by Piers Beckley at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London was, by all reports, well-received indeed. Where shall this mysterious malefactor strike next? If interested in staging a production of Mastermind, contact me at the address in the sidebar.

KICKSTART TENSPOTTING

2014-08-15T11:55:00.005-07:00

Ten Spotting is, I think, a new and different beast. It's a romantic comedy that I co-wrote (yes, you read that right) aimed at the geek audience and set in the middle of a Doctor Who convention. We've lined up some excellent talent like Chloe Dykstra (as seen in many Nerdist programs), Tiffany Smith (host of DC's All Access and formerly of Attack of the Show) and Kit Williamson of Mad Men. Click the video above and allow co-writer Emily Blake break it down for you. Then give us some money. Art don't come cheap.

MASTERMIND

2014-06-30T17:17:00.001-07:00

"Supervillainy abounds." -John Rogers, creator of Leverage

"The play owned me from the first moment to the last." - David Anaxagoras, creator of Gortimer Gibbons' Life on Normal Street

An amnesiac genius believes he may have been the arch-villain Mastermind. Now, with less than an hour before Mastermind's last plot threatens to blow-up the city, he must recover secrets locked in his memories and possibly become Mastermind again. Written by Michael Patrick Sullivan.

Mastermind was first staged April 18, 2009 at the Black Box Theatre in Santa Monica, CA and starred J. Claude Deering, Katherine (Brandt) Deering and Jonathan Runyon. Directed by Michael Patrick Sullivan.

It also ran July 10-19, 2009 at the Eclectic Theatre Company of North Hollywood, CA where it won awards for best writing, best actor, and best production. Director Susan Lee and the cast then went on to make a short feature of the play which screened as part of the San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival in 2010.

Mastermind went up for a one-time performance at The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention (aka WorldCon) on August 15, 2014. Directed by Piers Beckley.

COMING THIS SUMMER

2014-05-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

He's put mind control drugs in the pancakes.

Now, he's coming for the crumpets.

Stay tuned.

WHERE I AM

2014-04-11T11:43:00.000-07:00

Geography:

Los Angeles, CA

Interwebs:

Representation:

APA
Sheree Guitar Entertainment

Where You Are:

www.redrighthand.net

THE AUSLANDER NOMINATED FOR 2014 NEW PULP AWARDS.

2014-02-27T17:09:00.001-08:00

Hey, The Auslander Files has been nominated for several 2014 New Pulp Awards. The Amnesiac Avenger needs your votes!

If you haven't had a chance to check out my book, download the free sampler featuring the nominated stories at http://auslander.redrighthand.net/

Please read the voting instructions carefully. Also, I've included a copy of the ballot with all my noms at the bottom, but please check out the full nominations list if you're so inclined - particularly my comics reading friends, many excellent choices in the New Pulp Comics category (I'm partial to The Shadow: Year One from Dynamite).

Thanks Auslandroids!

NEW PULP AWARDS 2014 OFFICIAL BALLOT
OFFICIAL BALLOT

CUT AND PASTE THE BALLOT INTO AN EMAIL OR SEPARATE DOCUMENT.
ONLY SELECT ONE (1) NOMINEE IN EACH CATEGORY. SELECTING MORE THAN ONE (1) WILL DISQUALIFY YOUR VOTE IN THAT CATEGORY.

EMAIL YOUR FINAL BALLOT TO newpulp2014@yahoo.com

AN INDICATOR OF YOUR IDENTITY MUST BE INCLUDED. THIS CAN INCLUDE, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO A LINK TO AN ACTIVE FACEBOOK PAGE, A VERIFIED PROFILE ON A MAIL OR SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, OR A PHOTO IDENTIFICATION SCANNED AND SENT WITH THE BALLOT.

VOTING IS OPEN FROM FEBRUARY 27TH to MARCH 12TH, 2014. ANY VOTES RECEIVED AFTER 3 PM CST ON MARCH 12TH, 2014 WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

Best Collection/Anthology
The Auslander Files by Michael Patrick Sullivan (Pulp 2.0 Press)

Best Short Story (CHOOSE ONE)
My Hostage, My Hero by Michael Patrick Sullivan, The Auslander Files (Pulp 2.0 Press)
The Yellow Star by Michael Patrick Sullivan, The Auslander Files (Pulp 2.0 Press)

Best New Pulp Character
The Auslander created by Michael Patrick Sullivan from The Auslander Files

Best Author
Michael Patrick Sullivan

Best New Writer
Michael Patrick Sullivan

COME THIS FAR...

2014-01-12T13:58:00.001-08:00

Taking a cue from Ms. Benson, as I so often do, let us look back and look ahead at the same time, hopefully not necessitating a visit to a chiropractic professional.

• My book, The Auslander Files, was released by Pulp2.0 Press.
• This short film/web series pilot was funded, shot and released.
• Manager retained, so still repped.
• Agent acquired, so even more repped. Actually got to a point in the last few months where I had to turn down offers of representation.
• Was a bit light on meetings this last year, but they were really good ones. Already looking busy this year.
• Developing a script with a prodco, looking to attach talent soon. This one's taken a very strange path. Maybe I'll be able to tell the story at some point.
• Wrote an uber-low-budget webseries with ARG elements to be produced and directed by a cadre of independent crazy people in the coming year.
• Won the one-hour-pilot prize in the Final Draft Big Break contest. Got some goodies out of that.
• That script has been tearing things up, and so I expect it to serve me well going into staffing.
• And my car hit 100,000 a few days ago.