Madeleine Holly-Rosing hat für ihre Drehbücher und Features in den Bereichen Fernsehen und Kino zahlreiche Preise erhalten. Vorher war sie eine professionelle Fechterin, die national und international bei Wettbewerben angetreten ist, außerdem kann sie akademische Abschlüsse in Politikwissenschaft und Nahost-Studien vorweisen.
Ihr Ehemann ist Raketenwissenschaftler an Jet Propulsion Laboratory der NASA in Pasadena, Kalifornien.
Ihre 6-teilige Webcomicserie
Boston Metaphysical Society (
BMS) sollte ursprünglich eine Fernsehserie werden. Die ersten drei Hefte ihrer Serie hat sie mit ihrem Ehemann selbst finanziert, die Unterstützung für die restlichen Printausgaben warb sie durch Kickstarter ein.
Zitat:
Madeleine Holly-Rosing isn’t one for dressing up in costumes. In fact, the author, former professional fencer and alumna of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television is much more comfortable in gym wear or jeans than petticoats and corsets. Nevertheless, almost a dozen times a year she dons an elaborate 19th Century Western outfit replete with a Pinkerton badge, owl lapel pin and a tricked-out hat of her own design as she visits various Comic Cons around the country promoting her six-part web comic series, “Boston Metaphysical Society."
“You’ve gotta keep the fans happy,” Holly-Rosing said.
Since 2013, Holly-Rosing, along with her five-member graphic arts team, has been growing a fan base that ardently follows the adventures of ex-Pinkerton detective Samuel Hunter and his partner, spirit photographer Caitlin O’Sullivan. Together, they battle supernatural forces in a steampunk version of late 1800s Beantown. Nikola Tesla, Harry Houdini, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell also figure prominently in the award-winning series. After two successful Kickstarter campaigns, Holly-Rosing just published the fifth installment; the sixth will follow later in the year. It marks nearly the end of the first phase of what she calls the platform of her transmedia goals for “Boston Metaphysical Society,” which include already existing ancillary products (short stories, novellas, steampunk swag) and, in the future, a TV series, another comic series and novels. In fact, she is currently in talks with a small press publisher to publish an anthology of her short stories and novellas.
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