The best fiction is often the result of character development that creates an arc of intellect and emotion, finely tuned, elaborately...

One question that comes up in publishing fiction is how to get someone in a bookstore to pickup and buy a book by an unknown author. We...

Manchester based novelist Michael Walters has written two crime novels set in Mongolia. Walters is a management consultant by trade. I...

Yesterday a MD-82 twin-engine departing from Bangkok crashed as it attempted to land at Phuket airport. Reports here list 88 known dead...

Authors of crime fiction often draw from real events to interject the feel of reality into their novels. Sometimes, though, reality...

There is a free Heart Talk t-shirt. Go to www.thaihearttalk.info and fill out a questionnaire about Heart Talk, the book, and your name ...

Peter Temple has been on a hot streak. His last novel The Broken Shore won a CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger. In a recent interview by Bob...

Thomas Fuller had a good article titled “Thais ask: What’s in a Nickname” where he reports on the trend for parents to resort to the use...

Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand, Silkwood edition 2006, ISBN 13: 9780974-93619-6-2 I’ve finished reading Tamara Loos’...

In the beginning was the Word. Crime fiction, in its current trajectory, owes much to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald...

While a number of authors fly by the seat of their pants when setting their books in Southeast Asia, one writer who lives in Thailand...

Ever so often a professional writer will open the blinds on the creative process and unveils what lies behind the writing of a book....

The Altantic Monthly hardback edition of The Risk of Infidelity Index is scheduled for release in the United States and England on 21...

Price of most things is related to their scarcity. As most of the English editions of my books have been published by Heaven Lake Press in...

The Thai version of Pattaya 24/7 is available in bookstores throughout Thailand. Though I suspect you will have to find it at a Thai...

Kevin Burton Smith’s “100 Eyes of the Mystery Scene Era” has been published in the 100th issue of Mystery Scene Magazine. Vincent Calvino...

Ever so often I come across a price for my books that make me wonder if my publisher would be better off doing a print run of 500 and...

This is the final posting about Semana Negra 2007. A few more photographs give an idea of the journey, the city of Gijon and some of the...

Entrance to Semana Negra 2007 Gijon, Spain From 3rd to 21st July I was in Spain. I started off in Madrid for two days. Then boarded the...

There were many other authors from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and Columbia. It was a good chance to meet authors and artists from around...