On 14th July 2007 I was scheduled for a presentation of the Spanish edition of Zero Hour in Phnom Penh. It was to be held in the main...

My Spanish publisher has bought the Spanish rights to Spirit House . They plan to bring it out early in 2008. Ediciones Paidos Iberica...

Many of us have that dream of riding the space shuttle above the earth and looking down at the blue planet. To see the world as a whole...

From J.K. Rowlings to J.R.R. Tolkien, publishers are finding that collectable editions have a good market. Galleycat pointed out that...

People who work the dead end jobs in offices, factories, amusement parks, and restaurants haunt Chuck Palahnuik’s world. Or they have...

On Friday 8th June I am being interviewed on Tom Mintier’s talk show. Tune in to True Channel UBC news cable station at 22.10. The...

I have been asked by Terry Fitzgerald whether the painting by Galileo Chini (1873 – 1956) mentioned in RISK was a product of my...

By Christopher Hitchens For a large part of humanity mankind’s faith has been shaped by religious text that emerged from tribal desert...

Keeping a pulse on political, economic and social developments in Thailand is never an easy task even if you live in Thailand. A...

A recent essay has suggested that novelists have lost their way by moving away from the comedy aspect of life and plunging instead deep...

Who The Hell Are We Fighting? The Story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence War, C. Michael Hiam, Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press...

Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Sui Kyi, by Justin Wintle, Random House (2007) 450 pps, with photographs. Available at all bookstores...

101 Tales of Sex, Crime, and the Bizarre from Japan’s Wild Weeklies, Tabloid Tokyo 2, (2007) pp. 286 complied by Mark Schreiber For...

Tim Hallinan’s new book A Nail Through the Heart will be released in the United States by William Morrow (July 1, 2007). You can read...

Robert Roberts has sent along his review of A Haunting Smile. “What with Thailand in the news recently for a pedophile, a military coup,...

Every year for the past 19 years there has been a festival in North Spain to celebrate crime fiction and thrillers. Along with Henning...

One of the challenges in writing fiction is to create good characters. It is not uncommon to meet someone and think that would be an...

Slowly the basic elements are coming together for the 10th Calvino novel. The process is not unlike planet formation in the universe....

Again the distant drums are beating a coded message: "We are interested in your books." At least that is the way I have decoded the...

On Saturday 26th April I spoke before about 100 members of the Chiang Mai Expat Club. I talked about the history of how Vincent Calvino...