A good friend from Portland recently asked me to recommend a reading list for an American expat who planned to live and work in Thailand...

There is a lot of talent in the world. But talent in most activities, writing included, while necessary is not sufficient to make...

Preparations are underway for me to promote Gambling on Magic in Istanbul in mid-September 2006. The Turkish title is Büyüyle Kumar...

The response to the front cover was overwhelming. I had many good suggestions, and a lot of encouragement and support. The cover...

A number of my earlier novels suffered from typos. It was as if the ghost of a long dead printer had returned and left his mark. Not...

That’s the title of the new Calvino novel. Here is the first draft of the cover design. I’d appreciate hearing your views about the...

I have finished the first twenty-one chapters of the first draft. I figure another two chapters will round off this draft. I am going...

Getting away from Bangkok is the only way I can finish a draft of a book. This time it was on Koh Chang Island in the South of...

No it isn’t a book with all the Thai words that have a root in the word “vampire.” Jim Newport is the author of a series about a Siam...

In Asia, this is considered a platform: Platform Diva : It is popular in New York publishing circles to talk about a writer’s platform....

My Turkish publisher, Venus, has released the Turkish edition of Gambling on Magic. Quotes from The Bangkok Post, Pattaya Mail, Thai Day...

Robert Littell is a writer’s writer. In an interview with January Magazine’s Ali Karim he discusses a lifetime of writing. He has lived...

I collect first editions. Not in a large, commercial way. But I have several first editions of Graham Greene’s novels, including a...

This weekend I start chapter 20 of the new Calvino novel. The story is about three or four chapters away from the end. The end, in the...

Michael Kimmel’s Guy Lit – Whatever looks at books such as Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision (2005) and others. The common bond in these...

Peter Jenssen, Dpa Bureau Chief has filed this article A Rare Glimpse of the King about General Vasit Dejunkorn’s person memoir titled In...

The Hamlets at the Thai censor board did a 180 degree turn over night. It seems Paramount threaten not to release The Da Vinci Code in...

Censors in South Korea and India have backed away with the cutting table, knife in hand, and the Da Vinci Code can be shown uncensored in...

One of the things the marketplace likes to do is put authors and books into a category. Bookstores are arranged by category. If you...

Gray and wet and hot. Sunday morning around eleven heavy sheets of rain hit Bangkok. I stood at my window and watched as the rain blew...