My Worst Experience on the Road – In this Month’s Esquire Magazine (Thai edition)

I have been interviewed in the October edition of Esquire Magazine (Thai edition) about my worst travel experience ever. Bit of a dilemma as I have encountered quite a few disastrous scenarios in the past 25 years on the road. But my failure to rescue a severely injured men in Zanskar (northwestern India), the subject […]

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The Cambodian Book Of The Dead published by Exhibit A in the UK, US and Canada in 2013!!!

It’s official!!! I am extremely happy to say that Crime Wave Press have sold world wide rights to my novel The Cambodian Book of the Dead to brand new British crime fiction imprint Exhibit A. Crime Wave Press retain English language rights for Thailand and Cambodia. The Cambodian Book of the Dead will be published […]

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Andrew Nette on the state of crime fiction in Asia and Crime Wave Press

Australian crime writer Andrew Nette, author of Ghost Money, which is set in Cambodia, is interviewed by Noir Nation on his career, the writer’s life, the future of ebooks and crime fiction in Asia. Nette gives my new fiction imprint Crime Wave Press a mention too and is currently reading Dead Sea by Sam Lopez, […]

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From the Archives: The real Phuket – Tom Vater reports on the Vegetarian Festival for Fortean Times

Another golden oldie, that old chestnut, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, which I covered in 2005 for Fortean Times and several other publications. Never mind the flash resorts, sleazy bars, high rise condos and MacHolidays on offer on Thailand’s largest and most overdeveloped tourist island.  Phuket also has culture. Every year, men and women have their […]

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Crime Wave Press publishes Mindfulness and Murder by Nick Wilgus

  My fiction imprint, Crime Wave Press, is extremely proud to be publishing Mindfulness and Murder, by American author Nick Wilgus, the first in the Father Ananda murder-mystery series and recently made into a feature film in Thailand. The Story: When a homeless boy living at the youth shelter run by a Buddhist monastery turns […]

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On The Devil’s Road – A short film by Hans On The Devil’s Road – A short film by Hans Kemp

Crime Wave Press publisher Hans Kemp has produced a short film about my journey on The Devil’s Road. The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu is my first novel, currently republished by Crime Wave Press and available as an e-book on amazon. Crime Wave Press is a Hong Kong based fiction imprint that endeavors to publish the […]

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