Tom Vater

April 19th, 2013 | Tags: Burma, Crime Wave Press, eBook, Gaijin Cowgirl, Hans Kemp, Hong Kong, Jame DiBiasio, Japan, paperback, Thailand, thriller, Tom Vater, Val Benson | Category: Burma, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand | Leave a comment

After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one [...]

March 10th, 2013 | Tags: action, adventure, Asia, Burma, CIA, comfort women, Crime Wave Press, female hero, female protagonist, Gaijin Cowgirl, heroine, History, Hong Kong, Japan, novel, Thailand, thriller, trafficking, Val Benson, World War II | Category: Burma, Crime Wave Press, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I’ve been interviewed by British crime writer Paul D. Brazill about the crime fiction imprint I launched with publisher Hans Kemp last year, Crime Wave Press. Crime Wave Press is a Hong Kong based fiction imprint that endeavors to publish the best new crime novels from Asia and about Asia to readers around the globe. [...]

March 3rd, 2013 | Tags: Asia, Asian crime fiction, Asian Noir, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Dead Sea, Dead Sea by Sam Lopez, eBook, Father Ananda, Gaijin Cowgirl, Hong Kong, Interview, Jame DiBiasio, Killer Karma, Mindfulness and Murder, Nick Wilgus, Paul D. Brazill, publlishing, Sam Lopez, Sister Suicide, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater | Category: Crime Wave Press, Hong Kong, Poland, UK | Leave a comment

Everyone has a good book in them so they say, Asia’s first English-language crime publishing house looks set to put that adage to the test. Mark Bibby Jackson interviews me about all things Crime Wave Press in this month’s ASIA LIFE Magazine, both in the Thailand and Cambodia edition. I get to talk about crime [...]

November 19th, 2012 | Tags: Asian Noir, Cambodia, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Dead Sea, Exhibit A, Hans Kemp, Mindfulness and Murder, Nick Wilgus, Sam Lopez, Thailand, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater | Category: Burma, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, North Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, Tibet, Vietnam, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Crime Wave Press is a Hong Kong based fiction imprint that endeavors to publish the best new crime novels from and about Asia to readers around the globe. Check out CWP facebookpage! Crime Wave Press is looking for authors who can offer complete and well edited manuscripts of English language crime novels either based in [...]

June 21st, 2012 | Tags: crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, genre fiction, Hans Kemp, Hong Kong, Publisher, Publishing Company, Publishing House, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, Visionary World, www.crimewavepress.com | Category: Hong Kong | Leave a comment

Writer Chris Taylor reviews my new book, Sacred Skin, in The South China Morning Post. Thailand´s Spirit Taboos In Tom Vater and Aroon Thaewchatturat’s Sacred Skin – a visually compelling antidote to the usual coffee-table tributes to “amazing Thailand” – the reader is taken on a journey into an other-worldly Southeast Asia, a place of [...]

October 10th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Chris Taylor, Hans Kemp, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thai tattoos, Thailand, The South China Morning Post, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Hong Kong, Thailand | Leave a comment

In this Rock’n’Roll double bill, published this month in Traversing the Orient Magazine, Tom Vater reports on Metal Postcard, the Honk Kong independent label that is home to Cambodia’s finest rock band The Cambodian Space Project and the garage punk noise from Bangkok that is Pussy & The Learjets, while Detroit home boy Scott Nicholson [...]

April 5th, 2011 | Tags: garage punk, Hong Kong, Metal Postcard, Pussy & The Learjets, rocknroll, Scott Nicholson, Sean Hocking, Thailand, The Cambodian Space Project | Category: Hong Kong, Thailand | Leave a comment