Tom Vater

I’ve been interviewed by acclaimed travel blog Where Sidewalks End, about travel, crime fiction, Sacred Skin, Burma and The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu.

May 15th, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Ian Ord, Interview, Mittie Roger, Sacred Skin, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, travel writing, Where Sidewalks End | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I’ll be giving a live radio interview on Rudy Maxa’s World, America’s most widely-syndicated, weekend travel radio show, on Saturday, May 11th at 10.18 am EST US, which is 9:18pm Bangkok time. I’ll be talking about travel writing, publishing and my new US published guide to the Angkor temples in Cambodia from Moon Guides. Here’s [...]

May 10th, 2013 | Tags: Angkor, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, guide, guide book, Interview, Khmer Empire, Moon Guides, radio, Rudy Maxa, Rudy Maxa's World, Tom Vater, tourism, USA | Category: Cambodia, USA | 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

I’ve been interviewed by Editorial Xplora to promote Kathmandu, camino al infierno, the Spanish edition of my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu which has just been republished in paperback with Crime WavePress. Here’s the lowdown: Tom Vater, escritor y periodista experto en el Sur y Sureste Asiático, lleva viajando y viviendo durante más [...]

February 28th, 2013 | Tags: 1970s, Camino al Infierno, Editorial Xplora, hippie trail, Interview, Kathmandu, Nepal, Spain, Spanish edition, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, travel, travel fiction | Category: Crime Wave Press, Nepal, Spain | Leave a comment

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 [...]

October 26th, 2012 | Tags: Esquire, Esqure Magazine, India, Interview, Thailand, Tom Vater, travel story, travel writer, Trekking, Zanskar, Zanskar traverse | Category: India, Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

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, [...]

October 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Andrew Nette, Asian crime fiction, Asian Noir, Australian crime writer, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Dead Sea, e books, Ghost Money, Interview, Noir Nation, Sam Lopez, Tom Vater | Category: Australia, The Philippines, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Aroon Thaewchatturat, photographer and co-author of Sacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos – sak yant in Thai – is interviewed in this short film at Wat Bang Phra, during the annual Wai Kru (Respect your teacher) festival, during which thousands of tattoo devotees descend on this temple famous for its tattooing monks, an [...]

September 17th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, documentary, Hans Kemp, Interview, photographer, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, Wat Bang Phra | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

I am absolutely delighted that The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, my first novel with Crime Wave Press, has been featured on acclaimed crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet. The Story Behind The Story tells how I wrote the book and shines a light on its decade long journey from conception to republication. The Story Behind [...]

August 25th, 2012 | Tags: Author, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Interview, novel, review, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, The Rap Sheet, The Story behind The Story, Tom Vater | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I have been interviewed about my first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, out now with Crime Wave Press,  on Pat Bertram’s literary blog.

August 25th, 2012 | Tags: adventure fiction, Afghanistan, Author, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, hippie trail, India, Interview, Iran, Kathmandu, London, Nepal, novel, Pakistan, Pat Bertram, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, travel fiction, Turkey | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment