Tom Vater

Advanced reading copies from Exhibit A Books. Chuffed. Quite moved. Quite indescribable feeling… Detective Maier is on his way…. into hell and back….and a book shop near you!!!

April 24th, 2013 | Tags: advanced reading copy, ARC, Cambodia, crime fiction, crime fiction press, Crime Wave Press, Exhibit A Books, Hard Road, J.B. Turner, noir, pulp, Seenomaden, South East Asia, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Cambodia, UK | Leave a comment

Just got back from the 3rd annual reading competition that my wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat organizes in Banphed Village, Issan, Thailand. This year, three publishers and several donors took part. 25 students won prizes and the school library was restocked with new titles. I got to read a short story, The Monkey in a Murder [...]

February 16th, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Aroon Vater, Banphed, Education, fiction, Nym, photographer, reading competition, Sacred Skin, school, Syno Nym, Thailand, Tom Vater, writer, www.aroonthaew.com | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Taiwan’s tattoo magazine Extreme Tattoo featured an 8 page spread on Sacred Skin in its December Issue!!! The spread includes many images from the book and an interview with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred tattoos, called sak yant in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young [...]

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bangkok, book, Hans Kemp, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

German speaking Sak Yant lovers!!!! Authors Aroon Thaewchatturat and Tom Vater are featured in a radio special on Austrian radio (ORF) on December 23rd at 10.05am, recorded at Wat Bang Phra in Thailand by veteran Austrian journalist Ernst Weber. Scroll down the page for details.

December 21st, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Austria, Bangkok, book, Ernst Weber, Hans Kemp, ORF, photography, radio, radio show, Radio Talk, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, writer | Category: Austria, Thailand | Leave a comment

Had the pleasure of meeting Nick Cave at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali last week to talk books, writing and music and cinema…. Wanna die? Check out this short film by Marc Eberle on Srey Thy of The Cambodian Space Project meeting Nick Cave in Bali.

October 11th, 2012 | Tags: Bali, Indonesia, Nick Cave, Tom Vater, UBUD Writers / Readers Festival, writer | Category: Cambodia, Indonesia, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Dagmarah Mackos interviews me about my second novel, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, in last weekend’s Phnom Penh Post. Read the full interview here. Inside The Cambodian Book of the Dead: Cambodia 2001 – a country re-emerges from a half century of war, genocide, famine and cultural collapse. German Detective Maier travels to Phnom [...]

September 11th, 2012 | Tags: 7 Questions, Asia, Asian Noir, book, Cambodia, Cambodian novel, crime fiction, crime novel, Crime Wave Press, Dagmarah Mackos, Hans Kemp, historical novel, Hong Kong publishing, Maier mystery, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Phnom Penh Post, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Cambodia, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Part 2 of Bookcase, a program broadcast by ASEAN TV/Nation TV is now online, featuring photographer and co-author Aroon Thaewchatturat and myself talking about our book Sacred Skin, the first English language title on Thailand’s sacred tattoos. Watch Part 2 here! Watch Part 1 here! Photograph taken at Backstreet Books, Chiang Mai.

August 8th, 2012 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, ASEAN TV, Asia, Backstreet Books, book, Bookcase, Hans Kemp, Manote Tripathi, Nation TV, photography, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews me about Crime Wave Press, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu and travel in Asia on his blog MonekyRockWorld. Read the first part of the interview here.

August 5th, 2012 | Tags: Amerikas geheimer Krieg in Laos, Asian Noir, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Hans Kemp, Interview, Marco Ferrarese, Monkey Rock World blog, Nepal, novel, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

I have been interviewed about my first novel The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, about my fiction imprint Crime Wave Press and my writing career by Al Guthrie for Criminal-E, a British crime fiction blog promoting today’s leading crime writers. Read the interview here. Buy The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu here. Buy The Cambodian Book of [...]

August 1st, 2012 | Tags: Blog, book, Crime Wave Press, Criminal-E, Hans Kemp, Interview, Nepal, novel, Sacred Skin, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathamndu, Tom Vater, writer | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment