Sacred Skin in Rise Tattoo Magazine
I am interviewed in this month’s Rise Tattoo Magazine from France. Big thanks to Dom Pichard and Laure Siegel.
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The Man with the Golden Mind reviewed at Crime Review UK
…there is little relief from a barrage of very dark deeds and sudden grisly deaths. To mine any humour from this book you will need a very black view of the world. Chris Roberts reviews The Man with the Golden Mind at Crime Review UK. As previously mentioned, my publisher Exhibit A decided to call […]
Continue ReadingCrime fiction publisher Exhibit A folds after just 12 months.
Exhibit A Books, the publisher that put out my first two Detective Maier novels, The Cambodian Book of the Dead and The Man with the Golden Gun, folded yesterday after just a year of publishing. How this imprint might have imagined to start making a significant profit in such a short time without proper […]
Continue ReadingThe Man with the Golden Mind – Podcast
Stuart Beaton interviews me on The Man with the Golden Mind…and everything else at The Small Picture Postcast today. Thanks Stuart. Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the twenty-five year old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before […]
Continue ReadingRocknRoll Interlude – On Tour with The London Dirthole Company
I’ve been on tour with The London Dirthole Company, legendary London based noise creatives. The music made by The London Dirthole Company is a joyful ride into the world of the modern Outsider artist as a musical phenomena. As out of time and place and unreservedly important as The Fall, The Monks and The Velvet […]
Continue ReadingThailand: Is the party over for now? The effect of the curfew on tourism – in The Daily Telegraph
As the military relaxes the curfew imposed following last week’s coup, Tom Vater reports on how strictly it is being enforced in Thailand’s party hot spots… Read the full story here. Photograph by Aroon Thaewchatturat at the Full Moon Party in Ko Panghan, Thailand
Continue ReadingThe Daily Telegraph with my 2 Bahts worth on the coup in Thailand.
The Thai military has seized power of the country and imposed a curfew which will see tourists restricted to their hotels at night. The Daily Telegraph reports.
Continue ReadingThe Man with the Golden Mind in The Advisor
Julia Rendel asks Maier to investigate the 25-year-old murder of her father, an East German cultural attaché who was killed near a fabled CIA airbase in central Laos in 1976. But before the detective can set off, his client is kidnapped right out of his arms. The two men crossed the river road as the […]
Continue ReadingStory Behind the Book : Volume 2 (Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction) out now!!!
“Story Behind the Book: Volume 2” collects over 30 non-fiction essays from some of the most exciting authors working today. Chronicling the process of writing and editing speculative fiction, these essays provide a unique glimpse behind the scenes. Contributors include Ellen Ullman, S.M. Wheeler, Laurie Frankel, Paul McAuley, Marcus Sakey, Neal Asher, Ian Tregillis, Edward […]
Continue ReadingTracking Down Tom Vater
Kevin S Cummings tracks me down for an exclusive interview on crime fiction, Crime Wave Press and RocknRoll Music. There are certain writers in Thailand that if they were not writers they would make excellent fictional protagonists, because the real-life lives they lead would make for an interesting read. Joe Cummings is one such writer. […]
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