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It’s a Hard Road to The Cambodian Book of the Dead!!!
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!!!
Continue ReadingAnnual Reading Competition at Banphed School in Issan
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 […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin in 8 Page Spread in Taiwan Tattoo Magazine
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 […]
Continue ReadingIm Tempel der tätowierenden Mönche im ORF30 Minutes of Sacred Skin on Austrian radio!!!
In ein thailändisches Kloster, ins Wat Bang Phra, kommen Gläubige, um sich tätowieren zu lassen. Buddhistische Mönche übertragen mit den heiligen Tätowierungen spirituelle Kräfte. Dem Volksglauben nach mobilisieren diese magischen Tatoos verborgene Energien. Ernst Weber besuchte vor einigen Jahren das Kloster mit dem deutschen Schriftsteller Tom Vater und dessen Frau Aroon. Aroon Thaewchatturat ist Ethnobotanikerin […]
Continue ReadingWith Nick Cave in Bali
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.
Continue ReadingThe Cambodian Book Of The Dead in the Phnom Penh Post
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 […]
Continue ReadingPresenting Sacred Skin on ASEAN TV/Nation TV – Bookcase goes Sak Yant! Part 2
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.
Continue ReadingWriter Marco Ferrarese interviews Tom Vater
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.
Continue ReadingInterview on Crime Wave Press at Criminal-E!
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 […]
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