Though my personal life–moving, dealing with the varied annoyances of first-time home ownership, trying to find minutes here and there for writing–hasn’t reflected it, over the past weeks I’ve been appearing one way or another in some newspapers–always a pleasure when your book has passed that month-and-a-half post-publication window, after which it usually disappears. Toward [...]

Actually, it was yesterday that the Otto Penzler anthology, Agents of Treachery, was released in the US, and I’d advise everyone interested in espionage fiction to give it a good hard look. The prepub reviews have been uniformly terrific (all starred reviews), and The Boston Globe has just chimed in very favorably. And how could [...]

Tourism Touring As usual, I’m behind the curve on posting what’s going on around here. I’ve spent the last week in Serbia, where network connections are not always as they might be, and the last couple days have been spent trying to leave Europe, despite a certain Icelandic volcano’s best efforts to thwart my plans. [...]

There’s been that noticeable Nomad silence lately, and for my part I can pin it on a variety of things: reading papers emailed in by my diligent Leipzig students, traveling to London to meet with the wonderful crew at Corvus (my new UK publisher), dealing with the dirty details of buying and starting renovation on [...]

A little while ago, Kate Horsley over at the relaunched Crimeculture asked me and Kevin to do a two-way interview for the site. Because of our schedules, it took a while, but proved to be a fun and interesting experience, delving into the writing process, themes, receiving fan letters from hit men, not receiving them [...]

Just a quick post for some good news–the paperback of The Tourist is selling quite nicely in the US, thank you. For the week ending January 21, it reached #30 on the IndieBound list of bestselling trade paperbacks at independent bookstores across the US. The next week, ending January 28, it moved up to #24. That’s [...]

  In about ten minutes I’m going to get a call from New York, where I’ll be talking live and nationwide on WNYC’s The Takeaway about the collision between the Dubai assassination and spy fiction… *RING!*   Later: Well, it happened–a 4-minute window that went by in about 40 nanoseconds. Celeste Headlee did a great job, but [...]

Tomorrow marks the paperback release of The Tourist (Indie, Amazon, B&N), something I’m really looking forward to. The hardback–as I giggled about here–reached #19 on the New York Times list, and Minotaur is putting its best foot forward to try and get us on the paperback list. What to do? Every writer wonders this when release date approaches, [...]

As I mentioned before, the paperback of The Tourist (Indie, Amazon, B&N) will be released soon–on Tuesday the 16th, in fact. Back when it came out in hardback, I wondered what kind of extra material I might put up to accompany the book. In this case, an obvious proposition came to me–put together a soundtrack. [...]

Back in October, as a gift-to-myself for getting the Dagger nomination, I bought a spankin’ new Amazon Kindle. Being a sucker for slick gadgets, I’d had a hankering for one for a while, but living in Europe made it useless until the international version came out. So I pulled out my credit card, choked my [...]

I’ve been out of touch for a hella long time now, up in Leipzig too full of teaching (much more time-consuming than some may have you believe–particularly if you’re raising a 2-year-old at the same time) to write anything here, much less write a word of my next novel. Now, though, in Budapest for the [...]

In about a week and a half, the family and I will be relocating north and west, to Leipzig, where I’ll begin something I’ve never done before: teaching. Two classes, The Collaborative Novel and The Spy Novel. Given that the idea for The Collaborative Novel–a class in which everyone works together to write a single [...]

Some time ago I mistakenly let the cat out of the bag too early, but as of today it’s official: The Tourist has been nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award! Since I’ve known about it for some weeks now, I’ve been both thrilled and anxious about…well, my competition. So today I finally got [...]

I wanted to drop in to apologize for the lack of posts from me here (except one I deleted–I apparently let a secret out before its time). The family and I spent a lovely couple weeks on the Croatian island of Hvar, our first “proper” vacation (meaning: one that had nothing to do with work) [...]

At least, this is how I interpret the title of Mr. Liss’s latest, The Devil’s Company, which appears on bookstore shelves, virtual and real, today. I can only assume from the title that it’s about a dotcom startup headed by Satan himself. As he points out at his personal blog, TDC (wait a minute…that abbreviation [...]