All Blog Posts Tagged 'tour' (32)

Daughter Am I Blog Tour 2009

Today is the first day of the Daughter Am I blog tour, and frankly, I'm a bit nervous. Although I always intended to post to my own blog every day, I've only managed to average three or four times a week, yet here I have committed myself to thirty-five days of guest blogging, together with at least a brief post here to keep everyone up-to-date on my touring activities. That is a total of 70 bloggeries in 35 days! Do you think I can do it? Of course I can -- I will have to. Today I am h… Continue

Added by Pat Bertram on October 19, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Location, location

Writers live in their heads. What may be travel to you is location-scouting for me. In some ways, I’m never where I am. I’m imagining that place on the page in a future book. It won’t exist until I’ve written about it. I was standing on a deserted bridge across the Rhine in the Swiss town of Rheinfelden a couple of weeks ago in the evening twilight. The river flowed very fast. The rain was steady. It patterned the field-grey surface of the water in scattered patches, so that it seemed as though… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 15, 2009 at 6:29pm — 1 Comment

Those disorganized Swiss

You know the reputation. "Swiss" isn't a nationality. It's really an adjective meaning highly organized and perhaps even a little too punctilious. That's a myth. The place is just like the Middle East... (Look, I write fiction, but I may be onto something. Read on.) On my recent reading tour, I stopped in Basel as a guest of the superb Literaturhaus Basel. Everyone told me to go the city's main art museum for an exhibition of Van Gogh landscapes.… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 15, 2009 at 12:00am — 6 Comments

Leselust! Reading to Germans

Here's my latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: When authors travel to promote their books in the US and UK, they’ve given up on referring to their appearances as “readings.” Now they’re “events.” Because no one wants to hear an author read. It could be because authors aren’t such compelling readers or because many of the biggest-selling authors don’t actually write their own books (I assume they usually read… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 8, 2009 at 6:13pm — 3 Comments

Neon pee on the Reeperbahn, and other travels

The whole point of travel is to see Red Light districts around the world. That’s what I assume my German publisher C.H. Beck thinks. Or maybe that's what they think I'll like. Anyway, they keep sending me to Hamburg, which has one of the most famous naughty neighborhoods in the world. At the invitation of the extremely professional Harbour Front Literaturfestival… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on October 3, 2009 at 1:08am — No Comments

Mini Book Tour A Success

There was certainly a welcome in the hillside and on the banks of the River Tyne for me in the north of England this week during my mini book tour, which kicked off at Newcastle City Library and ended at The Richmond Walking and Book Festival. I met some fantastic people who made me… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on October 2, 2009 at 11:51pm — No Comments

Five smokes and a new novel: Klaus Modick’s Writing Life

When my second novel A… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on August 9, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Omar Yussef for President of Palestine!

My latest post on the International Crime Authors Reality Check blog: Unlike the Palestinians (who don’t have one), Palestinian politics is in a real state. A civil war that’s been bubbling and sometimes burning for two years plus. No government in Gaza because Hamas, which rules there, is isolated. Accusations by a top PLO official that current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had his predecessor Yasser Arafat poisoned. But don’t worr… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 24, 2009 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Ingenious book readings: Just don't mention books!

In his terrific book… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on July 12, 2009 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Summer Book Signings Have Started!

Starting in Charleston, WV: Books-A-Million SouthRidge Charleston, WV July 18,2009 12-4pm Taylor's Books Downtown Charleston, WV July 30, 2009 12-2pm Borders Town Center Mall Charleston, WV August 15 2009 12-2 More to Follow, it's going be a buzy summer! Also, The Well Meaning Killer is now available on Kindle at Amazon.com! Continue

Added by Miranda Phillips Walker on June 30, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

Hot Reading in East Jerusalem!

This weekend I was the guest of Munther Fahmi, who runs the excellent bookshop at t… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 28, 2009 at 9:05pm — No Comments

Rees book launch in Jerusalem

The Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel is proud to present an evening with Matt Rees Who will be reading and speaking about his latest novel The Samaritan's Secret Matt Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. Major authors have compared him to Graham Greene and John Le Carre. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” As a journalist, Rees covered the Mid… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 23, 2009 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Lecture en francais a Jerusalem

Je fais une lecture en francais chez la librairie francaise a Jerusalem ce mois. Voici les detailles : «Meurtre chez les Samaritains» de Matt Rees, Editions Albin Michel Tout est possible en Palestine, et rien ne dit que le jeune Ishaq, le fils du prêtre des Samaritains de Naplouse, n’a pas été exécuté parce qu’il était homosexuel. Rien ne dit non plus que sa connaissance intime des caisses noires du Vieux, l’ancien Président de l’Autorité palestinienne, ne lui a pas été fatale. Après Le Collab… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on June 18, 2009 at 6:42pm — No Comments

PRICELESS PUBLICITY

Wouldn't it be nice if the writers in this group each had their own publicity agent? Publicity can cost money—but it doesn't have to. I'm signed up on BookTour.com. This nifty website is the brainchild of three San Francisco authors who use technology to connect authors with audiences. In 2006, they launched the idea to the world. Authors create a page with their bio, books, and tour dates. Venues looking for speakers list their site on BookTour. What happens next is simple: based on your zip… Continue

Added by Sunny Frazier on June 6, 2009 at 9:14am — No Comments

Buenos Aires next stop

Winged with Death, my latest novel goes home tomorrow (Friday) 14th May; well almost. To Donigan Merritt's blog in Buenos Aires. Donigan is a novelist and is living in Buenos Aires. He was in Montevideo a week or so ago and knows the terrain. He has a review of the book and wants to talk about it. Continue

Added by John Baker on May 15, 2009 at 2:23am — No Comments

Todays Tour Date

Winged with Death is at Asynchronous Process today. Continue

Added by John Baker on May 9, 2009 at 9:38pm — No Comments

To Hell in a Handbasket Blog Book Tour Starts!

Today is the first day of my blog book tour. During the month of May, I will visit sixteen blogs, be interviewed twice on Internet radio shows, and visit the Barnes & Noble online mystery book club to promote the May 15 release of the second book in my Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series, To Hell in a Handbasket. I’ll discuss the book, give behind-the-scenes glimpses of how it was written and my life as an author, and answer your questions about my blog posts. You may even ge… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on May 2, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

Book Tour

The Winged with Death Blog Tour has moved on to Wales today, at the site of It’s A Crime! (or a mystery…). Continue

Added by John Baker on April 29, 2009 at 7:32pm — No Comments

Winged with Death Virtual Tour

My latest novel, Winged with Death, is reviewed on Dick Jones' Patteran Pages. Continue

Added by John Baker on April 22, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The Writing Life: Christopher G. Moore

Readers love to discover an author whose work suggests they’re a kindred spirit. Novelists, engaged in the often lonely work of writing, enjoy it even more. That’s how I feel about Christopher G. Moore, whose path is in many ways similar to mine (as you’ll see in this interview). Based in Bangkok, he’s the creator of one of the most striking sleuths in crime fiction: Vincent Calvino seems a distillation of all the most intriguing expats you’ll ever meet trav… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on April 19, 2009 at 2:34pm — No Comments