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Blog
Archive November 2009
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On Thanksgiving Day I had an
accident. No one was hurt. No real damage done. It happened this way. I was at
the Texas Lone Star Bar in Washington Square signing copies of The Vincent
Calvino Reader’s Guide and The Corruptionist. The Guide is a small book–same
size as a Lonely Planet phrase book. Fits snuggly like a pack of cigarettes into
a shirt pocket.
 
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:29:52 AM |
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| BOOK SIGNING: Lone Star Bar –Washington Square – Bangkok |
Starting from 1.30 p.m. on
Thursday 26th November 2009, I will be signing copies of The
Corruptionist and The Vincent Calvino Reader’s Guide at the Texxas
Lonestar Bar, Washington Square, Bangkok Thailand.
(Note to Readers: Texxas
is spelled with double xx. It’s on the front of the building and no one has ever
climbed up or if they have, never lived to tell about it, in order to remove the
extra x.)
There will be free Thanksgiving Dinner as well.
Come
early. The Lonestar is expecting a full house.
Free food never gets any
cheaper.
If you are in Bangkok, please stop in and say hello.
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Posted: 11/25/2009 5:04:39 AM |
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| Writing Novels Inside The Hive Mind |
Something fundamental is
changing in the hive mind. The thousands of human hives have been subject to
globalization. These cultural, language and faith colonies are interconnected in
ways unimaginable a hundred years ago.
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 11/20/2009 12:00:03 AM |
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On Saturday 14th November,
the Toronto Globe and Mail, crime fiction reviewer Margaret Cannon wrote:
*PAYING BACK JACK* By Christopher Moore, Grove Press, 352 pages,
$24.95 This terrific series - nine books and counting - is better known in
Europe than Canada, and it's about time everyone discovered Bangkok PI Vincent
Calvino. Paying Jack Back is the best Calvino yet. This time out, he is
hired to follow the mistress of a highly placed Thai politician. His client is a
rich and shady U.S. businessman, obsessed by his son's unsolved murder. He's
convinced that his lady will lead them to a killer but, as Calvino soon learns,
this is no ordinary watch-and-report. There are many wheels within wheels
turning in this excellent thriller.
Link: http://www.lexisnexis.com/publisher/
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Posted: 11/17/2009 2:46:36 AM |
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Most writers receive fan mail. It
various from week to week as to the number of emails I receive. I always try to
reply to a reader. It is not an easy thing to write an author. Someone who makes
that effort deserves to hear back.
People write for any number of
reasons. Ever so often a writer receives an email from a reader that reminds him
of that some good can from writing a book. To instill the love of reading has to
be one of the best rewards any author can earn.
Dear Mr. Moore,
Hello! My name is Cliff. I
am 15 year old and live in British Columba, Canada. I just finished your novel
"God of Darkness" and wanted to tell you that I really loved it. I
think you are an awesome writer and can't wait to read more of your work. I'm
honestly not much of a reader and it normally takes me a long time to actually
finish a novel, but I read "God of Darkness" in only five days. That is
a record for me! Your writing really grabbed my attention and made me want to
continue reading. I'm actually kind of shocked that I could get so much
enjoyment out of reading. I want to thank you for that!
Anyways I was wondering if
it would be possible to get an autographed bookplate? Or would it be possible to
send you my copy of "God of Darkness" and have you sign it? I'm not
sure how it works, but I could send you a money order or a self addressed
stamped envelope if you'd like. Just let me know. I'd truly consider it a great
honor to have your autograph!
Thank
you!
Sincerely,
Cliff
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Posted: 11/16/2009 3:22:41 AM |
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About once a week I receive an
email, which ask, “I’ve written a book. Now how do I get it
published.”
The simple answer is: You need an
agent if you want to get published. Make that a literary agent.
But how do I get an agent? Isn’t
that difficult.
If you have written a great book,
it isn’t that difficult.
But don’t you have to be
established or famous or have a platform to get an agent?
No.
There are around 1,300 literary agents to choose
from. Some agents are no doubt in the pecking order more well-placed, powerful
and effective than others. Not all are open to take on new writers. You don’t
want to waste your time submitting to an agency which has decided not to
represent new authors.
Now 24 literary agents have stepped
forward and told Writer’s Digest that they are looking for new
writers:
“So if you’ve finished your
novel, memoir or book proposal (and spent some solid time revising it), you have
come to the right place to find your ideal agent—the one eager to sell your work
to publishers. Read on to learn who made the list this year, and to find out
what they want and how they want to receive it. Your agent match might just be
waiting.” Writer’s
Digest.
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Posted: 11/12/2009 10:13:38 PM |
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Matt’s latest blog titled
Jerusalem’s a zoo got me thinking about what a great metaphor a zoo becomes when
one examines the animal being watched and the animal watching. In The Greatest Show on Earth: The
Evidence for Evolution , Richard Dawkin talks about the concept of “Flight Distance.”
It is a well-known concept for those who study animal behavior in the wild.
Flight distance measures the distance, say a wolf would allow a human being to
approach before taking flight. Compared to feral dogs the wolf takes off at a
much farther distance. And a domestic dog rather than taking flight might wag
its tail and lick your hand.
Read more: http://www.internationalcrimeauthors.com/
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Posted: 11/12/2009 10:13:31 PM |
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| How Christopher G.Moore crosses borders |
 Christopher G. Moore calls his P.I. protagonist, Vincent Calvino,
"a cultural
detective.
He sifts through the evidence in a way that makes sense of the location and
people living in Southeast Asia."
Over at Detectives without Borders,
Peter Rozovsky discusses Paying
Back Jack.
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Posted: 11/12/2009 4:28:17 AM |
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| THE LAND OF SMILES TRILOGY AVAILABLE ON KINDLE |
The availability of my earlier
novels has been a problem for many years. The new technology has come to the
rescue. The new format is called an ebook. The best known provider of ebook
downloads is Amazon’s Kindle reader. My Calvino novels published by
Grove/Atlantic in New York are on Kindle.
The Land of Smiles trilogy was
published in the early 1990s in Thailand. A Killing Smile, A Bewitching Smile
and A Haunting Smile are set during one of the most chaotic times in recent Thai
history. All of the books remain in print. Alas, they have not been widely
available outside of Thailand.
Now things have changed. There is a
new way to deliver and read books.
You can download the entire series
on a Kindle for about the same price as ordering one of the books online from
Thailand.
The first in the trilogy is the
classic: A Killing Smile. It can be downloaded in the States
for $8.95.
A Bewitching Smile is available for a Kindle download also
for $8.95.
A Haunting Smile can be downloaded for Kindle for
$8.95.
Hopefully the ebook edition
(which is the same as the trade paper back edition) will bring a new group of
readers to the Land of Smiles series. Pass the word along to friends and
family.
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Posted: 11/5/2009 12:24:18 AM |
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