Andrew Klavan

Last Thing Hits #4 At Nook Books

April 2, 2012 News

The Last Thing I Remember, the first book in Andrew’s Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults, hit #4 at Barnes & Noble’s Nook Books site over the weekend. Last Thing was selected as The Daily Find at the site, and offered for a low price all day Friday. The book, first published in 2009, [...]

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Andrew Commits to “Kwik Krimes”

March 26, 2012 News

Andrew has taken on the challenge of writing a full-fledged crime story in under a thousand words (about three pages) for an upcoming anthology to be entitled Kwik Krimes. All in all, the anthology will include 101 of these short-short crime stories.  The collection will be edited by Otto Penzler and will be published by [...]

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First Review for “Crazy Dangerous”

March 26, 2012 Books

The fiction trade publication Romantic Times has brought out the first pre-publication review of my new young adult thriller Crazy Dangerous: Klavan presents the story of a good kid who falls in with a bad crowd and must seek the truth behind the horrific visions of his seemingly mentally unstable classmate. The original plot is full [...]

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Values And Capitalism Interview

March 19, 2012 Culture

  Here’s an interview I did with RJ Moeller for the Values and Capitalism project of the American  Enterprise Institute.  RJ and I covered a lot of territory, including the joys and sorrows of working in Hollywood, and the joys and sorrows of reading Dostoevsky, whose novels have affected me probably more than any others. [...]

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Andrew’s Favorite Joke Revealed!

March 19, 2012 News

An essay by Andrew entitled “No Joke” will appear in the next issue of City Journal, and should be available online, appropriately enough, early in April.  The article tells Andrew’s favorite joke and explains why many fiction writers think it’s the funniest joke ever told — and why no one else thinks it’s funny at [...]

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“If We Survive” Jacket

March 12, 2012 Books

I have to say, this is the second jacket in a row the folks at Thomas Nelson have hit out of the park IMHO. If you look over at the news column, you’ll see my young adult publishers have announced that they’ll bring out my thriller If We Survive in November. Here’s what it’ll look [...]

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Second YA Stand-Alone Scheduled for November

March 12, 2012 News

The second of Andrew’s two 2011 stand-alone young adult novels is now available for pre-order.  As already announced, the first novel, Crazy Dangerous, will be published by Thomas Nelson May 1. Now, Nelson says the second novel, available in November, will be entitled If We Survive. If We Survive tells the story of four American kids [...]

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Animal Hour Comes Round Again

February 27, 2012 Books

Nice news — over in the news section — that my screenplay adaptation of my novel Animal Hour has been optioned for film. I was always fond of the premise of this book. Girl goes to work. No one knows who she is! She gets thrown out of her own office by people she thinks [...]

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Andrew’s “Animal Hour” Optioned for Film

February 27, 2012 News

Andrew’s 1993 thriller novel The Animal Hour has been optioned for film by Double Life Productions. The company has worked in the past with Millennium Films, producer of The Expendables. The option came on the strength of Andrew’s recent screenplay adaptation of the novel. Animal Hour is the story of Nancy Kincaid, who goes to [...]

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So Long, Kid

February 22, 2012 Culture

My Wall Street Journal op-ed saluting baseball great Gary Carter now seems to be out from behind the paywall. I wish I had written it while he was still alive, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I’m not sure I would’ve done it even now, but one of my brothers browbeat me into it. [...]

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