Celebrating “Agnes”

November 7, 2011 Books

As you can see in the news section, several of my out-of-print titles will become available as e-books this month at MysteriousPress.com. And I can, in good conscience, recommend them all to mystery fans. They hold up well, if I say so myself. However, I have to confess that I am most excited about the [...]

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Crazy Jacket

October 31, 2011 Books

Over to your left in the news section, it mentions that Thomas Nelson has announced May for the pub date of my new YA novel Crazy Dangerous. I really like the jacket for this book but can’t for the life of me figure out how to extract it from the Nelson catalogue page below, so [...]

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Travel Week

October 24, 2011 Culture

Back at home after a week of zipping around the country.  I was in Nashville on Monday and Tuesday to meet with my friends and publishers at Thomas Nelson.  They were having a sales conference and I was there to introduce my new young adult novel Crazy Dangerous. Book has a terrific jacket, but I [...]

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Great Ghosts for Halloween

October 17, 2011 Books

  As readers of my blog will know, I am a huge ghost story fan.  But I only recently discovered this wonderful series from the British publisher Wordsworth books.  Their Mystery and the Supernatural line includes such hard to find stuff as a collection by Oliver Onions—the funny-named author of the classic ghost novella “The [...]

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Living Light Interview

October 10, 2011 Books

I’m not sure I qualify as a living light, but the upbeat Christian site Living Light News has a nice interview with me this week.  Nice photo too by Anacleto Rapping: He’s been hailed by Stephen King as “the most original American novelist of crime and suspense …” Two of his books became major motion [...]

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Sort of X-Men Versus Whatever-It-Is

September 29, 2011 Books

I have a review of Mark Bowden’s new book Worm in the Wall Street Journal Today: Even before the Internet became a household word, let alone a household tool, there were those who conceived of it as an actual place—an alternative reality of mystery, possibility and danger. Science-fiction novelist William Gibson dubbed computer networks “cyberspace” in a [...]

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Christianity Today Reviews “Final Hour”

September 26, 2011 Books

The insightful John Wilson includes The Final Hour in his “Wilson’s Bookmarks” column in Christianity Today.  Wilson writes: “This is Young Adult fiction… but the unadulterated intelligence of a superb suspense novelist is very much in evidence throughout.” It’s online now and you can find it here.

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PJTV’s Klavan on the Culture Suspended

September 19, 2011 Culture

If you look at the news section over there somewhere, you’ll see the happy news that I’m going to be appearing on Glenn Beck’s new online TV station GBTV. I’m contracted to do four satirical commentaries a month for the next six months, and we’ll see where it goes from there.  I’m delighted about this as [...]

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Me on CBN

September 19, 2011 Videos

Really enjoyed this interview with the charming and intelligent Jennifer Wishon of Christian Broadcasting Network, concerning The Final Hour and other matters. There’s a lot more of me on the CBN website.

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Front Page Reviews “Final Hour.”

September 12, 2011 Books

An excellent review for The Final Hour is up at FrontPageMag.com.  David Forsmark provides a “Soccer Parents Rescue Guide,” of good reading and concludes with the last book in my Homelanders series for Young Adults: The Final Hour is an immensely satisfying ending to the best current series written for the youth market by a [...]

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