Sister Suicide by Nick Wilgus – Free on Kindle, March 5th to 7th!!!
Sister Suicide is the second Father Ananda Mystery, written by acclaimed American author Nick Wilgus and published by Crime Wave Press. A nun is torn apart by crocodiles in a Buddhist theme park. Is it...
View ArticleNew Crime Wave Press Title: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio Out Now!!!
After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl...
View ArticleKathmandu, Camino al Infierno – New Review!!!
Kathmandu, Camino al Infierno, the Spanish edition of The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu, published back in March by Xplora Editorial is reviewed extensively at Leer y Viajar. The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu...
View ArticleCrime Wave Press – The Story So Far…
My publishing imprint CRIME WAVE PRESS is one year old. Together with Hans Kemp, I have published seven crime novels (an 8th title is on its way), sold foreign rights to two of our books and...
View ArticleThe Irrawaddy Literary Festival – A Mirror to Burma’s Continuing Uncertainties
I am at the second Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay, organized by Jane Heyn, the wife of the former British ambassador to Myanmar. This second festival is held in Mandalay and has been in...
View ArticleHow Asia Specialists Crime Wave Press Opened to the World
In the summer of 2012, my friend Hans Kemp and I were sitting in Bangkok, Thailand, talking about the changing world of publishing and the new challenges facing small independent publishers and...
View ArticleIt’s always too late for someone / Crime Wave Press – The Story So Far….
Two friends, Tom Vater and Hans Kemp, recently launched Crime Wave Press, in Hong Kong. Here Tom explains how they began their publishing (ad)venture. “In the summer of 2012, Hans and I were sitting in...
View ArticleMy Special Needs Baby’s Long and Roundabout Road to Publication
Crime Wave Press author Gary Anderson recounts how he found a home for his excellent and hilariously transgressive Sci Fi Noir novel The Gwousz Affair. I’m going start by making what might be a...
View ArticleTracking Down Tom Vater
Kevin S Cummings tracks me down for an exclusive interview on crime fiction, Crime Wave Press and RocknRoll Music. There are certain writers in Thailand that if they were not writers they would make...
View ArticleThe Bind Rooster – The 13th title from Crime Wave Press
The Blind Rooster by Preston land is the 13th title my publishing company Crime Wave Press has released. When con-man Ralph does a runner on the check at a shabby diner in an unfamiliar town, he...
View ArticleCrime Wave Press at Georgetown Literary Festival
Crime Wave Press are at the Georgetown Literary Festival today, having a great time. I had not been to Penang, Malaysia for a decade, so the festival is a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with the...
View ArticleWelcome to the 3rd Bangkok Fiction Night of Noir on January 8th
Not sure of the line-up yet, but there’s a third Bangkok Fiction Night of Noir happening on January 8th and Jame DiBiasio, author of Gaijin Cowgirl, has been confirmed. I will be reading something too....
View ArticleCrime Wave Press in The South China Morning Post
Ysabelle Cheung reports on my publishing imprint Crime Wave Press this week. My friend and partner in crime Hans Kemp provides the clues to the scene of the crime. Read the full article here.. It’s...
View ArticleCrime Wave Press publish first YA title – The Murder Boys by John B Bliss
Crime Wave Press have published their first Young Adult crime novel – The Murder Boys. I had a lot of fun editing this gripping and touching story that took place during an English summer almost four...
View ArticleCrime Wave Press #20 – INTO THE FIRE by Tom Larsen
Very proud to announce that INTO THE FIRE is the 20th title published by Crime Wave Press. The debut by Philadelphia based writer Tom Larsen is a wonderful and ever so slightly mean satire on Hollywood...
View ArticleThe Kolkata Conundrum – The 24th title from Crime Wave Press
Very happy to say that my publishing house Crime Wave Press have released their 24th title. The Kolkata Conundrum by Kalyan Lahiri is a classic detective tale set in the infamous West Bengali capital....
View ArticleTom Vater at Detectives Beyond Borders
Peter Rozovsky, the man behind the award winning blog Detectives Beyond Borders recently took this rather grizzled picture of me for his blog post about crime fiction in South East Asia, with a nod to...
View ArticleAn Asian Crime Wave – Crime Wave Press & Detective Maier in Publisher’s Weekly
My creation Detective Maier and my publishing house Crime Wave Press and several of its authors get a great plug in Publisher’s Weekly. Thanks to Lenny Picker. Check out his story ‘An Asian Crime Wave’...
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