Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of the eponymous Mandlebrot Set which plays such a pivotal role in Stunt Road, has passed away. Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html

Due to circumstances involving too many parties for anyone to take responsibility, this site has been wiped almost entirely off the virtual map. I hope to rebuild it one day. Just buy the book on faith. Really.

For fans and friends in Los Angeles, Stunt Road is now available at Book Soup, the landmark independent bookstore on LA’s famous Sunset Strip. It’s a buzzing place, fantastic  for browsing, meeting authors at their book signings and spotting the occasional celebrity. Many thanks to the staff there!

I just want to thank Cathy Digonnet-Felices and everyone at the English book club in Zug, Switzerland for a very enjoyable morning and a fantastic discussion. Please don’t hesitate to post more questions online and we can continue the talk there. Now if the good people at Skype could just figure out how to share [...]

Many people think an author’s happiest moment is seeing his or her book in print. That’s an amazing moment, of course, but for me, what always makes me smile is finding a reader who “get’s it.” Someone who has read your book, thought about it, and taken the time to formulate what it meant to [...]

Here you’ll find everything about me and about my novel Stunt Road.This page will soon be filled with reviews of the book, articles relevant to the book’s themes, information about the indie author scene and pretty much anything else that seems remotely interesting. It’s a work in progress, so please bear with me. At the [...]

Okay, it was inevitable. You start a blog. You try to keep it highbrow, literary, interesting for a wide audience. But sooner or later, you post pictures of your dog. Here’s Koffie, doing his best impression of a charming stray.

After many weeks of silence, I’m back. And I am not alone. A small black dog watches me as I type this. It’s early morning, the weather’s good, and I’m out on the terrace overlooking the vegetable patch – the tomatoes are huge and just starting to ripen, long green cayennes twist and dangle from [...]

Okay, apologies for producing absolutely nothing for weeks now. By way of apology, pictures of the potager. I’m toying with the idea of treating this blog as, well, as a blog, ie posting little blurbs and photos more often. Thoughts? At least then there would be something to fill space between the rambling essays. Let [...]

I spent the better part of this afternoon upside down with my head in our rainwater cistern battling the all predatory forces of heaven and earth. I think I’m winning. Spring is the time for grand designs, and having both finished half of my gate and said goodbye to our first large group of guests, [...]