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.

Calabasas Novelist Honored Gregory Mose’s hometown appears in debut novel, which won an Independent Publisher prize. By Newly Paul | Email the author | June 28, 2010 Close new To view this video, you may need to install Flash player version 8 or greater. Also, please make sure Javascript is enabled in your browser’s preferences. [...]

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!

The final results of the 2010 Independent Publishers Book Awards are out, and Stunt Road took the gold medal for West-Pacific Best Regional Fiction category. The IPPYs are big fish in the small publisher/independent press pond, and this year’s competition attracted 3890 entries. You can find a link to the full list of winners here.

Stunt Road has been named one of the three finalists in this years Independent Publisher Book Awards in the West-Pacific Best Regional Fiction category. The gold, silver and bronze medals will be announced on 18 May. I’ll report back when I know…

“I’ve never read a book quite like Stunt Road. It is fascinating, depressing, joyful, cynical, provocative and even deadly, all at one go. Quite an undertaking for a first novel…” Read the full review here.

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 [...]

I’m growing to like being interviewed. Small Press Reviews is a book review blog that, as the title implies, focusses on small independent publishers. Many review sites are little better than reader reviews on Amazon – they recruit a wide range of reviewers whose writing talent and literary acumen range all across the spectrum from [...]