NEWS

Wednesday, June 25
Stealing The Dragon has been shortlisted for the Macavity Award for Best First Novel of 2007, along with four other great books. The award will be announced at the opening ceremonies at Bouchercon in October. Hope to see you there!

Saturday, May 10
Stealing The Dragon has been shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the IPPY Award. This award is the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award for the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.

Wednesday, April 2
Stealing The Dragon was named one of the best first novels of 2007 by Crimespree Magazine. The well-deserved top honor for best first novel went to Sean Chercover for his amazing debut Big City, Bad Blood. The other must-read titles on the shortlist included The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey, Head Games by Craig McDonald, and On The Ropes by Tom Schrek. Congratulations all around!

Tuesday, March 4
Tim's short story Hardboiled will be appearing in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine later this year. Check back for updates on which issue of EQMM will feature this new story.

Tuesday, March 3
Tim will be on the faculty for the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference again this year, June 26 - 29 in Corte Madera, California, just north of San Francisco. This is a remarkable conference for anyone serious about writing and publishing crime fiction. Other 2008 faculty members include David Hewson, Jacqueline Winspear, John Lescroart, Cara Black and David Corbett, along with many other top writers.

Friday, February 22
Plots With Guns is back! The infamous crime-zine has been resurrected by editor-writer-instigator Anthony Neil Smith. Check out the premier issue, which features a new story by Tim called The Pride Of Master Ling along with stories by Stephen Blackmoore, Kieran Shea, Greg Bardsley, Matthew Louis, William Boyle, Jeremiah Granden and Justin Porter.

Wednesday, January 9
Stealing The Dragon has been shortlisted for the Rocky Award! This award is given at the Left Coast Crime convention to the Best Mystery of 2007 "set in the Left Coast Crime geographical region," which is basically the western U.S. Stealing The Dragon was also nominated for the Arty Award for best cover art. Voting will take place at Left Coast Crime in Denver, March 6-9, where the winners will be announced. A huge thanks to everyone who nominated Stealing The Dragon as their favorite. See you in Denver! You can learn more about Left Coast Crime and the other great books nominated for these awards here.

Monday, January 7
Tim has been elected Vice President of Mystery Writers Of America, Northern California Chapter. To learn more about MWA or the Norcal chapter, click here.

Wednesday, January 2
Happy New Year! The amazing folks at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop announced that both Stealing The Dragon and Beating The Babushka were among their top bestsellers for the year 2007. Thanks to everyone at this incredible bookstore (on both sides of the counter) for all your support.

Monday, December 17
Beating The Babushka made the Independent Mystery Booksellers top ten bestseller list for the second month in a row! Big thanks to the staff at all these mystery bookstores. Check out the full list of bestsellers for November or find a bookstore near you here.

Tuesday, December 4
Seattle Mystery Bookshop announced their bestsellers for November, and both Stealing The Dragon and Beating The Babushka made the list! Thanks to everyone at the Northwest's greatest mystery bookstore for all their support this year. Read all about it here and then shop their site.

Tuesday, November 27
Bobby at The Mystery Bookstore in LA has named Stealing The Dragon one of the Top Ten Books for 2007. The list includes some great books by authors such as Robert Crais, Theresa Schwegel, Megan Abbott, Peter Spiegelman and John Connolly, among others. Check it out here.

Tuesday, November 20
Clute and Edwards, the genre geniuses behind the popular podcast Behind The Black Mask, interviewed Tim for their latest episode. The conversation ranged from how to write great chapter openings to the brilliance of The Big Lebowski. Visit Behind The Black Mask: Mystery Writers Revealed to hear a host of writers such as Max Allan Collins and Megan Abbott talk about how and why they write mysteries.

Tuesday, November 13
Tim has two books on October's bestseller list as reported by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Beating The Babushka was ranked number one and Stealing The Dragon came in at number six! Huge thanks to all the independent booksellers who have been so supportive of this series. Read all about it here.

Thursday, September 27
"Till Death Do Us Part" has won the 2007 Macavity Award for best short story! The award was presented at the opening ceremonies of Bouchercon by Janet Rudolph on behalf of Mystery Readers International.

Wednesday, July 4
Tim's short story "Till Death Do Us Part" has been nominated for the Macavity Award! This story was featured in Death Do Us Part, the anthology edited by Harlan Coben.

Sunday, July 1
Tim's short story "The Weight" is running in this month's Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, the July / August double issue. Check out the great artwork created for this story about the limits of friendship and the incredible burden of being a cop.

Monday, March 19
Stealing The Dragon has been named a Killer Book of the Month by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA). Thanks to Barbara Peters from The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ for the nomination.

Wednesday, March 14
An article about how the amazing cover art for Stealing The Dragon was developed is now posted on The Big Thrill, the online magazine from ITW, the International Thriller Writers.

Sunday, March 11
Tim read from Stealing The Dragon and signed books for some very nice people at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Special thanks to Reese for an incredible introduction.

Wednesday, March 7
Fellow Midnight Ink author Mark Terry interviewed Tim on his blog This Writing Life and was also kind enough to review Stealing The Dragon.

Monday, March 5
Midnight Ink author and blogger, Julia Buckley, had some fun interviewing Tim for her blog Mysterious Musings.

Friday, March 2
David J. Montgomery—fiction writer, reviewer for the Chicago Sun-Times, editor of Mystery Ink and blogger at Crime Fiction Dossier - has written a review of Stealing The Dragon which you can read here.

Thursday, March 1st
STEALING THE DRAGON is released, from Midnight Ink.

Sunday, February 18
Today's appearance at 'M' is for Mystery was a great event, according to the store's owner, Ed Kaufman. Tim and Peter Spiegelman were interviewed by Keith Raffel, moderator extraordinaire and author of Dot Dead. Some friends were in the audience, including Edgar-nominated Cornelia Read and David Corbett, author Blood Of Paradise. A wonderful day. Thanks to everyone who attended.

Tuesday, February 6th
STEALING THE DRAGON is the February featured title at The Poisoned Pen, the definitive mystery lovers' bookstore. To read their review click here and scroll down the page. To order from The Poisoned Pen, visit their website or call 888 560-9919.

Monday, February 5th
STEALING THE DRAGON was just reviewed by Bookgasm, that great site "dedicated to reading material to get excited about." Read the full review by clicking here.

Sunday, February 4th
Making a short detour around the corner and down the hill from Left Coast Crime, Tim signed copies of STEALING THE DRAGON at Seattle Mystery Bookshop on February 4th as part of their Cavalcade of Authors. The store is amazing and Tim was in good company, appearing with authors David Corbett, Louise Ure, Cara Black, Kit Ehrman, Colin Campbell, Camille Minichino, and Rita Lakin, among others. And the best news of all, the bookshop sold all their copies of STEALING THE DRAGON and is ordering more. To virtually visit The Seattle Mystery Bookshop click here.

Tim's short story The Weight will be published in an upcoming issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. The Weight is the story of a cop, his ex-partner, and the immeasurable toll of carrying a badge. (Keep checking for updates on the cover date.)

DEATH DO US PART is now available! The new anthology from Mystery Writers of America edited by Harlan Coben is now in bookstores. Tim wrote the title story for this amazing collection, which includes stories by Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ridley Pearson, R.L. Stine and Tom Savage.

Midnight Ink, an imprint of Llewellyn Publications, has scheduled STEALING THE DRAGON for a February 2007 release. STEALING THE DRAGON is the first in an ongoing series featuring detective Cape Weathers and his deadly companion Sally. BEATING THE BABUSHKA, the second novel in the series, will be available October 2007.