Short story competition update

So the stories have started to come in, and I'm having great fun reading people's forays into the high-voltage world that Joe Hunter travels through.

Keep 'em coming. Remember, there's a signed first edition copy of SLASH AND BURN up for grabs for the winner.

You want more details, I hear you say. Click on the book cover in the sidebar and it will take you through to the competition rules.

Joe the Vigilante

Has anyone had a go at the new Joe Hunter punch 'em up game over at http://www.joehuntervigilante.com/ yet.

Go there and click on the boxing glove and away you go. The instructions for playing are on the front screen before you start playing. Have fun but beware: It's addictive.

While you're over at Joehuntervigilante, why not have a look at the book cover. It gives you insider info on the Joe Hunter books before they're available. If you click on 'Read More' you go to the Hodder site where there's new images and news on the up-coming books and release dates etc.

pardon the cheesey pun, but Happy Hunting.

Hello to my German readers - Hallo an alle meine deutshen leser

Hallo an alle meine deutschen Leser. Bitte verzeihen Sie meine arme Nutzung Ihrer Sprache, aber ich wollte nur sagen, dass ich wirklich hoffe, Sie genießen meine Joe Hunter Pfund, und wenn ja, wird es Sie freuen zu hören, dass Heyne Verlag Titel 2 - Urteil und Zorn - wie gut wird (möglicherweise unter einem anderen Titel).


Matt
 

The Sleuth of Baker Street on JAW

Great little review of 'Judgement and Wrath' from THE SLEUTH OF BAKER STREET.

This link takes you to a PDF of the latest newsletter and the review is on page 4:
http://www.sleuthofbakerstreet.com/NEWSLETTERS/January%202010%20Newsletter.pdf

My thanks to all at SOBS for the excellent review.

I met the lovely ladies there while at Bouchercon at Baltimore back in 2008. Nice to see that they remember me and have stocked my books. Again, ladies, thanks for that.

Dzho Khuntur kicks the Reapers butt in HARVESTER

Ok, so after my mumblings this morning about foreign translations and my lack of updates on when the books were coming out, just look at what I found:

It appears that Dead Men's Dust has been translated to/changed to HARVESTER for the Bulgarian edition published by ERA Media Ltd. Joe Hunter is now Dzho Khuntur and I am now Mat Khiltun and Rink is Rinko and Tubal Cain is Reaper.

Here's alink to ERA Media's website:

http://www.erabooks.net/?action=show_book&bid=301

Here's a link to a review:

http://www.novinar.net/news/ubietc-sabira-suveniri-ot-telata-na-zhertvite-si_MjkyMTsyNA==.html

And here is the cover:

Up and At 'Em (for want of a better title)

Hi all, just random mutterings this morning.

I've got some very exciting news to share with you all...but I'm just going to have to hold you all in suspense until things are official (that's the job of a thriller author after all). All will be revealed soon.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending Newton Aycliffe library, over in County Durham. I was doing a talk and Q&A, alongside the north-east's top crime writer, Sheila Quigley, and a great time was had by all - I hope. It was a small intimate crowd that turned up, but each and every one of them were interested and interesting and we got quite a deep conversation going that went beyond the usual 'where do you get your ideas from' and 'how did you get you book published' that seem to be staples of such events. I was deputised to replace crime and saga author Ken McCoy who unfortunately could not attend. I wasn't the real McCoy, but I think I made a few new fans. Thanks to everyone who was there for making it such an enjoyable event.

It looks like the book launch for number 3 may be on 31st March 2010, but this is still unconfirmed at this moment, but hopefully I'll have a date for you by the end of next week.

...and don't forget about the competition I'm running to win a signed first edition copy of my up-coming new hardback in the Joe Hunter series - Slash and Burn.

http://matthiltonbooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/win-signed-first-edition-hardback-copy.html

For my American readers, I've been finishing off a few little bits for the US version of Judgment and Wrath (the dropped 'e' in Judgement is no mistake, folks!) and it should be with you from William Morrow and Co (Harper Collins) in a few short months. I love the look of the book and will share it with you all very shortly.

Der Knochen Sammler is out in Germany, L'Inseguitore is out in Italy. I'm still waiting for word on how things are going with the foreign translations, but there isn't any complaints. Still waiting for news on both the Romanian and Bulgarian editions.

In the meantime, keep on keeping on folks
Matt

Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers wins coveted Best Fiction Magazine Award

A few weeks ago, I posted here to say that my sister blogsite Thrillers, Killers 'n' Chillers was nominated in the Preditors and Editors readers' poll to find the favourite webzine on the Net. Now, I must say that the site is primarily aimed at readers of Horror and Dark Fiction, so TKnC was in a more favourable position than some of the other crime/noir sites (some of them that I would quite happily have voted for myself) due to the fact that a pretty large quota of TKnCs contributors are writing in the horror and dark fiction genres. Well, it's with great pride and with great gratitude that I announce that TK'n'C did indeed win the coveted first place position, beating off some pretty damn fantastic competition along the way. I don't claim that TKnC is better than they are, maybe it just had more voters. Have a look here for confirmation of the results:
http://anotherealm.com/prededitors/votefictzine09.htm

Now then, I like to think of myself as a humble and self-effacing kind of guy, so I don't want to take all the praise or adulation. I want TKnC's contributors, its readers and supporters to bask for a moment in the glory. Without any of you TK'n'C would be a pretty boring place to visit.

Thanks to everyone who voted. Thanks also to Col Bury for all his hard work in making the site as great as it is. And thanks to Preditors and Editors for bestowing the award on TKnC.