ROGER HOBBS

I am now the proud possessor of the Maltese Falcon, a hand-carved wooden statue given out by the Maltese Falcon Society in Japan to the writer of the best hardboiled-style crime fiction. Check it out! #awards #ghostman #japanese #maltesefalcon #hardboiled

The famed book-reviewing publication, Booklist, has picked Ghostman as one of the 101 best crime novels of the last ten years. I'm honored to share the list with Tom Franklin, Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, C.J. Box, Gillian Flynn, and motherfucking James Ellroy. If you'd like to see the full list, check it out here. They've sure picked a lot of winners! http://www.booklistreader.com/2015/05/06/mystery-fiction/the-101-best-crime-novels-of-the-past-decade/ #ghostman

Well, I didn't win the Anthony or Barry awards, but at least I got this badass nomination thing to put on my wall: #anthony #awards #publishing #writing #ghostman #bouchercon #barry #longbeach

Hey, everybody! I'm spending the week here in beautiful Long Beach California to attend this year's world mystery convention, Bouchercon. So far nobody has been murdered, but I'm still hopeful. This crowd of mystery writers would provide for some interesting locked-room mystery hijinks. I'm especially excited to attend this year's Bouchercon, because I'm up for both an Anthony and a Barry award! If you're also attending, you should totally vote for me. Either that or I'll rob

As you've probably read, I do a lot of research. For my first novel, Ghostman, I taught myself how to steal a car. For my second novel, I moved to China for several months. I've read several books about lockpicking-- I don't have the dexterity to do it myself-- but I know how it works. I played majong with a Triad boss. I played cards with a skinhead gang. For my third book, I'm going to be buried alive. Needless to say, I spend a lot of time exploring the world. I care a lot

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GHOSTMAN is filled with small trivia about criminal life, and that is what makes the novel convincing. Are these small “facts” really true? Or did you make them by your brainwork? If they are true, how did you get such knowledge? First, I should say that not all of the "facts" presented in GHOSTMAN are true. I made many of them up so the story would be more exciting. Only a fool would believe everything in GHOSTMAN. That being said, though, I tried to make the book's details

GHOSTMAN comes out in Japan this month, from publisher Bungei Shunju! I did an interview for them that should go on their site sometime in the next week. Here are some excerpts-- Could you tell me how you were “discovered” and finally became an international author? I got my first major break when I was nineteen years old. I wrote a short comedic play that got picked up and was performed at a couple of festivals. I'd written several novels by that point and sent out hundreds

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