tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50307204839565417892024-03-14T00:22:47.656-06:00Michael KorytaMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-42888779579177024692015-03-05T12:14:00.000-07:002015-03-05T12:14:17.902-07:00Scaring Stephen King!2015 will feature a lot of new releases. In addition to the new book, LAST WORDS, which will be released on August 18, Little, Brown and Co. will be reissuing THE PROPHET and THE RIDGE in mass market paperback and THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD in trade paperback. We will share the new covers as soon as they become available. Limited and lettered editions of THE RIDGE, SO COLD THE RIVER, and THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD are also pending.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"THE RIDGE is a classic ghost story, penned by a master. I couldn't put it down, even though I almost screamed when the wind blew a branch against the tree outside my study. Yes, it's that scary."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">STEPHEN KING</span></h4>
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Markus Novak just wants to come home. An investigator for the pro-bono Death Row defense firm Innocence Incorporated, Novak's life derailed when his wife, Lauren, was murdered after conducting an interview on a case the two were working together. Two years later, her murder unsolved, Novak attempted to make progress through less-than-legal means and jailhouse bargaining. Now his job is on the line and he has been banished from his Florida home to assess a cold case in Indiana that he knows the firm has no intention of taking. His intention is to go through the motions and wait for the call that summons him home to face the judgment of his board of directors.</h4>
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Ridley Barnes, the suspected killer in the Indiana case, has other ideas. Barnes, who brought the teenage victim's body out of an elaborate cave system beneath his rural farmland country, has claimed for ten years that has no memory of exactly where -- or how -- he found Sarah Martin's corpse. His memory of whether she was dead or alive at the time is equally foggy. Now he says he wants answers -- even if they mean he'll end up in the electric chair. </h4>
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After only 48 hours in Indiana, engaged in a psychological chess match that he doesn't want to participate in, Novak is made painfully aware of his options: if he has any chance of returning to the life and career he left behind in Florida, he'll need to find the truth in Garrison, Indiana, first.</h4>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-52314535172500216992014-07-14T07:24:00.000-06:002014-07-14T07:24:21.253-06:00People, O Magazine, and Reader's Digest chime inAdding THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD to their summer must-read lists. Here are some additional reviews for the novel:<br />
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“Michael Koryta is a fearless
stylist who has put his hand to ghost stories, historical novels,
killer-thrillers, revenge tragedies, morality tales and detective stories. He’s
now swinging from the high wire with THOSE
WHO WISH ME DEAD, a heart-thumping backwoods adventure that sends two
creatively sadistic killers into Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, where they
spark a monster forest fire to flush out the only witness to their crimes: Jace
Wilson, a 14-year-old-boy…. Koryta rigs his tripwire plot with all sorts of
unpredictable characters and unforeseen events, including a “flint-and-steel”
electrical storm that will make your hair stand on end. There are any number of
hunting parties combing the burning woods for Jace, from the Blackwell brothers
to two determined women riding an injured horse. But sitting here, heart in
mouth, it sure looks as if that raging forest fire will outrun them all.” <b>—Marilyn Stasio, <i>New York Times Book Review </i><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Michael Koryta's latest novel skillfully melds a thrilling
adventure story set against the Montana wilderness with a poignant
coming-of-age story…Koryta's vivid Montana landscape scenes pulsate with the
smells and sounds of the great outdoors. His three-dimensional characters
realistically explore the choices they are forced to make as the author keeps
the plot twisting with believable turns.” <b>—Oline
Cogdill, <i>Associated Press</i></b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“I was reminded of the best of John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy while
reading these pages, but most of all, I was reminded of Koryta, who continually
matches and exceeds the expectations that he himself creates with the release
of each new book.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> —<i>Book Reporter</i></span></b></span><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">The wilderness thriller with the summer's best
opening sentence. Here's the first sentence of <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/those-who-wish-me-dead-michael-koryta/1117054798?ean=9780316122559" style="outline: 0px;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #4088b8; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Those Who Wish Me Dead</span></i></a> (Little Brown):
"On the last day of Jace Wilson’s life, the fourteen-year-old stood on a
quarry ledge staring at cool, still water and finally understood something his
mother had told him years before: Trouble might come for you when you showed
fear, but trouble doubled-down when you lied about being afraid."<br />
"Pulse-pounding," "edge-of-your-seat,"
"unputdownable"—these cliches are all on the no-no list for book
reviewers, but what's a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="il"><span style="background: #FFFFCC; color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">reviewer</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">to do when those are the words that best describe a
novel? Well, she gets off her literary high horse. This pulse-pounding,
edge-of-your-seat, unputdownable thriller is about Jace, the teenage witness to
a crime; the evil brothers hellbent on stopping him from talking; and their
crazy cat-and-mouse game that plays out in the Montana backwoods.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> – Reader’s Digest</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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“Not only does its plot sizzle with one shocking turn after another; it
also involves a massive forest fire so vividly described you almost expect the
edges of the pages to be scorched…Koryta builds the book's suspense with impressive
skill, shifting among different characters' points of view to keep the reader
constantly on edge.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> —<i>Tampa Bay Times<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></div>
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“[A] heartpounder.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> —<i>People<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></div>
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“[A] taut novel brimming with violence, terror, and (just as scary) the
perils of growing up.”<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> —<i>O, The Oprah Magazine<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></span></div>
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“Having joined the ranks of
the very best thriller writers with his small-town masterpiece, The Prophet
(2012), Koryta matches that effort with a book of sometimes-unbearable tension…this
novel is brilliantly orchestrated. Also crucial to its success is Koryta's
mastery of the beautiful but threatening setting, including a mountain fire's
ability to electrify the ground, radiate a lethal force field—and create
otherworldly light shows. Summer reading doesn't get better than this.” <b>—<i>Kirkus
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“A fast-paced, terrifically
entertaining novel.…The Blackwell brothers’ devious methods, the fire raging
across the mountains, and the actions of those trying to save Jace will keep
readers up well into the night.” <b>—<i>Library Journal</i> (starred review)</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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“<span style="background: white;">Koryta,
a widely praised veteran of cross-genre tales, has upped his game with this
stand-alone’s seamless blend of western-wilderness thriller and mainstream
crime fiction, with a prickly dab of horror.<span class="apple-converted-space">”
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“It’s an eerie setting with palpable threats at every
turn, one that plays out somewhere between Cormac McCarthy’s <i>No Country for
Old Men</i> and David Mamet’s screenplay for <i>The Edge</i>.” <b>—Clayton Moore, <i>Kirkus Reviews <o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Outstanding in every way, and a guaranteed thriller of
the year.…Stephen King would be proud of the set up, Cormac McCarthy would be
proud of the writing, and I would be proud of the action. Don’t you dare
miss it.” <b>—Lee Child, #1 bestselling author of NEVER GO BACK<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background: white;">“Warning: Michael Koryta’s
wonderful, riveting, and harrowing THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD may
just move you to tears. Enjoy at your own risk.” </span><b>—Harlan Coben, #1
bestselling author of SIX YEARS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Reading Michael Koryta is like stepping into fast water.
You don’t know where the current will take you, only that it’s strong and deep
and likely to sweep you away.” <b>—John Hart, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of IRON HOUSE<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and
edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and
a hell of a good writer. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is one of the best
chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year—or any other year. The pace never
lets up.” <b>—Nelson DeMille, <i>New York
Times </i>bestselling author of THE QUEST<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a
compelling storyteller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence of THOSE
WHO WISH ME DEAD, you’ll be under his spell. This is an absolute sizzler.” <b>—Lisa
Unger, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling
author of IN THE BLOOD</b></div>
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“Michael Koryta’s THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely
thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to
ask myself, ‘What will happen next?’ I highly recommend it.” <b>—Kevin Powers,
author of the National Book Award–nominated THE YELLOW BIRDS</b></div>
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“Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors
working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors,
period. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.” <b>—William Kent
Krueger, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling
author ORDINARY GRACE</b></div>
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“Wow! An absolutely first-rate novel. THOSE WHO WISH
ME DEAD is what every reader hopes for each time they start a book.” <b>—Christopher
Reich, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling
author of RULES OF DECEPTION</b></div>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-35884237104495614602014-07-08T08:29:00.000-06:002014-07-08T08:29:20.859-06:00Amazon and Entertainment Weekly agree...That THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is the summer's #1 thriller.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now <i>this </i>is what a
book tour should be like! I’m sitting at a table outside of the Bearclaw Bakery
in Cooke City, MT (year-round population 110 at last census, it is a CDP or
“census-designated place”) and a friend I met last year, Cathy Pate, (whose
son, Nick, played for the New Orleans Saints when they won the Super Bowl over
my beloved Colts) walks up with a copy of the Oprah magazine that featured
Those Who Wish Me Dead, tosses it on the table, and informs me that the
postmistress made her wait until she’d finished a page in the book before
conducting any Official Government Business. That’s the kind of response you
like to hear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The post office is not hard to visit – I could throw a baseball
through the window from where I was sitting at the bakery, and I don’t have
much of an arm – so I stopped by to thank Kara (the post master general for
Cooke City/Silver Gate) for reading the book. I’m signing her copy when the
door opens and one other person steps inside and says from behind me “It is a
hell of a good book!” This is the owner of the Elkhorn Lodge. I haven’t met him
before, but this is the way I prefer to meet people, and wish that it would
happen more often. Clearly, I need to spend more time in Cooke City</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To say that the communities of Cooke City and Silver Gate
have been supportive and generous in their enthusiasm over the book would be an
understatement, and I can’t say enough just how much of a pleasure it was to
see that. When you write about a real place, you try to do it justice, to get
as much right as you can, and that’s not just locations on a map, it’s the feel
of the place. You also hope that the locals will approve, and you better
believe that those in Cooke City/Silver Gate wouldn’t be shy about offering
opinions, good or bad! It meant a lot to me to see the book around town, to
hear that so many people were aware of it, and appreciative of it. Now…about
those things you try to get right – you better fess up when you get them wrong,
too. I got a big one wrong, and I need to come clean. There’s a reference to a
character walking down the sidewalk between the Cooke City General Store and
the Miner’s Saloon. Well, as the storekeep’s daughter, Tessa, who tends the
store more often than the storekeep himself as far as I can tell, got to that
portion of the book, she said, “There ain’t no sidewalk.” And of course she’s
right. I’ll defend myself only this far: there <i>is </i>a sidewalk in front of Miner’s, though it doesn’t go anywhere
else, and most of the times I’ve exited the Miner’s Saloon, I’ve been in a
state of, ahem, diminished observational capacity due to excessive hydration.
(At high altitudes it is critical to stay hydrated. Ask any survival
instructor). But Tessa is right, and I suspect that she is about most things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The idea of my “Trace Jace” plan took a serious hit from the
weather. Where Jace walked with Ethan, and then with Hannah, and where I have
walked before, is unreachable now due to snow. In fact, most of the high Beartooths
are unreachable due to snow, at least for hikers. I selected an “easy” route
into the mountains and packed out a four-season tent. The easy route, on June
25, still featured stretches of snow that were three feet deep. Fortunately, it
poured rain during most of the trip, which helped keep my mind off the snow.
The better news yet was that the mosquitoes existed in clouds, which helped keep
my mind off the rain. This is employing Reggie Bennett’s #1 survival priority
of keeping a positive mental attitude: if you don’t want to think about the
snow, think about the rain. If you don’t want to think about the rain, think
about the mosquitoes. And as for the mosquitoes? Well, I was reminded of a
quote from my friend, the stoic Bob Bley, who once advised Mike Hefron on how
to handle wearing a cloud of mosquitoes as a shirt with the following instruction: “Just
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hiking back out, we followed bear tracks so fresh that they
hadn’t yet filled with rain. This would have been disconcerting if not for the
fact that there were also cub tracks, and as everyone knows, there’s no safer
situation that walking right up on a sow and her cub. It appeared the pair had gone
down toward the Broadwater River to do some fishing. I let them take that path
and fish in privacy. It’s the courteous thing to do; you never invade somebody
else’s fishing hole, after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’m covered in mosquito bites, my knee aches from a bad
twist in the snow, my nose somehow got so sunburned between the thunderstorms
that it’s peeling in strips…and all I’m feeling right now is sadness that the
trip is winding down. There’s no other place like the Beartooths, at least not
in the lower 48, and as Hefron always reminds me: “If it was easy, everybody
would be out here.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That’s the beauty of it. The solitude and the wilderness.
The way the mountains are always changing, and always gorgeous, no matter the
weather. The way you can sit at your campsite and see an incredible expanse of wilderness
but not another soul in sight. Then you get out of the wilderness,
and back down to Cooke City and Silver Gate, and to a cocktail party on a cabin
deck looking out over the mountains where every person in attendance has a
different and fascinating story, and it should be little mystery why this area
holds a special attraction to a writer. There’s a story at every stop here.
Some might be found after sweating and gasping your way to a peak; others might
be found over a beer and conversation. But the material sure isn’t going to run
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-77258605496292730912014-06-03T07:20:00.003-06:002014-06-03T07:20:51.993-06:00Release Day Reviews!The book is out in all forms, from all retailers, and we hope you find your way to it. Here are some early reviews to hopefully whet your appetite.<br />
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/korytas-latest-thrilling-adventure-story-23971230">http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/korytas-latest-thrilling-adventure-story-23971230</a><br />
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/michael-korytas-bloody-new-thriller-1401403253">http://online.wsj.com/articles/michael-korytas-bloody-new-thriller-1401403253</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/06/01/new-and-noteworthy/9485175/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/06/01/new-and-noteworthy/9485175/</a>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-10542577479676941212014-05-28T17:06:00.000-06:002014-05-28T17:06:31.274-06:00Some pre-release features, freebies, and contests <a href="http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/thosewhowishmedead/">http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/features/thosewhowishmedead/</a>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-34429664910488847652014-05-23T16:58:00.000-06:002014-05-23T17:06:02.552-06:00Pre-order links<b>Signed copies:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.murderbooks.com/event/michael-koryta">Murder by the Book</a><br />
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<a href="http://store.poisonedpen.com/?STG=1574071253&q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&so=oh&qs=Koryta&searchtype=keyword&x=0&y=0">The Poisoned Pen</a><br />
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<br />Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-60995957950346458642014-05-23T04:38:00.000-06:002014-05-23T04:38:06.433-06:00An explanation of the Amazon issue<div class="userContentWrapper aboveUnitContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14.079999923706055px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-top: 15px;">
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<span class="userContent">A Note From Michael:<br /><br />In a show of intimidation as the companies negotiate terms, Amazon has removed ALL pre-order capabilities for Hachette Book Group titles in all formats. That means you won't be able to buy Those Who Wish Me Dead in hard copy or Kindle edition. As you can imagine, that is a devastating impact on a new release. But in the big picture, it also means that if you want to order that new JK Rowling (sorry, Robert Ga<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">lbraith) or forthcoming titles from Michael Connelly and James Patterson, let alone a little book like Those Who Wish Me Dead, you will simply have to look elsewhere. And I hope that you do. Here's a sample of the "order" page for Little, Brown and Co.'s biggest release of June, a book that people's jobs depend upon. I was just in the HBG warehouse in Lebanon, Indiana, where a lot of great, hard-working people (in a warehouse that has never had a layoff, I was told) were busting ass to get this book out to its eager readers on time.<br /><br />Eager readers, please go find it elsewhere. It's not as hard as Amazon would like you to think that it is.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Silkworm-Cormoran-Strike-Novel/dp/0316206873" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/The-Silkworm-Cormoran-Strike-Novel/dp/0316206873</a><br /></span></span></div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-78605934634986372442014-04-30T10:56:00.000-06:002014-06-03T07:16:34.924-06:00THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD signing stopsIf you do not live in these areas, please be aware that signed copies are available for pre-order from Murder by the Book, The Poisoned Pen, and the Mysterious Bookshop. If pre-ordered, all copies will be personalized as desired.<br />
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-31368051979812877612014-03-06T10:26:00.002-07:002014-03-06T10:26:19.184-07:00William Kent Krueger on THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His
stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding
of human nature—the good, the evil, and all the gray between—is
masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-90586530036180815582014-03-04T09:52:00.004-07:002014-03-04T09:52:59.978-07:00John Hart on Those Who Wish Me Dead<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Reading Michael Koryta is like stepping into fast water. You don’t know where the current will take you, only that it’s strong and deep and likely to sweep you away. That’s what the best fiction does, and Koryta does it better than just about anyone else."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-91044679530416533312014-03-01T11:26:00.000-07:002014-03-01T11:26:48.851-07:0020th Century Fox Moves Forward<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1007818207">THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD has a screenwriter at work now, and one who is a very exciting choice for the project. A great get by Fox and Film Rites!</a><br />
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-72261740123455034842014-02-06T12:31:00.000-07:002014-02-06T12:31:52.107-07:00Harlan Coben on THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Warning: Michael Koryta's wonderful, riveting, and harrowing THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD may just move you to tears. Enjoy at your own risk."</span><div>
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-68284160062444657792014-01-28T12:56:00.000-07:002014-01-28T12:56:11.726-07:00Nelson DeMille on THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Absolutely breathtaking, nail-biting, and edge-of-your-seat. Michael Koryta is a master at maintaining suspense and a hell of a good writer. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Those Who Wish Me Dead</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is one of the best chase-and-escape novels you’ll read this year – or any other year. The pace never lets up.”</span></span><br />
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Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-58778093096418545362013-11-20T08:04:00.000-07:002013-11-20T08:04:12.482-07:00New story released!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i2DeQCqS7a4/UozNKbwY6zI/AAAAAAAAAQg/lQVq3eMgJa4/s1600/apex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i2DeQCqS7a4/UozNKbwY6zI/AAAAAAAAAQg/lQVq3eMgJa4/s400/apex.jpg" width="250" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Michael's short story THE APREX PREDATOR takes readers back to the territory of Lincoln Perry -- only this time, told through the eyes of one of the detective's criminal associates, Thor, a character who appeared in both TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE and A WELCOME GRAVE. The 29-page story is available for the immediate future exclusively as a Kindle Single for $1.99. A portion of the proceeds from this will go to <a href="http://www.exoticfelinerescuecenter.org/">http://www.exoticfelinerescuecenter.org</a></span><br />
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in conjunction with Film Rites and producers Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch.
Zaillian has been nominated for four Academy Awards, and
among his many successes as a screenwriter, director and producer are <i>Schindler’s
List, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, Gangs of New York, </i>and <i>A Civil Action. </i>Supervising the project
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retired professor emeritus of history at Indiana University, George was
introduced to me years ago by my writing mentor, Bob Hammel. We had regular
lunches for years, first in my days at the newspaper in Bloomington, later
while I was doing detective work, and then on and along, and now they’ve come
to an end, and I’m going to miss George terribly. I’ve met just a few people whom
I consider truly brilliant – not just smart, but thinking at a level that
separates them from even the brightest of us – and George was one of them. As
an academic, his specialty was the press and the president, but the man had no
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coming up empty. He deserves to have those words emphasized, too: <i>educated, opinion.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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knowledge that shaped those opinions, and he also understood that his beliefs
were his own, and that having them did not make them infallible. The ultimate
devil’s advocate, George quietly and kindly altered my own thinking over the
years with one signature phrase, usually offered with downcast eyes and an
extra-gentle voice, designed to remove any level of confrontation and tunnel
down to the reasoning beneath your opinion without hitting the defensive,
emotional shell that surrounded it. “Mind you,” he would say, and then he’d
offer some bit of evidence contrary to the point you’d just made. I loved it.
He had no interest in tying you in intellectual knots, though he could have
with nearly everyone he met, and he surely could have with me, but he liked to
argue – no, debate is the better term, for he was a gentleman and a thinker, he
liked to debate – not for the sake of intellectual battle, but for the sake of
deeper consideration and reasoning. He’d do it with himself more often than
not, offering his point on anything from politics to sports to local road
construction, then follow it with, “Now, mind you,…” and offer the
counter-argument. The idea, never expressed directly but always clear, was that
he wasn’t satisfied to hear – or say – a mere <i>this is what I think. </i>He needed to dig deeper, to know why you
thought it, or why he thought it, and why it might be flawed, and if so, was it
flawed enough so as to require change?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lord, what a beautiful idea that is. What a truly beautiful
approach to thinking, and living. And how often it is lacking. I think
especially of politics here, where we are bombarded at all times with opinions
that are offered up as intellectual Alamos: “In this place I will remain until
my death.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Juergens was always taking in more, thinking more,
and considering the counter-arguments. By nature of sharing lunch conversations
with him, you couldn’t help but sharpen your own mind. He was also a true
friend and advocate and supporter of my work, which meant the world to me, and
I was always struck by his fascination with my business, his constant
questioning: how many drafts, how much control over the story did I feel during
each draft, what was the editorial process, how was cover art determined, what
were e-books doing to the landscape, what was the emotional price of changing
publishers, what was….and on and on. Because that was George, always thirsting
for a better understanding, more knowledge, more education upon which to form
an opinion. His own education is impressive on the Curriculum Vitae side alone
– bachelor’s degrees earned at Columbia and Oxford, also a master’s degree at
Oxford, then a doctorate at Columbia – but it was a never-ending education, and
as his health deteriorated he found he had trouble staying focused long enough
to read books, a true blow to a man who so dearly loved books, but when they eluded his concentration he promptly detoured toward an even more intense
devouring of newspapers and magazines. The quest to know more, to learn more,
never ended. I remember listening with great interest as he lamented the
increased salaries of professors, and his reasoning behind it: a true scholar
should be in academia for the scholarship, the desire to learn more and share
more, and if it became a profession tainted by money, the purity of that
intellectual pursuit would be damaged, and that was dangerous for the students.
Followed by: “Now, mind you, perhaps if there had been more money in the
profession when I started, I would feel differently.” Always, always, the consideration
of the counter-argument.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A final anecdote, the most vivid: I dedicated my first book
to our mutual friend Bob Hammel, who guided me through so much ugly writing,
and still does his best to keep the ugliest out of my drafts now. The phone
rang at my desk at the newspaper one day, and it was George. He wanted to tell
me how much it meant to Bob, that dedication, and how proud Bob was that the
book had broken through and found a publisher, and that while Bob might not
tell me himself, he counted the dedication as one of the truly special things
in his life. Perhaps George was putting it on a little strong, there, but it
was an incredibly sweet and generous call, and contained a classic George line,
witty and honest and thought-provoking, when he said, “There can be a tendency
with older men, and younger men, and men in between, to struggle to adequately
tell another man how much they mean to us, and so we need other men to do that
for us.” It made me laugh then, and does now, and of course it is true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish I’d had someone make that same call to George.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, mind, you…I hope that I didn’t need to, and hope that
he knew all that remains unsaid between us.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-85513769337320379102012-12-14T09:21:00.000-07:002012-12-15T10:23:40.948-07:00PROPHET screenwriter honored in VarietyNice mention of Reid Carolin, who will be adapting The Prophet for Nick Weschler Productions. Reid was named one of the 10 Screenwriters to Watch by Variety. Very excited to see his adaptation. <br />
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<a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062628">http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062628</a>Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07321142164020992745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030720483956541789.post-6901467957803901252012-12-14T09:18:00.000-07:002012-12-14T09:18:12.324-07:00THE PROPHET is a favorite of the year...Particularly fond of the "Crown Prince of Creepy" title offered by our friends in Canada!<br />
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<a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/12-DAYS-OF-SUSPENSE-182661361.html">http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/12-DAYS-OF-SUSPENSE-182661361.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/2012-best-of/section/fiction/">http://www.kirkusreviews.com/issue/2012-best-of/section/fiction/</a><br />
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<a href="http://blog.chron.com/bookish/2012/12/best-books-of-2012/">http://blog.chron.com/bookish/2012/12/best-books-of-2012/</a><br />
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