The Cypress House -- UK Cover

Nice and spooky! Love to see what different designers in different parts of the world do with the same material. Pretty humbling to have so many talented people investing their time.

Fun and games from the good folks at Hodder & Stoughton

I've never had a book trailer before, so I was intrigued when my publisher in the UK sent this along. I have to say I really enjoyed it, but there's a slim chance of bias to my opinion. Just a chance. What do you think? Ready to read now?

The Cypress House tour announced

Preliminary dates and locations are below. Hope to see you out there!


10/23: St. Petersburg, FL
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES FESTIVAL OF READING

11/20: Miami, FL
MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL

1/20: St. Petersburg, FL
ECKERD COLLEGE WRITERS' CONFERENCE

1/24: Tampa, FL
6:00 PM, INKWOOD BOOKS

1/25: Sarasota, FL
2:00 PM, CIRCLE BOOKS FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY EVENT

1/26: West Palm, FL
6:30 PM, CLASSIC BOOKSHOP WITH WELLINGTON LIBRARY

1/27: Miami, FL
8:00 PM, BOOKS & BOOKS

2/1: Bloomington, IN
7:00 PM, BORDERS

2/2: Indianapolis, IN
6:00 PM, BIG HAT BOOKS

2/3: Cleveland, OH
7:00 PM BARNES & NOBLE – Crocker Park

2/7: Houston, TX
6:30 PM MURDER BY THE BOOK

2/8: Phoenix, AZ
7:00 PM, POISONED PEN BOOKSTORE

2/9: San Diego, CA
7:00 PM, MYSTERIOUS GALAXY

2/10: Los Angeles, CA
7:00 PM, MYSTERY BOOKSTORE

2/11: San Francisco, CA
7:00 PM, BOOK PASSAGE

2/12: San Francisco, CA
2:00 PM, M IS FOR MYSTERY

2/13: San Francisco, CA
5:00 PM, BOOKS INC BERKELEY

On to the next one...

Already? Yes, the new book is sneaking up on me pretty quickly, and I'll have plenty to say about The Cypress House -- which was perhaps my favorite writing experience thus far -- in the future. For now I'll show you the gorgeous cover, and I am deeply honored to share the following quotes about the book, which releases on Jan. 24.

"The Cypress House is a unique and entertaining blend of noir and paranormal suspense, with a tightly controlled supernatural thread as believable as the gunplay. Mr. Koryta is at the start of what will surely be a great career. He's now on my must-read list."
Dean Koontz

“The Cypress House is a dazzling blend of suspense, the supernatural, and superb storytelling. What a gifted writer. Michael Koryta is the real deal.” –Ron Rash, author of Serena

“Michael Koryta is one of our new dynamos in the world of books, and in The Cypress House he spreads his range, wedding suspense with the supernatural in the eeriness of 1930s Florida. He uses the psychology of place to penetrate the human heart and delivers his tale of hurricanes and love and hauntings with great narrative force. Koryta's becoming a wonder we'll appreciate for a long time.” Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone

“Michael Koryta has fashioned a great character in his reluctant prophet, Arlen Wagner, a good man who ends up with an awful lot of blood on his hands before the denouement of this deliciously dark tale. Koryta is a fantastic storyteller, and the many admirers of his previous novel, So Cold the River, will find similar chilly pleasures awaiting them here.” –Scott Smith, author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins

"Michael Koryta's command of story, character, and language put him in an elite group of writers at work today: Elmore Leonard, Michael Connelly and Lee Child to name a few. He is one of the very best writers out there. Don't try to label him, or stick him in a genre; that would be a disservice. Just read him, and soon you'll be saying Michael Koryta is among the best there is. And even that praise falls miserably short."
Ridley Pearson author of In Harm's Way

"Koryta is superb with mood and setting…the simmering tension erupts into a rolling boil by the bloody, spooky, and satisfying ending."
Booklist

Tragic news in the mystery community

http://www.murderbooks.com/

If you can make the memorial service, do so. If you can't, buy a book from David Thompson's store -- we just lost the most passionate bookseller in the business, and one of the finest people I've ever known.

It's impossible to overstate the sense of loss that David Thompson's far-too-early passing brings to the many who knew him. I remember our meeting -- at Alafair Burke's apartment following the Edgars, when my first book was out and I was a stranger to all and David, as was his way, made it a point to try and make me feel as if among old friends. Amazing how swiftly he could do that. By the next time I saw him, he truly felt like an old and dear friend, and he always will. I'm thinking now of each visit to the store, of each meal shared and each book recommended and each deeply appreciated encouragement, and I'm overwhelmed by just how wonderful those memories are and thus how profound the sadness. David was about passion: for McKenna, for books, writers, friends, customers, dogs and all others who came his way. No one was more generous, more encouraging, and more sincere. My stops in Houston were, and will be, treasured moments because of the time spent with David and McKenna, all of the meals and drinks and laughs. His legacies are many and they are powerful and they are scripted in sincerity and generosity and compassion, truly rare levels of all the best qualities in a man.