An update: October 5, 2022
A bit of personal news:
• My next novel is called THE CURSE OF PIETRO HOUDINI and will be published with Avid Reader Press at Simon & Schuster. I am delighted to be back with my brilliant editor Lauren Wein, who first acquired Norwegian by Night so long ago and helped launch my career in the U.S.
• I am writing a new novel set on the Spanish coast in the late 1950s around Cadaques. It's a darker, more gothic, Hitchcockean sort of affair that brings suspense, mystery, politics, magic and philosophy together in the death of a twin sister and the survivor's quest to learn the truth. I'm living in Spain as I write this.
• I am a Design Fellow with the Somali Public Agenda in Mogadishu. Until yesterday (4 October) I had been planning to work with them on evidence-based policy design — informed by local, cultural research — for a transitional justice program in the country intended to help reduce tensions and help communities build lasting peace. When the team started the work (I wasn't there) on Monday, two car bombs were detonated by al-Shabaab and a third went off very close to the team a half hour later. Twenty people died and 36 were injured and. Our team was OK but obviously the project is on hold. So …
• The American rights to RADIO LIFE are now available! If science fiction publishers are looking to snatch up a novel loved by the FT, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times, now is the chance.
• I am now repped by Simon Lipskar at Writers House, which is about all a novelist can ask for.
• My friend Heather is helping me design a new website that will be located at derekbmiller.com. Watch that space.
Happy reading, everyone.
• My next novel is called THE CURSE OF PIETRO HOUDINI and will be published with Avid Reader Press at Simon & Schuster. I am delighted to be back with my brilliant editor Lauren Wein, who first acquired Norwegian by Night so long ago and helped launch my career in the U.S.
• I am writing a new novel set on the Spanish coast in the late 1950s around Cadaques. It's a darker, more gothic, Hitchcockean sort of affair that brings suspense, mystery, politics, magic and philosophy together in the death of a twin sister and the survivor's quest to learn the truth. I'm living in Spain as I write this.
• I am a Design Fellow with the Somali Public Agenda in Mogadishu. Until yesterday (4 October) I had been planning to work with them on evidence-based policy design — informed by local, cultural research — for a transitional justice program in the country intended to help reduce tensions and help communities build lasting peace. When the team started the work (I wasn't there) on Monday, two car bombs were detonated by al-Shabaab and a third went off very close to the team a half hour later. Twenty people died and 36 were injured and. Our team was OK but obviously the project is on hold. So …
• The American rights to RADIO LIFE are now available! If science fiction publishers are looking to snatch up a novel loved by the FT, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times, now is the chance.
• I am now repped by Simon Lipskar at Writers House, which is about all a novelist can ask for.
• My friend Heather is helping me design a new website that will be located at derekbmiller.com. Watch that space.
Happy reading, everyone.
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Oct 05, 2022 01:50AM
Can't wait to read about Pietro!
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Keep up the great work Derek, not just in your writing career but the other things you're involved in like the Somali Public Agenda programme.
It's always great to hear from you, Derek, one of my favorite writers! I so glad you hear you and your team are safe after the the two terrorist bombs. Stay safe! Thanks for your tremendous novels. I've loved reading them all and I'm looking forward to reading The Curse of Pietro Houdini. Keep up the great work!
