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New Publication Date For Dead Tomorrow

posted by Peter James @ 11:13 AM   12 Comments

Some bad news - I've just been told the publication date for Dead Tomorrow, the 5th Roy Grace novel, has been put back by a week.

Dead Tomorrow will now come out in hardback on June 11th, rather than June 5th as I told you previously. I'm afraid this is quite common, often for last minute marketing reasons to avoid a clash between two titles.

Sincere apologies that you will have to wait another week before being able to read Dead Tomorrow, but I do hope you'll find it worth the wait.

You can pre-order Dead Tomorrow on Amazon.

In Bed With Peter James

posted by Peter James @ 3:55 AM   8 Comments

So, OK, we all like the idea of going to bed with a good book. But going to bed with its creator????? Well that's what happened last week in Munich!

In Bed With Peter James
In Bed With Peter James


In Bed With Peter James
Peter and Hans


I was there as part of their wonderful Krimi Festival, and the organisers, Andy and Sabine decided it would fun to do a rather more - ah - intimate event... a reading in a hotel bedroom. So I found myself in bed with my great friend, the wonderful German actor Hans Juergen Stockerl with whom I do all my readings in Germany - we alternate between chapters in English and German (I read the English ones...!!!) while three consecutive groups of 18 people filled the bedroom.

It was actually huge fun - a rare chance to get so up close and personal with my readers. And yes, of course I had brushed my teeth....!

Peter James On Twitter

posted by Peter James @ 4:57 PM   3 Comments

I've recently been playing with Twitter, the microblogging service that's become incredibly popular in the last year. Twitter lets people post very short messages (140 characters, the same length as an SMS) to their Twitter page, letting friends know what they are up to. (If you use Facebook, it's a little bit like the Facebook Status updates - I'm on Facebook as well, incidentally).

Twitter is a great way for connecting more easily with people who have common interests - you simply follow people who are interesting to you - and if they stop being interesting, you unfollow them with a click of the mouse! You can search for topics of interest to you on search.twitter.com and then you will see real-time updates from other people on Twitter.

At the moment I've just started on Twitter, but I'm greatly enjoying using it - if you are curious about what I'm up to in between the times I'm not blogging - and if you want to know how the next Roy Grace novel is coming along blow by blow! - please do check out my Twitter page and follow me if you'd like to keep up to date.

Shrinkage?!

posted by Peter James @ 4:10 AM   14 Comments

One of the scary aspects of ageing, I have discovered, is that we shrink as we get older! Really! I got a shock a few weeks back when I went for a check up. Now, I've been five foot eleven inches for as long as I can remember, and reasonably happy with that, although there have been times in cinemas when someone with big hair has sat in front of me, when I would have found a few more inches rather useful... so imagine my dismay when the doctor measured my height and told me I am now a mere five foot, nine and a half! I did a quick calculation and worked out that if I live to be one thousand years old (which is my plan as there are so many books I want to read - and to write!!!) I will only be just over three foot tall when I celebrate that particular birthday.

Dubai Doorman

Helen and I feel somewhat small


It is also a fact that we are taller first thing in the morning, when we get out of bed, and slowly shrink during the day as our spines compact. In the days when there was a minimum height restriction for English policemen, of five foot, ten inches, those applicants on the borderline would try to get their medical done first thing in the morning, to secure that crucial extra half inch. So, I'm wondering, what time of morning did this very charming doorman at the Intercontinental Hotel in Dubai get out of bed? Or have I suddenly got even older than I thought?

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