We enter a new phase of FOMAC now, as Nathan will be spending at least the next nine months in Japan, doing post-grad study in Japanese and getting suitably immersed in the culture (after graduating with honors in Japanese and Computer Science from the University of Iowa).

He will be maintaining the website long-distance but, of course, we don’t know how easy or hard that will be just yet. So this is the final stateside update he’ll be posting for me.

We’ll post the last few ROAD TO PARADISE events above. Barb and I travelled to Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, the Twin Cities and Des Moines during December, and it’s a rough time to promote a book. Things went well, though, and readers seem to really like Michael O’Sullivan’s final road trip. We’ve had some great reviews.

For those of you in the midwest, a big fun event is coming up on Friday, February 3rd: the world premiere of the film ELIOT NESS: AN UNTOUCHABLE LIFE at the Rocket Theater in Rock Island, Illinios. I will be hosting the event, and actor Michael Cornelsion (Ness himself) will be on hand, as well as my collaborators Barbara Collins, Phil Dingeldein, Mark Johnson and many others. Full details are above.

This is part of my author’s residency with Quad City Arts, and another event will be the Quad Cities premiere of my Alley Oop documentary, CAVEMAN, Thursday, Feb. 3. Check below for details.

Also check below for the final dates in the ROAD TO PARADISE tour. There’s a chance I’ll extend the tour into March, and may be doing some events on the West Coast. Check back.

The other big news is that the Neo-Noir boxed set of my DVDs, BLACK BOX, debuts at the end of January (we’ll have some at the NESS premiere!). This includes the new 10th anniversary editions of MOMMY and MOMMY’S DAY; REAL TIME: SIEGE AT LUCAS STREET MARKET; and SHADES OF NOIR, which includes the short “Ness” demo film, “Three Women,” Quarry in “A Matter of Principal” and (finally!) my documentary, MIKE HAMMER’S MICKEY SPILLANE.

Nate will provide a link for those of you who would like to buy it on line from our friends at Send Me Movies; they have it at a great sale price for those who pre-order.

In other news, I’ve just completed a novel with Kathy Reichs based on her TV series, BONES. It’s called BONES: BURIED DEEP and Matt Clemens assisted me on it — should be out early this year, and it’s really very cool.

Barb is at work on her draft of the second “Barbara Allan” bylined novel — watch for ANTIQUES ROADKILL this August! — and I’m working on two new novels, more about which later….

Also in August will be THE LAST QUARRY from HardCase Crime — an expansion of “A Matter of Principal,” featured on the SHADES OF NOIR DVD. It’s all storytelling.

That’s it for now, and we’ll see you back here soon. Sayonara!

Max

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