by vjbooks | Dec 14, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
Jack DuBrul is the author of seven best-selling Phil Mercer thrillers. DuBrul was educated at the West Minster School and holds a degree in international relations from George Washington University. “I started writing my first novel at prep school and only...
by vjbooks | Dec 14, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
Shamus Award winner Paul Kemprecos spent more than 20 years as a reporter for Cape Cod newspapers before penning his successful Aristotle “Soc” Socarides adventure series. He is the first generation American son of Greek immigrants whose writing has often...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | Children and YA, Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
(www.vjbooks.com, Sept. 2008) Did you know that some of the bestselling authors of adult fiction also write for younger readers? Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Rick Riordan, Clive Barker, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Clive Cussler, and Carl Hiaasen are just a few...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 8 ) First Clive Cussler named his hero Dirk Pitt after his son Dirk. Then he began collaborating with Dirk on writing thrillers; Arctic Drift is their third co-venture, PW’s review said, “Thriller fans in search of a quick,...
by vjbooks | Dec 8, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 10) Berkley reports 820,600 inprint of The Chase, a stand-alone title. Clive Cussler, along with his son Dirk, have a new hardcover coming out later this month: Arctic Drift, the lastest in the Dirk Pitt series. Their tour is posted...
by vjbooks | Dec 5, 2008 | Clive Cussler
Dirk Cussler holds an MBA from Berkeley. For many years he worked in the financial arena, and now devotes himself full-time to writing. For the last several years, he has been an active participant and partner in his father’s NUMA expeditions and served as...
by vjbooks | Dec 5, 2008 | Clive Cussler
With many thanks to Pete R., we offer these photos of the 2008 Clive Cussler Collector’s Society convention held in Denver. A great time was had by all! [slideshow=1]
by vjbooks | Dec 5, 2008 | Clive Cussler
If it’s the first weekend in October . . . this must be Cusslercon! The Clive Cussler Collector’s Society brought its 2008 annual get together back to Denver, where it all began back in 2005. Old friends and new, nearly 150 in all, gathered once again to celebrate all...
by vjbooks | Nov 20, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
“A New Cussler Series and a Co-Author’s Journey” (thrillerwriters.org, Grant Blackwood) The call came unexpectedly last fall from Tom Colgan, my superb, longtime editor at Putnam. They’d asked Clive if he’d be interested in doing another...
by vjbooks | Nov 13, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
Arctic Drift – Limited Editions 2008: Norwood Press Editions Since the fall of 2004, we have had the priviledge of publishing, under our Norwood Press imprint, the only limited edition versions of Clive Cussler adventures. With the continued approval of Clive...
by vjbooks | Nov 11, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Sept. 22) Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after Treasure of Khan and Black Wind). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a...
by vjbooks | Nov 6, 2008 | Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
In Arctic Drift, the twentieth Dirk Pitt adventure, Cussler tops all expectations. A potential break-through discovery to reverse global warming… a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia… a rash of international incidents between the...
