Seeley James

Beware of Idle Gods

How Adopting a 3-yr-old at 19 Formed the Basis for a Thriller: Making It Real

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Main characters have to feel real or you, the reader, will abandon them. I write thrillers and I’m forever striving to write that perfect visceral character. Hemingway’s advice: “From all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new […]

Hitting the Top 10 List

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A Kindle Fire HD Giveaway for a Thank You! (This contest is over, the winner is: Eileen of Goodreads) Yes, I’m giving away one Kindle Fire HD (US, UK, Canada only), but first I must say thank you to the thousands of readers who snapped up a copy of The Geneva Decision last week. Your […]

Review: Wool Omnibus Edition by Hugh Howey

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Exquisite writing makes for an unusual story. Far outside the mainstream formulas for any genre, this book stands alone as a masterpiece of both writing and creativity. No doubt regular readers will express some disappointment that I’ve departed from my ‘thrillers only’ mantra—I assure you, I’ve not. This is a thriller. Well. OK, it’s dystopian […]

Heroine of the Month

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Kiran Bedi  – Heroine of the Month for February 2013 In light of the recent gang-rape and murder of a young woman in India, this month’s Heroine of the Month is Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman police officer. Ms. Bedi joined the police force in 1972*, two years after earning her Master’s degree from Punjab […]

Review: Pagan Moon

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Pagan Moon is a masterpiece of a thriller. It starts out with a simple premise and a simple hero and a simple problem. That simplicity lulls you into believing you’re reading a simple police procedural. The first quarter of the book has all the standard pieces in place: a strange series of killings; a cover-up […]