Kino’s Got a Tumblr

In addition to a Facebook page keeping up with Kino news, I have launched a Kino Tumblr, named after “Kino” Koblitz’s first movie, the 1924 production Tulpendiebe. Tulpendiebe will be regularly updated with images, quotes, and video clips related to the world of the book — for instance, this entry on The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen:

Hans Albers’ famous ride on the cannonball from The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen (1943)the fourth-ever German film in color and one of the most expensive productions of the Third Reich. Banned author Erich Kästner wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym “Berthold Bürger.” The film was released one month after Goebbels’ total war speech.

Follow the Tulpendiebe Tumblr.

Advance E-Copies of Kino at NetGalley

Advance digital copies of Kino are now available at NetGalley. If you’re a professional reader – book reviewer, journalist, librarian, professor, bookseller, blogger, etc — you can download the novel in its entirety. Here’s the NetGalley registration form.

Kino: The Cover

My novel Kino, coming from Atticus Books on April 17, 2012, now has a cover, designed by Jamie Keenan:

Occupy Wall Street Seen Through a Camera Phone

Appotography included one of my shots in a nice gallery featuring cell phones photos of the Occupy protests.

 

Fictionaut at Forum Kiedrich

I will be presenting Fictionaut.de, the planned German version of Fictionaut, at the Forum Kiedrich “founders market” in Wiesbaden this Saturday. Forum Kiedrich is a network that has been connecting entrepreneurs with business angels and mentors since 1997.

First Look: Kino at the Good Men Project

Today, the opening chapters of my novel Kino, to be released by Atticus Books on April 15, 2012, are featured on The Good Men Project, “a cerebral, new media alternative to glossy men’s magazines.” Thanks to Good Men fiction editor Matt Salesses for introducing his readers to Mina Koblitz and the mystery of Tulpendiebe. Read the excerpt here.

 

Aquis Mattiacis

Kurhaus Wiesbaden

After ten years in Astoria, we’re moving operations overseas for a little while. In June, Marcy, Nina, and I are heading to my hometown Wiesbaden to be near my family, enjoy the sulfur waters, and get some serious writing done.

If you’re in New York, come say good-bye at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria on Saturday, May 21st, from 3 p.m. onwards — or come by our house the day after to snatch books, DVDs, and furniture that won’t make the trip.

Virtually speaking, everything stays exactly the same, except that you may find me tweeting in German now at @jurgenfauth.

Atticus Books to Publish My Debut Novel

Now, this is good news: Atticus Books, an independent press specializing in genre-busting literary fiction, will publish my novel Kino in the spring of 2012.

Kino is the story of a visionary director’s tragic life and his granddaughter’s quest to redeem him. Frederick Barthelme has called the book “an intoxicating Euro-brew, an exhilarating roadster ride through history and time, a remarkable remix of reality and imagination, written with enormous skill and dedication.”

You can read the opening chapter of Kino on Fictionaut.