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The interview is live! As the interviewer wrote me, the top link goes directly to Substack, which has more rich content for listeners, but the bottom link is for Spotify, which more listeners tend to use.
Just hit the trades:
September 14, 2020 - THE SUMMONING, by J.P. Smith
Fiction: Thriller
Author of THE DROWNING and IF SHE WERE DEAD J.P. Smith's THE SUMMONING, about a young widowed actress staging seances to help cover her daughter's medical bills that turns terrifyingly real when the spirit of a murdered woman appears to warn her of a murderer in her own life and she is to be the next victim, to Anna Michels at Sourcebooks, in an exclusive submission, for publication in fall 2021, by Claire Roberts at Claire Roberts Global Literary Management.
Three fellow authors and I from the Poisoned Pen Press will be on an hour-long Q&A and discussion forum on Zoom on Tuesday, May 5th at 8PM ET:
https://www.sourcebooks.com/mystery-virtual-panel-event.html
Publication of the French translation of The Drowning has, along with all of Gallimard’s forthcoming titles, been delayed due to the Corona virus. It will be released in the fullness of time, so, French readers, stay tuned.
My Q&A published in the Bookreporter on If She Were Dead: https://www.bookreporter.com/authors/jp-smith/news/talk-011520.
As with The Drowning, I’ll be taking questions and engaging with readers live and online at Jungle Red Writers (http://www.jungleredwriters.com) for If She Were Dead, to be published on January 7th.
I will be in the Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Press hospitality suite at the Hyatt Regency Dallas signing books and ARCs from noon-4PM. I very much look forward to meeting anyone attending!
On May 20th, Sommertod, the German translation of The Drowning, will be published in Germany by Goldmann Verlag, Random House Germany: https://www.amazon.de/Sommertod-Spannungsroman-J-P-Smith/dp/3442489253/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.
I will have a pre-publication blog up at the great mystery-writers’ site, Jungle Red Writers (http://jungleredwriters.com) on Saturday, January 5th, and will be answering any and all questions throughout the day. Hope to see you there!
The Drowning
J.P. Smith. Sourcebooks Landmark, $15.99 trade paper (332p) ISBN 978-1-4926-6900-5
An overbearing alpha male gets his comeuppance in this smart, creepy thriller from Smith (Airtight). One summer day, when Alex Mason was an arrogant swimming counselor at Camp Waukeelo in the Berkshires, he left timid eight-year-old Joey Proctor behind on a raft in the middle of a lake. Joey inexplicably vanished, but Alex lied well enough to avoid blame. Twenty-one years later, he’s a famous New York real estate developer with a lovely family and a glamorous lifestyle. Then increasingly serious intrusions from his guilty past suggest that someone—or something—remembers Joey’s panic and wants Alex to share it. As it turns out, the immature, violent side of Alex’s nature doesn’t need much prodding to reveal itself. Smith nicely balances the borderline-supernatural events with Alex’s mundane struggles as his blustering defenses crumble. Sharp, clear prose is a plus. This is a remarkably adept performance. Agent: Claire Roberts, Trident Media Group. (Jan.)
My publisher has chosen If She Were Dead as the novel to follow The Drowning. More about it in 2019.
Happy to announce that the German publisher Goldmann will be bringing out The Drowning in translation. Goldmann is a Random House company based in Munich. https://www.randomhouse.de/Taschenbuch/Sommertod/J-P-Smith/Goldmann-TB/e551084.rhd