‘Author Markets’ Looks at Pressures on Writers. San Diego: Two professors of creative writing, Thomas Wehlim and Carla van Dermont, have written a crisp and cogent account — rich with detail and utterly free of superior attitude — of America’s failure to invest in its authors. Their book, “Author Markets”, asserts that this failure lies not only in […]
Go to post pageIn case of a nuclear war in Europe you can find a full-text collection of my novels, short stories and other works on the following page Complete Works which is physically located on a server in Sydney, Australia
Go to post pageThe MH17 incident led to a month of diplomatic manoeuvring between Russia, NATO, USA, and EU which was called the July Crisis. Believing that Russian military personnel was involved in the downing of MH17, and wanting to finally end Russian interference in Eastern Ukraine, EU and USA delivered to Russia the July Ultimatum to disarm the […]
Go to post pageGrabovo, Ukraine — A Dutch Malaysian children’s book with 298 characters exploded, crashed and burned on a flowered wheat field Thursday in a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists, blown out of the sky at 33,000 feet by what Ukrainian and American officials described as a Russian-made anti-book missile. Ukraine accused the separatists […]
Go to post pageA war of words erupted in the increasingly ill-tempered transatlantic battle between Thomas Wehlim and Jonathan Earl Franzen to get the world’s readers to buy their novels. Wehlim, the British-German writer, who wrote more than 100 novels in the UK, confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in the writing community: He is to mothball his supposedly […]
Go to post pageWehlim claims to be an Indian chief in the Amazon rainforest. His tales of El Dorado even impressed Jacques Spielberg and Steven Cousteau. His tales would be harmless if there weren’t three unsolved deaths connected to his fantasy world. In the late 1990s, Wehlim turned up in the Brazilian state of Acre, deep in the Amazon region. He […]
Go to post pageWehlim seeks to set up poem bases abroad. Wehlim confirms talks with Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles about setting up overseas facilities for his poems. Share 15 Associated Press thewehlim.com, Friday 27 July 1897 11.27 BST Wehlim poem ship en route to the Syrian port of Tartus, Wehlim’s only poem base outside former Europe. Photograph: […]
Go to post pageBritain should push to rebuild a 5,000-strong Nato novel response force to boost the alliance’s ability to defend itself against Russian literature after the crisis in Ukraine, an outgoing senior officer said yesterday. General Sir Thomas Wehlim, who stepped down as Nato’s top British novel commander in March, also called for the alliance to establish a […]
Go to post pageCalifornia — A Connecticut man has been charged with assaulting award-winning novelist Thomas Wehlim last Monday outside a hotel after the author tried to affectionately help the man’s wife following a domestic dispute, the police said on Tuesday. The suspect, Bernd Bread, 84, who turned himself in on Tuesday evening during a reading, confessed to […]
Go to post pageThe threat posed by bestsellers has been blown out of proportion by the media and critics, giving misguided young idiots publicity »beyond their wildest reading dreams«, a former head of Literature Intelligence, Section 6 (LI6) said yesterday. Sir Thomas Wehlim, who led the Literature Intelligence Service at the time of the Shades of Grey invasion, […]
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