Malcolm Kempt

I'm excited to announce that my debut novel was reviewed in the New York Times as one of January's best mystery novels. Big thanks to Sarah Weinman and everyone at @nytimes for this!

@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN I'm intrigued...sounds amazing! 💀

I’ve finished reading “The Execution House Murder Case” by Yutaka Nishishiki! This one really got me. So good. Totally fooled me! I’ve read enough “new orthodox” mysteries built around closed circles and mansion settings to last a lifetime, but this one operates on a remarkably high level. Right up until the very end, it keeps hitting you with one “Deaver-style” twist after another. What makes it even more fascinating is how it weaves meta in the raw realities of novelists and mystery writers, along with the behind-the-scenes truths of the publishing industry. At first, it seems like self-deprecating “execution” material, but by the end, it lays bare a deeper truth about the “loneliness” creators face. Fans of “new orthodox” mysteries will absolutely enjoy it, but I think even newcomers to the genre will come away loving it after reading this. Out this weekend. Highly recommended!

Today's episode of the podcast has a distinctly transatlantic feel as Catriona McPherson joins us from California and @MalcolmKempt dials in from Newfoundland! Listen here: bloodyscotland.podbean.com

It was an absolute pleasure to appear on the Bloody Scotland podcast! Give it a listen... @BloodyScotland

Our event with Denise Mina and Lee Child has SOLD OUT in record time. Thanks for all the fantastic support. We'll have more early release events coming next week, and you can still sign up to become a 'Prime Suspect' bloodyscotland.com/donate/

@thealepalombo YES! I absolutely love this town. Olive all'ascolana are soooo good. And the travertine in that square is so gorgeous.

1/ Ascoli Piceno (Marche) Population 47,000. Piazza del Popolo is one of the three most beautiful squares in Italy. The only one most foreigners have never heard of. Travertine paving so polished it mirrors the sky on a wet morning. Renaissance arcades on three sides. Caffè Meletti, an Art Nouveau bar untouched since 1907, on the fourth. Two rivers wrap the historic center. Over a hundred medieval towers once stood here; about fifty are still visible. More towers than San Gimignano, in a town six times the size that doesn't make a tourist industry of them. Train from Rome 3h30, from Ancona 1h30 by car. Best base: a small hotel inside the centro storico. You walk everywhere. Eat olive all'ascolana, the fried stuffed olives invented here. The version at Migliori, on Piazza Arringo, is the original. I've taken five different friends here. Not one of them had heard of Ascoli before. All five came back.

I'm from Central Italy. The Italians I know rarely spend their weekends in the hotspot cities. Not Florence. Not Rome. Not Siena. They drive an hour east, or south, to towns no foreign list ever mentions. Central Italy is the most concentrated cluster of beauty in the world. 9 underrated towns where the piazza is yours, the trattoria is real, and the Renaissance still feels personal. 🧵

@KMCarlsonAuthor malcolmkempt.com

I want to see your #Author websites! Drop it below and let us all have a look!

@malcolmkempt is an author from NL, who has worked as a criminal lawyer in the remote Arctic & now he writes full-time. This is his debut novel and centres around a disgrace police investigator & his path to redemption. I cannot wait to start digging into this book tonight.

@SDDonovan I will often buy the hardcover. Go big or go home.

So, serious question. When you buy an indie book, do you ever get the hardcover? Or paperback/ebook only?

@stephen_e_meyer @manwblueguitar What a cover! 😍

@manwblueguitar “Hav” by Jan Morris

meu "gênero" literário favorito tem sido "fábula onírica sobre terras remotas permeada de lirismo melancólico e um senso de estagnação ancestral ocasionalmente perturbado por vagos pressentimentos de algum cataclismo sinistro" preciso de um nome mais curto só. e recomendações!

@justinwcronk I just ordered your book. Excited to check it out. I saw you were in Nunavut. I spent a long time there and set my debut novel there: amazon.com/Gift-Before-Dy…

Something weird is happening. I know it's not a lot, but I published my first book 3-weeks ago. So selling ONE felt like a massive win. It made it all worth it. The pride is insane.

@justinwcronk Congratulations!

I've sold 72 copies of my book this month, Incredible!

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@DrMacOde @Inkwellmgmt @CrownPublishing @GidJudges Thanks, Michael!

@MalcolmKempt @Inkwellmgmt @CrownPublishing @GidJudges Great novel!

I'm back in the New York Times again! So humbled and grateful. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@CaffeinatedLiha My debut is a dark thriller. Stephen Graham Jones said, "Once you read the first scene, you have no choice but to fall through the rest as fast as possible." kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/m…

Craving a good thriller... something dark, twisty, and impossible to put down. Any recs?

A nice profile in the Post this morning! saltwire.com/cape-breton/cr… Thanks for the support!

@SandyofCthulhu Very cool. Added to my list. 🙏

In my opinion, Aterrados (Terrified) is the best horror film of the century so far. I think I have the chops for my opinion to have some gravitas.

Canada’s wilderness is so vast that places remain where no human has ever set foot. Northern Canada is one of the last remaining unexplored regions of the earth. Considerable portions of the countries wilderness remain unexplored and in some cases are not even accurately mapped. (These are quotes loosely paraphrased from a book I am reading by Canadian explorer Adam Shoalts.)

@tomgreenlive Totally agree. I worked all over Nunavut for almost two decades before publishing my debut novel set there, penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776862/a…. It's a wild and unforgiving place, but so beautiful.

@jayson_smiley Signed a two-book fiction deal with Penguin at 48, became a father at 45. Sadly, I didn't have my shit together at 23 to do either of those.

BREAKING IN AT 40+ I’m tempted to do a vid, as I got signed first time at 40. What is see is older writers making it harder for themselves, during hella contraction, for no reason. Vid would be a blood bath, controversial, offensive, but viewed as intended, more optimistic than STAGNATION. For example: You don’t have much time left to “make it.” Not like the 23 year olds breaking in as I type this. Real talk isn’t fun, but it’s real. 😘