Mike Nemeth

Friends and family ask what I want for Christmas and I invariably tell them: books. Which books? Anything new by Joseph Kanon, Martin Cruz Smith, Robert Harris, Olen Steinhauer, Nelson DeMille or Michael Lewis, I tell them.  At the moment, Mr. Smith has a new title on bookshelves called The Girl from Venice. I expect to find…

Many newly published novels, perhaps even most of them, have easily recognizable heroes and villains. The heroes are all-powerful, all-avenging, pure-of-heart, upstanding citizens. The villains are easily recognizable as well–pure evil packaged in human form. No complex explanations are needed to justify the actions of either the heroes or the villains. The villains do evil because…

There are three questions I usually get asked in interviews that I particularly like and wanted to answer here in case readers don’t see the other interviews. These are the three most fundamental questions that can be asked about Defiled and provide readers with interesting (I hope) insight into the writing of the novel. Why did you write…

Writer’s Digest has just announced its 24th “Dear Lucky Agent” contest on its GLA (Guide to Literary Agents) blog. This is a free contest for writers of literary and upmarket fiction http://tinyurl.com/hmelhd3 judged by agent @AnnieAHwang, via @chucksambuchino.

Over the Labor Day weekend, Defiled was unveiled for the public at the Atlanta Journal Constitution Decatur Book Festival and I learned all over again the basics of selling a product new to the market.  Over and over again I was asked, “What’s it about?” or “What kind of book is it?”  There are any number of…

Welcome to the new Mike Nemeth Website and to the Nemowrites blog. Take a spin around the various pages of the site and spend a moment, please, reading about Defiled, the first installment of the Redeemed Trilogy. The second installment, which I call Absolved, is nearly complete so have a look at Defiled now to stay ahead…