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Hello All

By now you know that The Bourne Sanction will be out in July, 2008. What you most definitely don't know is that it introduces a new antagonist, Leonid Arkadin, whose astonishing origin is not revealed until the very last page (no cheating!). Bigger than that is the news that Arkadin will appear in the next two Bourne books after Sanction, the one I'm working on now, The Bourne Deception, out the summer of 2009 and The Bourne Objective, which is scheduled for summer, 2010, when (cross your fingers, everyone) the fourth Bourne film will be out. I promise that these three novels will give you the thrill-ride of your life.

I was away for two weeks at the end of May, during which time the paperback edition of The Bourne Betrayal was published. It debuted at # 2 on the NY Times bestseller list (a personal best for me), with over 750,000 copies in print. Way to go, all you fans!

Besides writing, I have a very busy summer lined up. I'll be at CraftFest, teaching a class on how to build story arcs and character arcs, and at ThrillerFest as one of three Spotlight Authors. My friend and compadre, David Morrell will be handling the questions thrown at me, but I'm sure he'll leave time at the end for your own questions. Please see my tour schedule below, and elsewhere on the Site.

Everything is coming together for a perfect storm of publicity, marketing, reviews and sales for First Daughter. Tor/Forge has decided to hire a fantastic L.A. firm to create a thirty-second CGI trailer for the book. I worked on the storyboard itself, so I know it'll be great. When it's done you be able to find a link to it here, as well as see it this summer in movie theaters nationwide.

I'll be in the L.A. area during the weekend of August 20-25 for personal appearances and signings. Again, see my schedule below and elsewhere on the site.

This month, got some wonderful e-mails from fans in far-flung countries, including Holland and Nigeria, of all places.

Finally, for all you Nicholas Linnear fans, The only update I have on The Ninja film project at 20th Century Fox is that the Zanuck Company has come on board and that the producing team of Richard Zanuck and David Brown originally bought the project way back when in 1980. Personally, I think that's a very good sign. Fingers and flippers crossed, everyone, 'Nuff said!

Have a great summer,
EVL