SiriusXM: Author Cafe (55:30min)

Author Cafe (SiriusXM Book Channel) audio interview (55:30 min)“Interview with Katherine Neville, David Baldacci, and Daniel Stashower” SiriusXM Book Channel: Author Cafe Katherine Neville, David Baldacci, and Daniel Stashower David Baldacci, Daniel Stashower and Katherine were invited by the producers of SiriusXM’s Book Channel, Kim Alexander and Maggie Linton, to be their guest on the first […]

diyMFA: Writing the Epic Quest Novel (1hr 4:13min)

diyMFA audio interview with Katherine Neville (1 hr 4:13 min)“Writing the Epic Quest Novel”May 3, 2017 diyMFA Episode 145: Writing the Epic Quest Novel  Interview with Katherine Neville     Listen to the interview: MAY 03, 2017 by Gabriela Pereira    Hey there word nerds!   Today I’m pleased to have Katherine Neville on the show.Katherine’s […]

BookTrib: Novels (37:20min)

BookTrib video interview with Katherine Neville (37:20 min)“Katherine Neville and Her Re-Released Acclaimed Novels”October 1, 2015 Katherine Neville and Her Re-Released Acclaimed Novels In this interview best-selling author Katherine Neville discusses three of her novels (The Eight, The Magic Circle and A Calculated Risk) that are being re-released by Open Road Media as e-books. Synopses of […]

PBS-WLIW Author Imprint (23:09min)

Author Imprint (PBS-WLIW) video interview (23:09 min)“Panel: Steve Berry, Katherine Neville, and Jeffery Deaver”May 31, 2018 PBS-WLIW Author Imprint Steve Berry, Katherine Neville, and Jeffery Deaver My friends and colleagues, Steve Berry, Jeffery Deaver and I had fun being interviewed by Maddie Orton, as among the first authors in the inaugural year of New York’s PBS show […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Sagittarius Newsletter December 2, 2019

Photo: Philippe Matsas / Opale (Fr) KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Sagittarius Newsletter December 2, 2019 The Centaur of Volos Project In the early 1990s, due to my historic research into world mythology, (or perhaps due to my swashbuckling adventure novels) I was invited by professors Beauvais Lyons and Neil Greenberg to participate in the “Centaur of Volos” […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Toussaint Newsletter November 1, 2019

Katherine at a Hallowe’en book signing KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Toussaint Newsletter November 1, 2019 Toussaint-Samhain My favorite holiday is the three-day period called Samhain in the Celtic calendar: October 31, November 1-2 — combining Hallowe’en (All Hallows Eve), All Saints and All Souls Days. This is the ‘three days out of time.’ For fifteen years I lived […]

The Pardon at St Anne la Palud

I was invited to attend the Pardon at St. Anne la Palud in France where St. Anne, the Virgin Mary’s mother, is patron saint of Brittany. Gauguin joined many famous Breton artists in painting this beautiful tribute. At St. Anne la Palud this year a visiting bishop of Notre Dame in Paris joins the thousands […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Assumption Day Newsletter August 15, 2019

Katherine in Brittany KATHERINE NEVILLE’SAssumption Day NewsletterAugust 15, 2019 Here I am in Brittany, where they celebrate today’s date with great festivities, as the ‘Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven.’ Mary: The Lady In Blue The ‘Lady in Blue’ was the topic of a wonderful book that I blurbed (wrote an effusive quote for) some years […]

The Black Virgin of Pribram

She was the attraction of the third largest pilgrimage site in Europe after Rome and Compostela’s “Way of Santiago.” The Black Virgin of Pribram (Příbram) still reigns over a beautiful cathedral just outside of Prague.

Magic Circle Interview

Interview with Katherine Neville about The Magic Circle What is The Magic Circle about? The Magic Circle is the story of transformation. It is the story of an aeon–a 2,000-year cycle–that began at the rise of the Roman Empire and the birth of Christianity and that is approaching its completion right now. The ancients of […]

Celebrity Cafe interviews Katherine Neville

Interview with Celebrity Cafe (StarsandCelebs.com) Katherine Neville’s novels have sold millions of copies around the world. She weaves a line between historical descriptions and fantasy which have fans clamoring for her books and writings. In our interview Katherine gives a little behind the scenes view of her writing style and method. DM) A lot of […]

The Eight: Sir Issac Newton’s Alchemy Notes

I have just led a private tour for ten of the Dibner Library of Science and Technology, one of the most fascinating of the twenty-one Smithsonian Libraries. Here’s one of my favorite documents – Sir Issac Newton’s alchemy notes, written in his kitchen garden in Cambridge. The librarians brought this document out when we were […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japonisme Newsletter June 21, 2019

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japonisme Newsletter June 21, 2019 Exposition Universelle Paris, 1867 Japan under the Shoguns was isolated from the world for over 250 years, from the early 1600s — and then emerged into the world at just the right moment. The Universal Expo of Art and Industry (Paris World’s Fair) opened on the Champ de […]

Rebuilding the Studio

Putting together the post and beam reconstruction of kiln house studio. Peter Bugler of Acorn Design in Pennsylvania brought me these beautiful cedar posts nearly 20 feet tall and 19 caliper inches across.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser designed a magical house, now a museum, where I used to have lunch when I lived in Vienna writing The Magic Circle. (The photos at end are the cardboard admission tickets to the museum.)

Japonisme Influences

Exposition Universelle Paris, 1867 Japan under the Shoguns was isolated from the world for over 250 years, from the early 1600s — and then emerged into the world at just the right moment. The Universal Expo of Art and Industry (Paris World’s Fair) opened on the Champ de Mars, April 1, 1867 — a date […]

The Lewis Chessmen

Katherine with Phil Pfeffer (Random House) and Kathryn Falk, Lady Barrow My friend, Kathryn Falk, Lady Barrow, (Director of Romantic Times Magazine), convinced a group of us authors to contribute our names to the floor tiles when they were remodeling the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Hence I came in contact with one of […]

Dismantling the Studio

The kiln house was fully dismantled and a new structure inspired by the old one will be built in it’s place.

Calculated Risk Interview with Tacoma News Tribune

Interview with Tacoma News Tribune Tacoma, Washington There are two likely responses most of us would have to the question, “How safe is your money?”1. “What money?2. “Well, now that you mention it, I don’t know.” In a way, author Katherine Neville is interested in both responses. According to her latest novel, “A Calculated Risk”, […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Merry May Day Newsletter May 1, 2019

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Merry May Day Newsletter May 1, 2019 From Maia to Mary Today is the date that lies between spring equinox and summer solstice, one of the eight Celtic Fire Festivals since early times. In Greek myth, little Hermes was born to Zeus and the nymph Maia (she was one of the Pleiades or ‘Seven Sisters’) at her cavelike home in the mountainous Greek region […]

Calculated Risk Interview with Seattle Times

Interview with Seattle Times Seattle, Washington It’s not that you are exactly overburdened with trust for your local savings and loan, after all the bad-loan-and-bailout scandals.But Katherine Neville is likely to make you cast a jaundiced eye over the entire banking community. Her new book, “A Calculated Risk” is a caper novel with a feminist […]

The Independent

The Independent book review of The FireNovember 20, 2008 The Fire, By Katherine Neville Just like The Da Vinci Code – but much better Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has become instant shorthand for those who consider it the last word in dumbed-down, crassly written fiction. But there is no denying the appeal of […]

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Cherry Blossom Equinox Newsletter March 21, 2019

Katherine in Kyoto KATHERINE NEVILLE’SCherry Blossom Equinox NewsletterMarch 21, 2019 Cherry Blossom Time! In 1912, the Japanese government gave 3000 cherry trees to our nation’s capital, which were planted around the Tidal Basin on the National Mall in Washington DC. These now-legendary cherry blossoms of Washington are visited each Spring by more than one million […]

Esalen Retreat

A typical visit at the conference center at Esalen. Karl Pribram was a good friend of Michael Murphy (author of the New Age classic: Golf and the Kingdom), who’d created the Esalen Institute on his family’s property in Big Sur, California–perched on the edge of a cliff with hot mineral baths and wild surf below. This […]

Horus the Hawk

The Burial of Horus the Hawk In April of 2020, my assistant Ludovico Orsini and I buried Horus with with rose, sage, Palo Santo wood from Ecuador, and Tibetan prayer flags in a “traditional Tibetan hawk burial.” 😉 (I am joking, of course.) The Death of Horus the Hawk Harry the Hawk grew up on my deck … […]

Dismantling the Kiln

It took a year and a half and a team of potters to completely dismantle Teruo Hara’s kilns at the Japanese House. The potters took apart the kilns, brick by brick, and plan to rebuild them in southern Virginia. Mr. Hara had built a large gas kiln and a small wood fired kiln. And now we’ll begin to rebuild the kiln house as a studio, part […]

Esmé: The Other Friendly Ghost

Esmé: The Other Friendly Ghost Katherine Neville’s 150-year-old Gothic house, built on the Civil War’s “Hallowed Grounds,” is also home to Esmé, a prank loving, treasure hunting ghost. Featured on: The Line-Up · 20 Jul 2015 (Open Road Publishing) Photo: Nicholas DeSciose Esmé, our ghost, was first sighted on Hallowe’en Day of 2000, shortly after […]

October 2018 is the 10th Anniversary of the THE FIRE

The Fire (2008) — my long awaited sequel to The Eight — is launched thirty years after the events of The Eight, when the bejeweled Black Queen from the Montglane Chess Service shockingly resurfaces in Russia. The children of the previous characters know nothing of the quest of their parents, but are drawn into it nonetheless — and […]

THE FIRE Book Launch in DC

Katherine with party co-host chess grandmaster Susan Polgar, president of SPICE and Women’s World Chess Champion Below are a few selected photos from the Official Book Launch Party for The Fire. The soirée was held in a unique location in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Among my co-hosts was Grandmaster Susan Polgar. Susan was the first female player […]

The Eight: Möbius Strips

“As far as anyone knows, the universe may be a Möbius strip, without beginning or end.” -Katherine Neville  When I was editing The Eight my editor-in-chief, Robert Wyatt, phoned to tell me that the publishers were planning to put a Möbius strip on the book jacket. I said, “Oh, that’s great, because the book describes […]

National Book Festival

Katherine Neville speaking at the National Book Festival: Group photo at the breakfast before The National Book Festival Above is the group photo of all of us at the breakfast, just before the festival, that was hosted by The Washington Post. Among the friends and fellow Mystery-Thriller writers I got to chat with were Jodi […]

Japanese House Restoration Underway

The Japanese House (with Karl and workers) in early stages of rescue. There were no interior stairs; the upper floor had to be accessed by ladder! After the first wave of restoration of The Japanese House.

KATHERINE NEVILLE’S Japanese Journey Newsletter June 29, 2018

Katherine in Tokyo KATHERINE NEVILLE’SJapanese Journey NewsletterJune 29, 2018 Yin-Yang When I first rescued the Japanese house, created in 1965 by the legendary Japanese potter, Teruo Hara, the place had been in disrepair, vandalized, and finally shut down and boarded up for a great many years. Once I’d purchased this wreck, I wandered around within […]

Original ‘Hara’ House in 1970s

These are photos from the 1970s when the Hara family lived there, with photos of the kilns and a pottery exhibition in the garden. Click to enlarge.

Summer Swiss Chard Soup

This light and delicious soup is perfect for a breezy, early summer day. You will find the most tender, flavorful Swiss chard at your farmer’s market in late spring or early summer. Summer Swiss Chard Soup Serves 4-6 Ingredients 3 Tbsp best quality olive oil 1 Tbsp chopped garlic 1 thinly sliced Vidalia onion 1 […]

Katherine Neville Shares a Secret, so Don’t Tell

KATHERINE NEVILLE Shares a Secret, so Don’t Tell Interview by Suspense Magazine Sometimes we get an email that surprises us. Well, when we received an email from the publicist of Katherine Neville asking us if we would be interested in interviewing Katherine about her upcoming project, we couldn’t say yes fast enough. Katherine burst onto […]

First Novelists

First Novelists 142 New Novels for Fall & Winter Library Journal October 1, 1988 … For years, LJ has posed a question to authors and published a selection of their responses. This time, we asked them for their insights into trends in contemporary fiction and where they saw their own work in relation to those trends. […]

Thomas Jefferson’s 275th Birthday

Tomorrow, April 13th, 2018, marks the 275th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth. I have had a long relationship with TJ (as some of us call him here in Virginia) ever since I moved here thirty years ago. I was delighted when I learned that he had designed another house, after his famous home (a UNESCO […]