A recent Parade Magazine article featured Kevin Powers, the author of a searing new Iraq War novel titled THE YELLOW BIRDS. In a sidebar to the article, there’s a list of other books by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. My thanks to Parade for including my novel THE MULLAH’S STORM. Click here for the article.

Many thanks to National Public Radio for their kind words about THE RENEGADES. Here’s a link to hear the review.

If you’re anywhere near Gaithersburg, Maryland, please join me for the Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 19. The organizers very kindly invited me to share some thoughts in an interview: http://gaithersburgbookfestival.org/qa-with-2012-featured-author-thomas-young

Parson and Gold meet again in a new novel, coming this summer. Look for The Renegades on July 19!

Many thanks to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. They’ve listed SILENT ENEMY among their favorite books of 2011 in the Crime Thriller category. Here’s the link: http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/post-dispatch-rounds-up-favorite-books-of/article_7cf29dcd-898b-5896-99da-326c27c26b72.html

As we observe this Veterans Day, the war on terror will have lasted more than ten years. For all that time, I have kept an outdated aeronautical chart in my flight suit. It’s a type of chart pilots use to orient themselves while flying in clear weather. My old chart provided guidance over New York…

I’ll make a confession here: It took me a long, long time to learn how to create a decent plot for a novel. I shared some thoughts on the subject in a guest column for a Writer’s Digest blog. Here’s a link: http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/the-advice-i-needed-most-as-a-new-writer-but-never-got

The Military Writers’ Society of America has awarded a gold medal in the thriller category to THE MULLAH’S STORM. My thanks to MWSA for that honor and for all the great work they do. Here’s a link to a list of all the MWSA award winners: http://www.militarywriters.com/Awards/MWSA%202011%20BOOK%20AWARD%20WINNERS.pdf

Many thanks to the Military Writers Society of America for nominating THE MULLAH’S STORM for a fiction award.  The MWSA website has a slide show listing of all the nominees.  For more information, here’s a link: http://www.militarywriters.com/

It has been a pleasure to meet with readers and friends in Virginia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, Washington, Minnesota, Michigan, and North Carolina.  Here’s an image from Durham, NC, at The Regulator Bookshop.  Many thanks to all the book stores who have hosted me this year–and thanks to the folks who have come out to…