I just posted an audio recording of me reading the first chapter of Zero Day. You can listen to it online or download it from the book's excerpt page.
Here's my interview with the syndicated radio show Dresser After Dark, where I discuss cyber security and the threat of cyber terrorism:
Interview with Dresser After Dark
Unfortunately, because the publisher (St. Martin's Press) and Amazon.com haven't been able to agree on terms for foreign digital distribution, Zero Day is available on Kindle only in the US. They've been at an impasse for a couple of years, so I doubt that they'll work things out any time soon. I apologize on their behalf if you live outside the US, but hope you'll fall back on the hardcover instead of skipping Zero Day altogether.
Check out my interview with AuthorsCast.com:
Mark talks about this first foray into fiction writing, his motivations for writing a novel, and the five year effort to see the book through from concept to publication. He discusses how he uses his extensive background knowledge to imbue his story with a true sense of authenticity, in the tradition of literary influences like Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton. He goes on to discuss his own real-life work in the field, including how IT professionals are fighting back against malware, and other efforts now underway to make the Internet more secure.
Finally, he explains why he put sex scenes in the book, reveals how he got Bill Gates to provide a blurb, and speculates on who might play the lead characters in Zero Day: The Movie.
http://authorscast.com/Episodes/Mark-Russinovich-on-Zero-Day-A-Novel
I share my views on the similarities and differences between writing fiction and non-fiction:
http://booktrib.com/2011/03/fiction-vs-non-fiction-how-different-are-they/
I'm excited to announce the winners of the Twitter and Facebook Zero Day book giveaways. If you see your name in the list, email your address to and I'll send you your signed copy. If you didn't win, keep following my Twitter tweets and Facebook posts for announcements of future giveaways.
The Twitter contest required entrants to email me a link to their retweet of my tweet announcing Zero Day's availability on its publication day, March 15. There were 20 winners of a signed copy of Zero Day and one winner of one of my two Advance Reading Copies of Zero Day, which the publisher sent me a few months before publication. Congratulations and I hope you enjoy the book!
Chris Rhodes
David Sebban
Eric Thomas
Hikmat Kanaan
Ivan Jaimes Martínez
Jeroen Verhulst
Juergen Nieveler
Karsten Strøbæk
Kirby Huntsinger
Mark Griffiths
Markus Arvidsson
Malcolm McCaffery
Nikolay Matyukhin
Orin Thomas
Robin Ferris
Scott Ladewig
Sander Spierenburg
Sandip N Vashi
Алпеев Максим
Артем Ушаков
And the winner of the signed Advance Reading Copy (ARC) is:
Matthew White
The Facebook contest required entrants to like Zero Day's Facebook page by March 15. There were 10 winners from the approximately 700 that liked Zero Day by the deadline. Congratulations!
Abey John
Alex Fairly
Ed Chapman
Jean Hudson
Jim Griffin
Larry E Jones
Mark Hett
Mike Howells
Nicolas Clerc
Steve Bucci
I answer questions ranging from how he got started writing fiction to what writing books he found helpful in this written interview posted on the D.A. Confidential blog:
http://daconfidential.blogspot.com/2011/03/author-interview-mark-russinovich_17.html
Check out my interview about cyber-security on the syndicated radio show, 'X' Zone, hosted by Rob McConnell:
I’m excited to announce that Zero Day is now available at all major book retailers! You can read all the reviews I’ve collected so far on the Praise for Zero Day page at the Zero Day Web site.
If you’re curious about the novel publishing process, you can read my three-part blog post describing my experience with Zero Day, from the initial idea, to finding an agent, signing a publisher, and final publication: The Road to Zero Day
Buy the book, leave a review on Amazon.com, follow me on Twitter, meet me at a book signing, and send a note sharing your thoughts to .
I hope you enjoy the book look forward to hearing from you!
I'm proud and flattered to announce that Booklist, the review journal of the American Library Association, has just published a fantastic review of Zero Day:
The horror of cyberterrorism explodes on the page in Russinovich’s first novel. A plane over the Atlantic suddenly needs to reboot its computer to stay in the air, and the pilots barely avert disaster. A hospital network mixes up patient information, resulting in the death of several people. A law firm, which has lost all of its clients' data and can’t get its system running again, turns to Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst and computer expert. He discovers that all of the crashes are insidiously connected, and an even greater disaster is coming. Computer technospeak is handled with ease by Russinovich, who makes the jargon understandable for nongeeks but does so without losing authenticity. His background at Microsoft ensures that he knows what he’s writing about, but, equally important, he constructs a gripping narrative. A terrifying tale made all the more frightening by our concern that it could offers a glimpse into the future, Russinovich’s thriller just could become one of those books that prompts a real-world response, in this case a wake-up call for greater cybersecurity methods. –Jeff Ayers
Mark Russinovich works at Microsoft in the Microsoft Azure product team as Chief Technology Officer. Read more...
