7 February, 2008: Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is published in French translation by Editions du Rocher of Paris as Bukowski: une vie de fou.

30 January 2008: The Guardian reports that Howard Sounes' forthcoming book Heist: The Full Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery has been optioned by Oxford Films and Television as the basis of a 90-minute Channel 4 drama-documentary.

28 January 2008: At the conclusion of Trial I at the Old Bailey in the £53 m Securitas robbery case, Howard Sounes appears on a series of television and radio shows -- including BBC Radio 4, Richard & Judy and BBC News 24 - to talk about his forthcoming book on the case: Heist: The Full Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery, to be published by Simon & Schuster.

November 2007: Howard Sounes is given an Internet profile on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sounes

July 2007: Paperback publication of Seventies in the UK by Simon & Schuster.

July 2007: Charles Bukowski's novel Hollywood -- recounting the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the 1987 movie Barfly -- is published in the United Kingdom, in a new edition, by Canongate Books, with an introduction by Howard Sounes, who explains the background story to the novel.

January 2007: A new edition of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is to be published in the UK by Canongate, priced £8.99 (ISBN: 978 1 84195 897 2). It features a new preface and revised notes by Howard Sounes.