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New post, finally getting around to addressing what I think about AI. Link in first comment.
Looks like Bookshop is matching the sale too
bookshop.org/p/books/moth...
So, for once the cops will get yet another call for something that "I thought was maybe a mannequin..." and this time, it actually is.
Here's a brief reprieve from doomscrolling to shout out the Amazon Kindle deal on #MotherHowl.
I just dropped close to a grand at the mechanic, so... you know what to do. Link in first comment.
Dude... that's huge...
I don't recall when or where I tripped across "Death Will Have Your Eyes," but that impulse buy ultimately became one of my desert island reads.
We've lost a giant. Sleep good, good man.
James Sallis (12/21/44 - 1/27/26)
"... you only become a good nurse... like Alex P because you understand that the world doesn’t rotate around you... you understand the message and the meaning of the good samaritan story in the book of Luke."
will7christopher.substack.com/p/who-are-th...?
If you freely chose not to vote, then you voted for this.
Well deserved, lad.
Good lord that is beautiful.
It was a brief note (on Substack, I think), but that may have been the article it was referencing.
Thanks, so much... that probation officer was an amalgamation of every over-the-top authority figure from my youth. Kinda therapeutic to write, really. But yeah... now he's real, wearing a face gator and carrying zip ties.
3/3 *I didn’t have the presence of mind to book mark it… but if it sounds familiar let me know so I can post a link.
**Which can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with s1, and I will fight you on that.
2/3 As I re-watch #TrueDetective s4**, it occurred to me that crime fiction can be *very* good at this. Crime fiction shows the collusion between wealth and civic authority (and legacy media), gradually consolidating money and power, pushing greater numbers of people into the margins of existence...
1/3 Read an interesting post earlier* about how SFF that portrays a dystopia often falls short of showing how it came to be, i.e., what fascism looks like after it’s too late, not how it came to be...
I'll be in San Francisco for this year's Left Coast Crime, doing a panel on "Getting Inside a Criminal Mind."
Now, why would they choose me for that topic, I wonder...?
Friday, February 27, 4pm
leftcoastcrime.org/2026
I'll be in San Francisco for this year's Left Coast Crime, doing a panel on "Getting Inside a Criminal Mind."
Now, why would they choose me for that topic, I wonder...?
Friday, February 27, 4pm
leftcoastcrime.org/2026
a writeup from someone else in the twin cities. it is shocking TBH. horrible
DUDE. Never second-guess that move.
Perfectly said.
First round filled up, so we've added a second.
Monochrome photo of a battered typewriter in the desert with yellow text overlay: "The Storyteller's Workbench: Round III. Five Weeks; Eight Seats. Registration deadline: February 18th. Workshop opens: February 23rd. The third week is a gap week, based on feedback from the first two workshops... that'll allow folks to keep up while making it easier to juggle work/home/life. That's the hope, anyway. The link's in the next post. And I have much more room in the Alt Text than I do in the actual post text. Kinda cool.
Kicking off another workshop, starting in February. Seating's tight and a few slots have filled, so we'll open another if this one overflows.
Details in the link (first comment), though it may still say it's not public (it very much is) or not specify dates. But it's on.
Thanks, man... I hear that a lot... if there's ever a list for "most borrowed but least returned" books, the Handbook's on it.
