William Bryan Smith

This Year’s Christmas Snake Has Been Cancelled “Well, Shamokinites, it’s that time of the year again! I know we all look forward to that familiar yuletide experience of sweat, fear, and panic when an eastern massasauga is released into a largely…

Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…

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“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

#WinterSolstice

At Worthy Brothers Turkeys, Our Turkeys Are Never Slaughtered; That’s Our Promise To You What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead “encouraged” the turkeys to do it themselves?

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Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

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Hello, I’m the Witch in Your Hall Closet Finally, I'll have sated my 200-year-old appetite, fulfilled a centuries-old curse, and your family's financial situation will stabilize.

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Spies in Small Towns The NROC A highly valued intelligence asset of the CIA is “burned.” Translated from Intelligence-speak, a human who has betrayed their country, either due to ideological differences or financial ga…

“Defectors could be your next-door neighbor. The guy who cuts the meat at your local supermarket, or drives the truck that delivers your Amazon packages.”

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“Heaven was a beach and a pinecone.” Du côté de la côte (1958) dir. Agnès Varda

When revising your work, Patricia Highsmith urged writers to “be as ruthless as if you were throwing excess baggage, even fuel, out of an overloaded airplane.”

On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 The notepad doesn't have to be yellow (or even a notepad).

I slept in, #5amwritersclub But I also wrote a short blog for my #writer folks. Today is all about creativity and flow.

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On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52 We’re all awkward at times. Let’s embrace it.

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The days are getting longer… ☀️❄️⛄️🧤🧣

“My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.”
Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

#WinterSolstice

“Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields!” —Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum

The Baby Jesus in This Year’s Light-Up Community Nativity Scene Has Been Replaced By a Plastic Jack… While we await Jesus’s return, we ask that you please use your imagination when enjoying our display.

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Thanks for reading it, Rudy. I appreciate the feedback!

My novel, We Are Smoke, is still free for Kindle for the next 24 hours. Get your copy here: We Are Smoke a.co/d/4LJUTzK

Raymond Chandler’s L.A. comes alive at auction, but 'crown jewel' fails to sell Fans and collectors sought to connect with the hard-boiled detective writer’s vision of Los Angeles in a recent auction of his personal items, including never-before-published writings.

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Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, until 14 December 2024. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

We Are Smoke We Are Smoke - Kindle edition by Smith, William Bryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading We Are Smoke.

My novel, We Are Smoke, is FREE to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

This Year’s Christmas Snake Has Been Cancelled “Well, Shamokinites, it’s that time of the year again! I know we all look forward to that familiar yuletide experience of sweat, fear, and panic when an eastern massasauga is released into a largely…

Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year…

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Discover the history of the Suffren in Clermont-Ferrand A historic bar-brasserie in the heart of the town center, created in the late 60s, it has successfully adapted to the changing times!

For the arrival of the holiday season, I always like to watch “My Night at Maud’s” which is set primarily on 22 December in Clermont, Fr. I was delighted to learn Le Suffren Bar is still around…

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Writing about sex

How do you write about sex—seriously? Irreverently? Not at all?
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At Worthy Brothers Turkeys, Our Turkeys Are Never Slaughtered; That’s Our Promise To You What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead “encouraged” the turkeys to do it themselves?

“What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead ‘encouraged’ the turkeys to do it themselves?”

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To celebrate the first anniversary of Murder in the Lady Chapel the kindle edition is 99p for one week. Hannah Weybridge joins the church choir to investigate ... amzn.to/48yhz1P

The Backlist: Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson’s ‘Angels’ From the time I began this column, nearly two years ago, I’ve been looking forward to interviewing Megan Abbott. I first became aware of her work in 2016, when I read The Fever over the course of a…

“When you write crime fiction, you can really get caught up in plot and trying to make things work, and I always need to be remembered that I have to follow my characters and see where they take me when I start writing.” -Megan Abbott

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