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A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE by Jordan Harper
book trailer
directed by Ijaaz Noohu
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13th Floor Elevators pre reverb pre echo Bob Sullivan mixes
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'These are the Elevators unadulterated, before International Artists cranked up the echo and reverb. Known as the Bob Sullivan desk mixes, for the recording engineer, you'll notice things you never did before....
Text reads "Submit Your Chicago Poems" above the stylized Chicago flag featuring red stars and blue stripes. A silhouette of Pegasus is at the bottom.
A special issue of POETRY magazine will honor one of our great literary cities: Chicago!
We're calling on poets and writers who have lived in Chicago for around seven years at some point in their lives to submit their poems by May 15: https://bit.ly/42cfEO9
Excited to announce I’ve got a new novel on the way in early 2027! Set over a single day around Thanksgiving 1991, HEAVY SUGAR is a screwball noir that pinballs from Throggs Neck to Gravesend. Thrilled I’m back with Nick Whitney at @sohopress.bsky.social.
All in.
A magazine spread for the new issue of The Southwest Review with the title page of my story “How to Kill” and an illustration from Sam Hadley of a man’s had holding a microphone and a crowd of laughing men and a woman behind the bar.
So glad to have my story How to Kill in the new issue of The Southwest Review. With a killer illustration by Sam Hadley to boot.
New @angelluiscolon.com book incoming!!!!
It's Day 8 of Women In Horror Year, and today I'm talking about a book every single reader or writer of Horror should read at least once in their lives. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...
A greyscale background image of a bullseye reads “POP! Pre-order Gift” at the top in white text. An image of POP! by Angel Luis Colón in paperback format sits next to a photo of a POP! title refrigerator magnet. Text on a red splat above the magnet reads, “First 200 Orders” and text under it reads, “Order directly from Ruadán Books before August 18, 2026, & receive this exclusive title magnet.” The Ruadán Books logo appears in the lower left corner.
Pre-order @angelluiscolon.com's POP! and get a title magnet for your fridge!*
👑 links.ruadanbooks.com/POP
This organized crime thriller for every assistant who’s wished they could take out their incompetent boss is out 08.18.26.
*Or other magnetic surface, we're not your boss.
#BookSky #TBR
I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...
Screenshot from Audible listing four book by Allan Guthrie
It looks like some of Allan Guthrie's books are being reissued in audio over the next couple of months. I hope the right readers find them.
Who is Allan Guthrie? I've got you covered
"I come to praise Allan Guthrie, not bury him"
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Peep the TOC for our spring issue 💥
Subscribe now & get hyped to see some of these legends IRL this weekend at Frontera 🪩
I have no doubt you would dig everything he’s published so far.
He was willing to testify against the cartel — but ICE got to him first.
A look at how the Trump administration's immigration enforcement blitz led federal prosecutors to lose a trial against two alleged drug traffickers.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Speaking of book promotion, Megan’s first novel comes out later this year and it’s like if RUNNING ON EMPTY was cannibals
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803620...
THE MYSTIC ARTS OF ERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH by Charlie Huston about a guy who gets a job for a crime scene clean-up crew. Fucking hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/84681/...
SATURDAY'S CHILD by Ray Banks - Scottish noir. Brutal, harsh, beautifully written. PI fiction where actions have devastating consequences. www.amazon.com/Saturdays-Ch...
KISS ME, JUDAS by Will Christopher Baer. A perfect example of an unreliable narrator. Not even the protagonist knows if he's lying because he spends most of his time dissociating and can't tell what's real and what isn't. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330981...
DIRT by Sean Doolittle. A crime novel about the funeral industry that goes in very strange and very funny directions. www.amazon.com/Dirt-Sean-Do...
"When I was a senior in high school, my biology teacher murdered his entire family and got away with it. I’m going to lie to you about it now, but first I need you to understand this much: he did it. He killed them all, and in the end they let him go."
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I don't know why everybody is talking about book promotion but I have a novel out this month. So buy it.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...
On the afternoon of Saturday, April 11th, I’ll be talking to writer/director Allan Moyle and producer Sandy Stern after we screen PUMP UP THE VOLUME at the historic Texas Theatre as part of Southwest Review’s Frontera Festival. Hope to see you in Dallas!
Most definitely.
New Louise Kennedy! Easily my most anticipated book of 2026. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735417...
Crime novel of the year, decade, century. Get it.
Honored to review my dear friend @jordanharper.bsky.social’s upcoming novel “A Violent Masterpiece” for Poisoned Pen. Pre-order it today, & watch my buddy Patrick & me interview Jordan live online on April 29 at 5pm PST. More details at poisonedpen.com.
I hope you feel better soon. I’ve also got CPTSD, and wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
I’m launching my new book - Daredevil: Enemy of My Enemy - on Tuesday, 3/24 with my beloved local indie, @kewandwillow.bsky.social! I'll be in convo with @charlessoule.bsky.social! If you buy a ticket you get a signed book. 🙂
Please share and RSVP at the link:
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Two years ago I had my agents ask authors seeking blurbs if they had used LLMs in the writing or research for their novels. If yes, then I won’t read their books. I know I could be lied to. If I am lied to, I will LOUDLY retract my endorsement. I hope more writers might adopt a similar policy.