Black Excellence 😎
So many great writers in one picture.
Kennedy Ryan ( with her husband Sam)
Danielle Allen
Riss Neilsen
Producer Domique Relson
Amy Dubois Barnett
Austin Channing Brown
Oh and me lol having an amazing dinner at The Biltmore Hotel
Maybe my favorite memory of the weekend 💙
Me and the Great actor Dominic Hoffman ( A Different World ) at the LA Times Book Festival
"We waste no part of the animal"
You might be gangster...
But you ain't as gangster as @stephengrahamjones.com and me in my Peaky Blinders hat lol 😆
Shout out to @todgoldberg.bsky.social for sneaking this pic.
#LATIMESBOOKFEST
LA Times Book Awards ...lost to the great Megan Abbott had a blast tho !
This fantastic photographer caught me in a quiet moment at a dance club and bar in Lyon France on the final night of Quais Du Polar.
I think I was just ruminating on all the places words have taken me and how I get to take the ancestors with me...
Also I might be drunk lol 😆
I had a hand in creating this longlist and can tell you we had a lengthy and passionate discussion about every book on here. It's been a privilege to be part of the process.
#BookSky 📚💙
Thank you for considering me.
Next year
He pulled the 1911 Colt from his waist bamd and shot the jukebox
Everyone froze as the music came to a garbled stop .
" Now you can have a story to tell your grandkids or you can meet your great-grandpappy. All depends on what you do next with my friend there"
HIGHWAY FULL OF NIGHT
WIP
Jack Harlow wearing a hat that looks like it was made by a visually challenged goblin he forced to watch late 90's BET after dark is oddly satisfying when viewed as a companion piece to his terrible new album lmao
The KING OF ASHES paperback is the Barnes and Noble Thriller pick for April.....
Watching Law and Order in France and why they got Ice T sounding like The Count high on heroin lmao
For the blues.
Its the journey that makes writing unique.
AI is autotune for ppl that cant write.
Its soulless ...and something without a soul cant make art
AI is a symptom of our society's rejection of expertise. Not everyone can be a nuclear physicist. Its not their talent, its not their gift.
Not everyone can be a writer but AI enthusiasts dont want to accept that. Ultimately they don't care about the art they just want the rhythm but no respect
Trying to get my ex pat Third Man vibe going lol
Greetings from Paris
Love you too my man
Five years today
I hope you know how much we miss you
I hope you're proud
Whenever I got down about my writing career she would tell me
"It WILL happen. You will get published. Its what you are put on earth to do. Birds gotta sing, bees gotta sting. You gotta write"
Im trying Mama
KING OF ASHES is out today in paperback!!!
Its also gonna be B&N thriller pick
Thank you to everyone who has shown my dark family crime drama some love
"Everything burns"...
I had no business reading this wnen I was 14 but it did introduce me to the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain . Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer and their archnemesis the Deaf Man ( who haunts this book on the edges) are some of the best characters in mystery fiction
And the twist in this is fire
LAMB OF GOD , @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Timbaland, Breese D'J PANCAKE , Allen Iverson and me are from Virginia
#2UP2DOWNVA ALL GODDAMN DAY
The Old Dominion is undefeated when it comes to talent
Women and children
Against the destruction of our environment.
Against the banal idiotic destruction of democracy
Makes you not want to read my books
That is a price im willing to pay
It shouldn't have to happen to me for mr to know it shouldn't happen to anyone
We are all revolutionaries
Im a writer who earns his living selling books
If me speaking out against this administration, against genocide worldwide, against the racist detaining of immigrants against the disenfranchisement of poor people against the r*people of creativity by AI companies against the dehumanization of
The hardest working man in crime fiction has a new book out today!!!!
Robert E. LEE was mythic in Virginia when I was a kid. Then you go to college and you find out he won so much in the early part of the war because the Union had incompetent generals. Once some folks like Chamberlin and Sherman got involved he was exposed .
Fuck Him
An actual war hero from Maine, Joshua Chamberlain, quit his job at a college and learned how to defeat Lee by reading a book about how to be a military officer. He read a book. Anyway. They should have hanged Lee outside the White House.
