When I was young, my mother worked for Scholastic Books. Our house was filled with wonderful children's books she brought home from work. I wanted to record some of my memories from that time.

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Chandler & West: Sample chapter Below is a sample chapter from Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles, to be released in the first quarter of 2026: The League of Women Voters held their annual charity event at Huntington’s gardens.

A sample chapter of my upcoming novel, "Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles"

I've long wanted to write a Hollywood novel. This is what I came up with, a Hollywood story told by two novelists on the fringes looking in.

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Amazon "coming soon" email for "Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles" that includes an AI-generated summary.

Huh—Amazon sent to my followers a notice of my upcoming book, which includes a summary I did not write. I can only assume this is AI generated.

Oh yeah—check out my new book! mybook.to/ChandlerAndW...

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Amazon "coming soon" email for "Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles" that includes an AI-generated summary.

Huh—Amazon sent to my followers a notice of my upcoming book, which includes a summary I did not write. I can only assume this is AI generated.

Oh yeah—check out my new book! mybook.to/ChandlerAndW...

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We blind-tasted bagels from five of SF’s best shops. Here’s what won. We put some of San Francisco’s best bagels — Boichik, Laundromat, Schlock’s, Wise Sons, and Bones — in a head-to-head contest. Here are the results.

Only in San Francisco: Local paper does blind taste tests of connoisseur bagels using a blindfold *delivered* from a local fetish shop.

Still flying the freak flag, folks.

Winner: Wise Sons bakery. I'm partial to Schlok's.

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‎A Man Named Baskerville: The Sherlock Holmes Classic Retold (Unabridged) ‎Mysteries & Thrillers · 2025

Recently learned that the audiobook of "A Man Named Baskerville" is available over at Apple Books. A preview is available—

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The Creative Process #36 - A Guide To Commissioning Art This is a guide to commissioning art, especially for IF Comp authors.

The Creative Process #36 - A Guide to Commissioning Art

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"Blade Runner" got it backwards. Instead of Voight-Kampff tests to prove artificiality, we're building Kampff-Voight tests to prove humanness.

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First wrote about this in December 2002, looks like it's happening after all. I might have to subscribe to AppleTV after all.

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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

You can now play "The Plot of the Phantom," the text adventure game that took me 40 years to finish | Scott Andrew Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.

Scott Andrew started a text adventure 40 years ago. Now it's finished for anyone to play.

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Hey, 497 reviews of my books on #Goodreads, think I can make it to 500 in short order?

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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style A scammer was caught red-handed after publishing an AI-generated book on Amazon. The novel, titled "Darkhollow Academy : Year 2," was penned by an author, who goes by Lena McDonald, and falls under a ...

Readers are finding AI prompts in fiction, mistakenly left behind by authors in their rush to publish.

One writer has pub'd over 170 books. Another puts out a novel a month.

This isn't writing. This is microwaving lasagna and calling it haute cuisine.

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Three-for-two sale on MX Publishing's latest books, including mine, "A Man Named Baskerville"—

"A fine addition to the ever growing Sherlockian universe" – Paul Bishop, Six-Gun Justice Podcast

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Three alternatives to the Iowa writing workshop format Liz Lerman The workshop is so pervasive in the writing world it's been converted to a verb: workshopping.  Although workshops occur in disparate settings (academic, informal, living-room writing group...

Some time back, I wrote about how to mix things up with writing workshops, and how to (hopefully) improve the experience.

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A Man Name Baskerville by MX Publishing - Reviewed by Raju Chacko Review: Revisiting Baskerville: A case for the dissatisfied, notorious Jack Stapleton?

Reedsy reviews - A Man Named Baskerville "Apart from crime and mystery lovers, this book is for all SH fans." reedsy.com/discovery/bo...

"A Man Named Baskerville" placed fourth on the MX list in its debut month, and currently has six 5-star reviews on Audible!

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A Man Named Baskerville A Man Named Baskerville [Nelson, Jim] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Man Named Baskerville

Releasing Monday - a special hardcover edition of 'A Man Named Baskerville' www.amazon.com/Man-Named-Baskerville-Jim-... He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge.

Sherlockian Author Profile - Margaret Walsh Born, raised, and still lives in the antipodes.   Loves Sherlock Holmes, London, books, theatre, poetry, music, art, history, and life in equal measures.  When not writing I can be found curled up wit...

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A Man Named Baskerville Check out this great listen on Audible.com. He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest t...

It's here!

"A Man Named Baskerville" now available on audiobook, narrated by the one and only Michael Langan.

"A very original, sometimes dark, page-turner of an addition to new Holmes fiction." – Janetility

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A Man Named Baskerville Check out this great listen on Audible.com. He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, laying to rest t...

It's here!

"A Man Named Baskerville" now available on audiobook, narrated by the one and only Michael Langan.

"A very original, sometimes dark, page-turner of an addition to new Holmes fiction." – Janetility

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Oh, that crawly sensation you get when you’ve sent your manuscript to the copy editor for proofreading, and you realize you have more story to tell.

Readers & friends from Canada and New Zealand have asked why my books aren't available on Kobo. It's something I've been meaning to do and have put it off.

Over the next few months, I'll be moving my back catalog to Kobo, one by one. Watch this space for developments…

Hashes at the Internet Archive

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Cover of "A Man Named Baskerville" by Jim Nelson

Epigram and illustration from "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

Interior pages of "A Man Named Baskerville"

Unboxing the proof for the hardcover special edition of A MAN NAMED BASKERVILLE from @mxpublishing.bsky.social

Very excited! Cover and layout looks superb. Will soon be signing copies for Kickstarter donor gifts.

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