A great read!

Dead End - JournalStone DEAD END Home can be a refuge . . . Mike Munacy was eleven years old when he watched his father commit suicide, jumping off the towering hill behind his house to die in the grass at Mike’s feet. Fourt...

"Home can be a place of death . . . and death can be welcome." That's from my book DEAD END, published by Journal Stone, and that sentiment seems to fit the mood lately. journalstone.com/bookstore/de...

Thanks! They’re really cool.

Me getting left behind by AI.

So perfect.

I’d forgotten just how brilliant season 3 is of THE LEFTOVERS…

Looks great!

Crazily, I did. Thanks @gabino.bsky.social!

Absolutely love HACKS. Brilliant writing. Perfectly acted.

Caroline Bicks on Her Year of Fear with Stephen King Podcast Episode · The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast · April 17 · 56m

Another great interview @carolinebicks.bsky.social about MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVES @thelosersclub.bsky.social

(And she has a Shakespeare podcast??? Heading to that now!)

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Cover reveal!

Publication May 30, 2026!

Kindle pre-order coming soon!

Because sometimes we need a cult of women to castrate male sexual predators, I give you WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JO ROSE? @grindhousepress.bsky.social

Because sometimes we need a cult of women to castrate male sexual predators, I give you WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JO ROSE? @grindhousepress.bsky.social

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Timing couldn’t be better: I got my progressive lenses today. Someone tell Clarence Thomas!

I’ve been revising a novella I wrote and I’m really enjoying it. Put me in a great mood today. Hope the story finds a home!

About to rewatch my favorite episode of THE LEFTOVERS: “International Assassin.”

Want to listen to Caroline Bicks talk about Steve King (that's me)? You can do it on Neil McRobert's TALKING SCARED podcast. McRobert is smart and Bicks is equally smart. You'll enjoy it.

275 – Caroline Bicks & The Stuff Too Dark for Even Stephen King Podcast Episode · Talking Scared · April 14 · 1h 34m

“A little too much? But how to fix?” LOVED this episode @talkscaredpod.bsky.social @carolinebicks.bsky.social Such damn cool insight into @stephenking.bsky.social ‘s work. MONSTERS IN THE ARCHIVE is a phenomenal read. I can’t wait for my physical copy!

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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

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“Read the book, not the summary.

Write the piece, not the prompt.

Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”

I agree with this. Reminds me of the toaster leavins episode of Married with Children. I love a good crunch.

In my classroom, in my car, and in my pocket: DON’T CALL IT ART @austinkleon.bsky.social

I say get preachy, sit extra high on your high horse, stack soapbox upon soapbox, and megaphone your beliefs so loudly and clearly that you piss off a whole bunch of people. #5amwritersclub

No doubt. A few years back, he removed MILK & HONEY from the library for its graphic sexuality.

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“We liked this piece. It felt human.”

Man, that’s everything.

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Hilariously, while talking to him I realized he wasn’t smart enough to understand the book.

“The book glorifies violence,” he said.

“Against the white settlers trying to eradicate Indigenous peoples and the Buffalo? I hope it does,” I said.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been so honest.

Alas, BHH will not be part of my curriculum. My principal had “deep concerns” about the “glorification of violence” in the book, so I agreed to withdraw the book from consideration.

House of Bone and Rain Amazon.com: House of Bone and Rain: 9780316427012: Iglesias, Gabino: Books

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Agreed!

From 'BuddhaBot' to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here The faith-based AI market is expanding, with tools for various religions. For example, there's an AI Jesus that — for $1.99 per minute — will offer words of prayer and encouragement.

Ha! This morning I just reread the Becka Paulson chapter in The TOMMYKNOCKERS.

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