Carpe per diem

We need a different reply than “You’re welcome.” I feel like we all sound like dicks when we say it.

Steve Weddle reading

PM Raymond

Eryk “the man” Pruitt

Daniel Wallace

Excellent Noir at the Bar tonight. With readings by the excellent @steveweddle.bsky.social, @pmraymond.bsky.social, @erykpruitt.bsky.social, and Daniel Wallace (among many others!)

Veteran Screenwriter Ed Solomon Relearned All the Rules for Steven Soderbergh’s Two-Hander ‘The Christophers’ Screenwriter Ed Solomon discusses finding a shape for 'The Christophers' and how it was written for actors Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel.

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Dammit!

That @andymboyle.bsky.social. He sure knows words and how to put them together better than I do in a first draft.

Tonight on TCM #TCM
LONE STAR (1996)
One of best films of the 90s. Written and directed by John Sayles. Featuring Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Eizabeth Peña and Ron Canada. A neo-noir Western. Highly recommended. 🎥

One of the coolest gigs I had was running the Facebook side of the One Perfect Shot Account in the mid 2010s. I thought I lost my entire collection of film stills I shared, but just got a new device that somehow synced up to a really old account & I found them! Let’s kick things off.

1) VERTIGO

I'm doing copy-edits now (for two different books!) and whenever I get to one of those (sadly correct) notes that identifies a timeline issue or a plothole, I'm basically like

"Well, I guess I'll delete the book now and walk into the woods."

Vlad Mag: “Toxic Nostalgia,” edited by Tex Gresham and @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social, is OUT NOW, featuring work by Henry Luzzatto ☣️

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

New story day.

This story was deeply personal. It gave me the courage to keep resisting.

Thank you @lightspeedmagazine.com for publishing this story.

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Enjoy every sandwich

That explains why Ringo gets sucked into a supercomputer and turned into a robotic monster!

News used to be better

The KING OF ASHES paperback is the Barnes and Noble Thriller pick for April.....

Is a mummy a zombie? Like, if a mummy bites or scratches you, do you turn into one? Can you kill a mummy by shooting it in the head?

Discovered a cool lil bookstore in Modesto (Bookish Modesto) and heard a grad school friend read opening pages from The Curse of Hester Gardens. @tamikathompson.bsky.social is a great horror writer and you should read her stuff!

Title card: HE'S JOHN CARPENTER IT'S 1995

Also this title card from the trailer is an all-timer

It gets better with every rewatch. Top 3 Carpenter for me.

😭❤️

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout: 9798217154746 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s...

Speaking of, I dunno, books (we were speaking of books, were we not?), Elizabeth Strout's new novel goes on sale in a month, and you really want to preorder it. It's sizzlingly good.

Love it.

Cementing itself as THE GODFATHER III of Presidential administrations

That sounds amazing! Congrats, Will!

YES

Hey hey! New STONE'S THROW short fiction over at RHP! Check it out!

“Revenge Prey” is now available in stores across the US. Spotted in the wild here at Barnes & Noble in Escondido, California.

Do paperback editions count?

GANDOLFINI: JIM, TONY, & THE LIFE OF A LEGEND is out in paperback one week from today! You'll have time to receive AND read it before the next day of countdown clock panic!