Perfection.

Some of you Americans have a long weekend ahead. If you're at a family BBQ and need some "alone" time, consider a book! Possibly one packed with action, sex, and crimes committed against wealthy jerkoffs! Specifically, King of the Prowlers, by Clint Reno! books2read.com/kingofthepro...

SHOTGUN (Randall, 1989)

I dislike the equating of slop generation to laziness bc laziness actually has value. Lazy art still expresses the artist, and laziness can often breed cleverness, something not possible with sloppers, though they believe they're clever bc a program told them so. Slop use is a desire to be served.

Achieved very limited writing success this last week, but I did start Chapter 6 of The Bartender: Mai Tai Madness and I titled that chapter "Ms. Fuck-You-Up" and thinking about that kept me smiling, so I'm calling that a win. A small win. But a win.

A payment I expected today didn't go through, so now is a VERY good time to buy yourself a murder... or to give the gift of death to the goth in your life

This has been one of the most stressful and trying weeks of my professional career thus far. And I still have four days to go. Send whiskey.

NEW RELEASE Looking for some epic fantasy inspired by Tolkien and The Dark Tower? The Tainted Grove and Other Perilous Tales www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZX22T1D/ Three short stories featuring Zaama, a paladin traveling the world of Wanehome to bring justice and vengeance to those in need. Just 99 cents!

I grew up in an era with no Internet. I had PC Gamer demo discs and screenshots to IMAGINE what a game would be like. I literally pretended to play them via screenshots. Today, the only game that leaves me salivating like that is Zortch 2. We need her. store.steampowered.com/app/3807500/...

I say this as I use Google Street View to pick out a spot in Miami for an office building in Mai Tai Madness, and I find not only the perfect locale visually, but also an interesting and vibrant community to research. For a single chapter's flavor. More fun than where I can go!

Whoever said that you shouldn't write about any place unless you've actually been there is full of crap. I can barely afford to go to Dollar General. You think the places I CAN go would be more interesting than the places I haven't been?

It’s hard to imagine, but it is less than two weeks until my new crime novel SEVEN ANGELS is published. June 1, but you can pre-order now anywhere you can buy books. www.amazon.com/Seven-Angels...

Just read: Bolt: Showdown at Black Mesa. The 3rd Bolt novel has our hero helping a lady friend (from book 1) save her ranch against a baddie married to another one of his conquests (from book 2). The action is a little too quick-draw heavy for me, but the smut is frequent and the characters good.

Ry and Erin are struggling. Job losses. No money. Living in a travel trailer in rural nowhere. That’s when something crawls out of woods and things take a very dark and unexpected turn… Lock your doors. Trust the dog. Don’t answer the voices. mybook.to/WildcatThicket

I am one or two sales away from the payout minimum on D2D. If I get that, I can make a clean break from them and their Poor Authors Tax in June. If you are interested in a print copy of any of my books, do consider helping me spite D2D one last time.

Tonight we are spinning one of the great songs from Blue Oyster Cult in the Bullpen. And if you've got to ask why...well, I suspect you've never heard Del Rio's Song. Or all of Imaginos. Get to it. We'll have a spot for you by the water cooler once you've finished. youtu.be/hXjStyMe4Gw?...

It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it. #NowWatching Rope (1948) #filmsky

Look at this gorgeous zine bundle from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social. I have a story in BATSHIT LOCKEDIN POSTS. Please support our go-to-market strategy by going to the market and buying this zine bundle. (links in comments)

My brother finished reading Woman of Sorrow and Blood today He said "Damn, you are one cold ass author" You can get the book that inspired that message + 27 other incredible vampire books for just $25 RIGHT NOW in the Dracula's Anniversary #ItchBundle #BookSky #HorrorSky

To everyone who suffers from migraines: I feel you and do not judge. To those of us who suffer from migraines and still go to work on a Monday morning: Hi. Why is everything trying to kill us?

More Snake & Sorcery incoming! This week, we go back to the past a little. Sorcerer's Trade shows a younger, less experienced Kessa taking a risk on behalf of her hometown. It is also her first meeting with her future wife, Pimi. #shortstory ko-fi.com/s/c86091468f

If you are a writer who relies on generative AI to do your job, no you aren't.

THE DARKER THE NIGHT is coming in July from @rowanprosepub.bsky.social, just in time for summer beach reading season! Both'll be here before you realize it! books2read.com/u/3Jq1Bv #mystery #crime #summerreads #books

My main WIP is The Road of Axes. It's a fantasy novel about a military officer named Fumin Tao who is trying to get herself and what's left of her forces home after some military mishaps. She's also determined to get back home to her lover, Lady Li Hua. There's magical kung fu involved. #booksky

Out of the 7(!) Frenzi novels, is there one I think readers have "slept" on more than others? Yeah. I'd argue Whipcord. It's got a Western vibe, but brings Frenzi back to do what he does best: fucking up motherfuckers. I love the brother and sister villains in this one. books2read.com/whipcord/

I may have shared this before. If you’ve already heard it, listen again. It’s really pretty, especially the last verse. Me and my friend Rebecca. youtu.be/xKkPw5udRWg?...

New one from me. Another notch on the '90s softcore bedpost. Interviewed the director too. theschlockpit.com/2026/05/16/l...

I mowed the lawn in the PoI Compound, reset the bear traps in the front walk, and oiled the chains on the drawbridge over the moat. After all that work, I'm rewarding myself by buying some new ebooks! And also a lemon lime soda.

This week @loganspurgeon.bsky.social takes us behind the screams of his latest novel and names checks @lvrussell.bsky.social & @faylane.bsky.social

Lesbian samurai fantasy. That's basically what my three Izumo short story collections are all about. Some romance, some samurai drama, some violence. If that sounds right up your alley, then by all means, grab yourself a copy. Or three. 😂 #shortstory #sapphfic itch.io/c/7364283/iz...

Now spinning in the PoI Bullpen: One of the best alt-prog bands ever. Dig Ashbury. Dig the sound of the smoothest, most radio-friendly prog rock around. You like the peak of Blue Oyster Cult? You gonna love Ashbury. youtu.be/wbYjaG1hT3g?...

It is one of this author's goals to create an action-adventure series following a gay riff on Mack Bolan depicted as Brian Thompson from the 1990 film Hired to Kill. Not focused on sex. Just a kickass male hero against evil who happens to score with a hot dude each novel.

Strange magic, strange men, and the stranger gods who dominate their lives abound in this short but meaty read! Weird Tales would have begged to publish this. But you can get it for less than the price of a memory. Walk beside the Rider and prepare yourself for an experience!

The Rider carries a box of bones into the Dale of Scar, the Widow Lands. How else does one speak privately with a priest who died a thousand years ago? Rider in the Widow Lands: A Sword & Sorcery short story is only 99 cents! Mybook.to/widowlands

Hello Internet. I've got another link in the Chain Story Project. All Rowan wanted in the town of Galant's Gulch is a night of sleep. But trouble rises, waking her and rousing her fury, and she finds herself facing a long-lived tyrant in a duel at high moon. #shortstory ko-fi.com/s/3a7822d94b

I can't regret forgoing a more ordinary press in place of us doing the publishing for our books. We control the design, the marketing (help!), and the distribution. Zero AI. Just flawed humans. 😂

Hello Internet People. Help me spite D2D one last time before I delist and delete in June. Buy print copies of my books! Well, some of them anyway. #booksky books2read.com/ap/RQAwv9/Al...

My phone happily chirping away not to announce another spam email from Dick's Sporting Goods but a series of chapters from a good friend and great writer is cause for celebration to end the day.

Reminder that this spring we published the first Adult Western from mysterious author Dick Remington! Smut, shootouts, trains, sex, horses, dynamite, and did I mention the porn-y bits? It's a journey of revenge and discovery for our heroine Mercy! Check it out! books2read.com/aladysvengea...

A blood-spattered journey of survival! Ry and Erin are struggling with life when something starts creeping towards their trailer, knocking, whistling, mocking…

Lock your doors. Trust the dog. Don’t answer the voices. mybook.to/WildcatThicket

Please, please, please, please don't start writing another new action series while you still have two novels and a novella to finish...please...please...please... GATDAMN IT! *Opens document titled Slater: The Bloody Badge.*

Why, it's another edition of the Grundislav Games Dispatch! This month I provide a small update on Project Lion, as well as talk about my approach to puzzle design. Check it out here, and subscribe so you don't miss any updates! buttondown.com/grundislavga...

A lot of PoI books feature guns. Some might say we get a little gun-porny. I don't think it's weird that I like firearms, enjoy shooting firearms, and yet not have a want or need to own firearms. I think it's weird if you really can't live without your Glock by your side. Weird and dangerous. 🤨

I wrote a book It is good You should buy it And read it (And if you've already read it, please leave a review on Goodreads or wherever you do that kind of thing!)

A new Snake & Sorcery tale is up. This week, Pimi and Kessa find themselves searching for some missing children. And their search brings them to a place known as the Darktide Hills. PWYW over on Ko-Fi. One tip gets you all the stories so far! And future ones! #shortstory ko-fi.com/s/c86091468f

ICYMI, I wrote a little thing about how the crafting of sex scenes in genre romance has taken a major hit in recent years. #romancelandia romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/no-f-ck-is...

Pay what you want? For adventure quality such as this?? Madness! Sheer madness! Do it now and get some of the most original Sword & Sorcery adventures out there. Pardon me...SNAKE and Sorcery is what I meant to say before I stuttered. Just do it! Now!

New book alert! Three fantasy short stories, yours for just 99 cents! Join the paladin Zaama and her illusionist (and truth-seeker) friend Iria as they bring justice to a world in dire need of it! The Tainted Grove and Other Perilous Tales: amazon.com/dp/B0GZX22T1D/

I did it! The first draft of Death, Won’t You Let Me Go is complete. Comes in at 220 pages. That’ll expand a bit with later drafts, I think. This is a ghost story set in 1934 Appalachia. Deals with murder ballads as a theme.

This week we have Emmy winner @seanvandamme.bsky.social taking us behind the screams of his latest book…