@markhamillofficial.bsky.social two Jedi take a trip to Endor and come back with a stowaway. @queenbre.bsky.social

#SupportNewAuthors! Blindsided: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Legal Abuse by David Samarzia. You can get it here: a.co/d/c3wd7l4.

INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER has been out for almost a month! Be sure to order a copy. Or if you happen to be in NJ, come to a signing! Order links, and a list of events I am participating in are on my website. leonardapa-author.weebly.com

I am finally getting shirts and totes to sell for INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER! I’ll begin selling them at a Fall Festival on the 25th, from there I will try to add them to my website. Below are the mock ups (the shirts are actually gray).

I just met James Murray! He was very kind and funny. We exchanged books and autographs! He seemed genuinely interested in INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER! Murr, let me know what you think!

Question to any literary agents who happen to see this, or anyone who has experience in this: If I submitted a query over five years ago, and I have reworked the book, is it okay to resubmit? #writersky #mswl

Now that INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is out (order your copy today!) and the 1st draft of the sequel RE-INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is complete, I’m turning my attention to a book that is completed, but needs some tweaks. Soon, I’ll introduce you to THE BOOKEND BOYS!

Thanks Brad! You’re the best!

#SupportNewAuthors! Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper by @leonard_apa. You can get it here: www.amazon.com/Introducing-...

… so, someone just compared INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER to the works of James M Cain (Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity; etc), and that is some impressive praise if you ask me. Check it out for yourself! Order a copy now!!!

Here is an interview I did with @elenataylorauthor.bsky.social for INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER. Check it out! Thank you, Elena! www.themysteryofwriting.com/2025/09/23/i...

Congrats to my hubby @leonard-apa.bsky.social on his debut novel, out today! If you like superheroes, noir, and adventure, check it out! Everybody’s reading it! #books #booksky #reading #superheroes #adventure #introducingthescarletscrapper a.co/d/hQFD0VE

Today is the release day of INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER! I am officially a published novelist. Get your copy! On top of that, check out this announcement from @jamesgunn writer and director of SUPERMAN 2025 and head of DC studios! (… it’s not really the Scrapper)

@heatherantos.bsky.social I just saw you’ll be at Super Jersey Comic Expo! I’ll be there this year, but as an author! I can still bring you socks! 😂

Just 17 days until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER releases! Which means 21 days until my first signing! I have new art coming for giveaways and will probably run a contest to receive a little Scrapper care package including some stuff signed by myself and the artist.

With less than a month until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is released, you should meet Jimmy Childers. -He was the heart of the Scarlet Scrapper. -He would do anything for his loved ones. -… even if that meant crossing a line. Meet Jimmy Childers on September 23rd, 2025!

With less than a month until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is released, you should meet Mary Allen. -She is a hard hitting reporter surviving in a predominantly male industry. -She was in search of the byline to make her career, she found so much more. Meet Mary Allen on September 23rd, 2025!

With less than a month until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is released, you should meet Edward Salazar. -All he wanted was power and money. -He’d do anything to hold onto it. -One fatal mistake caused his empire to topple. Meet Edward Salazar on September 23rd, 2025!

With less than a month until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is released, you should meet Thomas Malloy. -He lost everything in an instant. -He knew the only hero to save him was the Scarlet Scrapper. -Little did he know they’d save each other. Meet Thomas Malloy on September 23rd, 2025!

With less than a month until INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is released, you should meet Frank Hodge. His father taught him how to fight. The government taught him to be a soldier. But Thomas Malloy taught him to be a hero. Meet Frank Hodge on September 23rd, 2025!

I have a new class this upcoming school year. It is called The History and Culture of Comic Books. I set up a Donors Choose project to hopefully supply class sets of some of the books I'll be covering. Please help and share! www.donorschoose.org/project/pow-...

"A story of action, adventure and heart, where hero and villain collide in a showdown for an innocent boy's life." Enter to win a copy of @leonard-apa.bsky.social's "Introducing the Scarlet Scrapper" from Running Wild Press #💙📚 #Booksky

I wanted the artist to let me know it was okay to share. She’s cool with it, so here is the first picture of artwork I commissioned for the Scarlet Scrapper. Looks so good!! Check out her site: gabifortunato46cfd.myportfolio.com/clowntown-art

Hmm… how does one get @stephenking.bsky.social to review their upcoming debut novel?

@heatherantos.bsky.social well, I am excited, my school approved my comic book history course! Are you still open to visiting the class? Also does IDW give material donations for classrooms?

There is a lot to be frustrated with as a teacher. But then there are things like this that make me smile. The two students who added to my Shakespeare sign did it of their own accord. I hope more students will continue to add. We’ll see.

I filmed and cut my book trailer today. It’s really more of a teaser, and only 15 seconds long, but now I have a feel for it and will most likely do more. Teaser coming soon, but here are a couple of still shots from the shoot.

This was done at an old job’s company picnic (I had hair then). I always loved a good caricature. I don’t see them much anymore. Is it a dying (dead?) art?

Well, 90 days since I submitted my short story TETHER to @newyorker.com is almost here. I am still holding out hope that they will accept the story. So, you know ... Ms. Treisman, pretty, pretty please...

#WritingCommunity, if you have an author banner for selling at markets/book events/conventions do you mind sharing? I am looking to get one made up and have no idea where to begin!

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE will be released on April 17th for the PS5... just in time for Spring Break, so you know what I will be doing on my week off of school? Yup, fighting the battle of whether I should be playing the game or writing.

Mary Allen is a reporter pigeonholed into writing fluff pieces because she's a woman. When Mary is sent to interview Frank Hodge, she gets the chance to report a real story: the fall of Edward Salazar. Meet Mary Allen on September 23rd, 2025 in INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER.

Frank Hodge was trained as a boxer by his father, found a love of theater from his friend Jimmy, and became a soldier to help his country. But it was Thomas Malloy that forced him to become a hero. Meet Frank Hodge on September 23rd, 2025 in INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER.

I would like just one week where my job is just to sit and write RE-INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER. I think that is all I would need to complete the first draft. But no, I have to go to an actual job and try to sneak some writing in during the few minutes of down time I get.

INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER is up for preorder through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Thrift Books and Walmart. You can check out the links on the Scrapper page of my website. The link is above in my profile.

One of my favorite things about teaching is when my students get so into a story they cheer, or yell at characters for doing something great or stupid. These are teenagers who generally come to class and say they dislike reading. Maybe I am doing something right as a teacher.

I just realized that my first published short story, AND INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER was published in 2015. My debut novel, INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER, which was clearly inspired by the short, will be published almost exactly 10 years after that first publication.

@stephenking.bsky.social please respond. Is it really you back on Twitter? Or is it someone posing as you?

Soon, I will be a guest on the very talented @johnpoveromo.bsky.social podcast, Dystopia Tonight. He has had some amazing guests (Jay Leno; Paul Reiser; Will Wheaton), but will be slumming it with me. In the meantime, check out and subscribe to the podcast! www.youtube.com/@DystopiaTon...

What if we make a new “Barbenheimer” this summer for Superman and Fantastic Four? Show people that we can all get along. SuperFantasticMan? Fantastic Superman? FFSM? SMFF?

I haven't talked about it on here in a couple of weeks (I think, but time is broken for me), but I am still waiting for word from The New Yorker about my short story TETHER. So, I figured I would start manifesting it here again. Say it with me: The New Yorker will buy TETHER!

As I have now passed 30,000 words, I thought I’d share some more concept art for the Scarlet Scrapper comic strips that will be turned into promo material. *Note: these drawings come from my non-artistic hands. The actual strips will look much better.

It’s only been about a week since I sent my story TETHER to The New Yorker, and they said it can take up to three months for a response… but the wait is killing me!

Always a great time at Smodcastle. I love hearing Kevin Smith speak. Tonight was a live commentary on Mallrats. Plus, we received a Stan Lee cup!

Some (pretty much all) of my students just don't get me. It is club photo day at school, a student (wearing an FBLA shirt) came up to me and said it was time for his photo for the FBLA. I asked how I can trust his word that he's in the club. He didn't know how to prove it. 🤔

I am over 25k words into RE-INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER, book 2 in the Scrapper trilogy. So, I thought I would share some more concept art for the comic strip being drawn up as promo/giveaway material for pre-orders. INTRODUCING THE SCARLET SCRAPPER will be released Sept 23rd.

Just in case you didn’t think I was cool, there was this one time I drove the Batmobile.

I just submitted my short story TETHER to The New Yorker! Say it with me: They will publish my story.

Today I set up my first book event at a (semi) local bookstore! This will take place in October, so I snagged it. Hopefully, I can set up some others closer to the release date in September. I guess I should start on developing the promo stuff.

With nothing really to post about at the moment, I thought it would be a good idea to remind people about Calvin and Hobbes.