Incl. a coffee shop that has records spinning on turntables as decor while streaming entirely different music... Should be parodied in a Pixar movie like how SF ruined pizza.

AVL Marathon 2026 registration fee goes up tonight at midnight, so save yourself a few bucks-sign up now! 2026 New Belgium Asheville Marathon & Half Saturday, March 21, 2026 Learn more: raceroster.com/events/2026/... I've run it in the past, but will just be helping behind the scenes this year.

First year of vinyl records: random musings on becoming a vinyl records guy... wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/f...

This really is an excellent read!

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

I don’t think we really appreciate how amazing it is to find a 40+YO vinyl record in a bargain bin for a couple bucks, take it home, play it, and it still works! The number of digital storage mediums I’ve used in the same amount of time that are now obsolete and unreadable is staggering.

Here's to all my fellow dads about to spend the weekend in the time-honored holiday pursuit of dealing with the deferred maintenance on their college-aged kids' vehicles...

Review: Ava Reid's An Archive of Romance: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r... An enjoyable (if slight) coda to Reid's A Study in Drowning duology. The perfect gift for fans of the series. #Fantasy #Romantasy #YA

After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.

#Runner problems: When you get off the waitlist for a goal race, but you're currently dealing with an injury... To sign up or not, that is the question.

#NowSpinning: The Big Chill Soundtrack (1983). The most-common vinyl in the $3 boxes at @cdcellarva.bsky.social this week, but what a collection! Marvin Gaye, Temptation, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson…

Random musings on not finishing books, how reader expectations are manipulated, and the alleged "lack of incident" in #cozyfantasy: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/o... Cute pic of one of our cats for likes...

I loved Travis Baldree’s new book, Brigands & Breadknives! wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r... Did I relate a little too much to the character of Fern, a foul-mouthed writer who’s been a bookseller a little too long? Maybe... Fans of Legends & Lattes & #cozyfantasy will love this!

It's hard to write about happy characters, so Viv & Tandri take a backseat to a foul-mouthed Rattkin bookseller, a stoic elf warrior & an absolute lunatic chaos goblin. The results are spectacular! Travis Baldree's Brigands & Breadknives is out today! 🔪🔪🔪 wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...

Given the popularity of #dragonrider books, I went back to re-read Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern after many years, & was a little taken aback by the casual violence towards women. Was curious why it hit differently than in #FourthWing books. wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/r...

Writing can be a lonely business, but it doesn't have to be! Even the best of us go through fallow periods, self-doubt, multiple abandoned drafts. The trick is not to let any of that derail you entirely, or to believe that other writers are your competition. They're your colleagues & your champions.

Began Sarah Beth Durst’s next book last night: The Faraway Inn (March ‘26). Pretty great so far! My 3rd Durst book this year: safe to say she’s a new favorite! #cozyfantasy #YA #magicrealism

I reviewed Travis Baldree’s Brigands & Breadknives: “Baldree, with his empathy, compassion, and ability to evoke wonder, turns Fern’s dark night of the soul into a warm tale of found family, adventure, and fresh horizons.” #fantasy #cozyfantasy wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/r...

I cut and stacked the last of the wood (on my property) from trees downed by hurricane Heléne this weekend. My small milestone that feels significant.

This one is rapidly growing on me. The Police, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Before my time in terms of being aware of new music, but full of delicious bass lines & their patented “white reggae.”

Didn’t have spending a Sunday night filling out a travel insurance claim because of a cancelled marathon on my bingo card. Adulting is such fun!

This week’s new vinyl: Janelle Monáe’s The Age of Pleasure, which is simply stunning! Will be obsessed with this one for a while…

Impulse buy because this was one of those albums that was always being played in my school days, but I never owned a copy. UB40, Labour of Love (1983). Instant nostalgia overload! #nowspinning #vinyl

New blog: Publishing Broke Me (or why I stopped reading & writing about books for years... and what renewed my enthusiasm): wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/p... #books #fantasy #cozyfantasy #reading

A romance writer on my LinkedIn feed is crowing about how much easier it is to write 1-minute scripts than 300-page novels. I suspect the shorts she’s scripting are made with AI. Doesn’t seem a great career move to train the machine…

Review: A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid. "a lively but troubling visit with old friends" wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/a... #Fantasy #DarkAcademia #YA #Romantasy

Magnificent writer! Gone too young.

They say start your day with quick, easy wins. I try to knock off 3 phone calls. Third is busy, but will call me back "in a few minutes." Two hours later, still waiting. There goes the morning...

Thoroughly Dad morning: changed furnace filters & ran the heat with the doors open to get that lovely burnt-dust smell out of the system/house. (Cold snap coming…) Also cleaned and descaled the coffee maker. Such a glamorous life! May clean dishwasher filters later…

Spring of 1992 I first heard Tori Amos in a friend's gaff. I dubbed a copy & listened to her for months. Today, I got my hands on a vinyl copy of Little Earthquakes & it’s like listening to the album for the first time.

Exciting news! Apparently Ferrari want me as their new social media manager. Truly remarkable how the caliber of random job offers I receive by email gets better by the week. I didn't even apply! Wonder why they keep going to my spam folder, though?

After a ten-year gap, I dusted off my old book blog and started posting reviews again: wordhoarder.wordpress.com Why? Absolutely no idea -- except I'm finally enjoying reading fiction again & felt I should be a better literary citizen. Forgive the 2009 wordpress aesthetics...

How do you write a great sequel to a popular fantasy that appeared to give everyone their happily ever after? In The Enchanted Greenhouse, Sarah Beth Durst delivers another wonderful, comic, & cozy romantasy! wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/26/r... #booksky #fantasy #romantasy #books

Last 5 concerts I attended: Taylor Swift Bruce Springsteen Ed Sheeran Lizzo Chvrches Sadly those are across 4 years, so I clearly need to go to more shows.

Started #writing a new short story this morning. Managed to delete the first 500 words without saving… re-wrote the opening and managed to finish the scene without further mishap. Baby steps…

The finale of Rebecca Thorne’s Tomes & Tea series, Alchemy & a Cup of Tea, underlines what an evocative, funny, & generally damn-good writer Thorne has become. wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/a... #bookreview #cozyfantasy #spoilers #romantasy #fantasy

If you, like me, are a creative feeling stalked by ads for Matteo di Pascale's The Creative Ambush, I offer some thoughts: wordhoarder.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/r... TLDR: it's interesting, potentially useful. Mileage may vary.

Sometimes, pondering why a book didn't work teaches you more about writing than thinking about a book that does.

Just a reminder that my launch event is in Gilbert, Arizona, and we'd LOVE for you to join us!! I'm genuinely so excited to wrap up the series at my hometown bookstore! The awesome @sonorareyes.bsky.social will be moderating! www.literallybookshop.com/events/32278... #gilbert #arizona

Beginning to regret deleting my old websites/blogs, as importing content from the WordPress backup file is proving difficult. Not sure I have the time to make this work.

Fluffy article from the NYT about bookstore pets. Would that we lived in a world where this could be the story of the day... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/b...

I feel so lazy when I get an email from my library notifying me that the book I just put on hold 20 minutes ago has actually been on the shelf in my local branch all along!

Trying to focus on the positive this afternoon. This book, Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway, is fantastic! A short burst of clever creativity.

It’s so disheartening to read these tales of woe from authors I respect because I know the major factor is almost everyone in the publishing chain expecting someone else to do the hard work of marketing.

The Emily Wilde series by Heather Fawcett is awesome #cozyfantasy / #romantasy! Low stakes, all vibes! If you need a faerie fix, I highly recommend it!

Sharing b/c I think I learned about this book on BlueSky. The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Lindz McLeod is awesome! It’s a powerful story about (among more-obvious things) a people pleaser discovering her own desires, told with wit & verve! #Books #Romance #bookstagram #lgbtcommunity

My first novel for adults - SISTER WAKE - is coming in January! The beginning of an epic fantasy trilogy published by the stellar @hodderscape.bsky.social, SISTER WAKE is about colonialism, vengeance and giant fuck-off monsters. (1/3)

Vinsanity - used bookstores selling used vinyl records for the same price as new. One of our local stores has fallen prey to this sickness. Like people won’t drive less than 2 miles to our (great) indie record stores to buy the album new & unscratched?

Devoured Fourth Wing & have to shelve it with the Mistress of Dragons, Anne McCaffrey’s #Pern books! Great read! #fourthwing #rebeccayarros #fantasybooks #dragons

#NowSpinning: CHVRCHES Screen Violence. Scored an unopened vinyl at a used record store recently. Already knew the album is 🔥