Celebrating @joycecaroloates.bsky.social birthday tonight and hearing her speak about the art of the short story and her new collection, The Frenzy, which debuts today.

Beyond proud of our newest novel with @cmattwrite.bsky.social

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

From the daily newsletter: what art meant to Hockney—and what the artist meant to art. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

My favorite Sicilian restaurant has reopened in Brooklyn. It has been there for over 100 years, is under new management with the blessing of the family that owned it, and it's wonderful. barferdinando.com

Good to be back home today at Trinity Boxing Club

Fun times at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

“With novels, like cakes, you never know.” —Robertson Davies

They may have nuns, but we have the Shaolin Temple!

This is easier, due to character limitations here. #horror #StokerCon

Crowdsourced Vendor List, inspired by a thought during a panel at #StokerCon 2026. Please share with your fellow #horror creators! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨🚨 NEW WEBSITE IS NOW UP AND RUNNING 🚨🚨 Take a look at mysteriousbookshop.com

The story behind one of the most iconic cameos in rock and roll. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChON...

“A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.” —Don DeLillo

Fantastic story about searching for a lost Thornton Wilder play. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/t...

Many thanks to my editor, Michael Dolan. Picture it. #PitDark where he liked my pitch of a housewife receiving a heart transplant from a serial killer. Then migraine chips with murderous side effects. And now this collection 🪱🧟‍♀️💉🐺🩸🫀💊

Very proud of this new collection of medical horror by @drspookyer.bsky.social

“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.” –S.R. (2009) 2/2

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

RIP Legend

I’m always saying the same thing about my book proposal

Doctors make great book mules. The cops will think it's a medical textbook...

Hey, awesome news: I'm the guest editor of the Bouchercon 2027 anthology. Bouchercon comes to DC in 2027! Submissions are open now www.bouchercon2027.com/anthology

I wrote about Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows” in PUMP UP THE VOLUME for @southwestreview.bsky.social’s Needle Drops column. Read it here: southwestreview.com/volume-111-n...

The release of Time of Death: A Collection of Medical Horror is just around the corner… lurking

Coming June 23rd! How to Sedate Yourself and Others, the newest horror novella by Clare Castleberry. Clare will be signing advance copies at StokerCon in Pittsburgh on June 5-7.

Grateful to Tom Perrotta for stopping by our book club to discuss his newest novel, Ghost Town, about the grief we endure and the ghosts that never seem to leave us.

Grateful to Keith McNally for the wonderful restaurants he has created over the last 45 years in NYC and for sharing his memories in his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything.

Great story in The Times on my man @jordanharper.bsky.social and his brilliant new novel, A Violent Masterpiece. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/b...

"Brisk pacing and well-drawn characters propel the narrative, balancing high-stakes action with an incisive exploration of journalistic ethics and the ever-shifting line between fact and fiction." Publisher's Weekly loved my new novel, SURVIVING THE LIE! www.publishersweekly.com/9781640097216

Grateful to Lily King for stopping by our book club to discuss her wonderful novel, Heart the Lover.

The best buck you'll spend today.

Earth Day sale on @rhppress.bsky.social anthology On Fire and Under Water edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social a.co/d/0bO1yaiG

RIP Oscar, meu amigo do basquete. 💔

My late night reading

My story Mama from the In Too Deep Genesis-themed anthology has been selected for The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2026 edited by Steph Cha & Megan Abbott. Two years in a row my fiction has been included. Beyond grateful.

My favorite Sicilian restaurant reopens in Brooklyn tomorrow. Things are looking up in the world.

No one writes about Brooklyn like William Boyle. Congratulations @wmboyle4.bsky.social!

Excited to announce I’ve got a new novel on the way in early 2027! Set over a single day around Thanksgiving 1991, HEAVY SUGAR is a screwball noir that pinballs from Throggs Neck to Gravesend. Thrilled I’m back with Nick Whitney at @sohopress.bsky.social.

146 days until football season

"Made up my mind to make a new start Going to California with an achin' in my heart" ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp6r...

Star Wars is really Saturday Night Fever set in space.

NJ Gallegos delves into medical and cannibalism horror with her new book, Eat Your Heart Out. We talk about Apollo 18, the weird things cats do, women in horror, what NJ does when she disturbs herself with her own writing, and much more. Links in comments:

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

When you see three of your friends get their new book deals announced on the same day...

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