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In case anyone out there is looking for an editor, I'm taking on a few more clients this holiday season! If your manuscript needs a kick in the pants to make it ready for prime time, I'm your guy.

I expect quite a few racisms to happen. Perhaps some misogynies too because Trump never fails to disappoint the human race in a general sense.

Want to hear more about my trip to Thailand? Want to see some photos? Want to know why I nearly didn't come home? Want to know what this has to do with the fourth Assassins Anonymous book? Well, here you go.

An important and necessary read for writers out there.

I regret to inform everyone that I am back in this dumb country. Should have stayed in Thailand. Anyway, if you need me I'm jet lagged as hell but otherwise back in the work saddle!

Just in case anyone was wondering, the fourth AA book will be called CITY OF KILLERS and it will be set in Bangkok and you all have this trip to Thailand to thank.

The next time the DNC calls my phone and asks me to make a contribution I am going to say things that would make the Marquis de Sade blush.

Come January it’s unlikely I’ll be able to afford health insurance so if you need someone who is good with word stuff and don’t mind a ton of visible tattoos and you have a decent plan, hit me up. Will work to survive.

The next text message I get from a Democrat begging for a donation, I am throwing a chair through a fucking window.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Hate that we live in a world where the common person loses their entire shit over what will happen to the millionaires and billionaires. Like we need those taxes they’re not paying in the first place. Anyone who defends the rich is a shill and a dope, full stop.

Wandering the Chiang Mai night markets. An Indian man tries to pull me into a custom suit shop. Him: “Where you from boss?” Me: “New York.” Him (points at me and smiles): “Mamdani!” And we got people out here telling us this election isn’t historic. Attn: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

As excited as I am to read stirring stories of Mamdani’s win, where are all the scathing takedowns of Cuomo? I want to read about how he is an embarrassment and a failure and his career is over. I want to inject that feeling into my VEINS.

When I get back from Thailand next week I’ll be opening to a few editorial clients. Got a manuscript you want to kick up a notch? Details here. Hit me up. robwhart.com/editing-serv...

As a born and bred Staten Islander I am begging everyone to remember there are some good people in the borough who are down for the cause and we hate this as much as you do but we’re trying.

I have some thoughts on blurbs.

Fellow authors: What is a *reasonable* deadline to get someone a blurb? So, like, what's the cutoff—when does the ask become borderline disrespectful? For me, unless it's a special circumstance, anything less than a month.

The same way you need to let your muscles recover after a workout, sometimes you need to rest your brain. Otherwise, the writing might suffer...

Leading off MYOPIC DUPLICITY is a stunning "What would you do to protect someone you love?" story by @robwhart.bsky.social, narrated by @leonardoaudio.bsky.social, Chris Ciulla. leonardoaudio.com | a.co/d/dfukRy5

I will only be referring to Trump's little pet project as the Epstein Ballroom.

June 2026.

Yay!

Want to win a whole bunch of signed books AND I'll name a character after you in a book AND you'll get a copy of DETOUR a few months early. You can do that, by helping to raise money to fight breast cancer! Details here...

Want to see the cover of THREE HITMEN AND A BABY? All you gotta do is sit through a quick pitch on how to help my mom raise money to fight breast cancer. Two good things on the 'stack today!

An important, necessary read. If nothing else to show what an absolute fucking blight the Republican Party has become.

You should read EL James and Stephenie Meyer and Colleen Hoover and James Patterson and Dan Brown. You don't have to like them but they've sold more books than you. They know something you don't.

Dispatches from NYCC: I love all cosplayers EXCEPT Jared Leto Joker. If you dress as Jared Leto Joker I am forced to assume you are unpleasant as a person.

On my way to NYCC today! Here’s where you can find me!

I had to look up who Lee Greenwood was and here's the first thing that popped up: "Greenwood is married to former Miss Tennessee USA Kimberly Payne, his fourth wife but fifth marriage, who is 25 years his junior." So, that tracks.

You heard the man. Also, pay authors. The fuck.

Watching the Halo show with my wife: “His name is Master Chief? That’s like Chef Daddy. That’s too many honorifics.”

Here's where I'll be at NYCC! Plus some other stuff!

"It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency..." is some pro-level hedging. Just say it's against the fuckin law you goon! "It's not clear if he can break the law." Fuckin c'mon!

The HALO tv show is on Netflix and it’s dumb but also I love it. Also I just finished the first draft of a whole-ass book. Time to get drunk.

Most days I love writing, except for when I don't, which is, sadly, also most days.

THE PARADOX HOTEL features a trans character as does the next Assassins novel THREE HITMEN AND A BABY and I will keep on writing trans characters and Elon Musk should fuck off into the sun.

Flu and COVID vaccine time! Because I trust scientists, not brain worm-addled dopes. Get those vaccines, folks. ‘Tis the season.

This is great, but, fellow authors, check your copyright status. Even if your book was stolen and fed into the maw you may not be eligible for payment if your publisher didn’t file the copyright. Polis authors in particular. The US copyright office has a search function!

Maybe the rapture happened but all of us suck so no one gets to go to heaven.

About to see a whole lot more Yellowstone clips and Charlie Kirk memorials on the clock app.

I guess the Rapture is supposed to happen this week and if so great, if that means a whole lot of righteous motherfuckers suddenly disappear and we finally get this place to ourselves, I’m in. Team Rapture. Let’s go!

Sometimes the universe provides.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

This is how it works in Portland, OR, and it always weirds me out. Bars are supposed to be a free-for-all. Only the strong survive.

Reviewing copyedits for THREE HITMEN AND A BABY and... I cannot wait for people to read this. This is a fun one.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

This was fun!

WEDNESDAY!

So many great authors on this list.