Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year… medium.com/@thatguybehi...

“My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.” Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” #WinterSolstice

medium.com/@thatguybehi... Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

“Defectors could be your next-door neighbor. The guy who cuts the meat at your local supermarket, or drives the truck that delivers your Amazon packages.” crimereads.com/spies-in-sma...

“Heaven was a beach and a pinecone.” Du côté de la côte (1958) dir. Agnès Varda

When revising your work, Patricia Highsmith urged writers to “be as ruthless as if you were throwing excess baggage, even fuel, out of an overloaded airplane.”

I slept in, #5amwritersclub But I also wrote a short blog for my #writer folks. Today is all about creativity and flow. On the simplicity of writing & week 39 of 52 www.jenknox.net/p/on-the-sim...

On a few hundred ducks & week 38 of 52 #aytl www.jenknox.net/p/on-a-few-h...

The days are getting longer… ☀️❄️⛄️🧤🧣

“My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.” Robert Frost—“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” #WinterSolstice

“Well, it seems that the real reality—the microreality, that which underlies all our solid, good, common-sense reality—is made up, as we have just witnessed, of a vast empty space filled with oscillating fields!” —Itzhak Bentov, Stalking the Wild Pendulum

My novel, We Are Smoke, is still free for Kindle for the next 24 hours. Get your copy here: We Are Smoke a.co/d/4LJUTzK

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, until 14 December 2024. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Friends, my novel, We Are Smoke, is free to download on Amazon Kindle, all this week. It is a psychological puzzler set in Italy during the Christmas season. You can find it here: a.co/d/2o2NNVR

Happy holidays from the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania where there will be no Christmas snake this year… medium.com/@thatguybehi...

For the arrival of the holiday season, I always like to watch “My Night at Maud’s” which is set primarily on 22 December in Clermont, Fr. I was delighted to learn Le Suffren Bar is still around… lesuffren.com/en/about-us/

How do you write about sex—seriously? Irreverently? Not at all? msahno.com/articles/wri... #writerslife #WritingCommunity

“What if we didn’t technically kill our turkeys, but we instead ‘encouraged’ the turkeys to do it themselves?” medium.com/@thatguybehi...

To celebrate the first anniversary of Murder in the Lady Chapel the kindle edition is 99p for one week. Hannah Weybridge joins the church choir to investigate ... amzn.to/48yhz1P

“When you write crime fiction, you can really get caught up in plot and trying to make things work, and I always need to be remembered that I have to follow my characters and see where they take me when I start writing.” -Megan Abbott crimereads.com/megan-abbott...

“In noir, everyone is fallen, and right and wrong are not clearly defined and maybe not even attainable.” -Megan Abbott www.artofmanliness.com/living/readi...

“More than any of the other subgenres, the hardboiled requires a delicate balancing act.” mysteriousmatters.typepad.com/mysterious_m...

Raymond Chandler’s Ten Commandments For the Detective Novel: mysterytribune.com/raymond-chan...

“Hard-boiled detective fiction in the twentieth century both emulates High Art Literature and challenges the hierarchies produced by categories through intertextuality.” baas.ac.uk/baas-archive...

“Chandler had perhaps the most profound influence on mainstream literature of any crime writer, primarily through his precise, gritty, unadorned style—some would say more Hemingway than Hemingway.” crimereads.com/a-recipe-for...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” - James Baldwin

If you love crime @ukcrimebookclub.bsky.social are also on here. I am one of the author chat team along with @cazukcbc.bsky.social and @sambrownley.bsky.social message if you would like to book in an crime/thriller author chat !

Today is Micro Monday, and we are doing Micro Monday things. Read "Fish Soup" by @jenwithwords.bsky.social.

“The literary critic Harold Bloom once wrote that reading a novel is ‘the most healing of pleasures.’” spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...

“Satire depends on the distance between the laughing spectator and the ugly spectacle.” thepointmag.com/criticism/ce...

“Girl With a Datsun Tattoo”

“Film noir is largely rooted in French cinema, which not only heavily influenced American noir but continued to produce important contributions to the genre…” kinofilmcollection.com/news/move-ov...

This is a good idea. I should get a copper pot to catch mine.

Great writing from talented writer, Timothy Sunderland www.ace.aaa.com/publications...

Murphy’s Irish Stout in the pub before the fight.

www.jenknox.net/p/on-being-t... #thoughts

“Can genre not be literary? Isn’t ‘literary fiction’ itself a kind of genre?” crimereads.com/pitting-lite...