and too many books to only be reading one

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Our 2026 London Book Fair is roaring from the starting line

Thanks to everyone who RT'd & entered the draw to win Google Play Store codes for my #MarcDane action-thriller audiobooks NOMAD, EXILE, GHOST, SHADOW, ROGUE & OUTLAW! Congratulations to winners @dewline.bsky.social & @dduxbury.bsky.social, check your DMs for details!

US audio readers, take note! James is doing a giveaway for his excellent Marc Dane action-thriller series, all six available now in the US for the first time!

Look, I try not to be swayed by petty contests like sales charts, but it's always nice to pop in there in during pre-order week and find myself squeezed between Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas, no matter how fleeting. (Thanks, preorderers, you're swell.)

In case you missed this morning's announcement: new book! From me! Preorders open now.

It’s bad for motion pictures, and it’s bad for America.

Dan Moren - he fought the Galactic Cold War for you, now he's going to rob a tomb before it falls into a black hole so you don't have to.

Do you like escape rooms? Do you like heist novels? Do you like genetically-engineered, assassin bird-people? If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you *really* do not want to miss out on Dan's ETERNITY'S TOMB. Out in November. Pre-order today: angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/eternity-s-t...

We're so excited to see Adam Oyebanji's ESPERANCE is a finalist for the 2025 L.A. Times Book Prizes! Congratulations, Adam! 🎉 awfulagent.com/esperance-is...

Who wants to read the first page of GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER? 👀 If you want to know what happens next, be sure to pre-0rder the book now so you can find out October 13th! angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/datura-books... #cozymystery #booksky #debutauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity

We are estatic to share that Esperance by Adam Oyebanji is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Award 🥳🥳🥳 Read now if you haven't already to get entranced by this sharp and fast sci-fi thriller of a seemingly impossible crime. buff.ly/FM870gz

Generally, it seems to me, the left gets excited about technology that actually solves real problems for regular people (mass transit, green energy, vaccines and medicines, etc.) while the right gets excited for technology that funnels money from regular people into the pockets of billionaires.

Oh and the ebook of my supernatural detective novel ALL SOULS LOST is currently just $4.99 at a variety of stores. It was a book of the year on The Verge! Amazon: www.amazon.com/All-Souls-Lost... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/all-... Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/all-s...

If you're at Boskone this weekend, you can come catch me on a variety of panels, talking about everything from magic to heists, and, of course, Star Wars. Here's my full schedule. Come say hi or bring a book to sign!

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

Hey, my book's on sale. Go grab a copy for cheap.

Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.

My complete #MarcDane action-thriller series is now available in the USA (thanks to Bolinda Audio & @awfulagent.bsky.social for bringing them to 🇺🇸!) Get all 6 audios via Audible... www.audible.com/series/Marc-... ...Amazon... www.amazon.com/dp/B09PYPYJ8... ...or Kobo! www.kobo.com/us/en/series...

JAB favorites @aahabershaw.bsky.social, @dmoren.com, and @leighperry.bsky.social will be appearing at @boskone.bsky.social this weekend! (Have you registered yet?) To celebrate, be sure to snag ebooks from each of them, currently on sale for $4.99 each. Links to follow!

I'm at Boskone this weekend! Come and check it out! Come to me reading! Come to my signing! aahabershaw.com/2026/02/10/i...

I'm very excited to be joining the @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Author Book Fair this weekend! There's a Pitch an Agent event I'll be participating in, and I'm told there's still room for me to take some more pitches. So if you have a mystery pitch ready to go, consider dropping by this Saturday!

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

The cover for GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER is now out for the world to see!! Want to experience the humor and hijinks hiding behind this cover? Pre-order it today to enjoy it this fall!

We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for @jessmeywrites.bsky.social's upcoming debut mystery novel, GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER! The expected publication is October 13, 2026, by @daturabooks.bsky.social. queensbookasylum.com/2026/02/04/c... #CoverReveal #ComingSoon

If Bezos had cared about the Washington Post’s mission, he could have just funded it at a loss. There’s no reason he had to make a profit off it. He could lose money all year every year and still have more than enough to last him for his entire life and more. Instead he gutted it.

Our billionaire overlords don't want you reading. Period. Hard stop. Books are good. Keep reading books.

Great to see ESPERANCE on the @locusmag.bsky.social 2025 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2026/02/2025... @awfulagent.bsky.social Published in the UK by @arcadiabooks.bsky.social

Such a good time tonight listening to @emilynussbaum.bsky.social talk with @stephenfishbach.bsky.social about his novel, ESCAPE! Best of all, I got to meet Stephen, babble incoherently in my excitement, and leave with a very special message in my book 🐟

ONE WEEK from today, I finally get to share the cover for "Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder" with you! And better yet? YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PRE-ORDER IT! My team knocked the design out of the park, and I know you'll love it as much as I do. #mystery #cozymystery #debutnovel #graceandjo

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

really really excited that ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is out in the world 🖤🥀 Yah Yah Scholfield is an exquisite writer and this book is just a tour de force all around horror fans (yes YOU 🫵), do not miss this one!!! www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Sun...

I heard we're taking lines from our novels and making them into Valentine poems. 💌 #mystery #mysteryreader #sleuthers #cozymystery #cozymysteryreaders

When it comes to books, more is more — we have three client books publishing today! A very happy #bookbirthday to: 🥀 ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield ❤️‍🔥 SABER-TOOTH by @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social ☕️ DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson

The JAB team sends a BIG congratulations to @dirtbagqueer.rocks — her debut novel, ONE OF THE BOYS, is the 2026 Stonewall Award Winner! 🎉💖 awfulagent.com/one-of-the-b...

Y’all!!!!!! @dirtbagqueer.rocks won the Stonewall for ONE OF THE BOYS!!!!!!! So proud of Victoria and this book! Huge thanks to @capaciousmood.bsky.social and @levinequerido.bsky.social for helping to bring this book to life!!!! Let’s go!!!!!!

Esperance by Adam Oyebanji has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association for Best Novel 🥳 BookPage starred reviewed it, stating, "Lovers of sharp, fast sci-fi from the likes of Neal Stephenson will be right at home with Esperance." Voting is open now:

Those blaming failure to "reduce tensions" by telling protestors to stay home want you to be ok with/forget that masked federal thugs just murdered a man in broad daylight It's not a time to reduce tension. It's a time to stand up in overwhelming numbers They SHOULD be afraid of what happens next

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents** substack.com/@gelliottmor...

We must stop funding DHS.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

A HUGE congratulations to @rapscallison.bsky.social — FAGIN THE THIEF is a finalist for both the Edgar Award and the National Jewish Book Award, as well as being named a 2026 Jewish Fiction Award honor book! 🎉 awfulagent.com/fagin-the-th...

How can any World Cup team send their players to our nation in good conscience? Why should any Olympic team?

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

Does your eTBR pile need refreshing? Check out what we have on offer in Kobo's Thrillers Under $5/£5 Sale through the end of the month! Links to follow.

ENOUGH www.theverge.com/policy/85990...