Philadelphia could be a shining city on a hill for this tactic

"They fed our novels to the machine without asking if we wanted to be the voice of skynet." will7christopher.substack.com/p/highway-64

Back home from New Orleans #Bouchercon and just rolled a trinket shop voodoo doll in catnip and threw it to the little beasts. Now waiting to see if someone out there spontaneously rips open.

Turns out the cafés in New Orleans frown on it when you motorboat their pastries in public. But you get it, right? #Bouchercon2025

Security gave me this li'l scarlet letter to carry through airport screening. Sorta like a coupon for a free pat-down and a side-eye. And the extra time in line meant I got to hear my name over the airport PA for the boarding gate. Not quite the win that it sounds like. But I'm in NOLA. #Bouchercon

Hey y'all, I'll be at Bouchercon this coming week. Hit me up.

Hardware Store Clerk: Help you find something, sir? Me: Um... yeah... ant poison? Clerk: Aisle 10. That's Death Row. Another reason to support small, local businesses.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Turns out maybe this book's gonna have a long, slow burn after all... #MotherHowl

Anyone with experience in completing a self-evaluation for work? Advice?

Well, damn... this just made my evening. Thank you, so very much.

I've seen the latest "South Park." The hype has never been more accurate.

'Humpty Dumpty' sure hits a whole lot harder these days then when I was a kid...

"... rule 34 boils down to no such thing as unthinkable... rule 35 says the writers spin reality... rule 35 says the machines have no idea who they're fucking with..." Indeed. Machines don't have any ideas. At all. But writers do. 'Rule 35' is my new rallying cry. @will7christopher.bsky.social

Ask yourself why this would happen. youtube.com/shorts/xop7E...

Happy 'Barton Fink' Day. How goes the life of the mind?

The workshop filled up in a matter of hours; we're filling seats for round two and will lock down a date this week.

Gonna make some words, over here. Workshop beginning early July. www.burnt-tongue.net

@jordanharper.bsky.social is one of the finest crime writers working today. I cannot tell you how stupefyingly excited I am for this movie. SHE RIDES SHOTGUN is the book that inspired me and challenged me to write BLACKTOP WASTELAND. DONT MISS IT

This was a fun collaboration with @deadendfollies.bsky.social, a follow-up to his review of #MotherHowl and my previous Substack entry. You can read it all here: craigclevenger.substack.com/p/writer-vs-...

She got involved when she learned conspiracy theorists and bigots in Iowa, including Helena Hayes, sponsored anti-library bills. Read that last line. This is what's happening. The information is not getting out there. News is dead. And yet, SHE found it and is responding.

Lovely evening out with @curtisippolito.bsky.social and Sharon Ippolito, doing my best to regale them with Southern California lore and then hassling him for a signature on "Bury the Newspaper Man." As one does.

When I think about it, it's the dogs who are walking me... In the desert/my future home for a few days. Packed my laptop, a bag of books, my manuscript and four extra black t-shirts. Gonna catch up on some reading, make with the words, and see if I can howl back at the coyotes.

This is what happens when you let AI write your book reviews. youtu.be/twC08jG_5KQ?...

they are currently ignoring a supreme court decision and no one cares or is doing a single thing about it, its just so goddam infuriating

John Yoo once wrote at length in an OLC memo about what size box it was legal to lock a suspected terrorist in (spoiler alert: very small) and for how long, and whether it was okay to put an insect in there with him. So probably it's bad that they've lost him.

Oh... snap.

pop-pop YES

A sample of some of the noteworthy bits of closed captions I've noted: [Somber, inscrutable music playing.] [Indistinct commentary] [Erratic music pulsing] [unnerving piano playing] [villain breathes his last]

Cooking up a writing workshop... more details in due course.

Henry lays it out for me too.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/r... So this is a snapshot of how the rich treat the working class people who provide them with goods and services. 🤔 Shameful! #livingwellonless only works when basic needs are met.

See the problem here?

So Tesla just dropped its Q1 numbers and... 😬. The company brought in 20 percent less automotive revenue in the first quarter compared to last year, and profits? Down 71%. Let's get into it... 🔗 www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...

Parks employees, museum and library workers... these redhat jacknozzles just may have poked a big-ass sleeping bear.

Cheers, good man.

Thank you for sharing my testimony!

My lastest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/craigcle...

Here's one from the wayback machine... I'm fond of this piece. therumpus.net/2014/01/26/t...

The eight works in the search results include two other U.S. editions plus the French and Hungarian translations.

"The echo is not empty... we call out, and given time, the echo comes back bearing the entirety of the world." www.theredhandfiles.com/skeleton-tre...

Watch who and what they are attacking first.

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