If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

Very cool news for all us getting older folks. From the Dust is also being released in Large Print everywhere books are sold. Preorder now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...

You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.

Heres the trailer for my new podcast “Deadly Engagement.” The first episode(s) available this week for #Dateline Premium subscribers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david... Hard to believe this will my sixth book with my wonderful publisher, Mulholland Books, and my editor Josh Kendall. You can preorder it everywhere books are sold.

www.facebook.com/reel/1001324... Dropkick Murphy’s rule!!

How anyone watches this and doesn’t automatically think every person around that table is extremely weak and pathetic is beyond me.

www.aol.com/california-t... This is excellent, so why does Trump get a pass?

This man is OUT OF CONTROL.

If you thinking of attending this festival Don't In a time where the strength of the human spirit is under assault from tyranny and fascism. When the Arist is more vital and important than ever this.abomination is an insult to every writer who ever bled on the page to tell HUMAN stories Fuck this

The elusive Purrl. #caturday

www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n... I am not surprised by this.

www.aol.com/legendary-ro... And I believed he actually bit the head off the chicken.

Hey, guys. Guess what we’re not talking about any more.

Hey folks, we’re hiring a managing editor here at Mysterious Enterprises/Penzler Publishers. See below for a view of our picturesque offices. More details here: www.mysteriousbookshop.com/pages/job-op...

I feel for my brothers and sisters with the DC police, but I’m happy I retired.

Upcoming: FROM THE DUST by @dswinson.bsky.social... civilianreader.com/2025/08/08/u... Latest novel from the author of the excellent Frank Marr series (and others). Due to be published by Mulholland, in March 2026. Really looking forward to this.

How do you spell “elitist”? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david... I know it’s a bit early but still putting it out there. Available everywhere books are sold!!

I am certain I’m in a coma and stuck in a nightmare. Thinking I had an accident after watching a couple of episodes of The Apprentice.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share ALL the books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this Stoker/Locus/Goodreads finalist! No, seriously, get you some. It’s discounted and I need a new contract. Hah. www.amazon.com/House-Bone-R... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-champio...

www.aol.com/york-city-au... This is just the beginning. The nuts are lining up.

I grew up listening to Black Sabbath. Around 1990 I had the pleasure of working with him and Bill Ward producing a music video for Bill Ward’s band. A great loss. Rest in peace Ozzy.

#Tuesday w @gvaljan.bsky.social >> 7criminalminds.blogspot.com/2025/07/no-s... @sincnational.bsky.social @chessiecrime.bsky.social @crimewriterscanada.bsky.social #writing

www.aol.com/bongino-stil... The plot thickens

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david... Available for preorder everywhere books are sold.

www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/b... Great job, LBPD! Karma’s a bitch.

A U.S. District judge in Los Angeles has ordered iCE to stop here temporarily based on 4th Amendment violations, specifying that race, vocation, and language are not probable cause for search and seizure. Whether they'll comply remains to be seen. #CrushIce www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

When we can win in court. The 7th circuit court of appeals is allowing the federal government to prevail as appeals are played out. open.substack.com/pub/michaeld...

When the hell is this going to stop?

www.threads.com/@brittainfor... Oh well, I guess bananas, mango and kiwi will be a luxury since we don’t grow enough to supply the whole country.

Cover reveal! From the Dust is now available for preorder everywhere. It’s being released by Mulholland Books on March 31, 2026.

Dave is right

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

Cover reveal for From the Dust coming soon.

www.aol.com/australian-r... Police appeal to the public to be in the lookout for a missing head.

It is spreading. Police jurisdictions, now firefighters. We are not going to allow this in our country anymore Stand firm!! www.threads.com/@bernardtayl...

In an interview last month with Seattle Times reporters, Barnes said the department does not and will not ask anyone about their immigration status and would not cooperate with immigration officers. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Pool day in upstate, NY! Feels like a sauna out there. Pool is 78%.

I miss those days sometimes, catching real criminals as a police detective, not like today where innocent people are being kidnapped. That bulk is not me. It’s a Kevlar vest and other things attached to my belt and I don’t have a mask.

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

Moulton: I have heard that a lot of officers are considering resigning their commissions because they question whether this is constitutional—whether they’re violating their oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not the president, by carrying out these orders. These are active discussions

Definitely!

How it should be with humans.

This is hideous www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...