it was love at first sight

Think character. Think plot. Think theme. But when you sit down to write a scene… feel. #screenwriting

Austin! Tonight! Come on down!

I, for one, welcome our new death ball overlords

FINALLY!

this is it this is the article we've been waiting through all of 2025 for

Headline of the day. A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep

Crime headline of the day. Florida woman accused of using AI to create fake suspect

What a blast! I got to talk about my BREAKING BAD injury on The Ringer's podcast "Plot Hole or Not Hole." If you love BB, Vince Gilligan, writing, and especially the episode “To’hajiilee," check it out!!

What a blast! I got to talk about my BREAKING BAD injury on The Ringer's podcast "Plot Hole or Not Hole." If you love BB, Vince Gilligan, writing, and especially the episode “To’hajiilee," check it out!!

120 Murders? More like 120 meals! From now till Festivus, half the profits from the @ruadanbooks.bsky.social publisher store will go to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Profit margins are high too since there is no middleman between you and book! And the sum will be doubled by the CEO. So...

@legroff.bsky.social — my hero yesterday, my hero today, my hero tomorrow.

i mean at least make it “croissant”

New crime headline of the day

Crime headline of the day. Realtor’s sign on car door leads to her arrest for shoplifting at Florida Walmart

On chilly mornings, we are a purrito.

Headline of the day. Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

It’s the Gospel music for me 😂😂😂

Austin! C'mon down to Noir at the Bar on Saturday 11/8 at 7:30pm, part of the Texas Book Festival’s Lit Crawl.

Gizmodo article on next Murderbot novel Platform Decay: gizmodo.com/murderbot-pl...

The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social  is one of my favorite books. The End of the World as We Know It collects stories set in this world from a bevy of great authors! @meggardiner.bsky.social  @chuckwendig.bsky.social  @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social  @tananarivedue.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social

I'm honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2025 Imanoli Creative Writers Conference, hosted by the Chickasaw Nation. Sulphur, Oklahoma, November 14. The conference is open to the public at no charge. Registration is required - join me!

I won't wade into the marsh in which this conversation is currently going on, but I'm happy to note that the first thing a twenty-first-century publishing entity does on receipt of a manuscript and to prepare it for eventual publication is to yank out every single double space after a period. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Headline of the day. Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines bolted onto trailers as AI power crunch bites

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Crime headline of the day. Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines

It sounds crazy but I promise you: if you just put your phone aside and read for half an hour each night before bed, it will change your life.

I loved loved loved Heat 2. I'm ready for Heat 3! 💙📚 #Heat @meggardiner.bsky.social @epetergiles.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

The best advice I ever heard about this was "Maybe the reason the exec is asking for a car chase on page 38 is because the previous 20 pages of character development isn't working. They don't really want a car chase; they're just bored."

Sorry babe, we can't go to bed. It's bricked.

Headline of the day. AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright

Priceless Jewels Stolen From Louvre In Daytime Raid https://theonion.com/priceless-jewels-stolen-from-louvre-in-daytime-raid/

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

I, for one, am tired of living in a lesser Tom Wolfe novel.

must have been one helluva chase

Alllll of this. Every book I write changes me, tests me, improves me. I LIKE being pushed and finding out I can do something I never imagined I could. It’s powerful, joyful stuff.

SO MUCH

@meggardiner.bsky.social I hope they didn't steal the plot of a future book along with the jewels.

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

I loved EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD. Thanks, @aceatkins.bsky.social!

I know something about aircraft pricing, and when you "need" to get updated avionics, safety equipment etc. This is grotesquely wasteful, unnecessary, and self-aggrandizing. No Kings. Also, no cosplay Marie Antoinettes. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Sunscreen, hats, small American flags, a passionate love of democracy... check! Ready to go.

SHOHEI OHTANI. Shohei Ohtani’s legendary night leads Los Angeles Dodgers to another World Series www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/s...

And if it's so easy to make such a movie why would I watch anyone else's movie when I can just tell my computer "Cannibal ewoks swarm Titanic" and watch my own ideas?

Crime headline of the day. Florida teen accused of shooting himself in the leg while faking his own kidnapping www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

So glad you enjoyed the novel!

Take The Silence of the Lambs, Se7en and Zodiac and put em all together this is what you’ll get. Good stuff. @meggardiner.bsky.social

C'mon, scammers. Are you the Brain Worms Book Club or the Book Worm Club? Can't you respect me enough to at least *try* to fool me?