Happy Pride Month! ( before anyone says anything dumb we have a Month for Veterans and if u wanna say something slick the door is that way)

In America you can kill a black kid who only had skittles and ice tea Or you can shoot a black kid in the back because you SUSPECT he stole a bottle of water that he didnt. In the BACK. And yeah he had a gun in his pocket that HE DID NOT PULL Black lives matter TOO Sadly we need reminding

KING OF ASHES made the short list for the Gold and Steel Dagger and SPLIT MY SILVER TONGUE made the final list for the Short Story Dagger Thank you to all the UK readers and the CWA

So here is the billboard in my home town!

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Anthony studied Cody's face. A bruise the size and shape of a small bottle bloomed on the left side of his face. " His "friend " did it." Lark asked. Anthony grunted. "And you telling me cuz?" "He shouldn't get away with it " Lark said "Its no big deal "Cody's said Anthony looked at her

People crying about Homelander is the ultimate " you dont get the satire " moment in current pop culture

So KING OF ASHES won the Netherlands Booksellers Award for Thriller of the Year! I won the same award for Razorblade Tears . Apparently im the first writer in the 47 year history of the award to win it twice! Thank you to all the readers and booksellers from The Netherlands!!!

Dinner at rooftop bar with one of my best friends Blake Howard ( One Hot Minute Podcast) and his lovely wife and their mates An amazing night in Sidney!

Touched down in Sydney Australia... G'day

Top of the world Ma #Skytower #Auckland

Nice day at the Auckland waterfront

Joined these amazing writers to tell live stories of love lost , love won and love burned to ash... Kia Ora my friends 🧡 #Aucklandwritersfestival

My NZ guide, rangler and all around savior Suzy Maddox Kia Ora Suzy and thanks for everything!!

On an adventure.....

As of today Thank you to all the readers and fans and booksellers and other writers who inspired me to never ever give up I hope this inspires you too. We are storytellers man... We change the world with words. Never ever give up.

Nice to meet your idols Like Karin Slaughter ☺️

See you guys in Calgary

Im in a bar in NYC. Im at Thrillerfest and im reflecting on how far .my love affair with words has taken me Im truly a very lucky man Long live the storytellers

Flip contemplating destruction

Im not giving up my civil rights without a fight. My word is my bond

In no particular order, some pics from my travels this year ... I have the best job on the world 🥶

Sadly this is the last pear martini ill get at one of my favorite local restaurants. After 20 years Center Street Grill in Williamsburg Va is closing Thanks to the entire staff and the owner Jacki Raimos for so many good meals and good memories. I celebrated my book deal from Flatiron here 😪

One of the greatest writers working today and one of my best friends. Do yourself a favor and go buy A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE TOUCH THE DARKNESS

Heading out before helping Jordan Harper celebrate the release of his incredible book A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE

Light and shadow in LA Channeling my inner Phillip Marlowe

At the restaurant where they filmed the diner scene in Reservoir Dogs

At this point there's not much more i can say to convince you to but A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE. I can tell you it elevates the genre reaching Shakespeare-like level of pathos set against a blood red sky and no humidity and the beautiful ugly mess that is LA Or I can tell you its the most

The amount of shit i tht we had gotten past specifically in America that I have to fight all over again has me incandescent with rage This is supposed to be my boat in a bottle time but I guess I gotta lace up the fuck u boots and start kicking

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a heartfelt, violent tale of bad weather, magic, murder, vengeance, ghosts, and creatures from beyond the reef…and the hardcover is only $14! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Scenes from the Biltmore Hotel. One of the last places The Black Dahlia was seen alive

Black Excellence 😎 So many great writers in one picture. Kennedy Ryan ( with her husband Sam) Danielle Allen Riss Neilsen Producer Domique Relson Amy Dubois Barnett Austin Channing Brown Oh and me lol having an amazing dinner at The Biltmore Hotel Maybe my favorite memory of the weekend 💙

Me and the Great actor Dominic Hoffman ( A Different World ) at the LA Times Book Festival

You might be gangster... But you ain't as gangster as @stephengrahamjones.com and me in my Peaky Blinders hat lol 😆 Shout out to @todgoldberg.bsky.social for sneaking this pic. #LATIMESBOOKFEST

LA Times Book Awards ...lost to the great Megan Abbott had a blast tho !

This fantastic photographer caught me in a quiet moment at a dance club and bar in Lyon France on the final night of Quais Du Polar. I think I was just ruminating on all the places words have taken me and how I get to take the ancestors with me... Also I might be drunk lol 😆

I had a hand in creating this longlist and can tell you we had a lengthy and passionate discussion about every book on here. It's been a privilege to be part of the process. #BookSky 📚💙

He pulled the 1911 Colt from his waist bamd and shot the jukebox Everyone froze as the music came to a garbled stop . " Now you can have a story to tell your grandkids or you can meet your great-grandpappy. All depends on what you do next with my friend there" HIGHWAY FULL OF NIGHT WIP

Jack Harlow wearing a hat that looks like it was made by a visually challenged goblin he forced to watch late 90's BET after dark is oddly satisfying when viewed as a companion piece to his terrible new album lmao

Leaning against a door that is older than the country of my birth....#France #Renne #Voltaire

The KING OF ASHES paperback is the Barnes and Noble Thriller pick for April.....

Watching Law and Order in France and why they got Ice T sounding like The Count high on heroin lmao

Greetings from Paris

Five years today I hope you know how much we miss you I hope you're proud Whenever I got down about my writing career she would tell me "It WILL happen. You will get published. Its what you are put on earth to do. Birds gotta sing, bees gotta sting. You gotta write" Im trying Mama

KING OF ASHES is out today in paperback!!! Its also gonna be B&N thriller pick Thank you to everyone who has shown my dark family crime drama some love "Everything burns"...

I had no business reading this wnen I was 14 but it did introduce me to the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain . Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer and their archnemesis the Deaf Man ( who haunts this book on the edges) are some of the best characters in mystery fiction And the twist in this is fire

LAMB OF GOD , @pattonoswalt.bsky.social Timbaland, Breese D'J PANCAKE , Allen Iverson and me are from Virginia #2UP2DOWNVA ALL GODDAMN DAY The Old Dominion is undefeated when it comes to talent

Im a writer who earns his living selling books If me speaking out against this administration, against genocide worldwide, against the racist detaining of immigrants against the disenfranchisement of poor people against the r*people of creativity by AI companies against the dehumanization of