Russell W Johnson
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
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Attorney and author of the Mountaineer Mystery Series.
#WVU
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Rock and a Hard Place
about 2 months ago
Every once in a while, literature offers us a story that champions the spirit of humanity.This is NOT that story. DIRTBAGS is a modern classic of Southern gothic and noir from
@erykpruitt.bsky.social
. Order your copy today:
bit.ly/44wCbWX
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Ron Earl Phillips
2 months ago
These things sneak up on you. Last book of the year.
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Trump can still win the Nobel Peace Prize if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
2 months ago
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I love when ex-heroin addicts lecture people about taking prescription drugs
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3 months ago
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓
3 months ago
Well lookie hrrrrr. Let’s get ready to rumble!! I kid, of course.
@gabino.bsky.social
and
@christafaust.bsky.social
would wipe the floor with me. Either way, fun should be had! Drop by if you can.
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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓
4 months ago
Once more, for the afternoon crowd. If you’re feeling generous, I could use a boost.
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Meagan Lucas
5 months ago
How fucking lucky are we? All these brilliant books came out this week!
@cwblackwell.bsky.social
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
@skbarnidge.bsky.social
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Jeff Sexton
5 months ago
#BookReview
: The Miner's Myth by
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
(via
@shotgunhoney.com
). Solid Conclusion With One Significant Flaw.
#amreading
#mystery
#courtroom
#drama
#legal
#WestVirginia
#police
#family
#secrets
#appalachia
#BookSky
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Meagan Lucas
6 months ago
I stole this pic from
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
it's from the Backroads Noir Gathering on Friday night. I think it sums everything up perfectly. Love these folks.
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Casey Stegman
5 months ago
Happy pub day to the awesome
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!!!
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Casey Stegman
5 months ago
So grateful to have been asked for a blurb. Here it is, and every single word is true.
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
is a damn talent!
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Book 3, the final chapter of the Mountaineer Mystery Series, is available for pre-order. Hope you’ll check it out.
shotgunhoney.com/books/catalo...
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The Miner’s Myth
Sometimes the Devil you know is better than the one you don’t. That’s a hard truth Sheriff Mary Beth Cain is reluctantly coming to terms with. After ridding Southern West Virginia of her moth…
https://shotgunhoney.com/books/catalog/the-miners-myth/
6 months ago
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Wanted to share some good news. Although I’m finishing up my Mountaineer Mystery Series with Book 3, THE MINER’S MYTH, due July 15, my writing career is just getting started. I’ll be transitioning to my first legal thriller that was recently sold to Red Adept Publishing. Stay tuned.
8 months ago
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Rachel Maddow
9 months ago
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” the judge said. “If this was a criminal case. … I’d throw you out of my chambers.”
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Judge releases detained Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status
The judge said the detention of the couple was baseless and unlawful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/28/judge-releases-detained-venezuelans-temporary-protected-status/
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Mark Hamill
9 months ago
Not satisfied with purchasing a Presidential Election to become co-President, Sissy SpaceX now wants to buy himself a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. You can end his shopping spree, Wisconsinites! đźš« đź’°
#VoteForJudgeSusanCrawford
🗳️ ✅ 👍 This is super important.
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Dan Diamond
9 months ago
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
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RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/rfk-jr-fda-vaccine-scientist-peter-marks/
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Chris Hayes
9 months ago
He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.
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Mark Cuban
9 months ago
Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim
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Wajahat Ali
9 months ago
Free speech warriors and conservatives who fight for the First Amendment and bla bla bla, please defend this. A student arrested by masked individuals on campus for writing an OP-ED! Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=bs-share
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Clara Dolderman
10 months ago
This is great. I hope they are wildly successful, as they deserve to be!!
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If Canada becomes the 51st state does that mean we can get universal health care?
10 months ago
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The triumvirate of Putin, Trump, and Musk should bring a permanent end to the James Bond franchise. No fictional villain could ever outdo this reality.
10 months ago
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Movie idea: THE MATRIX REALITY where it turns out the simulation is the true world and Neo was just a depressed loner with delusions of grandeur
10 months ago
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I’m starting to think the Trump-Russia thing wasn’t a hoax
10 months ago
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I’m starting to think Trump was lying when he said he didn’t know anything about Project 2025
10 months ago
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Any othe writers struck by the irony?
www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...
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OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of stealing IP
Microsoft-backed OpenAI has accused Chinese competitor DeepSeek of using its proprietary models to train its own system.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-deepseek-stealing-ip
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WVU Magazine | Russell Johnson: A coal country kid turned writer
When Johnson graduated from West Virginia University in 1999 — a double major in English and history with a minor in creative writing — the former Calliope staff member and writer for the Daily Athena...
https://magazine.wvu.edu/stories/2024/11/02/coal-country-kid-turned-writer
12 months ago
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I’m 47 years old. There have been six recessions in my lifetime. 1980, 1981, 1990, 2001, 2007, 2020. What do each of these have in common?
about 1 year ago
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Titan Books
about 1 year ago
We are thrilled to announced that Titan Books has acquired two novels and a short story collection by Bram Stoker Award®-winning horror author
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
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Had a great time cheering on
#wvubasketball
in the Bahamas, and The Moonshine Messiah merch made it on TV
about 1 year ago
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The Mountaineer Mystery Series has been included with the Best of West Virginia items at Tamarack!
about 1 year ago
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Rob D. Smith
about 1 year ago
Books from
@meaganlucas.bsky.social
@cwblackwell.bsky.social
@coyhall.bsky.social
@keithrosson.bsky.social
@meproctor.bsky.social
@russellwjohnson.bsky.social
@bamawriter.bsky.social
@mcginley.bsky.social
and more!
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Soon movers and shakers will be saying, “Have your robots contact my robots.”
about 1 year ago
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Laura Leigh Morris
about 1 year ago
JAWS OF LIFE -- Short stories Appalachia
wvupressonline.com/node/719
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Gabino Iglesias
about 1 year ago
It’s
#FridayReads
time! Let’s boost all signals and help readers find awesome books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Me? I have a creepy tale about friendship, vengeance, old gods, and monsters from the deep. “Stunningly visceral.” — NYT
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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Putting together a list of likely AG nominees now that Gaetz has withdrawn: Giuliani The Cracken Lady Better Call Saul Who am I missing?
about 1 year ago
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Shotgun Honey
about 1 year ago
Order these beauties today.
shotgunhoney.com/books/at-the...
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Shotgun Honey
about 1 year ago
Up this Tuesday. THE SWITCHBLADE SVENGALI by
@coyhall.bsky.social
. Royce Pembrook is back.
shotgunhoney.com/books/the-sw...
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The Switchblade Svengali by Coy Hall
When the bell tolls midnight, it’ll be 1968. Royce Pembrook is living well in a new city, with new patrons, a new name, and a new trade. But he’s the same scam artist he’s been for thirty years. Si…
https://shotgunhoney.com/books/the-switchblade-svengali-by-coy-hall/
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Hard Mountain Clay rocked me.
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about 1 year ago
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Raven Crime Reads
about 1 year ago
A firm
#RavenRecommend
... 💙📚
ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/r...
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Raven’s May Reading Round Up
May has truly been a month of bookish delight in the Raven’s nest, with a bunch of really good reads to entertain me. Took part in two blog tours- Stella Blomkvist- Murder Under The Midnight …
https://ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2024/06/01/ravens-may-reading-round-up/
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Have to admit, if Roseanne Barr isn’t given a key role in the new administration, I’ll be a little disappointed
about 1 year ago
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Just waiting to hear that Trump has nominated Vladimir Putin as FBI Director, followed by typical right-wing gaslighting.
about 1 year ago
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C.W. Blackwell
about 1 year ago
My second novella released in early 2023 from
@shotgunhoney.com
HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY is a heartbreaking coming-of-age crime tale, set in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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This Chic-fil-A in Morgantown, WV used to be a restaurant called Pargos, where my wife, Michelle, and I went on our first date. That was April 1997. Here’s our kids 27 years later.
about 1 year ago
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WVU Mountaineers
about 1 year ago
Hello, Bluesky. đź‘‹
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Casey Stegman
about 1 year ago
I’ll never tire seeing my name in print. Received my contributor’s copy of AT THE EDGE OF DARKNESS (from
@shotgunhoney.com
), featuring a killer TOC of horror and crime writers. The proceeds for the anthology go to kids in foster care. Pick yourself up a copy:
shotgunhoney.com/books/at-the...
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Who wants to be the first to start some writer drama over here on the new platform?
about 1 year ago
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All Bluesky has to do to instantly take over X’s marketshare is let you edit your posts for free.
about 1 year ago
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I know we’re trying to be non-toxic over here on Bluesky. But are we all still agreed that Bran becoming king at the end of GOT was the worst?
about 1 year ago
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DGBassani
about 1 year ago
Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.
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