So I created an alternate ending version. Enjoy ;) #DonaldTrump

2026 Edgar Award winners include @jakobkerr.bsky.social, @calfraser.bsky.social, @davezeltserman.bsky.social, Robert Crais, @hankphillippiryan.bsky.social, @gwenflorio.bsky.social, and Dan Fogelman. mysterywriters.org/2026-edgar-a... via @mysterywriters.bsky.social

The 20th Julius Katz mystery 'Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush' won the 2026 Edgar Award for best short story. The 21st Julius Katz mystery 'Julius Katz Gets Arrested' is in the current May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

My Julius Katz mysteries have now won an Edgar, Shamus, Derringer, and 2 Ellery Queen Readers awards. The most recent one Julius Katz Gets Arrested is in the current May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

And the 2026 Edgar Award for Best Short Story goes to...

Congratulations to Dave Zeltserman, winner of Best Short Story for “Julius Draws a Straight,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine – September-October 2025. (Must Read Books Publishing) #Edgars2026

@raskin.house.gov what would've been so damn hard about being honest and telling Bash that Trump is a terrible for this country? Hell, he's terrible for the world.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social what would happen in China embargoed rare earth mineral sales until US stopped their actions in Iran? Would that push Trump?

My latest crime novel (for now, only available in German) makes another best crime list in Germany, calling the novel "clever and ruthless."

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social The messaging Dems should be using about tariffs is that Trump stole over $100 billion from Americans with his illegal tariffs, and now is going to steal billions more with illegal tariffs.

Shot: Colbert explaining to his audience last night that the Trump administration ordered him not to air an interview with Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico - or even mention his name. (Scroll to 1:30) youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."

About my soon to be published German noir novel Everything Ends Here davezeltserman.substack.com/p/almost-ful...

Abrams Books has made The Caretaker of Lorne Field a Kindle Unlimited book, so if you have Kindle Unlimited you can now read about the Aukoiwes for free! www.amazon.com/Caretaker-Lo...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I have a new Mike Stone PI in hell story in the latest Black Cat Weekly. blackcatweekly.com/b/DHl0j

In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance lectured Appalachians for being lazy bums. He lectured "childless cat ladies" he claimed were unhappy. Now he's lecturing every woman with a white collar job for living a meaningless life. Such a smug, condescending jackass. No wonder everyone hates him.

Gotta credit the President for his extraordinary efficiency. How many past Presidents have managed to start AND end a trade war within four days?

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Julius Katz gets nominated!

"I've been shaken by not just the horror of Renee Good’s killing but the cruel and soulless rush to paint her as evil and unworthy of our sympathy or understanding." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-renee-...

we haven't really been in that business for about 130 years. and they've been a pretty good 130 years. and we've got plenty of stuff now, however we might have acquired it. also acquiring Greenland is wildly absurd. so basically stfu

Every time someone says "well, it's not an absurd idea," they're normalizing an absurd idea. We have everything we want from Greenland, and Trump isn't thinking about strategy, he's thinking about vanity and conquest.

My latest substack post: It's only Fiction davezeltserman.substack.com/p/its-fiction

The president's threat to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his desire to acquire Greenland shows that he does not see tariffs as an economic tool to help America, but as a weapon to hurt his enemies. That's the fundamental nature of his entire presidency.

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

Here's the deal: Trump, you can have all 3 of these awards, plus my prized issue of Mad Comics #13 if you just resign and leave us all the fuck alone!

I’m in love with him.👇

Always nice to see someone calling one of my books a gem (underrated or not!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkVl...

Insanity. This shit has to stop.

I think even @radiofreetom.bsky.social would agree that this post by Heather Cox Richard regarding fascism should be a wakeup call for all Americans. What she warns about is exactly Trump's playbook. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-...

Trump is running a world-wide extortion racket. Tariffs, domestic extortion, and now with the military in Venezuela. He doesn't care what type of regime ends up in Venezuela; all he cares about is extorting some oil from them. He'll keep threatening military operations until he gets his cut.

How long will it take for the morally bankrupt JD Vance to divorce his wife and disown his kids to appease Nick Fuentes?

So, not a bonus. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, who are in this case the same person

About my corny Julius Katz titles davezeltserman.substack.com/p/all-those-...

About Archie from my multiple award-winning Julius Katz mysteries davezeltserman.substack.com/p/about-archie

Happy holidays from Boston's most brilliant detective Julius Katz, his sister and top spy Julia, Parker (crossing over from the Morris Brick fictional universe), and of course, Archie!

Spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister, Morris Brick + Parker, Hell's only PI Mike Stone, and of course Archie! Detectives and Spies now on sale for $0.99 www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

With Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99, spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister Julia, Parker, a handful of demons that have escaped from Mike Stone’s private Hell, and of course, Archie. www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

For this holiday season I have Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99 www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

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Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

The Caretaker of Lorne Field cracking the top 10 of Amazon's US Horror list

Newsom's latest troll 😆

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sometimes books have surprisingly long tails davezeltserman.substack.com/p/the-long-t...

If you hadn't read Shelley's Frankenstein, I guess it's possible you might like Del Toro's heavy-handed, cartoonish adaptation, but if you have read it, I'd have to think you'd find the movie utter crap.