Drop your crime fighting Catholics.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

I’ve always wondered this. It’s like back in the print heyday being unable to buy a single issue of a newspaper or magazine and being forced to subscribe just to read an article you want. That would seem ludicrous, but somehow makes sense digitally?

@jordanharper.bsky.social just can‘t help getting the news headlines to do his book publicity for him. A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE coming April 28.

Dammit, now I need to watch I’LL BE ME again. I wasn’t planning on crying tonight…

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only.

I think there’s a pretty stark demarcation before Bridget Jones’ Diary and after.

These are the sorts of managers who make everyone come into the office for performative collaboration and productivity without having a clue how to actually lead.

Barnes & Nobel is having a preorder sale right now, including my next novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE. So take some of that money you saved from the Criterion flash sale and buy yourself some Literature™️

Detroit to Orlando.

Always nice to jump on LinkedIn demoralized about the job search and see a video from the company that laid me off crowing about their nearly $1 billion profit last year.

We need more publishers between the under-funded, under-resourced micro presses run by people with tons of passion and zero business sense and the major presses run by conglomerates with too much business sense and zero passion. I’ve been a part of a couple operations that tried, but it’s hard.

This weather definitely doesn’t feel like the beginning of ever single disaster movie ever. Not at all.

This feels representative of a lot of the problems with the larger media today. They want the freedom and respect that comes with being an objective journalist, but they also want the access and feel good appreciation that comes with being an insider. They ultimately end up betraying both sides.

Me too. I think there’s an element where we want to feel like that even at our worst we’re still redeemable. I mean, at least we’re not a professional killer.

“The US economy has LOST jobs since April 2025. Total job gains since from May 2025 to February 2026 are now -19,000,” Navy Federal chief economist Heather Long wrote. “Companies are not hiring in the face of all of these headwinds and uncertainty. And even healthcare is starting to slow down.”

Yes! And plays and poetry and comic books. Also look at art and listen to music and see live theater And puppet shows and drag shows. Experience all of the arts and let yourself be immersed and inspired.

This requires a longer bit of writing to really explore, but in our society we talk about “the dignity of work”, and that’s a mistake. People, I think, don’t emotionally crave *work*, they crave to *make*. To make a change in the working some individually pleasing way, physical, emotional, social.

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This is my favorite novel of all time and really explains so much about who I am. I ordered a replacement copy and just popped quickly into the prologue, which is such a brilliant and hilarious takedown of the pomposity of authors that could easily be published in McSweeny’s today and be relevant.

Despite life being a bit of a shitshow lately, I’ve been on an epic reading streak and this is one of the best. It’s got a very Emily Henry/ Matthew Norman vibe. It’s not a thriller but has fantastic pacing that reminds me of Peter Swanson. Thanks to @harpercollins.bsky.social for the early read.

Our entire economy is powered by a bunch of Kramers.

I fervently believe that the only way we free ourselves is to embrace a tangible retro future. Walk your dog. Write a book (draft in a notebook!). Knit. Do woodworking projects. Make book nooks. Paint. Buy vinyl. Plant a garden. And with that, I'm off to go sow seeds 😆 youtu.be/zkGk_A4noxI?...

My healthy cat and my favorite aunt died within a day of each other while I was still mourning my lost job. It's just too much grief, and I'm trying to process it the only way I know how- by writing about it. bryonquertermous.substack.com/p/sunrise-su...

Someone needs to coin a term for the phenomenon where once something reaches critical mass and dominates the Super Bowl commercials (.coms, real estate, crypto) the bubble for that thing bursts within the next two years. And fingers crossed it happens with AI.

RIP Mort - 2012-2026. This year has packed a decade worth of trauma into a month’s worth of time and I really need it to stop.

Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez and they have to be in a skit called Only Muppets in the Building.

Do it. By them all because you won’t be able to stop once you start.

Hey fam! Can anyone connect me with someone willing to sell a used copy of the Mythulu Starter Pack B (if these ever shipped?). Looks like these folks disappeared from their social channels a year ago, and ordering on their site doesn't work (I have also exhausted my googlefu for used copies).

I truly believe digital could be a great replacement for mmpbs, especially for genre authors and people who read on their phones, but publishers have screwed it up horribly on the author end with borderline criminal digital only contracts and on the reader end with equally abominable pricing.

I’ve also been binging the soul-enriching balm of Disney teen sitcoms from before 2016. So far GIRL MEETS WORLD, STUCK IN THE MIDDLE, and AUSTIN AND ALLY are my favorites with WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE in the mix.

The last week or so has been pretty miserable personally and professionally and I’ve been seeking solace in Tarot. I try different methods hoping for different answers than the ones that keep coming up until today. I got a message about the folly of trying to get different answers from the universe.

This is me. I let my brain loose and overwrite to find my way into a story, scene, or character. My favorite part of revision is pruning and sifting through it all for gold. I finally started factoring that overwriting into my end goal word count which has eliminated a lot of stress.

Forcing people with ADHD to navigate an insurance system composed of every single trigger and difficulty inherent to ADHD before they can get the medication that would make navigating that system easier is one of the most nefarious schemes out there these days. It’s bullshit at every stage.

The sad thing is Barnes & Noble is on the same path and people don’t seem to talk about it as much.

I Have Something to Communicate

First BQ&A Interview of 2026 is live w one of my favorite people in the world: @loriraderday.bsky.social We talk about art, inspiration, legacy and audience. Lori is such a smart and insightful writer and teacher. Enjoy! bryonquertermous.substack.com/p/bq-and-a-i...

For a decade we’ve known the biggest threat to our national security is right wing extremism. But rather than rooting it out and stopping it we gave them full control of our governmen.

It boggles my mind that I am still seeing brand new books coming out with blurbs from AJ Finn. Even if he wasn’t radioactive, the fact that he’s blurbed SO many books would make me want to avoid him.

THE PLOT was one of my favorite novels the year it came out, but @jeanhanff.bsky.social has outdone her own brilliance with this one. The Tom Ripley in Publishing vibe is still great here layered with themes of grief and ambition and who can really tell our own stories. I loved it so much.

I am a relentless cutter, but tamer than I used to be for this reason. After a certain point, I found the more cutting I did sucked everything out of the book that made it special and made it mine.

As someone who has judged multiple Edgar Award categories + other awards I’ve seen two scenarios play out 99% of the time. Most common is a small cluster of entries that are great and nearly indistinguishable between each other and it takes a lot of discussion and difficulty picking the winner. 1/2

Pieces like this should be heartening to all writers. Absolutely no one knows what will be a hit in publishing so all we can do as writers is write the book we want to write and make it as good as possible and then keep doing that until luck, timing, and readers are ready for what your stuff.

This is why a certain “progressive” social media provocateur - one of my earliest blocks on Twitter - found that his shit take hate bait content tanked on Bluesky even though it was very popular everywhere else. People here are sick of the negativity and just want a safe space to enjoy the Internet.

With all the shit going on in the US, stuff like the Razzies need to go away. Hate watching is a product of a time when people had to look for reasons to be unhappy. That is no longer the case. These days I’m all about support, kindness, and gratitude. www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/razzie...

Just finished by fourth book of the year and it was a good one.

Hard Same vvvvvvv

Great grandparents were Canadian and we live 30 minutes from the border. Good to know. Good to know.

Sunday reading.

I love the idea of optional captions for plot recaps, but integrated into the story is a hard no for me.