Many of you are freaking out because you've done the math and it's going to be very hard to finish that manuscript by New Year's. That's okay. It really is. Targets are to help you get words on the page. No one will know or care that you finish days or weeks after your date. Just. Keep. Writing.

This guy has a great eye for talent and for people. This sounds like a good one to get onboard with!

The Beast in Me on Netflix is fantastic. The setup sounds like a generic domestic suspense story, but its got a Patricia Highsmith vibe I really dig and the character work is stellar.

Boosting in case you missed the announcement yesterday.

Worth at least ten times the entrance fee. Go and get it.

Oops, I did it again. I was lucky enough to have @jtswriter.bsky.social chat with me about books, TV, careers, and what's important in life and in career. Check it out and please share far and wide! open.substack.com/pub/bryonque...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Buddy Guy Billy Joel & Elton John Nickleback Metallica Michael Bolton

This is great advice. I do a lot of this already but need to do more. I’m back to paper books after some time away. I LOVE the idea of using a sheet of paper as a bookmark and writing down distracting thoughts instead of immediately researching them. I also need/want to read more non-fiction.

Once again the real world is providing a grade A promotional plan for the new @jordanharper.bsky.social novel.

The last week or so has been incredibly stressful mwntally and emotionally, so I’m unwinding with Taco Bell and After The Thin Man.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong And I grew strong And I learned how to get along.

I already read it, but everyone else should be looking forward to WRECK YOUR HEART from @loriraderday.bsky.social

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

Peter Dinklage should be in everything, but the discussion of him taking over as the lead in POKER FACE makes me wish someone would finally get a Mongo series in production with him in it. www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

Rewatching Justified and this is just a perfect show. Brilliant dialogue, brilliant dialogue, brilliant dialogue, BOOM quick violence, brilliant dialogue. And the charisma between Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant is off the charts. Moonshine Batman and Joker.

Some days when you're writing a PI novel you need on the nose musical inspiration.

Thinking about Wake Up Dead Man inspired me to catch up with a classic. It’s like Stephen Sondheim got to write a Columbo episde.

In case you missed it in all of the Halloween hullaballoo, I launched a long form interview series in my newsletter with Michael Koryta as my first subject. Subscribe, read, comment, enjoy, etc.

I’ve wanted to do a long form interview series in the mold of the Paris Review interviews for a while, so I'm excited to finally launch the BQ&A Interview Series with fellow Paris Review interview lover @mjkoryta.bsky.social bryonquertermous.substack.com/p/debut-of-t...

Anyway, I'm 46 years old today, my first book was published 19 years ago. Buy em. openroadmedia.com/contributor/...

Just started this one and goddam if @jordanharper.bsky.social isn’t already topping the brilliance of his last one. Can’t wait to get grimy and uncomfortable as I dig in further.

Your weekly Roundup of what went right this week: www.positive.news/society/good...

Enter Sandman by Metallica. One intro that can be creepy and menacing and also pump you up is brilliant.

Your life and mine will get better if you use the block button instead of the quote button.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

If you're as into the Louvre heist story (and all art heist stories) as I am, might I suggest my scrappy fantasy heist, The Frame-Up? Filled with history of art and heists and smooth criminals with powers and a very good dog! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713370...

The Democratic Party is like a manager that bunts when they have a guy on first with one out and they’re down by 6.

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

I just realized that being on social media is essentially the same as interacting with NPC villagers in a video game. --has a quest for you --will give you directions --will try to sell you something --insults you --cannot be spoken to --has an impossible secret that requires internet research

FYI, fountain pens and typewriters are distraction free without a hint of AI in them.

I’ve never been happier to have a kid who knows Linux and wants to build his own computer. He’s taking career intensive courses in Cybersecurity and “ethical hacking” and getting a crash course in what garbage all of this is.

Dammit. Now I’m angry we never got a Tim Burton version of Pirates of the Caribbean with Angela Lansbury as Jack Sparrow.

New books by live queer authors need the money, support, and validation more than dead old white people.

I forgot I had a paper due in my Shakespeare class until the night before, so I went to my memory and wrote a brilliant one comparing The Simpsons version of Hamlet to Mel Gibson’s and the prof loved it.

Since @bookshop.org is offering free shipping through the end of the day why not pre-order my book and save a few coins?

Good tools reinforce flow.

Writing longhand in a restaurant the way god and David Mamet (before he went batshit) intended. I’m using a nice writing pad as @johnrogers.bsky.social intends instead of my cheap legal pads as well.

-Take long walks -Read long books -Get a therapist -Watch long movies in cinemas -Take long naps -Drive with the radio off -Write a letter to someone you love and mail it -Write a letter to someone you hate and burn it -Eat a good meal and let the chef pick what you eat

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

The weather is gorgeous out, my meds are working right, I look good and feel good, so I wanted to document it.

Elden Ring is an absolutely gorgeous game with a decent story, but Horizon Zero Dawn is beautiful as well and so much fun to play (robot dinosaur fighting!) and the story is heartbreaking and brilliant and a little too close to home these days.

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits: DnD 5e DnD 5e (2024) Shadowdark … I obviously need to play more, but finding new games is hard. I was lucky someone from my DnD group wanted to run a Shadowdark campaign.

I’ve been a big @dswinson.bsky.social fan from way back and love his mix of Pelecanos and Michael Connelly style, but this one is more rural and small town but just as great.

Let us turn off reposts for individual people. PLEASE!

This is a fantastic book and I have to imagine the audio version hits even harder.

I’ve been sick and miserable on and off for the last few weeks due to the flu and a medicine change and today is the first day in a while I’ve felt close to 100%. That means it’s time to play jazz records and power clean the house.

A billion dollars in the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same intensity and ruthlessness to prevent the former as we do the latter.

Pre-season Red Wings hockey with Holly as part of her 16th birthday weekend.

To see what it might look like if Westlake attempted his own version of PALE FIRE, check out HEADS YOU LOSE by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward where the co-authors and ex romantic partners wage a war with each in the footnotes about the direction of the plot. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/heads-you-...

For less than $2, you get: * Southern Gothic creepy horror * feminine rage galore * kooky haunted artists at an isolated retreat in the mountains * Good For Her catharsis The sale starts at Amazon, but the e-book price will likely spread to wherever you prefer to buy your books. Pls spread the word!