It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

COMING IN APRIL 2025: NO LIE LASTS FOREVER (Stay tuned for more details.) Preorder: www.amazon.com/No-Lie-Lasts...

The big-river place is not showing my publishers' books, including mine, for sale now. While our intrepid operational queen, Deirdre Wait, sorts this out, you can find my books on Bookshop, a better option for online book-buying, at bookshop.org/shop/rjcassb.... Done all your holiday shopping yet?

@chrisholmbooks.bsky.social Oops. Almost missed it. HBD, my friend!

"Ink is a generative fluid. If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." Hilary Mantel

Hive mind: Road trip crime novels? Where the road trip is integral to the story. And not crime sprees . . Weigh in . . Ex. Lou Berney’s November Road.

*O hushed October morning mild, thy leaves have ripened to the fall; tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, should waste them all.* ~Robert Frost, October

WIP just hit 200 pages . . time for another espresso ☕

Next week, the recipient of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction will be announced in an online event hosted by Alicia Vikander, featuring readings from all nine shortlisted novels! Join us at 5:30 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, October 25th: www.crowdcast.io/c/leguinpriz...

“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.” Ursula K. Le Guin

Small riff . .

Got mine . ..

What's that? You want a link? OH, FINE. www.bookandbar.com/events-upcom...

#WriterBeware: Another fake agency doing the solicitation thing: Collins Literary Guild. Web domain just 54 days old, multiple ludicrously false claims of repped books, and a roster of AI "literary agents" w/ bios cribbed from Sanford Greenburger Associates collinslitguild.com

Got a couple invites if you know someone looking for one.

Supporting all writers . . .

Great night at Topsham Public Library--doing the Make Your Own Mystery interactive event . . lively group. Barbara Ross, Jule Selbo, and me.

From the AG Authors Income report: ● Romance authors had the highest median gross income from their books, out-earning mystery, thriller, and suspense writers by more than three-fold and literary fiction authors nine-fold. Graphic novelists ranked second in book-related income. . .

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PSA: Netflix just dropped a new ep of The Great British Baking Show.

Awfully pleased that my first Elder Darrow, continues to sell steadily, even five years later. Thanks to yez . . .

open.substack.com/pub/richardj... Free sample--the novella in installments . .

Hella good thriller . .

Fun night. King nerds all over the place.