James Farner

JAB favorites @aahabershaw.bsky.social, @dmoren.com, and @leighperry.bsky.social will be appearing at @boskone.bsky.social this weekend! (Have you registered yet?) To celebrate, be sure to snag ebooks from each of them, currently on sale for $4.99 each. Links to follow!

I’m at Boskone 63! Come see me! Hi, everyone! Another year has passed, and here we are back at my favorite convention, Boskone! Granted, part of the reason this is my favorite convention is because I just have to get on the train…

I'm at Boskone this weekend! Come and check it out! Come to me reading! Come to my signing!
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Poster for the Brooklyn Books & Booze Author Book Fair. Books for Sale! Pitch an Agent! Raffle! Attending Agent: James Farner Saturday February 7th 11am - 5pm Barrows Intense Tasting Room 86 34th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232

I'm very excited to be joining the @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Author Book Fair this weekend!

There's a Pitch an Agent event I'll be participating in, and I'm told there's still room for me to take some more pitches. So if you have a mystery pitch ready to go, consider dropping by this Saturday!

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

The cover for GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER is now out for the world to see!!

Want to experience the humor and hijinks hiding behind this cover? Pre-order it today to enjoy it this fall!

Cover Reveal: Grace & Jo Have Never Solved A Murder By Jess Mey - Queen's Book Asylum We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for Jess Mey's upcoming debut mystery novel, GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER! The expected publication is October 13, 2026, by Datura Books.

We at the Asylum are excited to host the cover reveal for @jessmeywrites.bsky.social's upcoming debut mystery novel, GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER! The expected publication is October 13, 2026, by @daturabooks.bsky.social.

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#CoverReveal #ComingSoon

If Bezos had cared about the Washington Post’s mission, he could have just funded it at a loss. There’s no reason he had to make a profit off it. He could lose money all year every year and still have more than enough to last him for his entire life and more. Instead he gutted it.

Our billionaire overlords don't want you reading. Period. Hard stop.

Books are good. Keep reading books.

2025 Recommended Reading List Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…

Great to see ESPERANCE on the @locusmag.bsky.social 2025 Recommended Reading List

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Published in the UK by @arcadiabooks.bsky.social

ESCAPE! by Stephen Fishbach, autographed and personalized to say “To James, Fishy for you!”

Such a good time tonight listening to @emilynussbaum.bsky.social talk with @stephenfishbach.bsky.social about his novel, ESCAPE!

Best of all, I got to meet Stephen, babble incoherently in my excitement, and leave with a very special message in my book 🐟

ONE WEEK from today, I finally get to share the cover for "Grace & Jo Have Never Solved a Murder" with you! And better yet? YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PRE-ORDER IT!

My team knocked the design out of the park, and I know you'll love it as much as I do.

#mystery #cozymystery #debutnovel #graceandjo

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

On Sundays She Picked Flowers “A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art.” —Victor LaValle In this sinister and surrea...

really really excited that ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is out in the world 🖤🥀 Yah Yah Scholfield is an exquisite writer and this book is just a tour de force all around

horror fans (yes YOU 🫵), do not miss this one!!!

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I heard we're taking lines from our novels and making them into Valentine poems. 💌

#mystery #mysteryreader #sleuthers #cozymystery #cozymysteryreaders

The book cover for ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield. A portrait of a Black woman peers out at the reader; only part of her face is visible as colorful flora and fauna encompass her. The title is overlayed in white serif text.

The book cover for SABER-TOOTH by Robin Gow. The illustration shows a young boy in the top third of the cover digging a hole near a tree in a backyard. The bottom two-thirds of the cover shows what lies in the dirt beneath his feet: a giant sabertooth tiger skeleton with glowing red eyes. The title is in yellow text between the boy and the skeleton.

The book cover for DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson. As with the other Bookstore Cafe Mysteries, the cover features a black and white cat as well as the title drink. In this case, the cat is laying on a table wearing a green Irish hat and looking adorably grumpy. Next to the cat is a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it as well as a delicious-looking coffee with an Irish flag sticking out of the top of it. The bookstore in the background has some St. Patrick's Day decor, and the title is overlayed in white font at the top of the book.

When it comes to books, more is more — we have three client books publishing today! A very happy #bookbirthday to:

🥀 ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield
❤️‍🔥 SABER-TOOTH by @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social
☕️ DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson

The JAB team sends a BIG congratulations to @dirtbagqueer.rocks — her debut novel, ONE OF THE BOYS, is the 2026 Stonewall Award Winner! 🎉💖

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Y’all!!!!!! @dirtbagqueer.rocks won the Stonewall for ONE OF THE BOYS!!!!!!!

So proud of Victoria and this book! Huge thanks to @capaciousmood.bsky.social and @levinequerido.bsky.social for helping to bring this book to life!!!!

Let’s go!!!!!!

Vote for the BSFA Awards

Esperance by Adam Oyebanji has been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association for Best Novel 🥳 BookPage starred reviewed it, stating, "Lovers of sharp, fast sci-fi from the likes of Neal Stephenson will be right at home with Esperance."

Voting is open now:

Those blaming failure to "reduce tensions" by telling protestors to stay home want you to be ok with/forget that masked federal thugs just murdered a man in broad daylight

It's not a time to reduce tension. It's a time to stand up in overwhelming numbers

They SHOULD be afraid of what happens next

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**

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Screenshot of post reading: These are not rogue agents. This is an all out assault on American life. ICE is a criminal organization that is entering homes without judicial warrants, detaining witnesses, and killing people. All at the direction of Trump. We must stop funding DHS. There is no other path forward. Responding to post reading: The Tribune also says ICE has transported several witnesses into detention.

We must stop funding DHS.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

A HUGE congratulations to @rapscallison.bsky.social — FAGIN THE THIEF is a finalist for both the Edgar Award and the National Jewish Book Award, as well as being named a 2026 Jewish Fiction Award honor book! 🎉

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How can any World Cup team send their players to our nation in good conscience? Why should any Olympic team?

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

Does your eTBR pile need refreshing? Check out what we have on offer in Kobo's Thrillers Under $5/£5 Sale through the end of the month! Links to follow.

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

ENOUGH www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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