Vincent Gardner

Great moment. And several of them never quite get it - they pronounce it egermency... wonderful film.

Cover of The Age of Longing, by Richard B. Wright

The Age of Longing, by Richard B. Wright, the book I always suggest on those many, many occasions when people ask for the great Canadian novel.

Rear Window is one of my top five. Along with The Russians are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

Bluesky is the benevolent, life-giving sun, maybe?

Enjoy using #Calibre to convert a doc to EPUB and then tweak, tweak, tweak the HTML and CSS. I've got two books coming up soon on Kobo - the first two in my hard-boiled, gritty-cozy #Kennedy-Meyer series. #writing #editing #BookSky #WeAllWish #Flip 💙📚🖋️

Is it a law? I'm asking here: is it a law that the second you publish a #book, a big, fat, wet typo leaps up and slaps you in the face? Is. It. A. Law? #writing #editing #BookSky 💙📚🖋️

Just noticed a typo on a random page of my upcoming book. It's been proofed to death, this book, but there it is - 'Wison' instead of 'Wilson'. Probably no one would ever have noticed, but it would bother me to the grave. #BookSky 📚🖋️💙 #writing #editing

The cover of my upcoming novel, Flip, showing the title in extremely large font, with a small drawing of a house overtop of a line of upside houses. Book 2 in the Kennedy-Meyer series.

Surprised that my upcoming book took only nine drafts, instead of my usual 21 or 22. Am I improving, or lowering my standards? #writing #books #reading #BookSky

"A few."

Not very beguiling, I admit, but that's it, sentence two on page 42.

Thanks very much. I'm on a kick of finally reading authors I really should have read by now, and Barnes is next. Can't believe Flaubert's Parrot is forty.

Success in 2026! Somebody read thirty-six pages of a book I removed from sale two years ago.

Well, I'll take my fifteen-cent royalties any way I can get 'em. #writing #writinglife

#Life is all about curiosity, imagination, creativity, discipline, persistence, patience.

The Future of Film Is Behind Us Whatever happened to 3-D?

Not just 3D, either. I'd say that 3D and VR have had about eight lives each so far. Maybe one more go before AI sweeps us all under the carpet? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

You make a post and it gets a like a half-second later. Not even enough time to read it. And it's usually a different account. Only about 10% of what we see on sm has any meaning or significance. This is one of the resaons I dumped bs and the other place. But I'm back. in. like a duhty shoit.

The cover of We All Wish, a gritty-cozy, hard-boiled noir rom-com crime drama.

In about three weeks I'll publish Flip, the second novel in my gritty-cozy, noir, hard-boiled, rom-com crime drama (think Spenser and Susan without the smarm). #BookSky 📚💙🖋️ #writing The series began with #WeAllWish:

#AI is sloppy because it's warning us, giving us a chance: don't do it. Really - just don't. You think it's bad now? It will get worse in ways you can't imagine. AI is Tony #Soprano and Richie Aprile. Unfortunately, we're Davey Scatino, determined not to listen to multiple warnings.

I wish! The thing is, the one that's about to come out doesn't seem so hot anymore, although I loved it six months ago while I was editing it. But the next one, the one that's 3/4 written, well, that one's a beauty! Until it's on the verge of hitting the market.
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There's always that moment when I have a book that's in the final stages of publication prep, and I have another that's 3/4 written, that I fall massively out of love with the one that's about to come out. Can't hold a candle to my brilliant next one! #writing #BookSky 📚💙🖋️ #editing

Don't get me wrong. I'm fine with abolishing fines. I just couldn't figure out whether the other poster was.

Photo of my books during a book sale last November.

Did my first in-person book sale in November. Loved it. Had my best day ever, sales-wise, including five copies of my cat book, You Say You Want a Revolution. The world needs more cat books. #BookSky #writing 📚💙🖋️

If James Bond movies are to be believed, it's unhealthy to bathe in gold. Maybe bathe in a gold-plated tub? Nonetheless, I salute your satirical tone, (though I'm not entirely certain what you're getting at: Fines don't amount to bupkas? And therefore no big hardship? Just asking.)

Stop Talking About the Moon Just look at it.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... The worst is when people start giving the moon powers to birth babies, fill emergency rooms, etc. Affecting tides not good enough for you? Not impressive enough? The tidal interplay between Moon, Earth and Sun is fascinating.

YouTube video by Sam Gutman How Much Money I Make as a Professional Musician

This is such a great discussion of making a living as a relatively no-name working musician. It's just fascinating, with real dollar figures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_BX...

After all the popular representations, I was amazed to read how much of it took place in snow, on glaciers, in the Arctic and on mountainsides. Howling cold was a character.

Always do a final proofing in Kindle Create's previewer with the font blown up huge. Easiest way to spot typos, missing quotation marks, errant commas, etc. Then I get a print proof. #writing #editing #BookSky 📚💙🖋️

Reading Judith Hearne, by #BrianMoore. Compelling. Depressing, but compelling. The level of desperation in the novel is right up there with Of Human Bondage. Very similar books, really. #writing

I just found The Bay of Angels in a used bookstore. I'm on a kick of finally reading authors I've been intending to get to for centuries now (Brookner, Naipaul, Gordimer...)

The cover of my novel, You Say You Want a Revolution, showing a cat face on what might be a most-wanted poster.

Thanks for the platform! My best seller is a book about a cat who feels humans have been king of the hill for long enough. With like-minded feline revolutionaries, she prepares to overthrow humankind.

Things do not go as planned.

In 2026, I shall publish the following:

Flip: the second novel in the Kennedy-Meyer crime/romance series (written, proofed, doing layout.)

The Short, Funny Pieces: needs no intro (mostly written)

Clearly Now 2: second novella in series about two extremely old men after the apocalypse (started).

I look at my #book sales since the Book Fest on Nov. 22 and I wonder why I bother marketing/selling from Jan to Nov. 20. Christmas is everything for book sales. Especially paperbacks. #Write from Jan-Nov and then sell, sell, sell in December.

#writinglife