@kreckert.bsky.social
Crime writer. Crime reader. Crime watcher. Phillies baseball fan. Burger & chocolate chip cookie enthusiast. Terrible golfer. Irritated American. I collect books about every American President except one. Author of 10 books. Buy them on Amazon.
My new novel is available for preorder, in case anyone's interested.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZZ3J41B
Happy little #Slayer albums!
03.03.2025 02:55 β π 58 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Give me library, or give me death.
03.03.2025 19:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fun fact: Almost every classic era noir film was based on a book. And in most cases, the book is better.
03.03.2025 04:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Go write the damn thing.
03.03.2025 04:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Comic Panel of the Day:
26.02.2025 21:09 β π 197 π 21 π¬ 4 π 0#writingtips #writinglife #writingsociety #writerslife #writings
26.02.2025 00:30 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Black and white behind the scenes image. Fisher looks up at/talks to Lee, whoβs dressed in an Egyptian headpiece and collar in in black eye make up.
Terence Fisher directs Christopher Lee as high priest Kharis in Hammerβs The Mummy, which began filming on his day in 1959 π€
25.02.2025 09:10 β π 49 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0If youβre siding with Vladimir Putin, youβre wrong.
25.02.2025 17:01 β π 59531 π 10320 π¬ 1383 π 487Bookshops are my natural habitat. - Kathy Lette
Good morning. We are open. πβοΈ
25.02.2025 08:35 β π 95 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0this week's cover is on point
ht: @jamiegangel.bsky.social
supporting your public library is so sexy
24.02.2025 18:59 β π 2499 π 324 π¬ 44 π 13Humans haven't developed their organic intelligence anywhere near enough to be trusted to create dependable artificial intelligence.
24.02.2025 22:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Everyone was warned about this, and itβs happening just as we feared.
26.01.2025 01:44 β π 27623 π 6321 π¬ 1239 π 517*whispers*
Iβm beginning to think that our legacy media arenβt going to save us.
The world needs your stories. Now more than ever. Yes, Iβm talking about you. Yes, you. Go write your story.
For the third time, yes, you!
I get it. As an elder in the tribe, I'm hunkered down 4 the rest of my life. My heart is broken, too. I thought we were better than this.
We landed on the moon. We did that. Not Leon or Bezos. NASA. The American government, at JFK's challenge.
And here we are now.
This isn't a Ridley Scott film.
I've started a Substack. What the hell have I gotten myself into?
open.substack.com/pub/kreckert...
President Jimmy Carter has passed away at the age of 100. He was a symbol of what is best about America: kindness, compassion, duty and service. He will be missed, most of all by those who long for a return of that kind of country, led by a man with such strength of character.
29.12.2024 21:15 β π 44058 π 7339 π¬ 1089 π 549This remains, and I say this advisedly, one of the best exchanges I have ever seen on social media
27.12.2024 20:27 β π 63350 π 13598 π¬ 1137 π 786Fun fact: writers don't 'finish' books, we just eventually stop editing before we spiral into madness.
#booksky
There are some good adaptations of the Charles Dickensβ classic A Christmas Carol, and many bad ones, but only one truly great version, and it is the 1984 made-for-television movie starring George C. Scott.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
I've you're going to be the kind of asshole who goes around strictly policing other people's use of language, then you'd better not be using colloquialisms while you're doing it.
You can pick and choose to your heart's content, but only for yourself. Not for everyone else.