Books and the Beard

Convo at our house—

Heather: You’re a brat!
Me: You’re a brat!
Heather: I guess we are both brats.
Me: Yeah, we’re the wurst!
Heather: …
Heather: You’re done.

😆

Hi, Steve, writer of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and poetry.

My ideal writing place would be a study with a huge desk with lots of room for the computer, monitor, pens and other desk items, and lots of notebooks.

There would also be a magic shelf that instantly has any source book I need.

😎

New tattoo. Lovin’ this one.😎

#tattoo

Question for all you cool folks out there:

If they remade the show, Breaking Bad, with every role played by Sam Hyde, would you watch it?

And I do mean every role. Including Skylar and her sister, and Lydia.

😁

It’s good there’s a variety of ways to get ebooks nowadays. Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Amazon, and I believe there’s a couple others, but their name escapes me at ghe moment.

A peach cover with the head of a broken statue lying in a pool of blood

Cover reveal! 🥳🎉

DEAD WEIGHT is translated by @maryrobinettekowal.com and will hit the shelves on May 26th.

Nothing tests a friendship like blood on your hands 🩸

Preorder here:
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This looks fricking awesome!

Preordering it from my local bookstore!

Book cover for cozy fantasy Fallen Destiny by Yolanda Sfetsos

Another gorgeous cover from Alison Flannery www.alisonflannery.com!

Fallen Destiny by Yolanda Sfetsos is coming Nov. 11th.

Big thanks to @sgj.bsky.social for his time and kind words. I know you all will love this.

Yeah, that would be cool.😎

LOTERÍA — my collection of 54+ Latin American short stories, poems, and experimental fictions influenced by the Mexican board game, LOTERÍA is arriving in bookstores early! 🥹❤️ Available (officially) Tuesday, September 2nd Preorder: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cynthia-pelayo/loter%c3%ada/9781454961499/

LOTERÍA — my collection of 54+ Latin American short stories, poems, and experimental fictions influenced by the Mexican board game, LOTERÍA is arriving in bookstores early! 🥹❤️

Available (officially) Tuesday, September 2nd

Preorder: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cynth...

@timmcgregor.bsky.social

Hey, would it be okay to DM you?

Y’all have any dream teams of authors you’d love to see collaborate on a novel?

For me, I’d love to see Jonathan Maberry and Dan Abnett do a story. It’d be absolutely kickass!

Hmmm….

Maybe they should have the reverse:

If the politician tells the truth, his nose grows.

That way you’d be able to easily find the honest one.

@jonathanmaberry.bsky.social

I’m rereading Rage, and I enjoy the rabbit hole I went down with this as the starting point:
😎

You are wicked, lol

Ah, thanks!

I did google ND first, but it told me ND stood for “and”, and that didn’t make any sense, lol

What do ND and NT stand for?

—old guy who knows very few acronyms nowadays😁

Spotted outside a local establishment.

Love it!

#vodka #smashed #twosheetstothewind

Check out my new project! I'm setting up a speculative fiction micropress with a focus on Northern writers. I am EXTREMELY excited but more than a little nervous.

If you enjoy writing or reading literary/experimental fantasy, horror, or sci-fi, following and sharing the press would be lovely!

#randomthoughts

It occurs to me I’ve never seen a breakfast sushi place.

Somebody should do that.

Breakfast sushi.

Think about it.
Sushi with maple syrup.
Poached sushi.
Sushi scramble.

The possibilities are endless.

😎

#JoeLedger

What’s one of your favorite passages or quotes from the Joe Ledger series by Jonathan Maberry?

Here’s one of mine.😎

Tolkien's notion of evil can be summed up pretty simply: the domination of others. Stripping away their freedom and their will, forcing them to do yours instead.

So whatever his authoritarian fans might think, their actions are, in fact, textbook Tolkienian evil.

#TolkienTuesday #TolkienTrewsday

What a damn day.

I feel like I’m at a standing room only performance of J.T. and the Traveling Dipshits.

It’s Monday morning on a Tuesday.

🙄

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

I know the underlying meaning of the old saying, but hey.

If I make or buy a cake, if a cake through some mechanism of the universe comes into my possession, I’m gonna damn well eat it.

😎

All right, I’m adding pusillanimous pillock to my vocabulary.

Life should be more colorful.😎

Dear Pussies: Calling someone a "pussy" is not a reference to a certain part of a woman's anatomy. It's short for pusillanimous. DICTIONARY ENTRY pu-sil-lan-i-mous/pyoose'lanemas/ adjective: pusillanimous showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.

All right then.* But why use a misunderstood shortened version when, say, “you pusillanimous pillock!” is right there?

[*But not really, since “pussy” is a noun and “pusillanimous” is an adjective]

That makes sense.

I say all this because I think in too many cases, we use specific words for things of which they don’t really apply to try and ascribe more importance to something, and thereby weakening the word.