Today is your last day to get a 99¢-copy of the pulp noir sensation that will presumably someday sweep the nation! Tell all your friends, except your friends who are hosers, ginks, or rats.
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I'm here to write books and chew bubblegum and…oh, wow, that is a lot of bubblegum I still possess!
Today is your last day to get a 99¢-copy of the pulp noir sensation that will presumably someday sweep the nation! Tell all your friends, except your friends who are hosers, ginks, or rats.
www.amazon.com/Blvd-Blood-H...
Got two books on 99¢ sale this week!
www.amazon.com/Blvd-Blood-H...
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
(It used to be three but I accidentally set one to be on sale for 7 hours, not seven days—whoops!)
There is nothing more awful than imagination devoid of taste.
•Goethe, Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years (1829).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
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"She that’s afraid of the grass must never piss in a meadow."
•anonymous, The History of Mother Bunch of the Weste (1793).
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Did you know that the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the book AND the screenwriter of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the movie were both British spies?
Their sociopathy TBD.
Trying out posting some old fiction; this is from my Barthelme period: haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-cracks...
26.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tell all your friends! Come say hello!
22.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You like Great Books, don't you? Well, now I'm talking about the Great Books (Gogol’s Taras Bulba specifically)!
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“The learned say that your lights will one day be no more,” said the firefly to the stars.
•Tagore, Stray Birds (1913).
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I wrote a book of twenty alternate history scenarios (across 2400 years and 6 continents—sorry, Australia!) that is "sure to delight" any "history buff."
19.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I realize I should have made this post more visually distinctive than the previous one. Anyway, the book is available for all!
@ragesinggoddess.bsky.social , you are quoted (anonymously) on the back.
Um…a lady sips soda while sitting in a car. But it's a book cover!
Okay, it's here! Available now in paperback and (inexplicably) ebook. Some typos fixed. A very nice cover by C. G. Coleman. No AI involved. A perfect Christmas gift.
Only downside? It's on Amazon, alas. But I'm still excited. www.amazon.com/Blvd-Blood-H...
Coming soon…
18.12.2025 03:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1#137 on the only legitimate list of the 200 Best Songs of the 1960s! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-200-be...
#contours
And today we plunge beneath the surface of things!
03.12.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
•Longfellow, Evangeline (1847).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
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Look at there horrible people! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-most-a...
24.11.2025 15:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Happening now! Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT!
15.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0#191 on the only definitive list of the best songs of the 1960s…
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Oh, wow. This is going later than they implied it would.
Much later
I'll be here tonight! At Badsons in Derby, CT. Come say hello if you like loud noises!
24.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lugosi AND Zucco? Yeah, that's a snub!
20.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mama's moving up in her artillery…https://youtu.be/Z8Jd281xrAU
20.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyone interested in Piers Anthony studies should check out my new in-depth analysis...and tell all your friends!
09.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1It's happening now! The Conti Building in Shelton!
27.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0